Mort's Decision to Stay Quiet Leaves Him Feeling Complicit

Mortover was chief of the criminal division for Cook county, Illinois. He saw prosecution of thousands of felonies and misdemeanors each year. One day a young police officer appeared silently in his doorway to say he'd been offered a bribe to flip a case. Mort told the cop to take the bribe - but it didn't work. A tape recordinga dead bang crime on tape. The dirty defense lawyer was convicted of bribery. But mort's strategy backfired. And now they set out to make an example of him.