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NBA referee Bob Delaney has an amazing story to tell! Before he became one of the most respected referees in the NBA, he worked in law enforcement in New Jersey. And in the 1970's, Bob Delaney became “Bobby Covert” of the Alamo Trucking company, a false identity created to infiltrate organized crime as an undercover member of the State Police. Bob is the subject of a new book about that experience entitled "Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob." Bob called into the show on Friday to tell his story, and it was so good that I held him for two segments to tell it.
Bob worked with and 'made friends' with several members of the mob in New Jersey. His undercover operation successfully arrested many key players in the mob in that area. Bob told me that he was conflicted because he always knew who the bad guys were but he realized during the time he spent with them that they were human beings with families who just happened to steal for a living.
He said he always thought the best day of his life was when they made the arrests of the mobsters, but he admitted that it was one of the worst days of his life because he had to face the guys he had befriended and lied to for a couple of years.
Bob says that a bounty was made on his head soon after the arrests and he has lived his life with a sense of awareness and vigilance ever since. He also weighed in on Tim Donaghy and the scandal his fellow referee caused this past summer. Bob said that if he had any idea Tim was doing what he was doing, he would have made a case and gone right to the FBI with it.
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