Word: aherne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensitive to Snorkey Capone's sartorial condition as the newshawks were: the jury that was trying him for attempting to evade payment of a $215,000 Federal Tax on $1.038,000 income from 1924 to 1929; Judge James Herbert Wilkerson; Prosecutor George Emmerson Q. Johnson; Defense Attorneys Michael Ahern and Albert Fink. After hearing Snorkey linked to Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil" to eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated...
Snorkey looked blissfully contented as the jury filed out. In a bright green suit ($135) and green-spotted tie he stood in the corridor and smiled. Also pleased with Judge Wilkerson's dispassionate charge were Counsel Ahern & Fink. A moment later Snorkey disappeared...
...Lawyers Ahern & Fink had assembled eight bookmakers with shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost...
...hole in Snorkey's only defense by pointing out that race track losses could not be deducted from his income. If he lost consistently, they explained, the money he lost must have come from other sources than the track, and therefore he must pay income on it. Lawyer Ahern deplored the "great public clamor" against Snorkey, called him a "mythical Robin Hood." Prosecutor Johnson indignantly insisted the Government was presenting the case with "high purpose...
...prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests, learned from them a skill and precision in disputation which has since stood him in good stead. Later he was graduated from Loyola University...