Word: kravitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story began, Chotiner testified, when Kravitz telephoned him in Los Angeles, saying that he was looking "for a good lawyer, and that I had been recommended to him." Kravitz said that he wanted to move his business to Los Angeles, and later asked Chotiner to make two trips East to discuss the proposed relocation and other "situations." At that time Kravitz was awaiting trial for misappropriating Government property and making a false statement in connection with the case. Chotiner eventually discussed the charges with an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, and they reached a prosecution-defense agreement: Kravitz...
Beyond the Kravitz case, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (brother of Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy) began to throw some other names at Murray Chotiner. It developed that the California lawyer had represented Marco Regnelli, a notorious New Jersey hoodlum, who was trying (unsuccessfully, it turned out) to set aside a U.S. order of deportation. Also involved in Chotiner's dealings with Kravitz and Regnelli, in a way not entirely clear, was a man named W. A. Parzow, a convicted jury tamperer from Miami and Atlantic City, who seemed to have been instrumental in getting Chotiner and his troubled...
...Situations." What interested the Sen ate Subcommittee on Investigations was the fact that Chotiner's name appeared in the records of one Herman Kravitz, a uniform maker from New Jersey, who had been convicted of misappropriating Government material and blacklisted as a Government contractor. What had Chotiner done to earn the $5,000 fee that Kravitz' accountant had recorded? To find out, the subcommittee called Chotiner to testify in private, and then subpoenaed him for a public hearing...
They are Susan Bittel of New York City; Motoko Fujishiro of Tokyo; Gertrude Jameson of Morristown. New Jersey; Barbara (Newman) Kravitz of Brooklyn; Mary Alice McArdle of Cambridge; and Nancy Wolper of Brookline...