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These decisions so effectively barred wiretap evidence from federal courts that the Justice Department practically gave up even trying to get convictions where critical evidence had been obtained by wiretapping. But apart from making evidence inadmissible. Section 605 has been a flop as an anti-wiretapping law. Only in one case has anyone ever been convicted under the section, and that was not a wiretap case.* Since the FBI does a lot of tapping, the Justice Department has not even tried to enforce Section 605 against wiretappers. Courts have had little occasion to decide whom Section 605 prohibits from doing...
...Taft-Hartley Act attempted to break Communist control of unions by requiring officers of labor unions to sign non-Communist affidavits before their unions could be certified as bargaining agents. This section in the law has been a flop. Officers of Communist-run unions have simply resigned formally from the party, signed an affidavit, then continued their Red activities as before. Nevertheless, the NLRB has been ordered by the courts to take the affidavits at face value and to certify the unions...
Fritchey's diversionary attack concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil...
...Treasury agents did much of the investigating, but the FBI arrested both Checkers and Flip Flop, and an FBI man was a Government witness at their trial...
Only a few weeks before its smash opening, the festival had looked like a spectacular flop. Before a single ticket had been sold, the committee was more than $100,000 in debt for the experimental tent theater. Production costs soared to $220,000. Promotor Tom Patterson, the Stratford magazine editor who first thought of the festival, had been able to collect only $40,000 from local contributors...