GRAFT DISCLOSED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15238, 31 December 1942, Page 4

GRAFT DISCLOSED

AMERICAN INQUIRY. United Press iissn.—By Electn l*< ’ leg rap h. —Co i>v right. NEW YOR'B?7 December 28. A fout-year inquiry into charges ot official corruption in the New York city borough of Brooklyn, the longest and most sweeping study of municipal misconduct in .American history, has resulted in Lues and restitutions totalling over 2,000,000 dollars, against which the costs .of tho inquiry are only 1,000.000 dollars. A “New York Times” special correspondent says the report, based on the testimony of 3390 witnesses, levfcaled lurid accounts of gangland bribery of policeman and -ity officials in murder and kidnapp -ig cases and blackmail rackets, and ;>lso the rigging of contractors* bi Is, defrauding the taxpayers of over 1.000,000 dollars The inquiry started in ai atmosphere that required night p: trols to guard the prosecutors’ head quarters and the alarm-wired file-rooms containing incriminating evidence affecting gangsters and racketeers The reports disclosed that many public officials earning large salaries did not. keep bank accounts and they lived far beyond their income * without there being direct proof of the source of their money. Tho report makes 19 recommendations designed to close „ * xisting loopholes in the laws whereby city employees are immune from various types of prosecution.