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...Murray Garsson (shady deals, racket connections, big-scaled bankruptcies) walked out of Mr. Walker's office with $5,000 of his personal (not Kuhn, Loeb's) cash. That was in April...
Last week in Washington dignified Elisha Walker got in to see the Mead Committee, just under the wire of its recess for one month. He informed the war profits investigators that slick Murray Garsson had got the $5,000 on a note signed by Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; then both had reneged on paying off the loan...
...longer startling news that 56-year-old Murray Garsson and 71-year-old Andy May had been up to their eyeballs together in a sour business deal. The Meadmen had already developed plenty of evidence that Andy May was the busy mentor of the Garsson brothers' nexus of paper-built munitions companies, that it was fairly common talk around the Gars-sons' Washington office that packets of $1,000 and $3,000 were sent up The Hill to handy Andy (TIME, July...
Capone & Colonels. But Elisha Walker's public admission that he, too, had been made a sucker by Murray Garsson added another intriguing chapter to the story of the Garssons' bumpy rise to riches and influence...
...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...