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[CHICAGO CRIME]. A group of 4 documents relating to bribery charges against Joseph Auippa and Jacob Bergbreiter. 1965/1966. Original documents including telephone conversation transcripts, a police report, and trial transcript all related to bribery charges brought against Chicago Outfit leader Joseph Auippa and his associate Jacob Bergbreiter, formerly a vice squad lieutenant for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. These documents detail the Outfit’s recruiting methods for law enforcement, depicting Bergbreiter’s initial approach and offer to Chicago Patrolman Donald Shaw to “get smart” and his assurances that the Outfit takes care of officers who get on the Outfit’s payroll. Ultimately Auippa and Bergbreiter would go up on charges of bribery, though Auippa was ultimately acquitted due to lack of evidence. This case and the content of these documents is outlined in The Mafia Court: Corruption in Chicago by Dr. John Russell Hughes (Walterville, OR: Trine Day LLC, 2014). Provenance: The Estate of Art Bilek.