 On the sixth day of trial , alcohol tax agent Patrick Donoghue testified that , in a case that Donoghue had investigated , Glasser persuaded a grand jury to reverse itself after returning an indictment by placing the matter on the pending call indefinitely . Another government witness , bootlegging handyman Ralph Sharp testified that he had paid Kretske $ 250 in order for Kretske , as prosecutor , to recommend that the charges against him be dismissed ( which they were ) . Frank Hodorowicz , another bootlegger turned government witness , testified that he had paid Kretske $ 1 @,@ 300 to recommend the dismissal of two cases and was convicted in the third case after he refused to pay $ 1 @,@ 000 . After he was indicted the third time , he testified , Glasser declined to intervene on his behalf , saying : " You 're going to jail for five years ; I can 't do anything about it . For all the money in the world I couldn 't help you . This isn 't an ordinary case . Agents are in town from Washington . " 
