Gerald Shargel Quotations

This was a sad and tragic development. It was neither my client's nor my wish to exploit the situation.

He wasn't paying anyone to stay away. Every worker was a union worker.... The DeFoe Corporation was all union.

Let me make this plain, Chris Lorenzo, and I also mean his brother Irv, did not launder anyone's money. Supreme never brought money of any kind.

We proved these boys never needed any improper money. You'll see them making music and getting on the charts again soon. Talent always wins out.

When a prosecutor walks into court and says we've been investigating this case for two and a half years, grand jury investigation for nine months, and we have 51 witnesses, you know what that means -- they have a circumstantial evidence case, and I suggest it's a weak circumstantial evidence case.

There's nothing illegal about knowing a criminal ... even doing business with a criminal, unless you commit a crime.

These same men who ... protest they didn't want to be involved, when these Mafia men and the junior Mafia men, the union officials in their fancy suits and pinky rings went walking into the union hall and boasted and bragged.

These two defendants did not receive cash from McGriff.

The jurors realized these were two hardworking and talented young men who came from very little, from a decent family, and who were charged with crimes supported only by false testimony from criminals and lies.

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.