Word: costello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bennett Williams should have a good book in him about his spectacular career of defending some of the most violently unpopular of public figures. At 42, Williams has made upwards of $150,000 a year for standing between an aroused society and the likes of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Costello. In times past, Williams has taken on various branches of the U.S. Government in behalf of Senator Joseph McCarthy, David Beck, Bernard Goldfine, allegedly Communist Hollywood writers and Confidential Magazine. But Williams has chosen instead to devote his first book to fervent advocacy of the cause that, he says, attracted...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...
...drawings took Thurber no time at all-a fact that he tried to hide from Ross-and he covered the walls of Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon in 90 minutes, for drinks. He claimed to belong to the "pre-intentionalist" school. His famed seal-barking cartoon began, he recalled, with a fine seal. But the rock he tried to draw under the seal looked hopelessly like a bed, and one thing led to another...
Sprung 18 months early for good behavior during a five-year stretch for income tax evasion. Racketeer Frank Costello, 70, left federal custody in downtown Manhattan, headed north to Riker's Island workhouse to finish a 30-day New York sentence for contempt of court. When freed on this final rap, the old bootlegger, whose take from assorted enterprises once approximated $4,000,000 a year, plans to return to his Sands Point. L.I., estate "to tend my roses." But the U.S. Justice Department has other ideas. It hopes to send the now denaturalized immigrant on a longer journey...
Apparently the Russians considered Melekh exceedingly important. His counsel was expensive Edward Bennett Williams, the U.S.'s most famous criminal trial lawyer. Sometime defender of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Teamster Boss James Hoffa and Gambling Chieftain Frank Costello, Lawyer Williams had several conferences with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the Melekh case-a strange twist, since Bobby Kennedy has long been bitter toward Williams for thwarting his efforts to bring down his old enemy Jimmy Hoffa...