Word: bioff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago street urchin, ex-newsboy, ex-pimp, Willie Bioff did all right by himself in Hollywood. Last week a jury in New York Federal court decided he had done a lot of wrong as well...
...Government, which accused Willie and his friend George E. Browne of racketeering, a group of moviemen told of paying $887,700 to the two bosses of the A.F. of L. stagehands' union-under threat of strikes if they resisted the shakedown. Then Willie Bioff took the stand to give his own version of his success story. He blandly raised the total that moviemen had given him to more than $1,000,000. But he denied completely that it was extortion money. His story...
Willie took this job. In return the movie magnates were very good to Willie Bioff. They sent him and his wife to Europe and South America. Joe Schenck lent him $100,000 to buy an alfalfa farm, gave him $8,000 after a good evening at poker, gave him also a sun cabinet to sweat away his belly and a portrait inscribed "To my friend Willie." It was wonderful...
...crossexamination, U.S. Attorney Matthias F. Correa concentrated less on this story than on its author. Willie admitted that he had been known at various times as Morris Bioff, William Berg, Harry or Henry Martin, Mr. Bronson. Then Correa went into Bioff's testimony on previous occasions, got him to admit to one lie after another given under oath. When the total reached six, Judge John Clark Knox interrupted: "Don't you feel bound by the sanctity of an oath...
...George E. Browne, A.F. of L. vice president and his aide Willie Bioff , who went on trial in New York charged with extorting $550,000 from film companies...