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"Thanks a lot, guys, for coming," said FBI Agent Robert Friedrick, supervisor of the bureau's Organized Crime Strike Force in Cleveland. On their own time, some 60 of his Ohio colleagues had gathered outside a federal courthouse in Washington to cheer him as Friedrick was arraigned on five counts of lying to the Justice Department and the FBI. The 13-year bureau veteran is accused of protecting Teamster President Jackie Presser from indictment in a payroll-padding scheme. "We were there to show him we still support him in this time of need," said Special Agent Daniel Gordon. Gordon has organized the Committee in Support of Robert Friedrick to raise funds for his co-worker, who faces up to five years in prison on each count.