TRIALS: Success Story

With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta.

Last June, when tax scandals were in the news from New York to San Francisco, Delaney was summarily suspended by the President. In September he was indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of bribery and malfeasance in office.

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