Word: stamler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incautiously, perhaps, he did more-sent a fire-breathing young special prosecutor named Nelson F. Stamler into Bergen County with orders to wipe it clean as a peeper's telescope on a summer evening. Last week-31 months later-this abnormal development was still having an intensely disturbing effect on the turgid currents of Jersey politics...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...
Harold Adonis skipped the country, but Stamler indicted him anyhow. Shortly thereafter, Special Prosecutor Stamler was fired by Attorney General Parsons for "insubordination." This caused even more uproar than Stamler's cleanup. The legislature launched an investigation into the affair, after Stamler shouted from the rooftops that he had really been axed for breathing too hotly on G.O.P. Governor Alfred E. Driscoll's administration. Last week, while questioning New Jersey's (just retired) Republican state chairman, a prosperous, churchgoing real-estate executive named John J. Dickerson, the legislators cut into a thick, salty vein of untapped political...
...Tell the governor and the attorney general that I don't intend to take this laying down." The governor, Dickerson went on, had been "shocked" to hear of the bribe and had given Willie no comfort. But for all of this, Dickerson was clearly no friend of Investigator Stamler. Stamler, said Dickerson, had taken credit for work done by the state police and had threatened "to get the governor...
Into Western Union's local office at Bridgeton, NJ. seven weeks ago walked Nelson Stamler, New Jersey's deputy attorney general. He had not come to send a telegram, but to arrest Office Manager Charles Frake, 39. The charge: operating a horse-betting establishment. Records seized by Stamler showed that in one year Frake's office had handled the transmission of $300,000 worth of horse bets by telegraphed money orders to out-of-state bookmakers...