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...question had come up while Committee Counsel Adrian DeWind was ferreting through the financial records of Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the mysterious, too-sick-to-testify Washington influence man who keeps popping up in stories of tax influence peddling (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). In Grunewald's records, Counsel DeWind had found a $10,000 deposit and five other deposits totaling $16,500, identified by the symbol "Br." Grunewald's tax consultant explained that "Br" was Owen Brewster...
...elusive Mr. Grunewald grinned approvingly and sauntered off. Nothing about his mysterious activities had been settled. Reporters could not even agree whether or not he talked with a "guttural German accent," like the man who made the threatening call to Attorney Teitelbaum...
After an hour and 45 minutes of gavel-banging and intermittent bellowing, the subcommittee had the answers to just two questions: 1) Grunewald's name, and 2) his age (59). Grunewald was ordered to appear again in six weeks, and the committee adjourned for the holidays. The groundwork for a contempt-of-Congress citation had been laid, but that procedure might take as long as two years. What the subcommittee needed was Grunewald's testimony...
...Boss." Outside the hearing room, Grunewald again was jovially unconcerned. "He's the master mind," he rumbled, pointing at Maloney. "He's the boss." Maloney, glowing victoriously after pushing the subcommittee around, strutted over and demanded: "Now here, do I have to resort to physical violence to keep you shut up?" But client and lawyer did give the press one answer about the Teitelbaum case. It contained sharp references to the fact that Teitelbaum was once Al Capone's lawyer and that a glossy brunette divorcee named Shyrl B. Menkin, a "family friend," had corroborated Teitelbaum...
...never spoke to Teitelbaum by phone or otherwise," Grunewald said. "I don't know the son of a bee. If he's good enough to pick up the chips for Capone, he's . .." At. that point, Maloney seemed to think his client had said enough, so he finished the sentence: ". . . he's good enough for Mrs. Menkin, I suppose...