Presumed Guilty: The Tim Wilkes Story by Ben Greer

by Ben Greer

"At seven o'clock, we turned on the news on WIS TV. There, standing in front of a federal sting and naming the names of those implicated. A couple of minutes into the story, they fkashed a hundred dollar bill up on the screen--I don't mean a small one either--a big, one hundred dollar bill. In the center of it, instead of Benjamin Franklin, was a picture of me. "I couldn't believe it. There was my picture in the center of that hundred dollar bill as if I were the ring leader, the number one guy. No one at WIS had called me. No one had interviewed me. No one had asked me anything. They had simply taken me and hung me on the screen. It was a lynching. There was no investigation, no evidence, no defense, no trial, hey, let's get Tim Wilkes and hang him. This was the first glimmer I had that the system--and by that I mean the eletronic media and the print media and the legal system--was all wrong. Later, I would find out how wrong."

Hardcover

First published August 1, 1995

Reviews

[Tim Wilkes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read and interesting in light of political corruption today and the Federal Government