Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abraham Teitelbaum's shakedown story opened the door for another sudden exit from the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Day after the Chicago lawyer testified, Charles Oliphant, the bureau's chief counsel, dashed off an angry letter of resignation to Harry Truman. The charge that he was part of a clique seeking payoffs was "fantastic," he said. The "attacks, vilification, rumor and innuendo are beyond the point of human endurance...
...lumbering, smooth-pated, flabby-jowled prototype of the political boss, McHale for years has made big fees handling cases involving the Government. He was a stockholder, director and counsel for the Empire Ordnance Corp., one of the most investigated and most criticized munitions companies of World War II. In 1941 Missouri's Senator Harry Truman denounced Empire's efforts to buy political influence in Washington as "anything but ethical...
McKinney and McHale have long been associated in business and politics. McHale is counsel for some McKinney enterprises, and the two are joint investors in others. Last summer both were in Washington seeing their political friends about getting a Government priority for steel to build a pipeline...
Another Caudle chum was Troy Whitehead, a Charlotte machinery manufacturer, whose private plane flew Caudle to Florida twice for deep-sea fishing. Once, Caudle got up the whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked...
Broker Forman said he snapped up the steel because he "saw a chance to make a fast buck. There's nothing illegal. Everybody makes a profit, even Uncle Sam. What's everybody screaming about?" When committee counsel asked if he had prepared a ceiling chart for OPS as required by law, Forman answered bluntly: "When they start talking about filling out forms and stuff for a ceiling price, I am not in the steel business...