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Elegantly outfitted and wearing a vacant smile, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald stepped back into the spotlight on Capitol Hill last week. It had been 16 months since the mysterious Grunewald first appeared before the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. At that time, he went clam-quiet after revealing no more than his name and age. Last week, having pleaded guilty to contempt of Congress, Grunewald was trying to talk his way into a light sentence. But he was still part clam, opening his shell only when it suited his convenience, clamming up again on questions he deemed...
...Busy, Charlie?" Grunewald did tell enough to show that he knew just the right tax people. When Brooklyn's Dan Bolich (now charged with evading his own income taxes) arrived in Washington in 1948 to become assistant commissioner of Internal Revenue, Grunewald invited him to share an apartment. Said Grunewald: "I says, 'Dan, why don't you stay here? I got three rooms and you can have one.' " Dan stayed for a year, but, insisted Grunewald, "At no time did Bolich ever discuss tax cases with me in any way, shape or form...
...Another Grunewald pal was George Schoeneman, then commissioner of Internal Revenue. Schoeneman introduced Grunewald to Charles Oliphant, then the Revenue Bureau's chief counsel. They became fast friends; Grunewald gave Oliphant a $600 television set, two $200 room air-conditioning units for his house, an electric train for his children. Said Grunewald: "I'd call him up and say, 'Charlie, you happen to be busy right now?' And he would say he wasn't, so I'd go over and we'd have a talk." About what? "Anything," said Grunewald, "except we never...
...resigned suddenly after a tax-troubled Chicagoan testified that Oliphant's name had been used by a racketeer in an attempted shakedown. Oliphant had admitted accepting gifts and expensive entertainment from big taxpayers with cases pending before the BIR. A close friend of Oliphant was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, who refuses to testify before congressional committees...
...outcome was partly the result of Owen Brewster's tie-up with influence-peddling Henry Grunewald (see PRESS), partly a reflection of the views of Maine Republicans on the presidential race; Payne is pro-Ike, Brewster pro-Taft. Ike headquarters jubilantly claimed that all candidates for state office who hitched their wagons to the Taft star have been wrecked in primaries...