BIG AMERICAN SWINDLE
MUNITIONS MERCHANT ARRESTED LINK WITH THE MUSICA CASE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, December 21. Benjamin Simon, a. munitions merchant, was arrested to-night. He was an important executive of M’Eesson and. Robbins, and investigators are seeking to connect him with the Benjamin Simon who was tried in 1929 when Musiea, alias Coster, was charged with, perjury in connection with a poultry racket and the murder of Barnett Baiff. Musiea disappeared and Simon was sentenced to three months in gaol, G-men established that offers of armaments were made by agents of the drug firm to Mexico, China, Bolivia, Paraguay, Dominica, Uruguay, and Colombia. . PAST ACTIVITIES G-MEN’S INVESTIGATIONS. NEW YORK, December 21. Another mask of respectability has been torn off with Benjamin Simon’s arrest on a conspiracy charge. Simon, as Coster’s agent in armaments activities, is revealed as an ex-convict wh® was embroiled in a poultry racket.-G-men expect him to provide a missing link with the past as he was associated with 'Musiea during the period when the latter was becoming Coster. Investigators have found ' that Simon s home address is the address given oa Coster’s fraudulent birth certificate.
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Evening Star, Issue 23147, 22 December 1938, Page 10
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191BIG AMERICAN SWINDLE Evening Star, Issue 23147, 22 December 1938, Page 10
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