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Error Two. Five days later, the facts of Thomas Aurelio's nomination were laid on the record: he owed the nomination to a flashy, potent racketeer named Frank Costello; day after he was selected, he had called Costello's private telephone number to swear "undying loyalty...
Error One. Thomas Aurelio, who had a respectable record as a Manhattan magistrate, was one of two candidates nominated by the Democratic machine. Under New York political practice, both were also nominated by the Republicans in a regular trade...
...hearing in which the State Bar Association tried unsuccessfully to disbar Aurelio, the full story came out. Cocky Racketeer Costello conceded that he had been a bootlegger, rumrunner, slot-machine magnate, betting commissioner, had spent ten months in the workhouse for illegal possession of a gun, had paid no income taxes on his lush rakeoffs for 13 years. He knew almost every big-name gangster of recent history: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, "Trigger Mike" Cappola. But he added: "I had bundles of real important friends of mine...
Racketeer Costello admitted that he controlled four Tammany district leaders, had used them last year to help swing Tammany's leadership to Michael J. Kennedy, had since conferred with Boss Kennedy at least once a week. He put full pressure on Kennedy to nominate Aurelio, and succeeded, even though Kennedy was said to be under White House pressure to name another...
Error Three. Although both Democrats and Republicans promptly tried to disown Aurelio, there was no legal way to take his name off their ballots. The two parties swung their official backing elsewhere-but Democrats favored one opponent, Republicans another. Thus the anti-Aurelio vote, whipped up by every New York newspaper, was divided into impotence...