Evening star., 1961-12-06
Go|dfine Reply
On S6OO,000
Ba|ks Probers
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star Staff Writer

Boston Industrialist Bernard
Goldfine, whose freedom ulti-
mately depends on how we'll he
co-operates with the Justice De-
partment, is giving investiga-
tors more Illustration than in
formation.
The imprisoned textile mag
nate. it was learned. periodi-
cally agrees to talk. When Gov
ernment attorneys and FBI
agents call at the Danbury Cor
rectional Institution, however,
they are greeted with half-ad-
missions, don't recalls" and
cant says"
Mildred Paperman, Goldfine's
secretary who was put on three
years probation when her boss
went to Jail for income tax eva
sion, repeatedly has been nam
ing some recipients of Goldfine
generosity but has failed to
produce any documentary evil
dence to support her allega-
tiOnS.
$780, 900 Unaccounted For
What the Government wants
to find out is what happened
to approximately 100000 that
Goldfine allegedly siphoned out !
of his various corporations.
Miss Paperman repeatedly .
has said and Goldfine has par
TALLY admitted that part of the
money was spent on gifts and
lavish entertaining of some 40 /
individuals ranging from politi-
cal leaders to union officials.
So far, what is conspicuously
lacking is coroboration Of Miss
Paperman's statements and the
7l-year-old industrialist's ram
bling accounts.
Investigators checking with
the alleged recipients have run
into not unexpected denials
which put them in the position
of pitting the word Of reputa-
BILE citizen against a man try
ing to get out of prison and a
woman trying to stay out.
Goldfine, it was understood.
has tried to impose his own
conditions on cooperating. The
Federal Judge who sentenced
him to a year at Danbury added
an l8-month suspended sentence
on condition that he disclose
how he spent the unaccounted
for 100000.
Seeks Immunity
Among Goldfine's own condi-
tions for cooperation reported
ly is a demand that the Gov
ernment give him immunity
from further prosecution If he
talks. So far Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy has shown
no inclination to grant him i'm
munity and there is nothing to
indicate that he will change his
mind in the near future.
Goldfine apparently still.
can't believe that he's liable to
stay in prison indefinitely. He
has given the impression that
he thinks he can buy his way
out Of prison with half-truths
just as he allegedly bought IA
vors in his free spending years.
He probably will be given
more information about his fu-
ture prospects on January 2,
when Federal Judge George c.
Sweeney has announced he will
dispose of admitted probation
violations by Goldfine and Miss
Paperman.
Letters Struggled In
Goldfine's five-year proba-
ton began running at the time
of his sentence to Jail last year.
He and Miss Paperman admit
ted before Judge Sweeney last
Monday that they violated pro-
baton by inducing three en-
ployes at the Danbury institu-
ton to smuggle business letters
in to Goldfine.
United States Attorney Ar
thur w. Garrity asked the court
for the January continuance.
presumably to find out whether
Goldfine intends to improve his
cooperation in the intervening
month.
Meanwhile, agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton and the Internal Revenue
Service, as we'll as attorneys in
the Justice Departments Or
ganized Crime and Racketeer-
ing Section, are continuing to
look for some means of docu-
menting Miss Paperman's allie
cations and Goldfine's partial
admissions.