Word: teitelbaums
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...with mysterious regularity. It was the name of Henry Grunewald, a shadowy Washington operator who apparently enjoyed a large and useful set of acquaintances among the influence peddlers. Theron Lamar Caudle, the ousted Assistant Attorney General, testified that it might have been Grunewald who called Chicago Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum and warned him to pay off a tidy item of $500,000 if he 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...
...elusive Mr. Grunewald grinned approvingly and sauntered off. Nothing about his mysterious activities had been settled. Reporters could not even agree whether or not he talked with a "guttural German accent," like the man who made the threatening call to Attorney Teitelbaum...
...rumbled, pointing at Maloney. "He's the boss." Maloney, glowing victoriously after pushing the subcommittee around, strutted over and demanded: "Now here, do I have to resort to physical violence to keep you shut up?" But client and lawyer did give the press one answer about the Teitelbaum case. It contained sharp references to the fact that Teitelbaum was once Al Capone's lawyer and that a glossy brunette divorcee named Shyrl B. Menkin, a "family friend," had corroborated Teitelbaum's testimony...
...never spoke to Teitelbaum by phone or otherwise," Grunewald said. "I don't know the son of a bee. If he's good enough to pick up the chips for Capone, he's . .." At. that point, Maloney seemed to think his client had said enough, so he finished the sentence: ". . . he's good enough for Mrs. Menkin, I suppose...
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...