Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elkins had testified that he had entered into a Portland vice partnership with Seattle Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin and that they were acting as the rackets' representatives of their good friend, West Coast Teamsters' Boss Frank Brewster. Elkins said he had given Maloney and McLaughlin $20,000 in eight months as their cut of the operation, but they had nonetheless decided he was holding out. For his part, Elkins thought he was being doublecrossed by Maloney and McLaughlin-and he had done something about it. He had wired their hotel rooms and made tape recordings...
Make & Break. But the racketeering coalition failed to last. Elkins decided that he was being doublecrossed by the Teamsters and their friends. Elkins testified that he had been told that a rival gambler had paid Frank Brewster $10,000 and had been given a Teamsters' go-ahead. Elkins went to Frank Brewster's headquarters for an angry confrontation...
...expand his illegal operations (he was game for anything except that he "never took a nickel" from a madam) around Portland. He was referred to Seattle Gambler Tom Maloney as a man who could help him by reason of being "a very close friend of [Teamster Boss] Frank Brewster." Gambler Maloney, said Witness Elkins, looked upon the Teamsters as "God or something" and was fond of boasting that "we could eventually take over the whole state of Oregon if we had their backing." Elkins, Maloney and-although they had previously been committed to another candidate-the Teamsters decided to back...
...first-class bungler and, said Elkins, the Teamsters sent in another man to help with the Portland racketeering. He was Seattle Gambler Joseph Patrick McLaughlin, alias Joe McKinley. The difference between Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin was explained to Elkins by none other than the Teamsters' Frank Brewster. Testified Elkins: Brewster once said that " 'Tom Maloney is a blubberheaded, blabbermouthed so-and-so, and I have known him 20 years, and I have put him in business 20 times and he messes up every time . . .' I told him I agreed with that, certainly, and he said...
...went in his place. I am looking around and he said, 'You don't have to be so-and-so afraid of me. I don't wire up my place.' I said, 'I am not afraid of you wiring it up, Mr. Brewster.' He said, 'I am going to tell you to start with I don't like the people you represent.' I said, 'I don't represent any people, just Jim Elkins.' He said, 'Well, I am going to tell you something else. I make mayors...