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...Republican majority leader in the State Senate, who had just been sworn in as acting lieutenant governor of New York. Also on the list was William F. Bleakley, a former state supreme court justice, onetime G.O.P. candidate for the governorship and currently the counsel for the racketeer-ridden Yonkers Raceway.* Republican State Senator William Condon of Yonkers had a ready explanation for his visit: he had escorted A.F.L. President George Meany on a trip to see Extortionist Fay, hadn't spoken a word during the visit. Although his name did not appear on the prison record, Meany acknowledged...
...list revealed, were by no means confined to one party or profession. Other visitors included Democratic Mayor John Kenny of Jersey City, Louis Marciante, president of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor, Thomas Murray, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, George Levy, manager of Roosevelt Raceway, and former Democratic Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark. Paul Troast, New Jersey construction tycoon and the G.O.P. candidate for governor, proved his friendship in another way: he had written to Governor Dewey in 1951, he admitted, to plead for a commutation for Joey...
...interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...
This week, as Dewey's investigators got to work on the Yonkers mess, the New York World-Telegram and Sun trotted out another scandal, this one at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Labor bosses, the paper said, have been milking the paychecks of track employees for $345,000 a year; every Friday night, Roosevelt employees who wanted to keep their jobs hastened to a bar in nearby Hempstead and forked out cash tribute to the racketeers.' Some of the payments went for tickets to clambakes, but the rest of the money was simply handed over with no questions...
Owner of the bar is William De Koning, onetime A.F.L. power and close friend of George Morton Levy, head of the Roosevelt Raceway. In 1951, Levy admitted to the Kefauver committee that he paid Frank Costello $60,000 over a four-year period to keep bookmakers out of the Roosevelt track. De Koning, it developed, is a capitalist of some dimensions as well as a big union man; he owns approximately $300,000 worth of stock in the Roosevelt and Yonkers tracks, has admitted yearly incomes as high as $125,000. De Koning resigned last May as chief of Long...