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...trial, prosecutors charged that Beck cheated the Bureau of Internal Revenue by pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing a 15-year Washington state sentence for embezzling union funds, could get a maximum sentence of 30 years on the federal conviction. ¶ In Mineola, L.I., Vincent Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced his brother Nunzio Squillante (two to five years) and one Bernard Adelstein...
...seven weeks since he launched the U.S.'s first Law Day (TIME, May 5), American Bar Association President Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, 46, has traveled from Washington to Alaska to Mineola, L.I., to St. Louis trying to arouse his fellow lawyers to do their part in a crusade to achieve world peace through world rule of law. Last week's way station: the annual meeting of the Erie County Bar Association in Buffalo. Last week's Rhyne proposal: that the International Court of Justice, now all but "unused" at The Hague, move some of its sessions...
...Koning Sr., 59, shrewd, tough ("I ain't afraid of no one") Long Island labor hustler and strong-arm boy, convicted of extortion in 1954 after a four-year crusade by Long Island's Newsday (for which it won the Pulitzer Prize); of chronic hepatitis; in Mineola, N.Y. A.F.L. Organizer De Koning bullied his way from Local 138 of the International Union of Operating Engineers into a prosperous, politically insured Nassau County kingdom, reputedly decided who could or could not construct a new housing development. Expanding in 1943 to catch some of Roosevelt Raceway's runaway revenue...
Clockwatcher. In Mineola, N.Y., Mrs. Jeanette Dempsey, 24, accused in court by her husband of hugging and kissing his best friend for an hour in their home, indignantly denied it: "It wasn't an hour. It wasn't more than 20 minutes...
Fielder's Choice. In Mineola, N.Y., Construction Worker Dennis Smith vigorously denied that he had struck his wife, said: "All I did was pick her up and throw her out the door...