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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...
...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...
Besides adding heavily to the cost of the defense program, A.F. of L. racketeering (according to Arnold's estimate) costs the U.S. a billion dollars a year. It lays its heavy, sweaty hand on everyone, from cabbage-eaters to movie kings. This week, as Willie Bioff, an ex-pimp, and George Browne, a vice president of A.F. of L., awaited trial in New York's Federal Court for allegedly extorting half a million dollars from four motion-picture companies, farmers coming into Manhattan were shelling out to A.F. of L. unioneers for the privilege of unloading perishable produce...