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...Frankie Carbo, hoodlum and longtime reputed "Mr. Big" of boxing, ran afoul of a Manhattan grand jury, got socked with a ten-count indictment charging conspiracy, unlicensed matchmaking, acting as undercover manager of professional fighters by using licensed "front...
...Boxing Judge Bert Grant, 51, was indicted in New York City on charges of taking bribes up to $100 to influence his decisions in five bouts. His alleged briber: Manager Herman ("Hymie the Mink") Wallman, a Manhattan furrier and reputed front man for Frankie Carbo, the underworld commissar of boxing. Wallman's tigers won all the bouts; Judge Grant is accused of making sure they did. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended both men, banned Wallman's fighters, including Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Middleweight Randy Sandy and Featherweight Ike Chestnut...
...Beach, he accused the guild of engaging in "vague and shadowy" activities, of actions that were at once "malevolent, monopolistic, flagrant, shocking, vicious, arbitrary and illegal, absolute and autocratic, underhanded and dishonest." Guild members, said Helfand, had consorted with "the sinister and shadowy figure of the notorious Frankie Carbo,"and, what was worse, had displayed"an incredible and amazing ignorance" of their own organization. For all this and a few assorted other fouls, Commissioner Helfand knocked the guild right out of the ring, said that any manager who wanted to keep his state license would have to resign from...
...State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand's investigation into the affairs of Jim Norris' International Boxing Club, which has a strangle hold on big-time professional boxing. Yes, Gimbel was aware that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had exposed the connections between Multi-millionaire Norris and underworld characters such as Frankie Carbo. Yes, he had heard Norris testify to his friendship with Carbo. Still Barney Gimbel insisted, "I do not know the man [Carbo] nor do I know who he knows or what he does. What I do know is that I had contemplated this move for two or three years because...
Nobody else knew much about Carbo, either. Such assorted characters as Hymie ("The Mink'') Wallman and Willie ("The Undertaker") Ketchum, a sullen pair of part-time managers, had heard that Frankie was interested in boxing-but never from Frankie, of course. Never nothing from Frankie. Wallman, who had invited Carbo to each of his three daughters' weddings, did not even know his friend's address. How were the invitations delivered? Well, Frankie and The Mink just happened to "bunk" into each other...