Word: finks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snorkey looked blissfully contented as the jury filed out. In a bright green suit ($135) and green-spotted tie he stood in the corridor and smiled. Also pleased with Judge Wilkerson's dispassionate charge were Counsel Ahern & Fink. A moment later Snorkey disappeared...
...Lawyers Ahern & Fink had assembled eight bookmakers with shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost...
...Fink, still feeling hurt, thought the language of the indictment was "vague, indefinite, uncertain," felt that a great injustice had been done to Snorkey in charging him with "attempting" to evade tax payments. Snorkey, he said, had only "omitted" to do his duty. In Washington, Treasury officials punched a hole in Snorkey's only defense by pointing out that race track losses could not be deducted from his income. If he lost consistently, they explained, the money he lost must have come from other sources than the track, and therefore he must pay income on it. Lawyer Ahern deplored...
Judge Wilkerson looked puzzled. So did Messrs. Ahern & Fink. "Inconsistent," mumbled the prosecution. Snorkey grinned broadly...
...Ladroga, l.e. r.e., Emory Engler, Kashon, Golden, l.f. r.f., Dow, Hutchinson Kaliski, Rossi, l.g. r.g., Brookins, Raff Love, Lefarte, c. c., Gleason, Casales Seaver, Griffiths, r.g. l.g., Gunlach Sharkey, Carson, r.t. l.t., Gamman Souillere, Sullivan, r.e. l.e., Hellis Lefebvre, O'Reilly, q.b. q.b., Haley Janion, Ritchie, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tenney, Fink Curran, Goodman, Pauk, r.h.b. l.h.b., Locke Borden McGovern, Frigard, Gore, f.b. f.b., Litman, Swift...