Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, said Shapiro, "I walked into my office and called Mr. Delaney. I said, 'Mr. Friedman and Mr. Finnegan are in my office and claim they are tax experts. Are they all right...
...Friedman was indeed an expert from the Estate Research Bureau in New York City. Quiet Hugh Finnegan is a brother of the then St. Louis Tax Collector Jim Finnegan, who himself is under indictment for bribery...
Shapiro testified that on the spot he paid his visitors $5,000 on account. After a trip to Washington, Friedman reported that everything was "under control" and asked for more money. Again, said Shapiro, he called Delaney, and Delaney told him to pay, that everything was O.K. "I made out the check for $5,000," Shapiro told the jury, "and here I am." In two years thereafter, said Shapiro, the fix worked so well that no one from the collector's office ever had tried to collect his taxes...
...urbane Friedman, called to the witness stand, readily confirmed Shapiro's story. He had sold his services to a number of Boston firms. All his success as a fixer, he claimed, he owed to his friend, Denis Delaney. What had become of the fix money? He and Delaney had split it between them...
Reduced to tears, Delaney denied everything-or almost everything. All he had done, he said, was arrange to steer Friedman to likely insurance prospects. Then Delaney's health went bad. Commission checks from Friedman began to roll in. What could he do but deposit them? He had conscientiously reported $10,000 of extra income from this source on his tax return...