Late in his cross-examination Nov. 2 of Jona Rechnitz, the Federal Government’s star witness against ex-Correction Officers Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook, defense lawyer Paul Shechtman pressed him on his cooperation agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and whether he would get a special letter that might spare him from jail time only if prosecutors concluded he had testified truthfully.
Mr. Rechnitz, with the stubbornness most often found in the terminally immature, refused to acknowledge this reality, repeating, “The truth is the truth.”
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