Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Guilty," mumbled the porcine racketeer. Having thus made himself liable to 34 years imprisonment and $90,000 in fines arising from charges brought during the previous fortnight (TIME, June 15, 22), Public Enemy Capone ("Snorkey" to his cronies), attired in a sulphur- colored suit, was hurried off to the freight elevator remarking that he "hoped everybody was satisfied...
...fortune was reckoned at $20,000,000, although agents were only able to find direct evidence of a $260,000 maximum annual income on which he failed to pay taxes. By tapping wires Federal operatives also uncovered another little-known bit of information. Public Enemy Capone is known as "Snorkey" to his intimates...
Leading executives of Snorkey & Co. indicted last week were: Joe Fusco, business manager of the syndicate's beer department; Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufactures; Steve Swoboda, veteran brewmaster. Snorkey is liable to two years imprisonment, $10,000 fine if convicted. Federal punishment now hanging over the head of the arch criminal: 34½ years in prison, $90,000 in fines. So impressed was Snorkey by the magnitude of the threatened punishment, it was said last week, that he offered to "compromise" the case with the Government by payment of $4,000,000. But officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Forest College of Law, he put a Q meaning nothing into his name to distinguish him from all other George E. Johnsons. He has practiced law in Chicago since 1900. plays much golf badly. So confident was he that the Capone gang has been financially wrecked that he permitted Snorkey to go free on the $50,000 already posted...