James ("Smiling Jimmy") Sullivan lost the smile on his face when he testified before the Kefauver committee last summer. He could not explain exactly how he had gotten rich in six years on his salary as Dade County (Miami) sheriff. He thought that some of the $10,000 in cash he usually kept "rolled up in an old blanket and hid up on a shelf" was left over from contributions to his campaigns, though he had previously reported only a total of $100 contributions for both political races. He was embarrassed by testimony that one of his deputies had collected $36,000...
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