Word: teitel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...