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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...
...Socks") Lanza, 59, once-tough labor extortionist whose short-lived 1957 parole made headlines as a political scandal; by Ellen Connor Lanza, 50, a plump blonde who sobbed, "Don't worry, honey" when Lanza was led back to jail; after 19 years of marriage (best man: Gangster Frank Costello), no children; six months ago in Mexico, while Socks was still in prison...
...years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended by Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, attorney in the past for such defendants as Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Costello and the late Senator Joe McCarthy. After 26 hours of deliberation, the confused and divided jury (10-2 for acquittal) was dismissed, and Judge Frederick vanPelt Bryan recessed the case until May 12, when he will consider Lawyer Williams' request for a directed verdict of not guilty...
...well as the information that young Dick won one of his first elections (president of the student body at Whittier College) by campaigning for dances, which had been banned at the Quaker-founded school. The Kornitzer book seems to be about an entirely different man from William Costello's bleak study, The Facts About Nixon (Viking; $3.95), which first appeared in abbreviated form in the New Republic. Reporter Costello shows his bias in every turn of phrase, and the sinister Nixon he presents is no closer to the real...