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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Sherman Skolnick , H. Chairman of Citizens' Committee To Clean Up The Courts Federal government efforts to the witness in jail, on a frame-u- p, the Watergate plane crash robbery, Alex J. Bottos, have suffered a decisive defeat. On July 27, 1973, a federal court jury in South Bend, Indiana, delivered a stinging rebuke to federal efforts to discredit and suppress Bottos. In less than a half-hoof deliberations after the jury was locked up, following a one week trial, the federal jury came back with a verdict of innocent of all federal criminal charges. The charges against Bottos, that he impersonated an FBI agent, are an outgrowth of efforts to stop his investigation of crime syndicate activities in Chicago and Northwest Indiana. During the trial, two FBI agents perjured themselves in attempting to frame Bottos. One of the gpvernments former key witnesses, Ronajd E. Wheeler, testified that the FBI used threats to try to get Wheeler to testify . ur Bottos. against The government's case blew up when the federal prosecutor said Wheeler of Witness in Watergate Plane Crash Robbery Frame-u- p Expose by August 16, 1973 The UTAH Independent Page 7 sworn a signed statement asserting that Bottos claimed he was a special federal and then could not agent produce a copy of the statement. Sherman H. Skolnick, head of a watchdog group headquartered in Chicago, said corrupt local, state, and federal officials in the Midwest tried to gang up on Bottos to block inquiry into crime syndicate links to public office holders. Last March, the frame-u- p intensified when Bottos made public statements that a crime syndicate group was involved with the robbery and sabotage of the Watergate plane. the course of his work, behind the scenes, in assisting the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, headed by Skolnick, and the the Northwest Indiana Crime Commission, Bottos last fall infiltrated the Joseph Sarelli air piracy gang. That gang has gone unpunished for more than a decade. Bottos cracked their shield regarding a Chicago to Milwaukee air plane robbery of August, 1972. He turned them over to Nixons "elite" .Chicago Strike Force. In March, 1973, Bottos surfaced as a long-tim- e volunteer staff member of Skolnick's watchdog group! In so doing, Bottos let it be known that he had been the purported fence" for the Sarelli mob and could give eyewitness testimony about valuables stolen from the Watergate plane which crashed last December near Chicagos In in-fli- Midway ght killing Airport, Watergate payoff woman Mrs. E. Howard Hunt and 10 others connected in one way or another with the Nixon spy operation. When the Strike Force found out that their star witness, Alex Bottos, was about the Sarelli gang being also involved in Watergate,- Nixon's super-secrbegan dragging prosecutors their feet. They saw to it that Bottos was sent last March to a maximum security federal prison for 40 days, as a reprisal, without a trial or legal formality. Recently, Bottos brought a false imprisonment suit, stating he was jailed because of his eyewitness testimony about the valuables stolen from the Watergate plane. the testified in documented Skolnick's presentation. CO. 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Skolnick said a Congressional committee is interested in his heavily documented presentation last June before the N.T.S.B. The Safety Board are Nixon's puppets like the Warren Commission, they will ignore, or 'lose', if necessary, their own records, in order to be able to continue saying the Watergate plane crash was an 'accident' ", Sknolnick Freeze dried foods are better BULK GRAIN X the entire government Midway crash file. He called it a patriotic rip-of- f" Another one of the witnesses, Joseph Zale, of Gary, Indiana, Bottos' assistant, was indicted on similarly trumped up federal charges the day before the N.T.S.B. hearings. Still another eyewitness, William J. Simonini said the FBI was tormenting him day and night. Both of his sons, under 30, have been imprisoned Simonini on a dope frame-u- p, said. 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