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But I had set up in my office machinery for supervising control over
vice and gambling and -- as you could see when they took the witness stand --
the men who ran this machinery were competent men and not political hacks
of any kind. You could hear from their testimony -- both supervisors and
trial assistants -- that these were men who were never asked by me to ever
do anything with regard to the pinball business. The vice supervisors, one
after the other, testified that never did I asked them to do anything improper
with regard to vice in anyway.
So, I just want to call your attention to the fact that at the very outset,
the fact that I instituted such a structure in my office, that I set up such a
vice supervisor operation, a vice-control department, is in itself evidence
not that.I was helping the pinball business in anyway, but that I actually was
acting to discourage it and to enforce the law.
Now, there is another area of testimony to which I should call your
attention, and I am still talking about the testimony of government witnesses.
If you can go back to the testimony of the location owners, you will recall that
one after the other, one after the other, told you that he would only pay off to
somebody he knew. With rare exceptions, neighborhood bars, neighborhood
restaurants, the poor man's clubs, paid off only to somebody they knew.
"Why wouldn't you pay off to a stranger?' they were asked again and
again. And the answer came back, repeatedly, "because he might be a police
officer and I might be arrested". And that, "I might have to go to court. "
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