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Like Charles Oliphant, General Services Administrator Jess Larson cried out in anguish when his name was mentioned in Lawyer Teitelbaum's story. Larson hurried before the King subcommittee to deny that he was part of any shakedown clique. He used his harshest words on Frank Nathan, Florida influence peddler, identified by Teitelbaum as one of the men who made the shakedown proposition for the Washington "clique...
...least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named Frank Nathan and Burt K. Naster set out to help him. Nathan, of Miami Beach, is a gambler, chiseler and influence peddler; Naster, of Hollywood, Fla., is a former Chicago industrialist who once served a prison term as a tax dodger...
...pattern of his operation began to unfold. A cop dressed as a workman bumped into Rubino one day in a corridor near a dynamo room. "What are you doing here?" the peddler demanded. The 'cop mumbled: "I'm looking for the mess hall." Rubino growled: "Well, this isn't it, so get the hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside...
...package of "horse," as heroin is known to the trade, retrieved his dog and walked calmly back to the waiting room. Last week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
Clam Up. Gould also testified-and showed canceled checks to prove it-that when he refused to pay in cash, Flug and Corey told him to make out a check to one Adrian Roman. On the basis of that and other evidence, the committee suspected that Roman was a peddler for Flurey's high-priced nickel-and in many cases had actually pushed the price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then...