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NY 92-911 “legislator, a Democrat', had called and asked him to defend GALINTE against charges of speeding and driving without a Ticenre. "The assemblyvman, who represents Tammany leader CARMINE DE SAPIO s own Ist District, said he would go to Albany Monday to tell the Legislature's watchdog committee ali he knows about the case. "Mr. DICKINSON said he refusedtp touch the case after he learned of GALENTE's long trjiminal record. When he told Mr. CARLINO, a Long Beach. Re- publican, about the record, he said, the assembly leader told nim: 'I want no part of this at all. Forget it.! "The New York City legislator was ‘a little more insistent! about getting help for GALENTE, Mr. DICKINSON said. "Last night Mr. PASSANNANTE told reporters that 'a Lawyer'friend had asked him to find an up- state attorney to defend GALENTE. He said he called his legislative colleague, but Mr. DICKINSON told him he knew about the situation and the man involved and didn't want the case. "Asked what else ne did on this matter, he added, ‘after I got into the case, I became aware of his record and advised him to plead guilty.' Assemblyman WILLIAM F, HORAN (R,, Tuckahoe), chairman of the Legislature's watchdog committee, ’