Word: nitti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Gangster Frank Nitti and four aides faced a judge and jury on charges of conspiring to "seize" the Federation's local bartenders' union. Slated for chief witness against them was George McLane, the local's business agent. McLane, assured of police protection, had been frank enough in secret grand-jury hearings. But when it came to saying it out loud in open court, he had a change of heart, refused to testify. The judge had no choice but to order the jury to bring in an acquittal. Last week Nitti & aides went free...
...public record by the State's Attorney's office was the story which McLane in bolder mood had breathed to the grand jury. Two years ago, Nitti had summoned him to a conference. Present, according to McLane's testimony, were Willie Bioff, a convicted pander; Nick Dean, alias Circella, a convicted crook; Louis Romano, who McLane said was a former Capone bodyguard; and fleshy George E. Browne, recently raised from fourteenth to twelfth vice president...