INVESTIGATIONS: Those Wise Guys

Al Capone's cousins, Charlie and Rocco Fischetti, blew into Washington from Brazil last week. Dressed in conservative blue suits, they made their first social call on Joe Duke, Senate sergeant at arms. They had heard they were wanted by the Kefauver committee, that there were warrants out for their arrest. Very politely they offered to post bond. Duke said it would be $3,000 apiece. The .Fischetti brothers had no need of a professional bondsman: they laid down the cash in big bills, picked up their receipts, thanked Joe Duke, and walked...

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