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Then a garrulous, emaciated Republican politician named Charles Lipsky, who announced himself as a good friend of O'Dwyer's, added some illuminating details about Costello the Boss Politician...
...Frank Costello was just what they had claimed -the boss of one of the nation's two big crime syndicates (TIME, March 12). They had also charted some tortuous trails that led straight out of Costello's underworld and wound up in ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer's anteroom...
...resign, if he wants to make good his threat. He put 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...
...Small Peanuts." The Senators quizzed Anthony Anastasia and his brother Albert, the rich Brooklyn mobster and onetime Murder, Inc. suspect who never stood trial, although District Attorney O'Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators...
...week's end the committee was back in Washington quizzing bookies and investigating the "billion-dollar" punchboard racket. But it proposed to come back to New York next month, interview O'Dwyer in person, and hold open hearings with a group of witnesses which might even include Virginia Hill, great & good friend of the late "Bugsy" Siegel. New Yorkers could hardly wait to find out whether the city had been suffering from deep-seated Costello-itus or just surface symptoms of itchy fingers...