That disclosure came on Thursday from a former top official of the FBI. Outfit lawyer turned federal informant Robert Cooley told the I-Team that Rod Blagojevich booked illegal bets in the 1980's and ...

Crooked lawyer turned federal informant Robert Cooley says that Rod Blagojevich was a Northwest Side bookie in the mid 1980's. Cooley, who has been a prominent, successful prosecution witness in mob ...

A former Chicago lawyer who went undercover for the FBI said that Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) was once a bookmaker with ties to the mafia. Robert Cooley, who testified for the FBI in corruption ...

RALEIGH, NC (WECT) - Eight members of a violent gang operating in Bladen and Columbus counties are headed to prison after pleading guilty in federal court Wednesday. According to the United States ...

Robert Cooley with Hillel Levin, When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down. Carroll & Graf, 2004, 368 pages, $26. CHICAGO MAY be the third-largest city ...

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival Historian and novelist Russell (The Palace) winnows fact from fiction in this peppery, humane look at the complex ...