Proven Guilty?

. According to FBI reports and court testimony, Dime officials knew about concealed second mortgages and did not care.

. Testimony "about the alleged misconduct or negligence by Dime" was excluded from Walsh's trial.

. Charges against two other attorneys accused of offenses similar to Walsh's were dismissed, In both cases, testimony about Dime was allowed.

. In one of the cases, U. S. district Judge Thomas F. Harrington told U.S. Attorney Richard welch to "go after the people who ran Dime," calling the prosecution of the middle-level players like Walsh a "charade."