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39. "Pritzkers Buy Hungarian Firm," Chicago Tribune, 8-19-89.
40. "Libertyville Twp. to Buy Open-Space Land Rights," Chicago Sun-Times, 11-6-87.
41. "Pritzkers to Buy Stake in Sugar Firm," Chicago Sun-Times, 9-20-87.
42. "Pritzker Family Trying to Sell McCall to Seatrain Lines Inc," Chicago Tribune, 10-11-86.
43. "Pritzkers Plan to Go into Brokerage," Chicago Tribune, 10-02-86.
44. "Lawyer Tells Court of Hired-Gun Plot," Chicago Sun-Times, 7-15-86.
45. " 'Marvin, You Left Me for Dead,'" Chicago Sun-Times, 7-15-86.
46. "Hefner Denied Casino License in New Jersey," Chicago Sun-Times, 9-08-82.
47. Chicago Crime Commission, letter from Patrick F. Healey to Bob Samsot, 3-15-82.
48. "Looping Chicagoland . . . ," Chicago Tribune, 2-10-83.
49. "Attorney Probed on Home Thefts," Chicago Sun-Times, 6-20-82.
50. "Out to Trump the Pritzkers," Chicago Tribune, 7-29-93.
51. "Byrne Political Fund Rises to $1.5 million. Carter Fete, 'Clout' Figures Fed Kitty," Chicago Tribune, 3-5-80.
52. "IRS v. CIA: Big Tax Investigation Was Quietly Scuttled by Intelligence Agency: Bahamian Bank's Hundreds
of U.S. Account Holders Go Unchecked as a Result," Wall Street Journal, 4-18-80.
53. "Elsinore Corp. Teams in Two Joint Ventures," Las Vegas Sun, 7-4-80.
54. "Pritzkers May Make Marmon All-Private," Chicago Tribune, 6-11-80.
55. Letter from William Lambie Jr. about the Pritzker family, 5-21-80.
56. "Pritzkers Reject Saudi's Offer," Chicago Tribune, 4-4-81.
57. "Hyatt International Merger Extends Pritzker Control," Chicago Sun-Times, 3-24-81.
58. "Pritzker May Help Revive Steel Mill," Chicago Tribune, 3-15-81.
59. "Four Snub Hearings on Playboy Casino," Chicago Tribune, 3-08-82.
60. "Pritzker Denies Payoff for Teamster Loans," Chicago Tribune, 2-24-82.
61. William K. Lambie file on Abe Pritzker.
62. "Teamster Fund Tie May Affect Pritzker Bid," Chicago Tribune, 12-16-81.
63. "8-Month Probe of Hyatt Chain by SEC Revealed," Chicago Tribune, 9-16-77.
64. "Pritzkers Eye Hyatt Sweep," Chicago Tribune, 6-27-78.
65. "4 Attorneys Indicted on Tax-Fraud Charge," Chicago Sun-Times, 3-5-76.
66. "Hyatt Shakeup: Pritzker Ousts 2, Scandal Hinted," Chicago News, 9-01-77.
67. Letter to Virgil Peterson from the Chicago Crime Commission's Robert Goe.
68. Chicago Crime Commission, report on Louis Hiller.
69. Corbitt, Double Deal, 216-17.
70. Letter from the Chicago Crime Commission to Frank McCulloch, 5-8-62.
71. Chicago Crime Commission, Unidentified letter (possibly a copy, the first page elsewhere) beginning "Rado was business manager . . ."
72. Chicago Crime Commission, memo on Pritzkers, 6-23-60.
73. Letter from L05 Angeles Times, 5-2-62.
74. Chicago Crime Commission, letter to Peterson, 6-9-55.
75. Chicago Crime Commission, document headed "Frank McCulloch," 8-9.
76. Chicago Crime Commission memo, 11-13-47.
77. "Saudi Bids for Hyatt International," Chicago Tribune, 7-20-78.
78. "Saudi Firm Bids for Hyatt Intl.," Sunday Times, 7-20-78.
79. "Airport Hotel Foe Switches Sides," Los Angeles Times, 8-29-62.
80. Los Angeles Times, 5-17-62.
81. Chicago Tribune, 6-14-78.
82. "Jack Pritzker, 75, Dies," Chicago Tribune, 10-31-79.
83. "Jack N. Pritzker Dies," Chicago Sun-Times, 10-31-79.
84. "Pritzkers in Big for Sandburg," Chicago Tribune, 2-5-79.
85. "$300,000 Question in Teamsters Hotel Deal," Los Angeles Times, 7-6-62.
86. "Oversight Hearings into the Operations of the IRS (Operation Tradewinds, Project Haven, and Narcotics Traffickers Tax Program)," Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, 94th Cong., 1st sess., October 6, November 4 and 11, 1975 (Washington, DC: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1976).
87. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust.
88. Graham Nixon, The Castle Bank of Nassau Story (Internet).
Appendix C: Z i f f r e n - G r e e n b e r g - G e n is Documents
Page from Alex Greenberg's tax return. Note payments to Paul Ziffren and Fred Evans (Kefauver exhibit from confidential source)
Another Greenberg tax-deduction page, showing his "partnership" with Paul Ziffren (Kefauver exhibit from confidential source)
A Paul Ziffren-Sam Genis 1948 real estate partnership (San Bernardino County Recorder's Office records)
Notes
Chapter One
1. "Out Working," Baltimore Sun, 4-18-04.
2. Robert Scheer, "The Jews of LA," Los Angeles Times, 1-29-78.
3. Wirth, Ghetto, 205.
4. Berkow, Maxwell Street, 9.
5. Cited in Fried, Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster, 90; and in Longstreet, Chicago, 423.
6. Cutler, Jews of Chicago, 211-12.
7. Int. of Wendell Rawls, 6-17-04.
8. Sources on early Russian Jews and Lawndale:
"Anti-Semitism," article in Encyclopedia Judaica (Keter Publishing).
"Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, Its Roots and Consequences" (proceedings of a seminar held in Jerusalem, April 7-8, 1978, Hebrew University, Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry), 1979.
Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred (Pantheon Books, 1992).
Aronson, Michael, "The Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia in 1881," in Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in ModernRussian History, ed. John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza, 44-61 (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1992).
Berkow, Maxwell Street.
Birmingham, "Our Crowd."
Bowden and Kreinberg, Street Signs Chicago, especially ch. 9.
Cahan, Abraham, "The Russian Jew in America," Atlantic Monthly 82 (July 1898): 263-87.
Cutler, Jews of Chicago.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
Fried, Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster.
Hendrick, Burton J., The Jews in America.
Home, Class Struggle in Hollywood.
Int. with Michael Glass, Chicago historian, 12-22-03.
Kniesmeyer, J., and D. Brecher, "Beyond the Pale: The History of Jews in Russia" (exhibit, 1995), http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/guide-cond.html.
Kotkin, Tribes.
Lynch, Michael, Reaction and Revolutions; Russia, 1881-1924.
Meites, H. L., History of the Jews of Chicago.
North Lawndale clip files in Chicago Historical Society and Harold Washington Library, especially South Lawndale Community Collection, 1911-52.
"The Pale of Settlement and the Pogroms of 1881 in Russia" (The Zionist Exposition: Homeward Bound, 1997), Internet, 1-29-99.
Ritter, Leonora, "Nineteenth Century Russia" (Charles Sturt University-Mitchell, 1998), Internet, 1-29-99.
Rogger, Hans, "Conclusion and Overview," in Pogroms, ed. Klier and Lambroza, 314-72.
Rosenthal, "This Was North Lawndale."
Sentinels History of Chicago Jewery (at the Spertus Institute, Chicago).
Thrasher, Gang.
Wanklyn, "Geographical Aspects."
Wertheimer, Jack, Unwelcome Strangers.
Wiernik, Peter, History of the Jews in America.
9. Neiv York Times: "Arson Trust Prisoner in Confession Implicates Chicago Adjuster," 5-1-14; "Indict Adjuster for Arson," 7-26-13; "Made Husband Confess: Chicago Woman Tells of Receiving $10,000 to Expose Firebugs," 12-17-13; and "Woman Exposes Firebugs: Confession of Fugitive's Wife Results in 12 Chicago Indictments," 7-29-13.
10. Int. with Judy Lynn Korshak, 6-4-04.
11. Int. of Rich Samuels, 11-24-03.
12. Rakove, We Don 't Want Nobody, 10.
13. Record of birth: Chicago, State File Number 200223:
Signed
by Sidney Korshak, 200 East Chestnut Street Chicago, 111. Supporting evidence:
1. New York Life Insurance Company Policy # 17 385 576, dated 08-06-45.
2. Brother's affidavit: Theodore Korshak, 4665 Lake Park Drive, Chicago. Mother's affidavit: Rebecca Korshak, 5454 South Shore Drive, Chicago. Fifteenth Census of the U.S., 1930: Illinois, Chicago: 16-884, Sheet 23A, 4-16-30.
14. Hersh, New York Times, 6-27-76.
15. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63.
16. Chicago Tribune, 1-12-29.
17. Marshall Korshak oral history, 6-4-82, for the Chicago Jewish Historical Society; in the Spertus Institute, Chicago.
18. Moe, Doug. "Crime-Linked Attorney Was Student at UW," Capital Times, 6-29-76.
19. Doug Moe, "More Secretive Than the CIA," Capital Times, 12-31-02.
20. Chicago Sun-Times, 1-8-89.
21. Int. of "Zander," 12-8-03.
22. Berkow, Maxwell Street, 240.
23. A detailed seven-page biography of the Rosenbergs was located in the papers of Jake Arvey in the Chicago Historical Society (box 20-G, folder 20-4). The unsigned biography appears to have been written by Arvey.
24. Demaris, Captive City, 103.
25. Cahan, Court That Shaped America, 103-6.
26. Confession quoted in Demaris, Captive City, 104-6.
27. Transcript of interview by ABC News for 1997 program "Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years."
28. O'Connor, Clout, 224-25.
29. Rakove, We Don V Want Nobody, 4.
30. Ibid.
31. Demaris, 107.
32. Ehrenhalt, Lost City, 44.
33. Marshall Korshak oral history, 6-4-82.
34. Chicago Daily News, 12-11-67.
35. Arvey biographical resources:
"Arvey, 80, 'Debuts' with Grandson, 28," Chicago Sun-Times, 7-11-75.
Berkow, Maxwell Street.
Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King.
"Chicago Politician: Arvey Estate Value $1.7 Million," Chicago Sun-Times, 6-27-78.
Cohen and Taylor, American Pharaoh.
"Col. Jack Arvey: A Master Politician for the Democratic Organization," in Chicago, by Charles B. Cleveland.
Demaris, Captive City.
Gilbreth and Schultz, "Inside Politics: Still Jake with Arvey's Army," Chicago News, 8-11-77.
Kelley, His Way.
McDougal, Last Mogul.
Moldea, Dark Victory.
Mooney, "Jake Arvey: He Delivered Votes," Chicago Daily News, 8-26-77.
New York Times, 8-26-77 (obit).
O'Connor, Clout.
Pious Jr., "A Last Tribute to Arvey," Chicago Sun-Times, 8-27-77.
"Politicians Among 1,200 at Jacob Arvey's Rites," Tribune, 8-26-77.
Simon, "Jacob Arvey's Machine Was Fueled by Loyalty," Sun-Times, 8-28-77.
36. Chicago Sun-Times, 8-28-77.
37. Rakove, We Don't Want Nobody, 5.
38. Cohen and Taylor, American Pharaoh, 157.
39. "Jake Arvey," Kefauver investigative files, box 64.
40. Chicago Tribune, 10-1-64.
41. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement interview report with Sidney Korshak, 10-18-83.
42. Demaris, Captive City, 229-32.
43. Lait and Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, 241.
44. Int. of Rich Samuels, 11 -24-03.
45. Editorial backing Marshall for city treasurer, Chicago Sun-Times, 3-30-67.
46. Marshall Korshak oral history, 6-4-82.
47. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
48. FBI HQ Korshak file, 20.
49. Velie in Collier's, September 1950.
50. Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 92.
51. Rakove, We Don't Want Nobody, 15.
52. Norman D Schwartz, "A Look at Highlights of Decalogue Society's 50-Year History: April Meeting Emphasizes Wide Scope of Jewish Law Group's Activities," Chicago Jewish Historical Society News 8, no. 4 (June 1985).
Chapter Two
1. Quoted in Robert Scheer, "The Jews of L.A.," Los Angeles Times, 1-29-78.
2. Cutler, Jews of Chicago, 225-26, 232-33.
3. Chicago Chronicle, 1-16-25.
4. Cohen, Mickey Cohen, opening epigraph.
5. Int. of Ira Silverman, 3-10-04.
6. Confidential int., 1-14-05.
7. Int. of Fran Marracco, 2-27-04.
8. Int. of Pete Wacks, 5-10-03.
9. Rakove, We Don Y Want Nobody, 8.
10. Evans, Kid Stays in the Picture, 68.
11. Int. of Berle Adams, 3-3-03.
12. Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, 315.
13. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 17.
14. "Arvey, 80, 'Debuts' with Grandson, 28," Chicago Sun-Times, 7-11-75.
15. Chicago Tribune, 8-27-77.
16. Chicago Tribune, 5-3-1931.
17. Early Cook County court records, noted by court observer and placed in Korshak file at the Chicago Crime Commission.
18. "Find Maxie Eisen Guilty; Gets Six Months in Jail," Chicago Tribune, 09-6-33.
19. Bacon quoted by Nick Toches, Vanity Fair, April 1997.
20. Murray, Legacy of Al Capone, 158.
21. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor and Management Field, U.S. Senate (McClellan Committee), Second Interim Report, 10-23-59, and Final Report, 3-28-60, pt. 3, 592-674.
22. Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, 166.
23. Velie in Reader's Digest, July 1957.
24. Confidential int., 1-30-03.
25. Int. of Roysten Webb, 1-31-04.
26. Confidential int., 5-14-05.
27. Int. of Jim Agnew, 6-04-04. FBI agent Bill Roemer admitted the Postl's bugging to Agnew.
28. Note from Kefauver investigator George S. Robinson, Associate Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime, 1950, summarizing letter from Peterson.
29. Wirth, Ghetto, 258.
30. Murray, Legacy of Al Capone, 34.
31. FBI HQ Korshak file, Korshak bio, 9-17-63, 12.
32. Gioe testimony before Kefauver, 9-9-50.
33. CCC office memo, 6-6-62.
34. FBI int. of Korshak, 9-27-47, CCC file #58-194.
35. Reid, Grim Reapers, 180.
36. LAPD confidential report re Paul Kalmanovitz, 12-3-66 (CCC files).
37. Hart biography sources: FBI HQ Alfred Hart file, obtained under FOIA; Los Angeles Times, 12-31-79 (obit); Los Angeles Times, 5-28-74 (Haber column); int. of L.A. DA Office investigator Jim Grodin, 12-8-03; Turner, Rearview Mirror, 7, and Hoover's FBI, 73; Demaris Judith Exner, 51, and Captive City, 114; Summers, Official and Confidential, 235; and Kate Berry, "City National Grows . . . ," Los Angeles BusinessJournal, 5-12-03.
38. Los Angeles FBI report, 3-29-62 (#92-934-243) (Korshak file).
39. Kupcinet, Kup, 151.
40. Ibid., 152.
41. Chicago Tribune, 12-10-55.
42. Greenberg testimony to Kefauver, 1-19-51.
43. Kefauver Committee biography of Greenberg, 7.
44. Chicago Tribune, 1-16-15.
45. Testimony given in U.S. v. Campagna, et al. (Bioff extortion case), Southern District Federal Court of New York.
46. Greenberg testimony to Kefauver, 1-19-51.
47. Kefauver Committee biography of Greenberg, 2.
48. Chicago Sun-Times, 10-12-50.
49. McPhaul, Johnny Torrio, 177.
50. Kefauver Committee biography of Greenberg, 4.
51. Chicago Daily News, 4-9-57.
52. Virgil Peterson, letter to Senator Estes Kefauver, 11-19-53.
53. Virgil Peterson, memo to file, 8-26-58.
54. Demaris, Captive City, 224.
55. Virgil Peterson memo re Greenberg and Goe, 8-26-58.
56. W. D. Amis, Kefauver Committee "Greenberg Memo," 11-1-50; also, Russo, Outfit, 97-98.
57. Greenberg int. by W. D. Amis, Kefauver Committee staff report, 11-6-50.
58. Nitti v. Greenberg, Superior Court of Cook County, 2-14-57, case #57S-2335. The estate was p
robated in Probate Court of Cook County, file #43P-5267, docket 561.
59. FBI Korshak Correlation Summary, 8-12-68.
Other Greenberg biography sources include:
CCC investigative biography of Greenberg, file #8943, 1-24-49.
Demaris, Captive City, 111-15.
"Gang Trail Leads to Graves," Chicago Daily Tribune, 12-9-55.