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Specifically, the jury found Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
Friends to the Fore. The case, as it unfolded in court, seemed remarkably simple. By Jack's own admission to the county grand jury, he had allowed longtime Crony Sidney J. Ungar, a real estate operator seeking city approval of a $30 million slum-clearance scheme, to pick up a $4,400 tab for the 1958 remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar...
Last December Jack denied that Sidney J. Ungar, a well-heeled real-estate operator, had paid a $4,400 bill for lavish remodeling of his Harlem apartment-at a time when Ungar was actively seeking a city contract for a $30 million slum-clearance project. Jack at first claimed that his wife had paid the bill out of her housekeeping allowance. Later he told District Attorney Frank Hogan that he had lied, confessed that Ungar had "loaned" him the money without collateral. Charged by a grand jury with violations of the city charter and with conspiracy to conceal the violations...
...technical grounds by Judge Gerald Patrick Culkin, a second-generation Tammany wheelhorse. The indictment, ruled Judge Culkin, was defective because, under New York law, the conspiracy charge should have been separated from the charter violation charges; moreover, the indictment did not specifically state that Jack was aware of Ungar's business with the city when he accepted the "loan...
...word; he took his case against Jack to the grand jury that same day. Next day Jack, shaken, was back in Hogan's office with the admission that he had gotten "panicky" and had lied. Subsequent testimony before the grand jury brought the four-count indictment, listing Ungar (who had testified under a privilege of immunity) as "coconspirator" but not as codefendant...