 Daniel D. Glasser and Norton I. Kretske were Assistant United States Attorneys in the Northern District of Illinois , specializing in liquor and revenue offenses . Glasser and Kretske solicited bribes from defendants under indictment , or soon to be indicted . Glasser and six other assistants resigned on April 7 , 1939 , during the tenure of U.S. Attorney William Joseph Campbell . According to Campbell : " Mr. Glasser has the best record of convictions of any one in this office and his conviction record in alcohol cases is the best in the entire country . Since I have been in office , Mr. Glasser has prosecuted ninety @-@ nine cases and lost only one . He hasn 't lost a jury case in three and a half years . " 
