Nov 05, 2019 · Terry Hake, the author, began as a naive 1977 graduate of Loyola College of Law and a new prosecutor in the State’s attorney’s Office. In 1980, he was recruited by the FBI to work in a major “sting” operation that would achieve national prominence as Operation Greylord.
Aug 02, 2015 · Published August 2, 2015. News. FOX 32 Chicago. After almost three decades, the Chicago attorney who went undercover for the FBI in the Greylord investigation is telling his personal story in a ...
Nov 20, 2017 · Terry Hake has lived in Winnetka for three years and is the author of "Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust," detailing his ...
This is the dilemma that Terry faced. Terry lost a close friend who never spoke to him after Greylord was over. As a lawyer in private practice, Terry represented an undercover FBI agent who posed as a defendant charged with DUI (driving under the influence). The undercover agent was placed on “supervision” and not given a conviction. Terry paid $100 to Judge “Dollars” Devine …
Hank has a son named Justin whom he bails out in " Professional Courtesy " after he crashes into a van while under the influence of alcohol. As the result of Justin 's recklessness, the boy (Mike Duffy), who was in the van, is paralyzed from the waist down, stopping him from playing hockey ever again.
Hank Voight. Henry "Hank" Voight is a fictional character in the television series Chicago P.D.. He appeared in a recurring capacity in Chicago Fire and as a main character in Chicago P.D., as the chief of the Chicago Police Department 's Intelligence Unit, which operates out of the 21st District. Despite Voight's reputation as a suspected dirty ...
Hank's father, Richard, was also a Chicago Police Officer, who was killed when Hank was 8. While working a joint case with the NYPD Special Victims Unit, Voight and Cpt. Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay) establish a bond of trust and friendship despite their differing methods.
Henry "Hank" Voight is a fictional character in the television series Chicago P.D.. He appeared in a recurring capacity in Chicago Fire and as a main character in Chicago P.D., as the chief of the Chicago Police Department 's Intelligence Unit, which operates out of the 21st District. Despite Voight's reputation as a suspected dirty cop ...
Eventually, with trials extending ten years after the end of the undercover phase, as discussed below, over 92 public officials were indicted (almost all in federal court), and most eventually were convicted, either by guilty pleas or trials.
Key undercover FBI agents and lawyers included: David Grossman, David Ries and Terrence Hake. As a Cook County prosecutor, Hake initially complained about the bribery and corruption in the Murder and Sexual Assault preliminary hearing courtroom in Chicago. The FBI and United States Attorneys Office learned of his complaint and recruited him to pose as a corrupt prosecutor and later as a bribe-paying criminal defense attorney. Lamar Jordan, David Benscoter, Marie Dyson, William C. Megary, and Robert Farmer were the principal FBI case agents and supervisors during the investigation. Six Internal Revenue Service agents also played key roles in tracking the money flows, including Dennis Czurylo and Bill Thullen.
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction). The FBI named the investigation "Operation Greylord" after the curly wigs worn by British judges.
The last conviction was that of Judge Thomas J. Maloney, who was indicted in 1991 on bribery charges and convicted in April 1993 of fixing three murder cases for more than $100,000 in bribes. Maloney was released from federal prison in 2008, and died the same year.
The first defendant to be found guilty was Harold Conn, Deputy Traffic Court Clerk in the Cook County judicial system. Conn was convicted in March 1984 and was one of the many bagmen in the ring of corruption. The last conviction was that of Judge Thomas J. Maloney, who was indicted in 1991 on bribery charges and convicted in April 1993 of fixing three murder cases for more than $100,000 in bribes. Maloney was released from federal prison in 2008, and died the same year.
Operation Greylord was a massive operation. FBI agents from all over the United States poured into the Chicago area to help run the operation and stage phony crimes. The FBI staged fake crimes all over Chicago. To catch corrupt judges on the take, the FBI staged fake crimes. The "criminals," arresting officers and lawyers were all in on the sting.
Judge John Devine was sentenced to 15 years in prison for accepting bribes. A man undercover. Assistant State's Attorney Terrence "Terry" Hake played a key role in the investigation, posing as a crooked lawyer and gaining inside information.
But the memory of Terry Kath is in danger of fading with each passing year, which is why in 2012, Kath’s daughter, Los Angeles club DJ Michelle Sinclair, decided to try to make a crowd-funded documentary about him. The result of her work, Searching For Terry: Discovering A Guitar Legend, was released in 2016.
When Chicago founder Terry Kath accidentally shot himself dead, the world was robbed of one of its greatest guitarists.
Released in April 1969, the Chicago Transit Authority double LP distilled a dizzying array of styles, most of them in its six-and-a-half-minute opener, Introduction, written by Kath and sung in his wonderful bluesy baritone. “The best opening cut on any album ever,” states Seraphine.
But the album’s other hit-in-waiting was 25 Or 6 To 4, a Robert Lamm song that captured every facet of their sound: musical virtuosity, melodic nous and Terry Kath’s hooligan guitar. No sooner was the album out than Chicago were on a brand new Boeing 747 on their way to Europe.