Word: delaneys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, said Shapiro, "I walked into my office and called Mr. Delaney. I said, 'Mr. Friedman and Mr. Finnegan are in my office and claim they are tax experts. Are they all right...
...Good Friend. Brought to trial four weeks ago, Delaney was confronted by Maxwell Shapiro, a Boston wool merchant, who testified that in April 1949 a couple of men named Daniel Friedman and Hugh Finnegan had come to his office. Somehow they had discovered that Shapiro owed the Federal Government more than $140,000 in back taxes. According to Shapiro, the conversation was as follows...
Friedman: Denis W. Delaney...
Shapiro testified that on the spot he paid his visitors $5,000 on account. After a trip to Washington, Friedman reported that everything was "under control" and asked for more money. Again, said Shapiro, he called Delaney, and Delaney told him to pay, that everything was O.K. "I made out the check for $5,000," Shapiro told the jury, "and here I am." In two years thereafter, said Shapiro, the fix worked so well that no one from the collector's office ever had tried to collect his taxes...
...urbane Friedman, called to the witness stand, readily confirmed Shapiro's story. He had sold his services to a number of Boston firms. All his success as a fixer, he claimed, he owed to his friend, Denis Delaney. What had become of the fix money? He and Delaney had split it between them...