Word: costelloe
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...Lucky Luciano in jail and then let him out again; he can hardly claim that he is not familiar with Luciano. He accepted money for his presidential campaign from the same John Crane whose contributions to Mayor O'Dwyer will be the object of criminal investigation. As Frank Costello put it, you are bound to rub elbows with all kinds of people in New York...
...contemptuously. He refused to explain why, after Siegel's untimely death, a Houston man had asked him to come down to Texas, and why Smiley had shuttled back & forth between Houston and the Beverly Club, the gambling casino near New Orleans controlled by New York's Frank Costello. Smiley's reward for these questionable services was "a small piece of property." What kind of property? "Well, it may have had a few oil wells on it/' said Al, and departed with curled...
...York syndicate. Headquarters: Manhattan. The command: Frank Costello and his No. 1 man, swart Joe Doto, alias Joe Adonis. Its specialties: gambling casinos, slot machines, crap games...
Inviting Burglars. In New Orleans, Kefauver drove into town past big neon signs advertising Costello's swank Beverly Club. New Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness...
...Star Finale. That was about all the committee needed to confirm its worst suspicions of the extent and brazen confidence of the Chicago syndicate. Next week, in the wind-up hearings, Estes Kefauver will bring his roadshow to New York, where an all-star cast, including Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, unhappily awaits him. Then the committee will sit down to write its final report...