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...Arab scam) investigation led a federal grand jury in Brooklyn to indict Democratic Congressmen Frank Thompson of New Jersey and John Murphy of New York on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Brilab (for bribery labor) resulted in a New Orleans grand jury naming Mafia Kingfish Carlos ("Little Man") Marcello on counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. So far, Abscam has led to indictments of five Congressmen, all accused of accepting bribes from bogus Arab businessmen. The first three: Democrats Michael Myers and Raymond Lederer of Pennsylvania, and John Jenrette of South Carolina...
...grand jury in Brooklyn is now hearing evidence against New Jersey Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. The Brilab operation, targeted against racketeering in the South and Southwest, led to the indictment of quite a different kind of figure. Long the reputed godfather of organized crime along the Gulf Coast, Carlos Marcello, 70, is suspected of running an empire whose illegal gambling operations alone reportedly grossed more than $500 million annually in the 1960s. Except for a six-month prison term in 1970 for slugging an FBI agent, Marcello has successfully dodged federal prosecution and deportation for decades. Today the Marcello domain...
Working on the case, the FBI bugged Marcello's offices and set up a dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...
According to the indictment, Marcello then tried to bribe, among others, Charles Roemer, then Louisiana state commissioner of administration, to award the state employees' life insurance contract, worth $2 million, to Fidelity. Marcello also allegedly told Hauser that he had arranged a meeting with then Louisiana Lieutenant Governor James Fitzmorris to talk about contracts for the "city of New Orleans." A local attorney named Vincent Marinello later reported to Marcello that he had handed over $10,000 in cash to Fitzmorris. "I got two big shots," Marcello boasted to Davidson...
...Abscam leaks also caused a premature closing of the Brilab sting. By then, though, the Brilab investigators had tapped the Washington telephones of I. Irving Davidson, a longtime capital public relations man who admits being a friend of Marcello's. The FBI taps overheard Davidson regularly calling some low-level assistants to various presidential aides to discuss his clients' problems...