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...Politics. Halley turned back to the shadowy connections between New York's politicos and New Yorks bosses of crime. Costello had walked out before the Senators could grill him on his relations to Tammany politics. But they could explore Tammany politicians and the men around Mayor O'Dwyer for traces of the underworld's power. While O'Dwyer himself flew into-town from the embassy in Mexico to testify, the committee hus tled a whole covey of O'Dwyer's political friends and underlings onstage...
...assistant state's attorney general testified that he had often seen O'Dwyer in Joe Adonis' Brooklyn restaurant in the '30s, along with other politicians; he thought it might have been O'Dwyer who introduced him to Adonis. A county pros ecutor estimated that police protection in Brooklyn amounted to about $250,000 a bookmakers...
Moron, the Right Bower. But the key man was big, beefy James J. Moran, a jaunty, florid, Irish-politician type. Once a court clerk, Moran had long been Wil liam O'Dwyer's political right bower. As O'Dwyer rose, so did Moran. When O'Dwyer became mayor, he made Moran first deputy fire commissioner and let it be known that all things political were to be "cleared with Jim Moran." As a last act, the departing mayor had appointed him to his lifetime $15,000-a-year job as a city water commissioner...
Moran was bluff and confident. He testified readily that he arranged a meeting for O'Dwyer with Costello in 1942 or 1043 O'Dwyer was in the Army at the time and was investigating a rumor that Costello was "mixed up with some people who were making trouble for the Army at Wright Field." Moran knew just how to get hold of Costello; he called Michael Kennedy, then leader of Tammany Hall...
...weeks later, O'Dwyer went to Costello's apartment with Moran and stayed an hour. Moran did not know what they talked about...