If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS ...

ACTING CHAIRMAN SKINNER: The Commission
hearing will come to order.
Swear the first witness.
MR. HUNTERTON: Mr. Chairman, the first wit­
ness is Ronald Goldstock.
RONALD GOLDSTOCK
was called as a witness and, having been first duly
sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
MR. HUNTERTON: Mr. Chairman, as the members
of this Commission already know from his prior appear­
ance in another hearing, Mr. Goldstock is the Director
of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. He
was a former head of the Rackets Bureau in the Manhat­
tan District Attorney's Office and he has taught at
Cornell Law School.
He appears here today under a subpoena, which
was the s\lbje'ct of negotiations between the Commiss ion's
staff and Mr. Goldstock's office. The object of the
subpoena was to air publicly at this hearing certain
information, including tapes from court-authorized
electronic surveillance, for the benefit of the Commis­
sion and balance the need to air those tapes and other
i,nformation with the rights of defendants who are yet
to stand trial as a result of the investigation in which