The Company You Keep Page #2

Just because we hooked up in college

I'm gonna give you access to FBI wiretaps?

Wiretaps? What wiretaps?

- This is why I don't talk to you.

And we didn't just "hook up" in college, okay, we were...

- I have to go.

New sheriff in town?

- How can you tell?

Well, that's how it usually goes, right?

Big case like this, they usually

bring in someone from out of town?

Grab all the glory?

Course, the local field office should

at least get credit in the local paper.

Why don't I go put in a good word for you!

I'm a very social guy...

Billy Cusimano.

- Organic grocery guy?

It didn't come from me.

- No, just a well-placed, extremely attractive government source.

Cusimano

Hey Dad! Here?

- Yeah.

Hello!

Billy Cusimano?

My name's Ben Shepard,

from the Albany Sun-Times,

I wanted to ask you a few questions

about the Sharon Solarz arrest?

You can, but why would I comment about that?

- Well, you know her, don't you?

No, I don't.

Quick search of police records shows you

and Sharon together in Mendocino in 1971.

I've never been to Mendocino.

That's not true, is it? You were dealing hash there

for an outfit called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

Which is a great name, by the way.

Sharon been in touch recently?

Look, I know she called

you prior to her arrest.

You talked to Jim Grant.

- No, I talked to the FBI, who's Jim Grant?

Who is the FBI?

- Well, they had you on a wiretap here for a while,

so it seems you're growin' somethin' more

than tomatoes and potatoes here, Billy.

Sh*t. That's why I pay taxes, right?

So Big Brother can... hack my f***in' phone!

Who's Jim Grant?

- He's a lawyer, man.

Lawyer? Sharon's?

- Nah, he wouldn't take the case.

Look, kid...

Sharon called me wanting to turn herself in...

- Turn herself in?

Nope, I'm not saying anything else.

Everything here is off the record.

Ah, see... it doesn't work that way. You gotta say

"off the record" before we have the conversation.

Who says?

- Those are the rules.

There's rules for what you people do, huh?

So, what did she say?

- She said that I did great

and that she was very impressed.

What'd I tell you?

Yeah?

- Hi... uh, is this Mr. Grant?

This is Ben Shepherd from the Albany Sun-Times?

- Oh... yes.

Just wondering if you care to comment

on the Sharon Solarz arrest?

- What?

- The Sharon Solarz arrest, you declined to take her case...

Yeah, you know... I'm just sitting down to dinner right now.

I gotta call you back, okay?

Uh, sir... I ju...

As the turbulent decade drew to a close

the Students for a Democratic Society,

the leading student group

opposed to the war in Vietnam,

had its power usurped by a more militant faction,

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