Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Demanded Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley: "Based on your years of experience in politics in this city, did you believe it was necessary to get Costello's backing for your candidate?" Said Lipsky: "I did that. That's why I went...
Then a garrulous, emaciated Republican politician named Charles Lipsky, who announced himself as a good friend of O'Dwyer's, added some illuminating details about Costello the Boss Politician...
...Groundwork. Counsel Halley had carefully laid the groundwork for his case against Frank Costello. First he called in a grey, glib Manhattan lawyer named George Morton Levy, who runs Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway (harness horses). Witness Levy admitted unabashedly that he regularly played golf with Costello, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license...
Halley produced Costello's 1925 naturalization papers, noted that he had failed to state he had once used the name Frank Severio, and that he had denied he had been in the bootlegging business. At that, Halley whipped out Costello's testimony to the state liquor authority in 1947, admitting he had bootlegged from 1923 to 1926. Said Costello sulkily: "I didn't sell no liquor prior to '25. I might have expressed it the wrong way . . . But now, to my recollection, thinking it over . . ." Observed Senator Tobey: "Is not the man who made the false...
Then Halley threw another harpoon. Innocently, he asked Costello if he had ever paid anybody to check his telephone for wire tapping. "Absolutely not," said Costello...