Two Tell Of $900 Public Market Bribes (Q125573936)
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Two Tell Of $900 Public Market Bribes. O'Malley Revokes Permits, Drops Aide. Brown Calls It Terrorizing Winesses. Meyer Counsel Plan Suits; Confer Today On Steps To Protect Witnesses From 'intimidation.' Inspector Winters Named One Dealer Says He Paid Him $450. Another Tells Of Refusing $1,000 Demand. Hylan Defends O'Malley Crowd Hisses. Committee And Cheers Commissioner As Session Ends In Uproar. Legal Steps To Protect Witnesses. Tells Of Refusal To Pay $1,000. Mayor And O'Malley On Stand. Day Told Of Irregularities. Hylan Would Enlarge Department O'Malley Questioned At Length. Check Put On Sales Of Leases. Talks To Department Secretary. Tells Of Offering $1,000. Says He Agreed To Pay $450. Asked O'Malley For Permit. Walker Questions Witness. Heineman Takes The Stand. Asks O'Malley For Permit. Hears Winters Wants To See Him. Price Reduced To $500. O'Malley Gets Job For Seller. Bribe Paid To Unknown Man. The Unknown Telephones Him. Permit Ready In Two Days. Yonteff Fails To Remember. O'Malley Asks To Be Heard. (English)
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24 August 1921Gregorian
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Two business men testified before the Meyer committee yesterday that Edwin J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Public Markets, had at first declined to grant their applications for transfers of leases in Washington Market, but had promptly reversed himself and granted them after they had paid bribes of $450 apiece. (English)
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