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By JOHN McLAUGHLIN | what happened to Jennie would happen to her,” Coley saidonFriday. . _ When Coley went to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and asked that Barbera be - put in Protective custody, he was turned down, - Resaid. ae ~ “They wouldn’t even assign an FB to look out for fer. They told us this was a non- “violent, white-collar type of crime and that Candor Diamond had nothing to do with what happened to Jennie,” Coley said.. - . Thus, Margaret Barbera, who had entered - a guilty plea in the case and who had agreed to testify against Margolies, spent the last three months of her life in a state of terror. It ended when the hit man surgically shot her behind theJeftear, ., - _ Stephen Schlessinger, the assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the case, denies that _ Barbera asked to be placed in protective. . custody. He points out there is no written - record that she did. So you believe Schlessing- ° er, who speaks with the authority of the gov- ernment of the United States, or you believe Coley, who is representing an admitted felon. believeColey. = - If you were walking around with informa- tion which could convict somebody of an $8 - million swindle and your friend knew about it, too, and she was involved and was kidnaped . and murdered, would you feel threatened? Would you look to the government for protection? ; o “All they would agree to was to close the - hearing in March when Margaret pleaded guilty and agreed te be a government witness. That kept it off the record. But she could have been followed. She told me and I told Schiess- inger that she was being followed,” Coley said. = So, Barbera and Chin are dead and so are the three technicians and maybe the case against Margolies and Candor Diamond is dead, too. ee Even in the unlikely event Schlessinger is telling the truth, why did it not occur to him - that there might be a connection between - Chin's abduction and the Candor case, given -. the fact that the Chin kidnaping took place near Barbera’s home? Lo os EDA CAAMEST My STW: ESA ACTA He mR CL aa ame %, "office i e FBI ought toknow at this ki hing doesn’t happen only in . Inovies. In San Antonio, Tex., five people were ‘--“Frdicted on Thursday for trying to fixa drug ’ case by murdering the federal judge who was to hear it. ; E _. In Newark, federal prosecutors +. charged on Tuesday that the mayor of Union — City, who was recently convicted for racke- teering, had been shopping around for some- | _ body to knock off the main witness against | aor And, in Broo’ just one John 8 nnett, a retired businessman, was shot to d eae iw hit men as he was on his way to vy) i $ inst. a couple of mobsters “M6 a8e against "Last December, Lee Laster. the assi y director of the FBI in New York, washnon . Ing to a reporter about how tough it is to / persua le citizens to testify in organized crime “They (the mobsters) couldn't exist with- " out fear. tt people would come forward, Wel make progress,” he sai Progress, anyone? ‘ | Anyone for suicide? . . | aa eine hint Mihai aere eae at eminent ce cen ener, Par ere