Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moran & the Policy King. After that, Moran met Costello often in restaurants and as Costello had testified, frequently dropped in for a drink at his apartment...
Virginia, who is now 34 and married to a Sun Valley ski instructor, admitted knowing just about every nobleman in Big Crime's hierarchy-Joe Adonis, Costello, Meyer Lansky, Charles Fischetti. But she didn't admit much more. Lolling negligently at the witness table, Virginia explained her unlimited income in short bursts of Alabama drawl: "I went with fellows. Like a lot of girls they got, giving me things and bought me everything I want . . . Whatever I ever had, outside of betting the horses, was given...
...Rackets & Politics. Halley turned back to the shadowy connections between New York's politicos and New Yorks bosses of crime. Costello had walked out before the Senators could grill him on his relations to Tammany politics. But they could explore Tammany politicians and the men around Mayor O'Dwyer for traces of the underworld's power. While O'Dwyer himself flew into-town from the embassy in Mexico to testify, the committee hus tled a whole covey of O'Dwyer's political friends and underlings onstage...
Moran was bluff and confident. He testified readily that he arranged a meeting for O'Dwyer with Costello in 1942 or 1043 O'Dwyer was in the Army at the time and was investigating a rumor that Costello was "mixed up with some people who were making trouble for the Army at Wright Field." Moran knew just how to get hold of Costello; he called Michael Kennedy, then leader of Tammany Hall...
...weeks later, O'Dwyer went to Costello's apartment with Moran and stayed an hour. Moran did not know what they talked about...