Two Jewish Defense League members were each sentenced to a year in prison by a federal judge yesterday for refusing to testify last year at the trial of two associates accused of bombing the Manhattan offices of the late impresario Sol Hurok. The defendants, Richard Huss, 18, of Staten Island, and Jeffrey Smilow, 20, of Brooklyn, refused to testify because “of solidarity with friends and for religious reasons,” according to their lawyer.
Because the two refused to testify, the fire-bombing trial was aborted and the accused JDL members were set free. The attack on Jan. 26, 1972 at Hurok Concerts, Inc. and Columbia Artists. Management Company killed one woman and injured seven others. Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa ordered in United States District Court that the convicted youths should report Monday for jailing.
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