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...Miami's Dade County, Sheriff James A. Sullivan's assets had soared from $2,500 to more than $75,000 in his six years in office, and a deputy testified that a fellow deputy had delivered to the sheriff's wife $36,000 in payoff money from gamblers. Over on the west coast, Tampa's Sheriff Hugh Culbreath was apparently in business with the top underworld boss, "Big Red" Italiano, let his brother run a book right in his office. An accountant for the racketeers in the Cuban bolita (a version of numbers in which small...
...games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...
...never likely to land the rich postgraduate contract with the pros that might have earned him up to $100,000. All had tarred themselves with a disgrace that is likely to dog them through their lives. In individual gestures of contrition, the boys dredged up payoff money from clothes and shoeboxes, turned it over to the district attorney. It came...
...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...
...payoff question was: "What famous Englishman had this to say of Lord Chesterfield? 'This man, I thought, was a Lords'," Samuel Johnson," was the correct answer...