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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...
...Matter of Perjury. A heavyset, greying man named James F. McLaughlin took the stand. He testified that he used to work for the telephone company, that in 1945 Costello asked him to check his telephone. Two or three times a week for about three months, he checked Costello's phone, and Costello handed him $50 or $100 when he saw him outside the Waldorf-Astoria barbershop. He had arranged a code with Costello. When Costello's line was tapped, "I would call him at his apartment and just say, 'This is Jim, everything isn't well...
...committee had caught Costello in a clear case of perjury. Next day, Costello came back to the courtroom looking ruffled, shrunken and malevolent. His throat was inflamed, the television lights bothered him, and he was in no condition to testify further, his lawyer declared. Mild-mannered but firm, Kefauver insisted he should try to answer a few questions. Rasped Costello: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function . . . With all due respect for the Senators-I have an awful lot of respect for them-I am not going to answer another question ... I am going...
...walk he did, with the threat of contempt ringing in his ears. Next day he was back, honking into his handkerchief, while Lawyer Wolf flourished a doctor's certificate. "I refuse to go further with the questioning . . . until I feel fully well and capable," Costello croaked, and walked out again...
...Costello was nearer to prison than he had been since the day in 1915 when he was caught carrying a pistol. He faced a perjury charge, contempt of Congress, and he might be subject to deportation as well. In three short days, Frank Costello could see the destruction of the power and the respectable veneer he had been 35 years abuilding...