Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-13
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rights to a $10,o00-a-year full-pay
pension. He had served 20 years.
He is expected to testify volun.
tarily before the committee today
He was not subpoenaed.
Mr.. Memolo climaxed a long re-
cital yesterday by asserting that
Judge johnson had demanded q
two-thirds' share of ID big receiver
ship fee in 1888 in the Williamsport
(Pa0 Wire Rope Co. case.
He was Johnson-appointee as
associate receivers counsel.
Mr.. Memolo said he arranged with
Bethlehem Steel officials, who want
ed the Williamsport firm, for pay
ment of $240,000 to receivership Of
flcials. He said all but $1,000 was
paid in out-of-court transactions.
Mr.. Memolo acknowledged that
he received approximately $200, 00O
of the money himself through as
signment from officials he said he
had arranged to have appointed by
Judge johnson.
1t was in anticipation of the pay
ments, he said, that Judge johnson
had demanded a two-thirds' cut to
be paid directly to the Judge.
Mr. Memolo said he already had
obtained the money, but did not
tell the judge.
He made these assertions to the
subcommittee:
That between 1885 and 1889 he
paid $4,000 in fee splits to Mr.
Greenes, who testified earlier he
turned Mr.. Memolo's payments over
to Donald johnson;
That he wrote orders of the
court, gave them to Mr.. Greenes
and that they were handed down
over the judges signature;
That he once wrote an opinion
which was handed down in s'practi-
cally identical words" from the
bench; n ; NJ
That he promised Bethlehem Steel
he could deliver" on anything
they required to be done" by assign
ing the task to Mr.. Greenes;
That he gave Mr.. Greenes $4,000
for the purchase of a summer home
by the judge;
Take Care of Boys"
That one of the receivership off,
Gals he arranged to have appointed,
and who he said was paid S30,850
by Bethlehem Steel, agreed to take
the job without the money in re-
turn for promised appointment
as a bankruptcy referee, and that
the appointment subsequently was
made by Judge Johnson;
That he once told the judge the
fees from Bethlehem Steel in the
Williamsport case would be mo less
than $150,000," and that the judge
said he hoped I'd take care of the
boys when it was done" Mr.. Memolo
testified that he got the impression
the judge meant his children, I
guess;
That his court directed allowance
as an associate counsel in the case
was once raised by Judge johnson
from 81 900 to 81 500 a month on a
retroactive basis, although he never
asked for or expected it.
Mr.. Memolo testified that in 1888
when the big Bethlehem Steel fees
we're due "the judge called me in and
asked me how much I had paid
Jake Jacob Greenes) and the boys.
l said I'd find out.
Later, I brought in adding ma
chine slips showing $4,000. The
judge was surprised. He didn't think
it was so much.
"He said when you get it (the
money from Bethlehem Steel, don't
pay it to Greenes. See me. He
asked me what division I had been
making with Greenes and I told
him so per cent.
He said you ought to kick back
662s per cent"
Under questioning by committee
members, Mr.. Memolo repeated:
THE judge said not to pay it to
Jake any more-to give 1t to him
to the judge"
did you tell him that's what you
would do?" Mr.. Memolo was asked.
II was noncommittal," the wit
ness replied. IT did not intend to
give him so much"
Mr.. Memolo then said that he
had had the money from Bethlehem
Steel at the time and did not tell
the judge so.