robbing the hibernia bank, charles bates, who was in charge of the fbi at the time, indicated that the fbi would be willing to recommend immunity from prosecution for patriciae hibernia bank robbery, but for other circumstances if she would make herself available for questioning by the fbi under immunity. >> most important, the fbi now has the hearst's own description of a bank robbery near sacramento last year. including her companions, emily and william harris. >> we had been accused in the newspaper of the carmichael bank robbery as early as september 21st, 1975. subsequently very soon, they charged steve solia with the bank robbery in federal district court in sacramento. there were witnesses to the robbery who claimed that they saw him in the bank and put him among the robbers. when she ends up debriefing, she tells the fbi the real story of what happened and reveals to them that steven was not in the bank. the prosecutors, they wanted to stick with their eyewitness identification principally because they knew she was a horrible [ bleep ] witness even if she was telling the truth. steven was acquitted. >> federal government used that essentially as a t