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...seamy means in order to conquer seamy defendants. He sprang Costello by showing that the U.S. prosecutor had secretly scanned the tax returns of 150 venire-men to get a "goldplated" jury in the gambler's tax trial. In the 1956 perjury trial of ex-OSS Lieutenant Aldo Icardi, who told a congressional subcommittee that he had not murdered his commander in Italy, Williams succeeded by arguing that the committee had exceeded its powers by questioning Icardi solely in order to create the prosecution case...
...Three Italians were tried for murder but released by Italian courts; two U.S. Armymen, Aldo Icardi and Carl LoDolce, were convicted by Italy in absentia but cannot be extradited for punishment, nor can they be tried for the crime...
Last week, as the perjury case came up in Federal District Court, the Justice Department was ready with 18 witnesses from Italy to swear to Icardi's guilt. But the only two witnesses to get to the stand were two Congressmen, Missouri Republican Dewey Short and Subcommittee Chairman W. Sterling Cole, Republican of New York. Under close questioning by Icardi's defense counsel, Edward Bennett Williams, 35 (who defended Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Senate censure hearings), Chairman Cole recollected that he had discussed possible perjury proceedings against Icardi before Icardi gave his testimony to the subcommittee...
...Federal Judge Raymond B. Keech to argue for dismissal. That night the judge worked until long after midnight on his decision. Next morning the courtroom was tense as he began to read it off. Principal point: Chairman Cole's subcommittee had exceeded its legitimate functions in questioning Icardi, "since neither affording an individual a forum in which to protest his innocence nor extracting testimony with a view to a perjury prosecution is a valid legislative purpose." Furthermore, the Icardi hearing amounted to a "legislative trial," and the authority of Congress to investigate "cannot be extended to sanction a legislative...
After reading for 30 minutes, Judge Keech came to his final words: "I shall ask the marshal to call in the jury, and I shall direct a verdict of acquittal." Icardi broke into tears. Justice Department attorneys gaped in disbelief. Whether Aldo Icardi was guilty or innocent under terms of American justice would never be known, for Judge Keech's decision appeared to have ended, once and for all, an eleven-year, $300,000 attempt to make a case against him. But, in doing so, the judge had laid down a sharp restriction on uninhibited congressional investigation that Congress...