Mob Cop

Subtitled “My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department”, Mob Cop

tells about former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred

Pascente as the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in

Nicholas Pileggi??_??s Casino and one of Chicago??_??s most notori??__ous mob

figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police

Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago??_??s Near

West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by

Hanhardt. While Spilotro became one of the youngest made men in Chicago

Outfit history, Pascente was draft??__ed into the army and then joined the

police department. Soon taken under Hanhardt??_??s wing, Pascente served as

Hanhardt??_??s fixer and bagman on the department for more than a decade. At

the same time, Pascente remained close to Spilotro, mak??__ing frequent

trips to Las Vegas to party with his old friend while helping to rob the

casinos blind. As a policeman he led a double life, doing genuine

police work un??__der Hanhardt??_??s tutelage while at the same time keeping an

eye out for opportunities for bribery and theft. His position on both

sides of the law gave him unrivaled knowl??__edge of the workings of

Chicago??_??s deeply rooted culture of corruption. Mob Cop details

the decline of tra??__ditional organized crime in the United States, and

reveals information about the inner workings of the Outfit that has

never been publicly released. Fred Pascente??_??s col??__orful stories of

crooked cops and danger??__ous criminals make his memoir a matchless

tell-all. Photographs 328 Pgs. Hardcover 2015