New Britain herald., 1924-03-21
GRAFT OF S2OO,OOO
 REPORTED TODAY
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some of the money How much Wa! !, paid back ?'' : About s40.Goo or s5o. o.oee--it wal paid through Thomas B. Fielder"
 Goroni indicated that the permit: were "called back and cancelled through Haynes"
 6O.00D Gases Go Through
 "Sonc permits went tlIroHgh?''
 "Yes. about Go.00o eases"
 Al SIS per case "''
 Yes
 You had trouble with Feldcr?"
 "Yes-I paid him s5.Opo with q promise l would not be indicted. asked for my money back when I was indicted
 w l. Flynn recommended Fielder to me-said be was anahonest man. remarked GoroRi
 The committee identified Flynn as former head Of the bureau of iny"s- tigation of The department Of justice. Goroni said he imported 7.l00 cases of Scotch whiskey from Scot land. in q legitimate way" but that .W. ]. Fanon, the dis1illers' agent. wanted him to sell it to bootleggsr IFS,
 Offered S25n.DOO
 He offered me q quarter of q mil lion dollars" Goroni went on. to sell that to bootleggers. I refused. The whiskey was in the White Star ware house Heilbronner and Company, exporters, tried to get possession of ii. They failed. After that they came to me with Fielder, and said they would give me .s42,0O0 to ship the liquor back to England"
 Then Fielder threw him out of his office. Goroni said. because he refused to accept the s42,o0o to relinauish his claims to the 7,l00 cases of Scotch. There was litigation and by order of the attorney general the whiskey was reshipped to England" Goroni tried to stop that unsuccessfully.
 Did you have any information as to what actually became of it?N
 "The same kind Of whiskey in bot ties and cases, was selling by the boot leggers around New York" He was not positive the bootleggers' whiskey was his own, but "it was the same brand and that kind had never been there before
 What did you lose?
 Lost S3O, ,00O-s35, 900.
 Between sS0,0OO and s35,O00-- litigation and all"
 The HOO case shipment was sent to the Alps Drug company, Goroni explained. and he had a permit to export it.
 T did not pay anything for that permit---it was a legitimate transac- tion," Goroni said.
 "orr came to me" Goroni went on. T wouldn't give up the shipment. He told me 10 go to he'll" This was in June, 1921
 Didn't you know that the goods were never re-shippcd outside the port Of New York;"
 "I know the rumor," Goroni said. "Thcrc was plan 10 steal it from the warehouse-and l got detectives 10 watch it, Then it was ordered removed to tho concentration ware house where the bootltggers haye everything in their poNpr and l couldn't stop it."
 From the concentration warehouse tho 7.i00 cases were ordered to re- shipment
 "I changed my attorney---went from Fielder to Barnes" Goroni said, telling of his fruitless attempts 10 stop the rc.shipment.
 Means Again Bobs Up.
 His attorney told him, inc witness said, that Gaston B. Means would go from Washington to New York, act ing for the. attorney general and stop return of the whiskey to Scot land. Means got there on Monday but the whiskey moved out on Sat- urday.
 To Use Army Trucks.
 There was a plan to take the whiskey out with army trucks and replace il with bricks" Goroni said, and when the liquor was put aboard an outbound ship he was told that it appeared as if empty cases were being tossed about.
 Wheeler got Goroni 10 identify Nick Cimino as "a friend Of orr's," in New York. There were other shipments in the anchor warehouse. Goroni said
 Any dope7"
 Not that l know of."
 Attorney Rowland for the attorney general. took up the examination. Hart, prohibition director. refused you permit to release 500 cases of whiskey. and then you tried to get someone Of influence to get il al- lowed?"
 "Orr sent for me" Goroni said. "and told me if We wanted 10 do ybusiness it would be all right"
 The permits were for liquor for ~mcdicinal purposes" Goroni said. But the liquor never came into your possession, but was distributed around by your agents to bootleg rers?" Howland asked.
 "He was supposed to sell fl to oth- CT druggists"
 Flynn l. Mentioned.
 Mir. Howland, Tor the attorney general, took the witness over his conversations with William ]. Flynn, former head Of the secret service. who had told him he was in bad com pany. When Rowland asked if Flynn was moi democratic ap- pointee. there was bissing from inc crowd in the room.
 "Do you know. as fact. that Harry N. Dauehorty ever sent any telegram selling Judge Hand 10 or der these 7.lUb eases Of liquor sent
 
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