The proceeding reconvened at 2:30 p.m.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me state for the record that as we resume this
deposition that I presume you understand that the oath you took this
morning with Mr. Hubert and all the formalities which you went through
still pertain to this hearing.
You are still under oath and we will continue in the same fashion that
we did before.
If there are any questions about it why you are free to say anything.
We were talking, it seems to me, that we got you to the point where you
had just met Mr. Belli.
Mr. RUBY. Belli, that is right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, I wanted to confine your attention from here on in
to certain narrow aspects of your dealings in Los Angeles, and that is
your efforts to find financing for Jack’s trial and what the actual
financing of the trial is.
Can you tell us, first of all, whether prior to seeing Belli, that day
that you were in Los Angeles, you talked to Mr. Shore and Mr. Woodfield
at all about the financing of the trial?
Mr. RUBY. Yes; I told them we had to raise money, and I told them
Howard gave me a figure of anywhere from $25,000 to $50,000, and I
asked them about how much they thought they could obtain from a story,
and they said they couldn’t promise 50 but 30, 35, I think that was the
figure that Woodfield used.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would that be the gross figure or would that be what your
brother would have ultimately had available from the entire sum for his
defense?
Mr. RUBY. That was the figure, the net figure my brother would have
left over after they took their commissions and percentage, and the
agent’s fee and all of that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How many people were to share in the proceeds from the
sale, beside Jack?
Mr. RUBY. Woodfield, William Woodfield. Larry Shiller, the agent, and
then they in turn said they would pay commissions to sales people.