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...said Reynolds, "was the bagman in this thing from beginning to end. The bagman is the man pushed around for having been the medium ... I was low man on the totem pole." Of the $35,000, Reynolds said, he kept $10,000 for himself, and "Bobby told me that $15,000 was to go for the presidential campaign and the other $10,000 was to go for political purposes as he and Mr. McCloskey saw fit-mostly Bobby." Reynolds said that Baker further told him to "stick the money in a bank you don't ordinarily use, so those...
...victuals. Mitchell was arrested and charged with agreeing to a $20,000 bribe from two real estate men who wanted a variance in a zoning rule in order to build a multiple-dwelling housing development. The brothers told the cops, turned the 20 grand over to Mitchell's bagman in a Manhattan hotel room while detectives waited outside...
That blow licked us. I gave up and we were unionized. First he signed the drivers and the outside men. Then Kierdorf let me rest for three weeks. Then he came back and said, "We want your secretaries." So, finally, we went to George Kamenow [the Detroit bagman for Labor Relations Associates Boss Nate Shefferman, great and good friend to the then Teamster President Dave Beck] and paid off $2,000 and agreed to pay a monthly retainer of $75. That was that; no secretaries were organized. But two weeks after the McClellan committee began sniffing around, Kierdorf came around...
More than a narrow strip of Transylvania was already out of Rumanian hands when sorely beset King Carol II acceded to the suggestion of roly-poly Colonel Gerstenberg, Hitler's capable and very persuasive Balkan bagman, and gave the 740,000 Germans in Transylvania the right to arm, immunity from joining the new Rumanian Party of The Nation and freedom from Army requisitioning...
...Judge Manton, testimony indicated, sometimes acted as bagman himself. When John Lotsch got into trouble for accepting an earlier $200 bribe, he went to see Judge Manton. Lotsch said Judgi Manton fixed it up with District Judg3 Edwin Thomast all right-for $10,000. Judge Thomas acquitted John Lotsch...