Word: ericksons
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...Gambler Frank Erickson, who looks like an aggrieved pig and dresses like an advertising executive, could see his mistakes now. He never should have taken his office out of his hat and moved into a fancy Park Avenue office, complete with an accountant and neatly kept records. He never should have said anything to those Senators down in Washington...
...York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
...whole procedure was "cutting the Constitution right through the middle," sputtered Erickson's attorney. To which Judge John A. Mullen replied: "Anyone who publicly proclaims himself to be in the bookmaking business must expect to have his records examined." District Attorney Hogan confidently made a date with the grand jury...
When he was asked his opinion about the Senators' bill, Erickson, too, said casually that it would not work. If a man had money, customers, and the sports page of the New York Times, he saw no reason why he couldn't do well as a bookie...
...Erickson was a man of some authority on the subject: he admitted to the committee that he makes $100,000 a year. Like all the rest of the fat boys of the rackets, he seemed to be incredulous that Congress entertained the idea that it could stop him; through the testimony of all ran a confident theme: "We're here, and you'll just have to put up with...