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...again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...
stage employes' and projectionists' union, and Bioff, who is his Hollywood ambassador, had chiseled $550,000 from Hollywood film companies by threatening to stir up strikes among the 35,000 union members in the industry. Named as victims of the alleged extortion: Twentieth Century-Fox, Loew's, Paramount, Warner Brothers...
...hand of the law on his neck was no new experience for Willie Bioff, who only recently got out of the clink for his 20-year-old pandering conviction, and was already under another indictment for trying to evade payment of $85,000 in income taxes. Mr. Bioff wailed: "I never extorted a dime from anybody." Mr. Browne, never in jail himself, has had many another close friend there, including Nick Circella. Capone mobster. If convicted of extortion, Bioff and Browne face a maximum of 30 years in prison, fines of $30,000 each...
Greatly gratified was Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whose furious finger-pointing had resulted in Bioff's jailing on the old pandering charge, and whose attacks had blown open another A.F. of L. union, the Building Service Employes. Ex-president of that union, George Scalise, is in Sing Sing for stealing members' dues, still has a sentence for income-tax evasion hanging heavy over his head. James J. Bambrick, ex-head of the New York local, was also convicted of filching union dues. Same day that indictments in the Browne-Bioff case were returned, a sick and saddened Bambrick received...
...public record by the State's Attorney's office was the story which McLane in bolder mood had breathed to the grand jury. Two years ago, Nitti had summoned him to a conference. Present, according to McLane's testimony, were Willie Bioff, a convicted pander; Nick Dean, alias Circella, a convicted crook; Louis Romano, who McLane said was a former Capone bodyguard; and fleshy George E. Browne, recently raised from fourteenth to twelfth vice president...