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Boston Mass, Globe
SEP 2 8 1931
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STORY OF BRIBERY
CHICAGO ILL DAILY NEWS
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1931,
VIEWED AS PLOT
BRIBE TALE MAY
GANG B
CHICAGO, Sept 27 (A. P.)-The F'ed-
eral Government's investigation of a
story that two alleged gangsters paid
$75,000 to "escape prison sentences for
BE BOOMERANG
MAY kn
income tax violations apparently had
settled tonight on the theory it was
a plot to discredit United States Dist
FOR DRUGGAN
Atty George E. Q Johnson.
Johnson had directed successful in-
Investigators
come gangsters tax prosecutions and the against cases against several
sible Attemp
others, including "Scarface Al'' Ca-
pone, are pending.
Johnson's Attack on Gang
Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake,
Chicago
who were said by a friend to have
paid the bribe, have pleaded guilty.
/
Rumor Exposes Pur-
"What the purpose of this story
Associated Pre:
conveys except to impair my useful-
pose, Is Belief.
ness public do not un- a
as a official, I
CHICAGO, Septe
derstand," Johnson said in making
eral Government's
complete denial that anyone in his
Etory that two all
office accepted a bribe.
The $75,000 bribe plot tale re-
$75,000
escape
puted to have been hatched by Terry
tax violations last night appar-
Druggan to hamper federal prosecu-
on the theory that it was
tion of himself and his beer partner,
George Johnson
discredit District Attorney
Frankie Lake, on income-tax eva-
Johnson has directed
sion charges, appeared likely today
tome gangsters, tax prosecutions against successful several in-
to become a boomerang as govern-
including "Scarface Al' Capone, are
and the cases against others,
ment investigators pressed their in-
pending Terry Druggan and Frankie
quiry with a view to possible grand-
Lake, have Tho paid by a friend to
were said
jury action.
Tillty bribe, have pleaded
United States District Attorney
George E. Q. Johnson, who expressed
Teys except impair my usefulness as
"What purpose of this story con-
do not understand,
the belief that the story of the $75,000
a complete de-
"fix" to keep Druggan and Lake out
his office accepted
of the penitentiary was the result of
a conspiracy to besmirch him, said
Investigators on Case.
of United States At-
that he would do his utmost to see
William D. Mitchell
that punishment is inflicted on any
the case, under
one implicated in the conspiracy.
Clegg, St. Louis, for-
the Department of
The bribe story which started the
Bureau.
investigation was said to have been
has been
time, it was
told Washington officials by Harold
having been called
Hayes, owner of the Metropole hotel,
Mitchell's atten-
one-time hangout of the Capone mob.
by Harry C.
where Capone
Attorney Leopold Melnick, one of
headquarters,
and
counsel for "Scarface Al" Capone in
Druggan.
Hayes
given to an attor-
the gangster's income-tax case, was
the district attor-
reported to have been questioned hy
Druggan and Lake
federal agents in the graft investiga-
some person
tion.
himself as having
also was
"I represent some people whose
property is tied up through govern-
Gangsters.
ment liens issued against Druggan,"
as
one
he declared. It was understood that
opponents
of
he was referring to Albert Pick, whose
Chicago
liquor
Sanola farm near Lake Zurich was
fraud
in-
purchased by Druggan before his dif-
fol-
ficulties with the government.
the
the
In a statement issued Saturday
District Attorney Johnson expressed
Govern-
steps
his belief in the integrity of Melnick
are
and explained that the attorney had
Charges
of
consulted him on the Sanola farm
matter, wanting to know what Could
be done to release it from its in-
a
cumbrance.
men,
sus-
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