Word: extortionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. From his Midwest power base, Hoffa pushed into New York in the mid-1950s with the help of Extortionist John Dioguardi, alias Johnny Dio, boss of a shakedown ring thinly disguised as a labor union. Dio & Co. brought into the labor rackets 40 toughs with a total of 178 arrests on their police dockets. One of them told a Brooklyn machine-shop owner: "You have got to pay us off because you are mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council...
...Over the past 14 years, the Neo Gravure Printing Co. of Weehawken, N.J., which prints Sunday supplements for three New York papers and one in Boston, paid out $307,136.80 to preserve a truce with the Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown...
Harold Gross, president of a Teamsters Local in Miami and a convicted extortionist, kept silent on testimony of other witnesses that he charged thousands of dollars to assure labor peace at a New Jersey commercial printing firm which turns...
...THEFT has brought conviction of Oil Promoter Odie R. Seagraves, 70, and Extortionist Emanuel Lester, who tried to sell maps for $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). Secret geologic maps of oil lands were turned over to them by a former Gulf Oil Corp. employee who stole maps from the company. Judge fined aged Seagraves $5,000, sentenced his cohort Lester to three years...
...East Coast, the committee dug into the affairs of I.U.O.E. Local No. 138 on Long Island. The local's President William DeKoning Jr. reached his post by a simple, direct route: he was appointed to it by his late father, longtime boss of Local 138 and a convicted extortionist.* Of the local's roughly 2,000 members, only 500 are allowed to vote in union elections. Witness Peter Batalias testified that when, at a 1955 meeting of the local, he urged voting rights for more members, six goons dragged him outside, pummeled him into insensibility, left him lying...