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a couple of other people. ] locked
around there, and Giglio said. You
are not going to get my money "
Sc Lubben, letting discretion be
the better part of valor, walked out.
The final snapper was that he never
got his income tax paid by his ex-
partners. either.
William Gigio was evasive. But
step by step Counsel Rudolph HALEY
led him through an absorbing recital
Of his career
His Tavern Fruit Juice Co. en-
gagged in a sharp operation The
years before, Giglio explained, man.
ufacturers were being encouraged
by oPA to make as much jelly as
they could: ''In 1874 fats and oils
and butter were in short supply
and OPA requested of all jelly man.
ufacturers to manufacture m o e
spreads, more bread spreads"
Tavern manufactured jellies from
sugar it received under OPA allot-
ment but, again in Giglio's own
words, "all Of our imitation-flavored
jellies were sold to very limited
number of customers, only the top
customers in the country" These
customers, it developed, were large
cookie manufacturers, short on
sugar themselves, who were buying
Tavern's products as bakers jel-
~" and paying, as HALEY charged,
premium price"
At the time he testified, Giglio
(his own corporation in bankruptcy
and under investigation by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau had found
a new position as general manager,
he said, of pharmaceutical firm.
AL throughout our Investigations,
the committee discovered evidence
of infiltration Of legitimate business
fields by crimeSters and their as
Sociates. We saw 1t in Chicago,
where Joe Fusco, once labeled
public enemy" by the Chicago
Crime Commission became one of
the city's largest wholesale liquor
dealers. We saw it in Miami, where
hoodlums took over hotels. The
committee found more than 70 sep
arate types of businesses into which
countless hoodlumS had infiltrated.
This pattern is . familiar and Of
ten a vicious one. It begins with the
hoodlum finding himself with more
money than he knows what to do
with, accrued. of course, from his
illegal ventures.
A good example is Newark gang
ster Abner CLongie) Swillman, con"
fessed rum-runner and strong-arm
man of the prohibition era, named
by former District Attorney William
O'Dwyer Of Brooklyn as one Of the
old leaders of "The Combination"
which ran Murder, Inc"
Zwillman wound up the prohibition
era with a fortune. Now he is a
participant in a tobacco vending
machine company, a truck sales and
parts agency, a trading company
that buys and sells auto equipment
and used machinery, another COM
pany that deals in scrap iron, and
company that places and operates
o m 700 washing machines in
apartment buildings.
He also has investments held for
him in the names Of other persons.
He declined to give US information
about these because sometimes my
name kills a deal"
| None Of US on the Committee
would deny the right Of an honestly
repentent wrong-doer. But there
was too much evidence before III
of the unreformed hoodlum gaining
control of a legitimate business
then utilizing all his old mob tricks
-strong-arm methods, bombs, ever
murder-to secure advantages ovel
legitimate competitors. All too otter
such competition either ruins legiti
mate business men, or drives then
into emulating or merging with thc
gangsters.
The hOOdIums also are clever a
concealing ownership Of their bust
ness investments A legitimate bust
ness is a very convenient front TO
a gambler or criminal. It can b.
used as a cover" for the profits o
his illegal operations, enabling hin
to defraud the government Of taxes
Another drawback is the basi
EMBELLISHMENTS Of having gang
sters in control of companies tina
perform vital services or distribut
necessary commodities TO the pub
| lie.
/, for one, do not like to thin
, OF food products necessary to h
health Of my children, or of med
cine that can mean life or deaf
to a grea- many people, comm
, from plants controlled by gangster
/ whose code of ethics is the dolla
! sign.
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the Jungle.
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