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Question: What about Blackmailer Bioff's own 1941 trial for extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lesson | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Bioff: "I remember lying to Judge Knox and the jury, and it was a lie in its entirety. . . . I lied and lied and lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lesson | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Question: What did Labor Statesman Willie Bioff, representative of the stage workers' union, think of the Wagner Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lesson | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Bioff: "We didn't care about that. All we were interested in was the dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lesson | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Willie and the "boys from Chicago" were about taking it. Did Willie know that bribery, as well as extortion, was a criminal offense? Did he know that in New York a person who pays money to a shakedown expert might be liable under the bribery laws? Shakedown Expert Bioff considered the idea for a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lesson | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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