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...Cinemagnate Joseph M. Schenck, having served a third of his year-and-a-day term for perjury, walked free on parole. Originally sentenced to three years for income-tax evasion (to the tune of $412,000), he won a suspension of that sentence after testifying against union racketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne...
Cinemogul Joseph M. Schenck was bundled off to prison to serve a year and a day for perjury instead of three years for income-tax evasion. The three-year sentence given him a year ago was suspended as a reward for his testimony help in sending Laboracketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne to the pen for extortion...
...International Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers Union, wrote A.F. of L.'s President William Green, asking him to purge the racketeers from their union. Said the sand hogs: "The 'take' by racketeers in this field goes far beyond anything ever dreamed of by Scalise, Browne and Bioff. . . . The American Federation of Labor is pledged to root out racketeers from its ranks. We ask that you join with us in carrying out that pledge...
...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...
...jury took just under two hours to find Bioff and Browne (who did not testify at all) guilty of all the Government charges-racketeering, extortion, conspiracy. Possible maximum sentence on each count: ten years, $10,000 fine...