COVERT, MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB by Delaney, Bob

COVERT, MY YEARS INFILTRATING THE MOB
by Delaney, Bob
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Before he became an NBA referee, Bob Delaney spent only a year and a half as a state trooper when his superiors approached him with an undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging crooks. He wore a wire and lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their on-screen Godfather counterparts, quoting lines from the movie and boasting of how often they’d seen it. Ultimately, he gathered enough evidence to convict 30 members of the Bruno and Genovese crime families, but he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and traces of Stockholm syndrome after getting too close to those he investigated. Delaney began officiating high school and intramural games as a way to rebuild his life—eventually working his way up to the NBA, where he has been a referee for more than two decades. 276 pages, indexed, hardbound, 2008.

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