INFO & STATS: Basketball Referee NBA / Former Undercover Police Officer: “Project Alpha” / Author of the new book: “Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob”
TOPICS: “Bobby Covert” and “Project Alpha”; the undercover State Trooper operation exposing organized crime on the waterfront in the State of New Jersey / Experience first getting inside the mob; the name “Bobby Covert” / Looking and feeling the part of “Bobby Covert” / The first six months, and then years of an emotional rollercoaster ride being undercover / Tremendous amounts of fear being undercover; living with being afraid internally / Closeness with the bad guys; hardest day…arresting them; betrayal of friends / Conflict doing his job; guilt feelings / Getting into law enforcement knowing right and wrong; conflict of knowing that the bad guys were the “bad guys” while undercover / Never seeing anyone be killed; although participating in crimes while undercover / Ever thinking he needed out?; going to the Police doctor to handle the stress; getting too comfortable doing what he was doing undercover with the mob meeting people / Personal fear releasing the book or not?; death threat after he surfaced from being undercover / Living his life despite the threats or the “bad guys” win / Ending up as a ref in Basketball; going from High School to CBA to NBA / The “hoops” therapy and giving him peace / Reaction to Tim Donaghy gambling and mob relationship / How he would have handled the Donaghy situation if he had known / Getting questions and comments from NBA’ers now that the book has come out / Shaq wanting to be an FBI agent. / 4-4-2008
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