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...right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen's knockout No. 23. Westphal collected $12,000 and a plane ticket back to Germany. Liston got $80,000, of which $18,000 was earmarked for his ex-manager, Joseph ("Pep") Barone, sometime front man for Hoodlum Frankie Carbo...
Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing...
...Facts of Life. A onetime (1948-51) member of the President's Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces, University of Chicago Graduate Gibson imperturbably testified that Carbo was one of "the facts of life" in boxing. In order to ensure that Carbo would make the boxers he controlled available for I.B.C. fights, said Gibson, the I.B.C. paid more than $40,000 to the ganglord's wife whose last known address proved to be half a mile out in Florida's Biscayne...
There were other facts of life, too, Gibson admitted. The cartel paid $9,000 to Hoodlum Frank ("Blinky") Palermo, who is allegedly running Carbo's boxing empire while the boss is in jail. While Gibson doodled, Subcommittee Investigator John Bonomi summed up his testimony: "Almost every leading manager or promoter in the U.S. is either closely associated with or controlled by Frankie Carbo in some degree...
...Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns...