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...mayor ignored reports of police corruption until press coverage finally forced him to appoint the Knapp Commission, which then criticized him for not acting sooner...
...where about 40 per cent of the voters in the Democratic primary are Jewish. Garelik has almost perfect credentials. He is Jewish and is former chief inspector of the Police Department. However, he does not have the strong personal appeal that Biaggi does and speaks quite poorly. Further the Knapp Commission which studied police corruption published a report that Garelik had accepted gratuities while on the force and this revelation puts a severe damper on his chances...
Married. William Zeckendorf, 67, former $25-a-week building manager who wheeled and dealed his way into control of one of the world's largest real-estate empires (Webb & Knapp, Inc.), then watched the bottom fall out in 1965; and Alice Bache, 60-ish, widow of Securities Magnate Harold (Bache & Co.); both for the third time; in Manhattan...
...since a crusading young attorney named Thomas E. Dewey was appointed special prosecutor in 1935 had there been such a dramatic move to fight crime in New York City. Acting on the recommendation of the Knapp Commission, which had spent a year and a half investigating corruption in the city police department, Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced the creation of a superprosecutor to ferret out misdeeds in all areas of the criminal justice system, including the police, judges, probation officers, bail bondsmen and prison authorities. Said Rocky: "It is absolutely unique...
Seymour started the inquiry 14 months ago as a result of work by the Knapp Commission, a special body investigating New York City police corruption that came into being almost entirely because of articles by veteran Investigative Reporter David Burnham in the Times. Going beyond the Knapp group, Seymour used City Detective Robert Leuci as an undercover man, gathering evidence of payoffs and other malfeasance. Eventually the prosecutor assembled a force of 40 local and federal agents who made liberal use of underworld informants. He anticipated a huge haul, but Leuci got restive. He was in danger much...