Word: schisoff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lumpish face. Prison-pale were some of the witnesses. Ten of the 23 for the Government were felons, including: paunchy Yasha Katzenberg, described by the League of Nations as an "international menace," organizer of a $10,000,000 dope ring into which, he said Lepke muscled; Benny Schisoff, Coney Island frozen-custard man, implicated in the racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told of a narcotics organization which coiled around the U. S., China, Europe...
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