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...they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name was big enough to head the investigation. Finally, however, the Governor was convinced, and athletic, 33-year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets...
Died. Theodore Wexler, 19, University of North Carolina premedical student, elder son of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, New York beerlegger convicted last fortnight of income tax evasion (TIME, Dec. 11); of injuries suffered when the automobile in which he was speeding north to help plead for reduction of his father's sentence, crashed into a fireplug; near Chester...
Last month Irving Wexler was put on trial as an income tax dodger. For three years the U. S. Government had been trying to get him just as it got Chicago's Alphonse Capone. Federal investigators, working day and night, uncovered evidence showing that he owed the Treasury $1,111,000 in taxes. When his trial began bull-necked Irving Wexler affected bored unconcern. Hands laced across his paunch, he dozed while lawyers droned. But spry, boyish Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey soon jolted him wide awake with 140 witnesses and 900 exhibits carefully tracing the history and ramifications...
...stand in his own defense Wexler pictured himself as a poor man. He was, he said, only a small cog in a big wheel. His real bosses had been Hassel and Greenberg who gave him a modest allowance, supplied limousines to "keep up the front." He owned no breweries, knew little about the beer racket, and nothing at all about New York gang murders. When Prosecutor Dewey called his testimony a lie, Wexler wept...
...took the jury just 51 minutes to sweep Wexler's story into the discard, bring in a verdict of guilty on all counts. Wexler's jaw sagged and he gulped hard as the judge fined him $80,000, sentenced him to ten years...