Case Closed

During the 1950 off-year election campaign, Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of a fine exclusive story. He reported the secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee of Chicago's Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff, "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert. Largely as a result of Brennan's story, Gilbert and the entire Cook County Democratic machine were sunk on election day. But a federal grand jury indicted Brennan for impersonating a federal employee to get the secret testimony. Reporter Brennan won the first round of his case when the Government dropped its charges because of "questionable" evidence (TIME, Feb. 2). The Department of Justice had him indicted afresh. Last week, on the eve of a new trial, the case against Brennan was dismissed for keeps. In Washington U.S. District Court, Government lawyers asked that their case be closed because Reporter Brennan had shown no "criminal intent."

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