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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN (Further comment from the audience) “Could I just interrupt you a...because I gotta tell you a funny story about that. When we were thrown in the Cook County Jail, the judge said we were like dangerous men and couldn't get bail, uh, the newspapers pointed up the fact that two years before three Mafia figures in Chicago had been con- victed of extortion, attempted murder, armed bank robbery, and about four or five other things and were walking the streets waiting their appeal. So, uh, it was a coincidence but right after the papers came out those three guys ended up right in the same fuckin tier in Cook County Jail as we were in. So here comes, they said who're you. They say, we're the three guys that you cats are fingering. You know. We're those three. So we said, oh yeah? Because like the Mafia has “<--F — wer ee See ee ee 3 they had pretty plush celis and they ate steak, the rest of us ate pabulum three times a day. But they said, we don't even care ‘cause that old fuckin Julie, he pretty well (indistinct) our good guys. So, uh, even the Mafia was supporting us in the trial. We got in Cook County Jail, they had the largest demonstration outside that jail, they had 8,000 people, and all the inmates were screaming ‘Free the conspiracy, free the conspiracy,’ and not ‘cause we were like seven individuals. It's because we did what every fuckin defendant He wanted to stand up and nted to do uy in prison w and aeverv o —_——— eae ov say ‘The Prosecutor's full of shit! I'm being framed! I'm being 63