Word: schoenbaum
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...case against Frank Costello. First he called in a grey, glib Manhattan lawyer named George Morton Levy, who runs Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway (harness horses). Witness Levy admitted unabashedly that he regularly played golf with Costello, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license if he did not get rid of the bookmakers who were operating there. Levy instantly thought...