OPERATION GREYLORD

In 1980 Terrence Hake was a young prosecutor in Chicago, when he complained about the judge taking bribes to fix cases in the murder, rape and child molestation preliminary hearing courtroom. His complaint found its way to the FBI's Chicago Office and he was asked by the FBI to participate in Operation Greylord, an undercover investigation of the Cook County Courts. For three years and seven months, Hake posed, first as a corrupt prosecutor by accepting bribes from criminal defense attorneys, and later, as a corrupt defense attorney paying bribes for the dismissal of cases. In his role as a corrupt criminal defense attorney, Hake represented dozens of undercover FBI Special Agents from throughout the country, who came to Chicago to pose as criminal defendants in FBI-created criminal cases. Greylord was the first FBI investigation to bug a judge's chambers and another first was Hake becoming an FBI Special Agent in 1983, while still working undercover. Operation Greylord is one of the FBI's most successful undercover investigations. In his book, Hake tells the story from a perspective that only an FBI insider can.

The publisher of Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America’s Biggest Corruption Bust is Ankerwycke, an imprint of the American Bar Association. The story of Operation Greylord has never before been detailed by an insider from the case. A film, based upon the book is to begin shooting in 2018.

The book is available from iBooks and Amazon in hardcover, Kindle and audiobook versions.