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OFFICER DISMISSED HHEN LISTON DISCHARGED BY MAGISTRATE.

REARREST HARRANT OBTAINED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY-S OFFICE

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SIXTYONE_LISTON DISCHARGED BY JUDGE JOSEPH E. GOLD, COMMON

PLEAS COURT, PHILADELPHIA. LISTON TESTIFIED THOUGHT ARRESTING

OFFICER TOLD HIM TO QUOTE MOVE ON UNQUOTE AND IN RELEASING

EMERGENCY BRAKE ACCIDENTALLY TURNED OFF LIGHTS. PHILADELPHIA

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- The Director asked "What about this?" in connection withthe statement made by columnist Dan Parker in the&#39;New York Mirror"newspaper of 4/28/62. Parker, in his column, stated "It is knownthat only two days ago FBI men were in New York inquiring aboutcertain Philadelphians who have been active in behalf of Liston."

Our New York Office advises that no investigation has beenconducted concerning Liston,and no contacts*Eave been made by Agentsof that office with the State Boxing Commission concerning thismatter. The New York Office advised that the State Boxing Comissionhas been making inquiries, but no known investigation has beenconducted on a Federal level in New York City. u, ,,

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rejecting Sonny Llston�s application torcense, the Commission struck a telling bioor decency in the festering fight racket, thahould have tar-reaching consequences. It is

the �rst evidence produced in a long time thatTelevision, open and closed, and its ally, thMob, aren&#39;t �-lling the shots tor boxing comissions, promoters and managers.

The Commission&#39;s unanimous action tooin-act-lcaily everyone by surprise. When itowed the controversial challenger with thunsavory record to go ahead with his applitlon days aggé it was reasoned that every ob-stacie �ba�d n� cleared by interests, pressinIlstons cause, which could be more Oofrect.1!� termed their own. The underworld elements1?$@<ionny since. he. mng from

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The �Washington Post and Times Herald" of 4-28-62 containedan article indicating that the three District of Columbia BoxingComissioners were considering issuing a license for Sonny Liston tobox here. Jocko Miller, Chairman and Norvel Lee, Member, bothindicated they would recommend a license be issued. Captain Joseph VOsterman police member of the Comission, indicated he wished toreview the findings of the New York Commission before deciding. TheDirector requeste that a summary be prepared on Liston and the other

Liston was born in 1927 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He wasone of twenty-five children of a cotton-picking farmer. He left LittRock at the age of twelve to follow his mother to St. Louis, Missouriwhere she had gone after she left her husband. He grew up in povertand from allindications had to fight for an existence.

Liston has a long arrest record, having been charged withviolations such as assault to kill, larceny strong-arming, and in1950 was sentenced to serve five years in the Missouri State Peni-tentiary for first degree robbery, At one time he very severelybeat a police officer who was ticketing a car near the residence ofListon. While in the penitentiary at efferson City, Missouri,Reverend Alois Stevens, Prison Chaplain� Frank Mitc ell, publisherof a well�known Negro newspaper in St. Louis; and others took aninterest in Liston realizing that he had g at potential as a boxer.Following his release from prison under p ole in 1952, he was guidedby Father Stevens, Mitchell and a Monro y arrison. He became asuccessful amateur boxer and this earee brought him the HeavyweightGolden Gloves Championship in the United States. Thereafter edefeated the European champion for the International Golden Glovesand subsequently turned professional.

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The "Washington Post Times Herald" of 5-1-62 indicatedthat Floyd Patterson said he would fight Sonny Liston for the titleor never fight a ain and named Chicago as a likely site for themultimillion-do1%ar fight. Jack Nilon, noted as Liston&#39;sPhiladelphia adviser, said he was happg to hear that Patterson wasgoing to actually fight Liston before eptember of this year.

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�Of course, there would be;the formality of an investiga-Igtion before our three-member;board," Miller said, �but per-Qsonally I think Liston has ai-right to rehabilitate himself?no matter what his policeirecord might be. I

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_�come beforehim to _work for,Jocko at the golf course. 1 »

�_�So New York turns downListon," __Mi1ler continued.

3f�The bout will go somewhere|else and �the theater-television-still will go baoktoNewYorkwhere they will accept taxes

ptrom the theaters." e-_.§Norvel Lee is a teacher at�

the. Lox-ton, Va., Youth Center.where �he helps rehabilitate;

young men trom the ages of-18 to 26 who have been sen-tenced under the youth cor-

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|Bola_n and I-�1oyd_Patterson&#39;smanager, Cus D�Amato,� sug-gesting Liston ~_sh_ould befought here. That was Just_around the time -they signedfor a New York bout. �D�Amato telephoned �me�and pointed out that NewYork City had Just aboutguaranteed a million to a mil-lion and a half dollars &#39;-for thebout but he would be agree-Iable to a bout here i£_ someonewould match that sort ofguarantee." --

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f By Drew Pearsorgj g. After the big !ght ends inChicago tonighg_¬a�ex-convict,

les iston, couldwe e e hea �eight box-ing championof theIn view of this --

sslbility. andthe fact that};�the youth of gAmerica are "*3; *_i n c 1 i n e d tojhero worship,it may be well 3to examine __the background �*

of the chal-:~�l&#39;earsonlonger. * "

. Much oi� it was spelled outgwhen Sen. Estes Kefauver,-the Tennessee investigator,iprobed underworld control oiboxing. . .

"Howmuch education didyou get?" asked Kefauver.

"I didn&#39;t get any."&#39;_ "You didn&#39;t go to school atlall?" - - ~

§ �No sir," replied the hulking27-year-old boxer, �too many

mkids.� , &#39; - »~ � "How many kids were

there?" 1 .�Well, my lather had 25.92 I N

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about your early back-ound," Keiauver continued.

Were you born on _a farm?�"YES sir,1&#39;was." &#39; -

�Did you have to work to� port_these other _24dren?" .- �That&#39;s right." -

�What did you do?"�Pick cotton." .

u Testimony then: developed ear sentence tor armed rob-I that night?� g - T 2 5 be

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nit Liston iért Little Rock,rk., st the age oi 18 with hisother to go to St. Louis. Hisother apparently left his

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"What did you do when yougot to St. Louis?" Kefauver

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"Well, my mother put me inchool, and then after I gottarted going to school, other&#39;ds seen me coming out oi-was such a large boy-otherds would see me coming out

t such small kids� room. Sohey would make tun oi me

d start laughing and Iarted �ghting. -�Then -I started playing

ookey,� � continued Liston,�and from hookey I led to an-ther thing so 1 wound up inhe wrong school.�

"What school did you windP mp:�Well, the house oi deten-

ion." � -

"How old were you then?�"I was about 14."

"How long did you staythere?� .

�My mother, she got me out,and then, well I �gure-shegot me out and I went rightback for the same things."

"You did what?" askedefauver. &#39;

"I went hack In the samething and wound up in a big-er house this time." - &#39; *

Sleeping on Cold SteelListon referred to the Mis-

souri Stats . Penitentiary,where he served part oi a five-

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is/ton �s.,Li fe "F ugl I of Wild Puncih�f�bery. Whén he got out on.� �M; in I�parole, Liston took up boxingas a profession but fell intothe hands oi the underworld.

Referring to this, Keiauverasked him: I

�Do you know Frank Paler-mo�l"�&#39; | .- . .

When-the answer was ai-iirmative, Keiauver continuedr,�Do you think that people likethis ought to remain in thesport oi boxing?" ~ 1 --- �Well, I wouldn&#39;t pass judg-ment on no one,� was the re-pply, �I haven�: been perfect�myself." &#39; ~

"Do you recall that youwere arrested in St. Louis onAug. 12, 1959, and questionedby some police officers con-cerning your relations with-Mr. Sarkis?� A labor leader.pfor whom Liston served as a1goon.! " j

�I don&#39;t recall the date. Iwas arrested sometimes there.I don&#39;t carry s pencil aroundto see how many times I waspicked up.� - 1

All in all, Liston was pickedup tor questioning more than100 times and gave this de-scription to Kefauverz - �

�I may have said anything,because they ~just kept grab-;hing me, picking me up andholding me overnight. If no-1body coma down to make alsquawk to get me out, theykeep me; then they finally letms go. Next day, back in. Sowhat am I supposed to do? Isaid what they wanted me tosay, because who wanted tosleep on that cold steel all

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Asked further� about" his�;education, Liston said he still"-¢�could not write. 9&#39;1! you writei.iletters, would you dictate;them to somebody?" -

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-2 Patterson Schools _, Z�Liston has bought out his?

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Iager, Joseph P013! Ba:-one 011:Allentown, Pa., for $75,000.

�But his troubles with the po-_lice-now in Philadelphia-V�ihave continued-almost up to;§the signing of his contract to�;tight Patterson. Sen. Kefau-Iver, who has tried to helpjhim, told me n short time ago Ithat in his opinion Liston had �

{not really cleaned himself up. I.3 Floyd Patterson, who also 7,had juvenile trouble, has used §fhis winnings to establish two 2homes for boys in trouble. Lis- Zton has done nothing 0! this Ikind. I 5"He has s long way to go,i

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son cl an Arkansas cottonpicker and now world heavy-weight boxing champ, didn&#39;twait more thana few hours &#39;oe-fore firing back- t-1-ar=-m awing his okay toe taging thenext fight un-der she� -asvim Q1 BisBrothers in or- &#39;;:der to help _prevent _juve- "�nlle delinquen- 2�.,r§°n &#39;

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F �I would iust like to say�=;this is the chance I like best prove that I mean what I{nay about helping boys thatgneed help,_"Liston replied.,f"�Nothing can make me hap-pier than to accept this offer.; �I only wish it was up tome. My return-bout. contract-with Floyd Patterson giveshim the right to say when itsvill he held and where it will

d: I hate to leave it upIf he is willing, I am

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pooner this fight takes place�pie -better I will like it, in-doors or outdoors."- Liston&#39;| telegram was in re-ply to a proposal I had madeas president of Big Brothersin the Capital that the nextmatch be staged in the newNational Stadium in Washing-ton in the presence of mem-

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As Liston pointed out, hiscontract gives Floyd� Patter-

ison certain rights in callingthe time and place of the nextfight. Big Brothers in the Cap-ital, therefore, has now putthe proposition up to Floyd,who has already done fine�work in establishing the Floyd§Pattez-son houses tn New, Yorkgfor boys just o_ut of reforma-jtory. &#39;i Actually. Patterson is notentirely a free agent since he

pionship Sports. We�ll �reporton developments when and iithey materialize.

Medical Double Cross"The doctors of the USA may

not know it, but their �trade

union". is getting them up totheir ears in politics. Most

doctors, having spent their

lives trying to heal ~men�a

bodies, would be �abhergasted

ssociation and kindred agen-, les are doing in their name.* Last week, just as the elec-tion campaign began to warmup, the AMA, Blue Cross andBlue Shield began a wide-spread publicity and advertis-ing campaign on medical care�for the elderly; It was timedknot because any bill is now,before Congress the hill_ is

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The publicity campaign tooktwo forms: &#39; " Ye

1. Full-page ads in Time and

�Life magazines by Blue Crossand Blue Shield, the medical

insurance agencies which did

a great deal to defeat the med-

icare bill. ~ .2. A -series of letters to

newspapers trying to denycarefully documented -reportsin this column showing howdoctors had raised money forkey Congressmen who blockedmedicare, how they hadhelped finance the Saskatche-wan doctors� strike, and howone� doctor in Lexington, Ky.,had cut off medical attentionto a 78-year-old woman. A

The column regardingmoney-raising for Congress-men who played ball with thedoctors� lobby and regardingthe 78-year-old woman waspublished July 12. But the doc-tors� ldbby waited until Sept.18,-two months later, to firethe distorted and inaccurateblast at newspapers-just asthe election campaign was

warming up. _ _92

Belated Denial _. __ &#39;.This is an old political trick,

-�to_wait until near the elec-tion to confuse the issue; sothe doctors� lobby is reallylearning political techniques.�

One denial issued by theAMA lobby was that� Dr,Graham Clarkson, medical.

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One inter sting aspect ofthe world�: heavyweight box-ing match is that both Sonny

;Lis_ton and Floyd Pattersonll!" 1199" in .-t r o u b l e for ;.. &#39; g ,_d e linquency

gm bow have .�been trying to _ . E-ado something ° �-$10 help others-&#39; avoid similar o llpitmls.Q: Patterson has ~ � 1»

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up the uivloyd PCUITQIPatterson Houses� &#39; in New

York, two homes on the Eastide where boys just out of

reform school can live duringthe first difficult period of

adjustr�t.- Sonn i ton came to Wash-ingt;o1i"¥or the last Big Broth-ers dinner and among otherthings spent some time atJunior Village, a Government

�orphanage where he tried »tofill the vacuum in the lives

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_- Sonny was so occupied that- he was late getting to the din-

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�Sonny, do you e r feelnervous before a fi t?" ~

�Not as nervT{| �I am

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pt/ash =14�.now.--1~<aiwa57§ �feel that theother fellow should be nerv-ous, so there ain�t no use inboth of us being nervous."

�What do you think is thefuture of Cassius Clay?" a

�Well, I think he�d betterstick to poetry." &#39; . &#39;

�Sonny, did you ever playfootball?"

�No�it was a little too roughfor me. I don�t understand ityet. Like when the football

gpiayer gets the ball, one manwill grab him and throw himdown. Then the other twelvecome pile up on him. What&#39;sthe use of doing that?�

�You think it&#39;s enough tohave one man against you?�

�That�s right." � _�What about when you have

the referee against you?""Well, as long as he can

count up to ten he can&#39;t cheaton you.�

Boxing Caar?�What do you think of the

Kefauver bill to have a boxingcommissioner r e 4 u l a t e thesport?" o

�Well, I feel that if he couldfind a man that�s been in thefield, it would be fine, butif he just got a man thatdon�t- know anything aboutboxing, it would just be likea truck driver running a jet�

�In other words, youwouldn&#39;t want a politician be-ing the boxing czar?�

�No, I wouldn&#39;t.��You were telling me a lit-

tle earlier that the�:-efereedoesn&#39;t always understandthe psychology of the boxer.92 .

�when he&#39;s knocked out. What&#39;syour tactic when a man is

down in the ring?�

�Well, I tell the guy my

name in the center of the

ring, and if he can&#39;t remem-

ber it when he gets knocked

down, I feel that he&#39;s in trou-ble. I-ie doesn&#39;t know that he&#39;s

done._ Sometimes, I hold upfour fingers-how many fin-

gers have I got up? And if he

says four, he�s all right; but ifhe says two, I know he can�tsee. So I feel the fight shouldbe stopped." t o

�Now, turning to the mostimportant question before usthis evening�-the problems ofyouth�what do you think isthe most important factor inhelping boys keep out of trou-ble?" - -

�Well, I feel it&#39;s the home.I feel that mothers and fa-thers should know where thechild is at all times. Andshould have a deadline to gethome at night."

�How many children were,;REthere is your family?�

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w ether was married twice, andl Lthere&#39;s 25 of us in all." . ° 3 &#39;� k 11&#39;"/421 u 1�You were born in Arkan-sas, and I know your fatherwas a cotton farmer. Did you�work in the cotton fields?When you moved to St. Louis,about how old were you?�

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Chicago and Eastern gangstersover shares of Liston�s earnings.

The hoodlutns haggled overthe winnings of Liston when he

�was a heavyweight contenderunder the management of Jo-seph Pep! Barone, of Phila-delphia, the government of-�cials said. &#39;

e Former ManagerBarone managed Liston from

1958 to 1961. At present,

Qggmq _Katz, of Phz]_adg]ph;&#39;q,and Jack Nilon, of_Chester, Pa.,

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Genesis;�,1 A spokesman for the Iustioi:gepartrnent emphasized that

e government has no evidenci}that Liston himself or Katz and

Nilon ever split purses withgangsters. ,

The burgeoning federal in-quiry into the Commission and-its secret society, La Cosa Nos-tra, revealed how the 12 gang-sters on the crime cotmcii acted

in 1961 as the boxing -co 92-&#39;ssion of the underworld. �rj�T&#39;_I�he power of the O0 :-

-V ion over boxing was traced�ihe Federal Bureau of Investi-

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By Sandy Smith �are co-managers of Liston. 3 � management of Liston;while working on a Califopflextortion case, it was disci .ls Right To Muscle In

The California thakedown~ scheme developed after theCommission granted Eastern

it mobsters the right to �muscle, in" on purses of �ghters on the;West Coast, according to the3 Justice Department.

Both investigations, the gov-iemment sources said, showed

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The 1961 dispute over Lis-ton�: contract, federal investi-gators said, brought Giancanainto con�ict with three othermembers of the Commission -&#39;-Angelo Bnmo, of Philadelphia,and two Brooklyn mobsters,Tommy Three-Finger Brown!

Pucchese and Carlo Gambino.Rule Against Giancana

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�gures were involved in thebickering over Liston&#39;S ¬li&#39;11�

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For �sh. at-._w.e. WE °��l960 in testimony? before a.S. Senate committee investiating boxing. , Palermo�s police record in

Philadelphia is part of the rec-ord of the committee hearings.It shows that Palermo serveda jail term for operating a lot-tery� and was arrested nine

times on charges including aslsault and battery, operating adisorderly club, and recklessuse of �rearms. � _

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&#39; All three -- Carbo, Palermoand .Vitale � appeared beforethe "committee. All refused totestify about their control ofListon, citing fear of possibleself-incrimination.! 4 I -. The first account "of the dis-

pute over Liston&#39;s contract, TheSun-Times was told, camefrom the network of informantsused by the FBI to infiltrateand expose LaCosa Nostra.. A source high in the Justice

Department reported that a sub-sequent inquiry by FBI agentsrevealed the full story of thequarrel.

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.p�s.on um In the same case,-m lS_l5_7. Then, L1stons92 careera IS-year prison sentence wk! was m the doldrums. Promoters

showed no interest in him: Hewent 21 months without a single�ght. __ .r___; , .,__.,,

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Pl!!!&#39;!;!U"Uere mvwtrue owners of ,.Liston., �Iheypermitted Glickman to keep hisshare of Liston�for a price.During this period, Glickman"loaned" $10,000 to Carbo and..

made other �loans� reportedly?exceeding $35,000 to�Palermo.5

The U.S. Senate committee

investigating boxing heard tes-timony in 1960 that Liston�scontract was cut up this way-�Carbo, �52 per cent; Palermo,

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subservient to Giancana, whoserackets authority as a Commis-sion delegate covers Illinois andeastern Missouri. �

Glickman is a buddy of Gi-ancana and Tony Accardo, thepredecessor of Giancana as the

Chicago mob�s delegate on thegangland Commission. In 1960,Glickman was a_ defense wit-

ess at_ Accardo�s trial

barges of income tax frau .lickman waswbserved by.ce at Accardo�s lavish Ind

pendence Day� lawn partiesfrom 1954 to 1956.!

In 1958, Liston�s contract

went to Barone, in Philadel-phia.__ As part of the deal,�lickinan retained his interest511 .1-ifwns � _ . :&#39; �-;&#39; . At the time, the explanationoffered by Liston&#39;s backers for

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In his testimony beforea nate- committee, Glickm

escribed his bigimoney de swith Carbo on a number f

fighters but did not "mentionListbn. __

From the �witness stand,Glickman admitted poolingfight bets with Carbo. He alsoconceded that he had given atotal stranger $10,000 to de-liver to Carbo. Glickman

called the $10,000 a "loan."He confessed however, that thetransaction was strange, likeCarbo�s messenger.- ~ _

Has His Regrets At another point in his com-

mittee testimony, Glickmansaid he regretted ever getting

to boxing where, he said, �l&#39;robably am wrong and I pa .or it." ._ Boxing, he added, h I

ruined his awning manufac -ing business in Chicago.

"My reputation is gone,"Glickman testified. �Everybodythinks I am a thief and a hood-lum and a croolr."! _

The dispute over Liston;flared �late in 1960 when the?Palermo-Carbo combine" sud-denly stripped Gltclrman of hisinterest in the heavyweight con-1tender. ,

This action provoked a quickprotest from Giancana.

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mit Chicago influence in the�affairs of Liston, then-fightingtout of Philadelphia; - -

The three Commission big1 ~ ots had been in Carbo�s �cor-�

r for years, throwing th� derworld power behind s1 heme to control boxers

presumably taking a slice ofhis end of the purses.

Moreover, Carbo was almember of the La Cosa Nostra

1 �family"��or gang--headed by&#39; Pucchese in New York.

, Giancana put on the pres-� sure to the accompaniment ofV wails from Glickman that he

was getting nothing for the,$45,000 he �loaned� to Carbo* and Palermo.

l But Bruno, Pucchese and, Gambino, at the risk of knock-

,1 the level of the Commission, stuck with Carbo in his d&#39;ecisi_ kick out Glickman.1 Asks For It

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the Commission at a conference

,in Atlantic City early in 1961._ In a conclave in which Gi-;ancana, Gambino, Bruno� and, Pucchese participated with oth-ier Commission members, theI decision went against Giancana.l The Commission ruled that

the Chicago mob was out ofbounds with the Glickman~Lis-

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of threatening a �ght promot.er, Jackie Leonard, to extorta share of Jordan&#39;s earnings.Carbo and Palermo were con-

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