Word: shakedowns
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...wanted to stay out of income-tax trouble. Charles Oliphant, the resigned Revenue Bureau counsel, admitted that he was a close friend of Grunewald and had talked to him about the Teitelbaum case. Frank Nathan and Bert Naster, the two Florida promoters identified in Teitelbaum's testimony as shakedown agents for a Govern ment "clique," were both friends of Grunewald. When Mystery Man Grunewald finally appeared on Capitol Hill last week, the investigators could hardly wait to unravel his fascinating story...
Oliphant had been a nervous wreck since the day Chicago Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum told the subcommittee a saga of shakedown. The main point of Teitel-baum's story was that a "Washington clique," including Oliphant, was in the market for bribes from income-tax payers in trouble. Oliphant promptly quit his job as chief counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, complaining that such a "fantastic" story should never have been permitted in public testimony. Such "vilification" was too much to take, he said...
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...
...famous name, the Navy also gave a hint of how fast the work is progressing. The keel will probably be laid soon after the first of the year, and her prefabricated sections will be welded together soon after. From all indications, the new Nautilus will be ready for her shakedown cruise before...
...hours after Chin died, Treasury Counsel Emanuel Minskoff told a press conference in New York that the U.S. Government is calling a halt to the Chinese Reds' long-distance shakedown. During the past year the Communists have bled millions of dollars from Chinese-Americans with relatives imprisoned in China. The payments benefited the Communists, but not their victims. Some were executed while relatives in the U.S. were still signing ransom checks...