INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks

"It seems," intoned Senator John Mc-Clellan sternly, "that in this dragnet procedure we have caught an assortment of man-eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week's school of hoods—including notorious Extortionist John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi—appeared before the committee in the Senate caucus room and rasped out their Fifth Amendment pleas. But the evidence against them was there nonetheless. It added up to another chapter of the story of how mobsters took over...

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