Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1952-01-18

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One result was that Gov. TT
to 60 to Manhattan to see the
Committee, convened special
grand jury to investigate the Sara
toga conditions.
In Bergen County, New Jersey,
just across the Hudson River from
New York City, gambling had be-
come so notorious that there final
ly had been a partial breakdown.
At the time of our hearings,
only Anthony Guarini, who seemed
to have been the front man for
the ring, had been sent to Jail
After our hearings, however, gam
bling indictments were returned
against Joe Adonis, Salvatore (Solly
Moore) Moretti, Arthur Longano
and James piggy Lynch.
We questioned a Newark IN. ~
certified public accountant, George
Goldstein, who seemed to perform
the same functions for East coast
mobsters that attorney Eugene
Bernstein performed for the Chi
cago-Capone syndicate. He acknowl-
edged that for some years he has
handled tax returns for "the New
Jersey gambling partnerships"
Profits from these various COM
panies were shared by Guarini.
James Rutkin, Adonis, Gerals Ca
tena, Salvatore Moretti, and Lynch
Actually, there is no way of tell
ing exactly how much they took in,
as Goldstein admitted he made out
tax returns from figures which
were not based on any real audit.
But one gambling company alone
admitted to gross receipts of S403.-
698 in its l945-46 tax return.
Still another business-like facet
of the gamblers was their method
of converting into cash the stable
checks taken from their victims.
Max Stark-since sent to jail-was
"check cashier" for the mob. Daily,
he would bring to the small Mer-
chants Bank of New York City some
60 to 10 checks signed by losers at
the casinos. Over six months, the
checks came to about 5000, 900.
Stark, conveniently, had become
stockholder in the bank; he owned
10 per cent of the banks stock.
Another New Jersey operator ex-
amined by the committee was
Willie Moretti The 5G-ycar-old old
er brother of Salvatore Moretti was
and is-a big-time gambler, and.
more lately, part-owner of a big
laundry and linen supply company
Willie let slip a great many scraps
of information about the East coast
mob
Willie's talkativeness, apparently.
was not an isolated phenomenon
When rackets boss Frank Costello
vas testifying months later, Ru-
dolph HALEY quoted transcripts of
telephone wire taps, legally OBJ
tanned. which showed that Morettl
called Costello "chief," and that
Costello told him - Rest and
don't call me so much" Don't
talk too much; you know
Costello insisted he was just giving
a little friendly health advice to
sick friend
We took Willie through a list OF
leading gangsters, and with only a
few exceptions. he knew then all.
HALEY: Aren't these people
what you would call rackets boys?
Moret:j Jeez. everything is
racket today
HALEY These people come
from great many different cities
around the country How do you
get to meet all of these people =?
More;ti Well. you go TO race
tracks and you go to Florida, and
you meet hem; and the man that
is well known meets everybody
you know that
HALEY ,sKcd HIM If ne belonged
to any political clubs. Il don't
beIonG to any am BIPARTISAN.
Morc;ti answered The lncredlh e
gambler went on to boast that he
dn'l operate politically "-that,
if he did. he mITht have become a
member of Congrcss-"mavhe sit
ting where you are
WHIT about some olo cnal es
filed " an established competitor.
a laundry in the same Jersey area.
that Mo-ettl was taking business
away frTr than by strong
methods? 1t w2s all lie, Willie
sa d; he did business in "a polite
WV
Even tie firm tEat had com
planned about him now has merged
with his company. Fortunately
God helped me-" he explained The