Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 07/19/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 07/19/1963

PAGES:

5

SUBJECTS :

CIP, LIAISION, CG PDT, BKG, AUSTIN, RICHARD B.

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/17/1998

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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and that it was not unusual that a local politician was

rewarded from some service to the mob by being slated for

a lucrative position such as a judgeship.

CG 6283-C advised SA VINCENT L. INSERRA on the

evening of 7/18/63 that he has heard that Judge AUSTIN

1s a fairly close friend of BIEBER and BRODKIN and that

within the past year or so AUSTIN, BIEBER and BRODKIN

and their wives took a trip to either Miami or Las Vegas

and that the bills for this trip were paid by BIEBER and

BRODKIN®

In connection it is noted that CG 6576-C#

advised that on 4/2/63 MIKE BRODKIN advised PAT MARCY,

local politician who is the tool of Chicago topphoodlum

SAM GIANCANA, that Judge AUSTIN had sent him word that

BRODKIN "must be mad at me" since it had been a period of

time since BRODKIN

had visited AUSTIN.

CG 6283-C also advised that it is gossip in Chicago

on Clark Street where the federal courts are located that

for some time Judge AUSTIN has been having an affair with

his secretary.

According to this information, his secretary

is a married woman, however, could furnish no additional information.

CG 6283-C also advised that Judge AUSTIN and

GEORGE LEIGHTON, the attorney who is defending GIANCANA,

personally well acquainted with each other and were

very/closely associated together on a committee of the local

bar association which just recently sought changes in the

Criminal Code of Illinois.

CG 6283-C, who is an attorney,

advised that it appeared

strange to him at the time that

although

Judge AUSTIN was no longer a judge on a state or local

level, he seemed to have particular interest in the

revisions

of the Illinois State Code and was the chairman of the committee

in this regard. This informant also noted that Judge AUSTIN

seemed to favor and fight for the proposed provisions of the new

code which hindered law enforcement in general.

He stated in

particular Judge AUSTIN was interested in having a part of the

code changed to make it mandatory that defendants be

"immediately"

advised of

their right to an attorney upon arrest and given

"immediate" access

to a telephone to consult with an attorney.

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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Ill'

Attention of the Bureau is also directed to the

information that has previously been set out in my daily

airtel summaries concerning the regent conversation

between Municipal Judge DANIEL JRYAN and PAT MARCY wherein

RYAN in speaking about the federal judges which he can

contact and presumably influence mentioned two of them

as being available to him in this regard and then saic

"and, or course, judge AUSTIN, I can always talk to."

This would indicate that at least Judge RYAN, known to

be under the considerable influence of MARCY and his

associates, felt that he had an entre with Judge AUSTIN.

The DAPLI investigation of AUSTIN conducted in the

summer of 1961 when AUSTIN became a federal judge has been

reviewed and it is noted that CG 6132-C advised in 1/57 that

Judge RICHARD AUSTIN who at that time was a criminal judge

in Chicago accepted money to fix cases which he heard and that

he accepted this money through the law firm of Bieber and

Brodkin.

It is noted that GEORGE LEIGHTON was interviewed

during this investigation and he advised that he had known

AUSTIN on a professional basis for at least ten years.

LEIGHTON described AUSTIN as having more judicial ability

than any other judge in the local courts of Cook County, and

stated that he would highly recommend AUSTIN for the

position of federal judge.

This report also shows that

AUSTIN

was criticized in

1960 when AUSTIN was Chief Justice

of the Criminal Courts for an attempt to destroy a special

Grand Jury report on the police scandals "as part of a sinister

plan to cover up corruption in Chicago".

It is noted that this

corruption greatly hindered Chicago hoodlums due to the reorganization

of the Chicago Police Department. This report indicated that

the Grand Jury believed that there was an alliance in Chicago between

crime

politicians and the police. AUSTIN explained, according

to the press, that the jury exceeded its authority in making

such a report. States Attorney ADAMOWSKI accused AUSTIN'S

"politics of the cheapest kind" and referred to him as a

no dispost king t

"CHARLIE MC CARTHY" to Mayor DALEY'S "EDGAR BERGAN" of the

Democratic organization.

It should also be noted that

this investigation determined that AUSTIN is a former law partner

of ex-governor DWIGHT GREEN of Illinois and that AUSTIN ran

as a Democratic candidate for governor. of Illinois in 1956.

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