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The FBI Has Been Using SEXUAL BLACKMAIL For DECADES. Here_s The Proof · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: When one looks at the history of gay rights in
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America, you can observe many events,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the most infamous events were the Stonewall
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  Speaker 1: Riots of nineteen sixty nine. They're considered to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the most well known and pivotal events in United
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  Speaker 1: States history. The riots marked a new beginning for the
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  Speaker 1: gay rights movement in the US and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you listening who may not know, the
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  Speaker 1: Stonewall Riots were a series of demonstrations that took place
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  Speaker 1: on June twenty eighth, nineteen sixty nine, where demonstrators came
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  Speaker 1: out to protest against a police rate at the Stonewall
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  Speaker 1: Riot in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is the riots weren't actually the first
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  Speaker 1: time that American homosexuals had fought back government supported prosecution
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  Speaker 1: of sexual minorities, starting as early as nineteen fifty five.
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  Speaker 1: The list of pivotal events is extensive on the wiki
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  Speaker 1: page citing the gay rights movement. But missing from this
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  Speaker 1: list of significant events in LGBTQIA plus history is yet
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  Speaker 1: another chapter that has been erased. Much like many other
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  Speaker 1: cases that we've covered, here on this show. And this
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  Speaker 1: is disturbing. This is very disturbing stuff. This is blackmail
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  Speaker 1: at its finest. The story involves murder, suspicious deaths, government
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  Speaker 1: cover ups. I think you guys are gonna really like
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  Speaker 1: this one. According to a twenty twelve Slate dot com
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  Speaker 1: article by Bill McGowan, the case of the Chickens and
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  Speaker 1: the Bulls, as the New York City Police Department called it,
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  Speaker 1: or Operation Home X to the FBI, still stands as
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  Speaker 1: one of the most far flong, most organized, and most
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  Speaker 1: brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation's history. The
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  Speaker 1: operation was said to have been carried out completely outside
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  Speaker 1: of the United States government. But today we're going to
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  Speaker 1: peel back the layers on this case one by one
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  Speaker 1: until we've exposed all the creeps, all the and the
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  Speaker 1: truth at its rotten core. As always, guys, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go anywhere. I'm not planning on doing anything
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  Speaker 1: to myself. All parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty
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  Speaker 1: in a court of law. If you want to see
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  Speaker 1: please make sure to like this video and leave me
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  Speaker 1: a comment letting me know your thought about this entire thing,
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  Speaker 1: because it's so crazy and I couldn't believe I'd never
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  Speaker 1: heard of this. But anyways, y'all, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Conspiracy Files. So as we're seeing play
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  Speaker 1: out in reality right now, Jeffrey Epstein has just been
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  Speaker 1: fully exonerated by the United States government. But I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are genuinely shocked, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: their government would cover four I mean, just take a
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  Speaker 1: look at what's happening, guys. You actually have the United
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  Speaker 1: States government saying Epstein didn't people, he had no clients essentially,
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  Speaker 1: is what they're saying. I mean, I know they're technically
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  Speaker 1: saying there's no client list, but who is Glade Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: in prison for. Then they're saying there was no blackmail operation,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's been like practically proven through investigative research
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  Speaker 1: that that's the case, and that I mean, just look
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  Speaker 1: at Epstein's history with Robert Maxwell, going all the way
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  Speaker 1: to foreign governments. How they built Epstein, they shaped him
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  Speaker 1: out of the mud. It's crazy. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: read One Nation under Blackmail, Volume one and two by
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  Speaker 1: Whitney Webb. You'll see what I'm talking about. But still
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  Speaker 1: to this day, the United States government is saying that
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  Speaker 1: they do not participate in blackmail or honeypots or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that, which is insane because they've been doing that
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  Speaker 1: since JEdgar Hoover back in I think it was the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties. I could be wrong on the date, but
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  Speaker 1: jaed Garhoover with Roy Kohane, another one Trump's besties, they
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  Speaker 1: were blackmailing people out of the Plaza Hotel, which Trump
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  Speaker 1: would later you know, in life, own to try and
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  Speaker 1: you know, gain some sort of political influence, essentially extort
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  Speaker 1: politicians and powerful members of society, which is crazy, like,
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  Speaker 1: these are things that we know happened, and they're just
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  Speaker 1: saying they didn't happen. And this is another example of
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  Speaker 1: that the United States government encroaching on the privacy of
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  Speaker 1: not only you know, private citizens in this case, but
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  Speaker 1: also political figures and people that everybody knows, in order
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  Speaker 1: to gain influence over them or sometimes extort them. It's
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  Speaker 1: really crazy. But make sure you leave me a comment.
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  Speaker 1: great way that you can do it. Anyways, let's get
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  Speaker 1: into this. The Chicken in the Bulls was an extortion
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  Speaker 1: ring that preyed on prominent closeted gay men early in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. The New York ring operated mainly out
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  Speaker 1: of the Tangiers Nightclub, a CD knockoff the El Morocco,
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  Speaker 1: a luxury nightclub in Manhattan. The ring was operated mainly
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  Speaker 1: by corrupt police officers and police impersonators known as the Bulls,
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  Speaker 1: and alternatively involved young underaged boys called chickens, who were
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  Speaker 1: used to blackmail wealthy or important closeted men across the country.
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  Speaker 1: And it's important here to distinguish that with most of
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  Speaker 1: these cases, these young men that were the chickens were
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  Speaker 1: under age, so that would make these men closeted, which
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  Speaker 1: I fully support anything terrible that happens, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's an important distinction to make here. The chickens were
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  Speaker 1: young male who waited outside bars to be approached or
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  Speaker 1: in some cases identified their potential marks and then seduced them.
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  Speaker 1: After making contact with their marks, these young boys would
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  Speaker 1: accompany them to a hotel room and get them into
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  Speaker 1: compromising positions while waiting for the bulls to arrive. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old Ed Murphy was the informant for many
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  Speaker 1: of these cases. Ed had served in the army in
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  Speaker 1: France during World War II, and in the late forties
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  Speaker 1: became a doorman at a couple of local gay bars. Additionally,
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  Speaker 1: an article in the Renegade Tribune reported that the FBI
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  Speaker 1: used ed Murphy in the nineteen sixties through the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties as a confidential informant and cooperating witness, but on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand was a notorious child to out underage
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  Speaker 1: boys and then blackmailed the closet of John's during the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties for the Genovese family. End quote it's a
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  Speaker 1: direct quote. This guy was a notorious child who was
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  Speaker 1: working with the FBI for twenty years. After a spree
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  Speaker 1: of robbing dentists of fold used in fillings, Ed Murphy
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  Speaker 1: was sentenced to ten years in state prison, most of
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  Speaker 1: it spent in isolation after violents on fellow inmates and guards,
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  Speaker 1: and afterwards he went back to working the doors at
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  Speaker 1: sketchy gay clubs in the city. Despite his criminal history
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  Speaker 1: and shady involvements, Ed became the director of security at
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  Speaker 1: the New York Hilton House, one of many hotels that
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  Speaker 1: were eventually used for the Chicken and Bulls blackmail operation.
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  Speaker 1: Ed provided the bulls aka the corrupt cops, with precise
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  Speaker 1: timing by shaving an inch off the door of certain
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  Speaker 1: rooms and inserting a small dental mirror tape to the
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  Speaker 1: end of a cane, so that when the bulls wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go into the room to catch the mark in
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  Speaker 1: the act of, you know, doing something with an underaged child,
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  Speaker 1: they could see what was happening, and they knew exactly
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  Speaker 1: when to open the door and pounce. The bulls would
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  Speaker 1: then burst into the room wearing full police gear, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: even with authentic police badges and explain to the person
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  Speaker 1: they had just caught in the act the harsh penalties
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  Speaker 1: at the time for violating sodomy laws or the corruption
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  Speaker 1: of miners. Then they would demand payment from these men,
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  Speaker 1: either as a bribe or as a bail, to avoid
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  Speaker 1: making the arrest public. With all the right clothes and
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  Speaker 1: all the right police jargon, some of the blackmailers appeared
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  Speaker 1: quote more detectives than real detectives end quote, and the
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  Speaker 1: paperwork they had on hand was pretty convincing too. Occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: they would place the victim in a room with another
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  Speaker 1: man where the bulls pretended to have arrested him for
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  Speaker 1: the same thing elsewhere in the hotel. The other man
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  Speaker 1: would say something like, Hey, I can't afford to be arrested.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to offer them money, what about you? In
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  Speaker 1: order to coax the real person they were capturing and
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  Speaker 1: blackmailing to cough up the cash. Having the victim induced
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  Speaker 1: the pay rather than demand the money outright, lowered the
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  Speaker 1: criminal's exposure in court. After the victim, the target of
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  Speaker 1: the blackmail, the man that they were going to be blackmailing,
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  Speaker 1: broke down, all the people that were involved in this
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  Speaker 1: operation would return to the hotel to wait until the
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  Speaker 1: banks opened for the day, and at nine am, these
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  Speaker 1: corrupt police officers and everybody involved with this operation would
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  Speaker 1: head to the bank, stand in line with their mark,
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  Speaker 1: the man they were blackmailing, and wait for him to
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  Speaker 1: take out the cash so that he could immediately hand
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  Speaker 1: it over just in case the bank teller was suspicious
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  Speaker 1: or the victim tried to ask for help. They were
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  Speaker 1: literally standing with them every step of the way making
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  Speaker 1: sure that this went down smoothly. Oftentimes, the sums of
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  Speaker 1: money that they were requiring these blackmailed victims to take
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  Speaker 1: out were so large that the bank teller would need
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  Speaker 1: supervisor authorization. These were huge amounts of cash that were
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  Speaker 1: being withdrawn. The chickens aka the underaged boys could also
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  Speaker 1: rob their marks in person and keep any money that
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  Speaker 1: the mark had on them at the time of the
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  Speaker 1: blackmail operation, and then pass the mark's personal information like
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  Speaker 1: their driver's license, on to the extortionists, who would then
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  Speaker 1: determine whether or not that person was worth further attention
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  Speaker 1: after they got money from them. The men who they
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  Speaker 1: deemed more important afters were then approached by a police
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  Speaker 1: impersonator using the marks driver's license or id as proved
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  Speaker 1: to show them that now they knew who they were,
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  Speaker 1: they knew what they had been doing, They had evidence
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  Speaker 1: that they had been doing things with an underaged boy
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  Speaker 1: and homosexual activities, and they told them they'd have to
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  Speaker 1: keep paying them to keep their homosexuality secret, a practice
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  Speaker 1: which was referred to at the time as fairy shaking
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  Speaker 1: on the flip side of the coin. Though, if these
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  Speaker 1: men didn't threaten the marks, the bulls would tell them
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  Speaker 1: that they then had to testify in court dealing with
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  Speaker 1: an underage But if their mark paid them a lump
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  Speaker 1: sum of bail money, someone else could be released to
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  Speaker 1: testify instead of them. This was usually more effective than
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  Speaker 1: attempts to bully the men into paying. Additionally, if these
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  Speaker 1: men at the time were exposed, these closeted gay men
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  Speaker 1: could expect their high profile careers to be wrecked, their
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  Speaker 1: marriages to be ruined and ended, and their friendships throughout
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  Speaker 1: their life to be completely destroyed. I mean they would
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  Speaker 1: be outed not only at the time as a gay person,
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  Speaker 1: which was very looked down upon, but they'd also be
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  Speaker 1: outed as a someone who was going after an underage
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  Speaker 1: young boy, but who weren't The leaders of the Chicken
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  Speaker 1: and the bulls. So I know that might have been
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  Speaker 1: a little confusing, but just to reiterate, they were essentially
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  Speaker 1: setting these traps. So they'd have the underaged boy wait
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  Speaker 1: outside of a bar or wherever. They would attract this
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  Speaker 1: high profile man, somebody that they knew was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: somewhat rich, They had influence, they had money. They'd get
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  Speaker 1: them to a hotel room. They would get them into
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  Speaker 1: a compromising position, maybe you know, naked, or about to
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  Speaker 1: do something to them. I don't really know exactly how
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  Speaker 1: far it went. Maybe they were in the act. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly what happened here. But then these men,
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  Speaker 1: the corrupt cops and police impersonators would bust through the
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  Speaker 1: door after looking into the room with that mirror to
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  Speaker 1: make sure they'd catch them at a bad time, and
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  Speaker 1: they'd tell them, you know, either you pay us right now,
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  Speaker 1: or we make this whole thing public. We ruin your life.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously, these men who had money, they would go
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  Speaker 1: with these corrupt cops, give them the money and pay
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  Speaker 1: them off. But if these men thought that maybe this
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  Speaker 1: guy was a high profile business leader or even a politician,
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  Speaker 1: they would keep some sort of evidence that they had
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  Speaker 1: against them. Maybe it was an ID I don't even
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  Speaker 1: They might have taken pictures. I don't really know. But
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  Speaker 1: they essentially, you know, said we have this on you now,
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  Speaker 1: so essentially we own you. And if we say dance,
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  Speaker 1: you have to dance. But who were the ring leaders
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  Speaker 1: behind this whole operation, because this is where it starts
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  Speaker 1: to get weird. Well, there were three main players who
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  Speaker 1: were financing and overseeing the operations of this ring scattered
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  Speaker 1: across the country. There was John Pine, a member of
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Police who learned about the blackmail from those
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  Speaker 1: he arrested, Sherman Chadwick Kaminski and Elwood Lee Hammock. But
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  Speaker 1: let's first talk about John J. Pine. In the fifties,
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  Speaker 1: at the time that this ring was in full swing,
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  Speaker 1: John J. Pine worked for the Chicago Police Department as
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  Speaker 1: a member of their confidential Squad, responsible for dealing with
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  Speaker 1: cases of blackmail and other racketeering charges, and he basically
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  Speaker 1: learned from the same men that he had arrested how
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  Speaker 1: to carry out an operation. It was like a homicide
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  Speaker 1: detective asking a serial killer how to get away with
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  Speaker 1: murder and then becoming a serial killer himself. He was
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  Speaker 1: the primary overseer of the operation. He masterminded the extortion
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  Speaker 1: ring during the mid nineteen sixties, John Pine took a
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  Speaker 1: leave of absence from the police department in Chicago on
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  Speaker 1: and off over a period of two to three years.
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  Speaker 1: During this time, he was responsible for furnishing the extortionists
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  Speaker 1: with fake police badges, warrants, travel money, extradition forms, and
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  Speaker 1: even fake attorneys that were in on this, amongst other things.
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  Speaker 1: A twenty twelve Slate article claimed that John Pine had
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  Speaker 1: stated that he had a copy of these fake documents
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  Speaker 1: from quote virtually every jurisdiction in the country end quote,
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  Speaker 1: as was reported by Assistant US Attorney Thomas Behar at
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  Speaker 1: John Pine's eventual arraignment. An article in the Chicago Tribune
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty seven reported the members of the Chicken
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  Speaker 1: and the Bulls ring as having come from Chicago, New York, Seattle, Spokane,
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Miami Beach, and Baltimore. So,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see, this was a web that we're
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  Speaker 1: conspiring together of criminals from across America. And additionally, John
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  Speaker 1: Pine was responsible for furnishing those extortionists, like I said before,
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  Speaker 1: with the fake police badges, the fake warrants, the travel money,
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  Speaker 1: and those fake attorneys. Some of the victims of the
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  Speaker 1: ring paid as much as forty thousand dollars to the
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  Speaker 1: ring members who posed as detectives. And that's money back
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  Speaker 1: then in the fifties and sixties, forty thousand dollars. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the conversion rate of that is now,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that that number is way higher. Preferring
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  Speaker 1: to finance and direct the racket rather than be there
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  Speaker 1: in person carrying out the operations, John Pine obtained the
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  Speaker 1: authentic documents from police sources that he had in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, in Chicago, and in other cities, and he
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  Speaker 1: then filled in the blanks on those documents with the
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  Speaker 1: names and other information to fit a particular extortion mark.
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  Speaker 1: He even lent cash to the teams of shakedown artists
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  Speaker 1: and criminals and then sent them on their way to
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  Speaker 1: carry out these operations. So John Pine was like the
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  Speaker 1: brains behind the operation. He was, you know, in Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: posted up. He learned from the criminals on how to
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  Speaker 1: carry this stuff out, and he oversaw the operation from afar.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have to talk about Sherman Chadwick Kaminsky Sherman
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  Speaker 1: Chadwick Kaminsky was known operator and member of the Chicken
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  Speaker 1: in the bulls Ring. He had an extensive criminal record
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  Speaker 1: dating back to nineteen forty five, in which he was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of criminally receiving stolen property on lawful entry and
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  Speaker 1: attempted burglary at thirty eight years old. Sherman Kaminsky was
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  Speaker 1: a salesman who supposedly was born and raised in the
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  Speaker 1: streets of New York, but it was later determined that
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  Speaker 1: he had lied about that, and he was originally from Baltimore.
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  Speaker 1: Sherman additionally went by several other aliases such as Paul Vargo,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Ballard, Ralph Baron, Irving Bennett, Paul Marx, Charles H. Miller,
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  Speaker 1: Charles N. Miller, Chuck Miller, Paul Russo, Chad Shad, and
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  Speaker 1: many others. Sherman was known to have served in the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli Army and was often seen with John Felbung, a
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  Speaker 1: known weightlifter and bodybuilder in his late twenties whose physique
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  Speaker 1: made him an attractive lure for potential victims. Sherman Kaminski
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  Speaker 1: committed or attempted to commit extortion in over twenty five states.
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  Speaker 1: The district of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico and
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  Speaker 1: was later char ars with as many as sixty four
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  Speaker 1: counts of extortion. So this guy was like a master blackmailer.
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  Speaker 1: He not only committed crimes in America, but he also
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  Speaker 1: committed crimes in Canada, Mexico, twenty five different states, d C.
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  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. This guy was everywhere. He also served a
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  Speaker 1: much bigger role in the ring and was found to
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  Speaker 1: have several strong connections with other significant parties, which we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about in a little bit, but for now,
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  Speaker 1: just know that Sherman was more of the on the
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  Speaker 1: ground guy making sure things happened, and he was a
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  Speaker 1: master extortionist. There's also Elwood Lee Hammick, who was the
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  Speaker 1: other primary chief extortionist who worked with John Pine and
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Kaminski. Court documents from nineteen sixty nine, which contained
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  Speaker 1: appeals by John Pine and John Fellbaum, cited Elwood Hammick's
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  Speaker 1: connection to the extortion ring and relations to Sherman Kaminski
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  Speaker 1: through a report by victim Bruce Kaiser of Normal, Illinois
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  Speaker 1: Quote on April nineteenth, nineteen sixty six. Bruce Kaiser, who
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  Speaker 1: lived in Normal, Illinois, met defended Felbaum at a bar
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and thereafter accompanied Felbaum to a hotel room,
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  Speaker 1: where Kaiser and Felbaum engaged in a homosexual act. Felbaum
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  Speaker 1: then demanded and got Kaiser's wallet and money. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: Felbaum called Hammick, the unindicted co conspirator, who was then
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  Speaker 1: in New York. Hammick testified that after Felibam told him
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  Speaker 1: about the Kaiser incident, he told Felbaum to come to
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  Speaker 1: New York. On April twenty first, Felbaum arrived in New York,
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  Speaker 1: gave Hammick several cards from Kaiser's wallet, and informed Hammock
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: that Kaiser looked like a good prospect for extortion. Hammick
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: then called Pine, told him of the Kaiser affair, and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: advised Pine to call Kaminski and asked the latter to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: contact Hammock in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where Hammick was going.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: On April twenty third, Kaminsky called Hammock in Fayetteville and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: told him to come to Chicago to meet with Pine.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Hammock arrived on April twenty fourth and called Pine. Kaminsky,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Pine and Hammock then discussed when they should make a
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: play for Kaiser. Hammick called Felbaum in New York, told
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: him of his discussion with Pine and Kaminsky and directed
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: him to come back to Chicago. Felibamb agreed to do so.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: So you can see right there kind of how this
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: was all going down, and one person would call the other.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: They identified someone who they felt would be a prime
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: target for extortion and blackmail, they called up their chicken
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: eventually called up the bulls. The heads of the operation
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: called each other and set the whole thing up, and
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Kaiser was just one of many whom Hammock worked to extort.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And on April twenty six of that year, Hammick was
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: arrested by FBI agents on a different charge. He was
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: later released, however, and ultimately was never convicted, unlike Pine
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and Felibamb nor indicted. But now we have to get
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: to the flawed investigation, where things start to get kind
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: of weird. Around the mid nineteen sixties, law enforcement suddenly
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: became interested in prosecuting the ring, particularly because cops didn't
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: appreciate being impersonated by criminals. The operation was officially busted
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: and investigated in a nineteen sixty six extortion probe led
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: by Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, who had been a
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: District attorney for almost twenty five years. The NYPD investigation
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: was headed by the Rackets Squad, who investigated unlawful doings
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in the garment, construction, and trucking industries, as well as
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: labor union corruption and some organized crime or mob activity.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It was particularly favored by Hogan, who had once been
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: its senior prosecutor before becoming DA. The squad's commander, Inspector
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Paul Vitrano, enjoyed Hogan's confidence for the work the squad
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: had performed on numerous highly publicized cases. One of the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: detectives on the rackets and likewise investigation of the Ring
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: was Detective James McDonald, who was a veteran detective of
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. At the time that James McDonald was assigned
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to the Racket Squad, the Manhattan DA's office had been
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: quote looking at a couple of police impersonation cases and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: had received a couple of letters, most of them anonymous,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: alerting them to homosexual blackmail incidents occurring in the city.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: In earlier discovery of an NYPD arrest warrant and a
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: knockoff of an NYPD detective shield on an Eastern airline's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: flight between New York and Miami I had raised suspicions
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: that something outside the usual parameters of police impersonation was
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in play in the city. It was James McDonald who
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: made the arrest of a John Aitken, who later revealed
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the true scope of the Chicken and bulls ring. In
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: July nineteen sixty five, James McDonald received a call in
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the upstairs squad room of Midtown Manhattan's seventeenth Precinct that
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: was somewhat disturbing. This caller claimed that there was a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: man at the Western Union office in Grand Central Station
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: who might be impersonating a police detective with a fourteen
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: year old runaway. The man had contacted the fourteen year
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: old's father in Texas to wire plane fare so he
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: could be flown home, but the father grew suspicious when
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the man asked him for one hundred and fifty dollars
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: twice the amount needed for a plane ticket. Criminal impersonation
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of a police officer was an E class felony. A
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: good caller, as cops like to say, and if the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: perp had a gun. Even better, there also been chatter
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: on the detective grapevine about a number of recent cases
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: of phony policemen, so James McDonald was eager to see
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: what was going down. Inside the WA Western Union office,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: James McDonald saw a man who looked like a New
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: York detective. James flashed his gold shield to this detective,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: but the man he was investigating was slow to show
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: him his own and was also reluctant to tell James
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: what squad he was from, which immediately made him suspicious.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: James asked him if he had filled out an incident
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: report or A five as they had called it at
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the time, but when the detective asked what A five was,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: James knew something wasn't right. James asked the clerk to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: call the precinct phone number so he could call for backup,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and within minutes, four burly uniformed officers barged into the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Western Union office and James McDonald handcuffed the suspect without resistance.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Once restrained, thirty four year old John Aitken got panicky.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He had been arrested in the past for and if
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: he was charged with corruption of a miner as he
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: might be now he could be facing a serious prison sentence.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: John told James that he was trying to do the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: runaway a favor and that he used the kid in
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: a robbery scheme and felt sorry for him and had
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just wanted his cut for doing a good deed by
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: helping get him home. John Aiken told James McDonald that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: if he could make sure that John wouldn't do any
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: heavy time for the charge she was now facing, he
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: could give lots of information on an operation that was
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: much bigger, an operation that involved big names and lots
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of money. Once John akn proceeded back to the seventeenth
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Precinct squad room, he immediately confessed that he had knowledge
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: of a massive extortion ring that had shaken down dozens
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of prominent closet and homosexual men across the country, most
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: of them who were married with families. James McDonald recalled quote,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: nobody could believe the names he was naming or the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: amount of dough they were being shaken down for. Once
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: he started talking, you couldn't shut him up. End quote.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Aitken's tips led to a quick arrest of the security
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: director of the New York Hilton, Ed Murphy, who we
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: talked about before, which indicated that the operation was national
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in scope. In the year following the Western Union arrest,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the NYPD ANDFPI would go to work on covering the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: massive gay extortion ring. Members of the ring, known in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: police parlance as bulls, had used those young, often underaged
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: boys called chickens to successfully blackmailed pillars of the establishment.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Although the Manhattan DA's Office and NYPD got into the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: case first, the FBI wasn't far behind them. Around the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: same time that the Western Union incident happened in New York,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a renowned paleontologist and professor from Princeton University walked into
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a New Jersey FBI field office and explained that two
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: men claiming to be federal agents had confronted him about
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a homosexual encounter that he had had with a underaged
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in Washington, d c. The quote agents told them that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the was underage, but that they could process the matter
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: through back channels if the professor gave the agents eleven
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in bail money after waiting for his money
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to be returned, as the agents stipulated they would in
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: their arrangement. The professor now suspected that he had been
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: had and he wanted the FBI to help him get
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: his money back. Pretty bizarre, though, that he's admitting that
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he had this relationship trist with an underaged boy, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to the FBI to help him get the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: money back. I don't know. The FBI's involvement was led
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: by Robert Morgenthal, the US Attorney for the Southern District
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: in New York who would later succeed Frank Hogan. As
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the NYPD and FBI pursued their investigations in sixty five
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and sixty six, they found that the ring had conducted
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: operations in a dozen or more cities across the United States,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: with a changing cast of characters, about two dozen bulls
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and chickens involved. But who were the victims of this
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: ring that we know about? Well, operating for nearly a decade,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: this ring targeted thousands of prominent men and stole at
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: least two million dollars from them two million at that time,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so I don't know. Once again, I don't know what
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the conversion rate, but i'd imagine that would be like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: four to five million nowadays, maybe even like ten million.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Additionally, very few victims came forward on
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: their own, and only a small number of these people
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: were willing to sign formal complaints. Names of the victims
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: came primarily from extortionists who would make threats either to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: out the victims or to go after their families, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: in many cases, the victims believed they had been targeted
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: by actual police officers, further discouraging them from coming forward.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Some of the victims included high profile congressman, admirals, government officials,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a prep school headmaster, business owners, and many more, including
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the following. There was an Ivy League professor, a prominent
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: surgeon who was mid operation when he was forced out
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: by the bulls and a coworker had to step in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to finish the surgery. That's right, These you know, corrupt
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: cops and gangsters showed up into the surgical suite and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: forced the surgeon out of surgery. There were several movie,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: TV and music personalities in Hollywood that were implicated, including
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a British film producer who handed over three thousand dollars,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a Midwestern teacher who paid over one hundred and twenty
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars over a four year period, and finally a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Kansas City businessman who handed over nearly one hundred and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars until he pleaded with the criminals to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: kill him because he had no more money and didn't
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: want to face the music. And then there was New
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Jersey Congressman Peter Frelenheusen. Junior Congressman. Frellenheusen represent New Jersey's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: fifth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: as a Republican from nineteen fifty three to nineteen seventy five.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty six, the Chicken and the Bulls ring
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: caught Congressman Frelenhusen, who sat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: right outside of his Capitol Hill office, and they forced
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: him onto a private plane and made him take a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: trip to his New Jersey bank, where he withdrew and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: immediately paid them fifty thousand dollars in cash. This congressman
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: later cooperated with the FBI's investigation of the extortionist ring,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: but the Justice Department notified the leadership of the House
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: of Representatives and Frelenhusen was later forced off the Armed
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Services Committee. There's also Admiral William Church. According to an
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: article in The Renegade Tribune. Admiral William Church was a
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: cousin of Idaho's Senator Frank Church. He was in charge
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: of the New York Naval Yards at the time and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: was escorted from the Pentagon to his bank. These people
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: showed up to the Pentagon and basically, you know, threatened
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: him into going to the bank, where he withdrew and
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: handed over five thousand dollars in cash. Several months after
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: this occurred, Detective James McConnell approached William Church and asked
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: if he would agree to talk to investigators and prosecutors
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: up in New York after being shown what he was
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: told was an active subpoena with his name on it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: The Rackets Squad commanding Officer, Inspector Paul Vitrano wanted Admiral
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: William Church to fly up to New York with McDonald
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: right then at that moment when he went to confront him,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: but James McDonald argued that if they let William Church
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: come up on his own, as he preferred, they might
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: get more information from him. It was agreed then that
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: he would drive up by himself the next day, when
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Church would have an off the record conversation with Hogan.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: This would spare William Church from testifying before a grand jury,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: which would have obviously resulted in him losing his commission,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: which should have happened in the first place. Later that night, however,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Admiral William Church drove to a CD motel in bethensa, Maryland,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: checked into a room, and according to James McDonald, the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: subpoena he showed William Church was merely an official looking
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: piece of paper with William Church's name written on it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: It was a scare taes to get him to talk.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: He just assumed it was real. McDonald later said, who
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: still winces At the turn of events. James McDonald called
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: William Church's private office number to see where he was
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: when he had shown up at the scheduled time, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: heard the dark news from Church's secretary. There's also Harry
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: angel Meyer. Harry angel Meyer was born in nineteen twenty
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: seven and spent his high school summers in New Jersey,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: where he apprenticed at a local shop called Laura's Fudge Shop.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: He went off to serve in the Navy for two years,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: then returned to open his own fudge shop, Copper Kettle Fudge.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty seven. Many knew that Harry had secrets
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: behind closed doors as they watched men both known and unknown,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: coming and going from his large suite above the Copper
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Kettle fudge factory right on the New Jersey Boardwalk where
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he lived in the summers. But all these people in
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: his life looked past it, admiring Harry's entrepreneurship and the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: way that he elevated the boardwalk with his delectable fudge. Soon,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Harry had shops in Atlantic City, Sea Isle City, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Stone Harbor as well, becoming one of the richest men
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. He purchased a two U story colonial
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in the Gardens, Ocean City's fanciest neighborhood, where he lived
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in the off season, and kept two cars, a Lincoln
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Continental and a Chrysler Imperial. Most spectacularly, Harry acquired a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: five emerald cut diamond, approximately eight carrots set in a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: band of white gold, and he wore this incredibly expensive
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: ring everywhere he went. Additionally, he frequently gave to charities
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and donated to civic causes, befriending many families who were
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: well off and significant in the community, and that's what
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: most people said about Harry, he was kind, generous, and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fun loving. But in nineteen sixty four something was off.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: It began with an ordinance that forbade Harry from even
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: making fudge on Sundays. Harry formed and led the Ocean
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: City Civic Betterment Association and the Ocean City Sidewalk Association,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: gathering friends and colleagues, telling them that while it was
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: fined for shops to be closed on Sunday mornings for church,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: they should be allowed to open for the remainder of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the day. He stated his case privately to d Allen Stretch,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Ocean City's director of Public Safety and the custodian of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the Blue Laws, but Stretch did not agree and Harry
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: refused to stand down. In May nineteen sixty three, Ocean
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: City decided to put the matter on the ballot, putting
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the matter of the Blue Laws to a referendum, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: thankfully enough, sided with Harry that the laws were relaxed,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: allowing certain shops to open their doors on Sundays. But
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: that's when things started to get weird. Three weeks after
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the referendum vote, Harry was arrested on three counts of
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: carnal indecency or what the press described as homosexual behavior.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And this doesn't even mean with a miner. At the time,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: this was just the laws of the Arrow, which is insane.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: He was fingerprinted and booked at the courthouse and the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: thing that everybody had pretended to overlook was now being
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: used to indict him. This was no misdemeanor. Sodomy laws
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: at the time could punish offenders with up to twenty
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: years in prison, and all of his accusers were public employees.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Thomas Sullivan, a bridge tender for the State Highway Department,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: James Luddy, who worked in the office of the City Engineer.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Dominic Longo, a local detective who claimed that an
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: accident had occurred in Harry's apartment above the fud shop,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and ironically, Alan Stretch announced that he had been the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: one to instruct Longo to go upstairs to Harry's apartment
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to get the goods because of complaints his office had received.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: He just didn't reveal what those goods were. He just said, essentially,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: go up to the apartment and find something to get
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this guy indicted. It was in an Adavist magazine article
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it was reported that at Harry's indictment Harry quote unlawfully, maliciously, ludely,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and indecently did take the privates of dominant Longo in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the mouth end quote. Stretch told the Philadelphia Inquirer that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: if Longo had permitted Harry's quote unnatural attentions end quote,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it was because he was doing his quote duty. Harry
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: argued that he was going to continue his campaign anyway,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and that it was Longo who had tried to force
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Harry to give him. However, a grand jury upheld the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: charges and Longo went free. As for the first case
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: with Sullivan, the Bridge Tender, Harry was acquitted in just
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: eighteen minutes. But while Harry waited for his next trial,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: he was suddenly the attempt of physical attacks and robbery attempts,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: one of which left him with a black eye. On
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: one particularly dark evening, Harry had been on a bit
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: of a bar crawl, inviting people to go with him
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to his final destination, a place called the Dunes, and
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: no one really knew why he wanted to go there.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: People speculated that he was meeting Detective Longo for a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: late night rendezvous to lure Harry to his death, his
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: motive being to restore himself of his ambition and avoid
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the upcoming trial. Now Longo later became Ocean City's Chief
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of Police in nineteen seventy five and was so for
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: twenty years. Sometime between three thirty and four am, Harry
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: parked in the Dunes parking lot and went inside the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: side door with a box of fudge in his hand.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: He sat and had some drinks and laughed with the bargoers.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Then he left at around five am. Six hours later,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: one of Harry's delivery men making a fudge run observed
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Harry's car still in the parking lot of the Dunes.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He peered through the car window and what he saw
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: was insanely disturbing. Harry's body was wedged on the floor
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of the passenger side, His ring was gone, he was
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: covered in blood, and he was dead. Everyone was horrified
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: at the state in which he had been found, with
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: severe head injuries and skull fractures in at least two places,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: but the investigation into Harry's murder hit an immediate snag.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The crime had occurred on the busiest day of the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: year for New Jersey State Police, leaving limited potential witnesses.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: But eventually the police got lucky when they identified two
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: witnesses to his murder, a couple named Joyce Slickfield and
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Kenneth McGinley, sitting two parking spots away from Harry's car
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: on the night of his murder. The couple reported that
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Harry was with another man when he was leaving the dunes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Both got into Harry's car and they were very quiet
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: for several minutes. The couple then heard someone shout get
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: out of here, you creep, Harry, and the man burst
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: from the car and brawled on the street. Then the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: couple heard a loud crack as Harry's The man told
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Harry to get up, but he remained motionless. Cars began
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to honk, and this mysterious man was then suddenly joined
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: by two other men who were in the area, who
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: dragged Harry into the car, shoved his body into a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: hiding spot, and then walked over and told the couple
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that they had taken control of the situation and that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the matter was in their hands. No one came forward
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: from the police sketches that the couple helped to develop,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and nobody could identify who these three phantom men were.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Months and years went by before finally the police had
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: any leads, and finally, in nineteen sixty seven, authorities announced
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: someone a man named Christopher Brandon Hughes, twenty seven years old,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: who was in federal prison at the time for his
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: part in an extortion ring that targeted gay men. Now
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Christopher Hughes immediately pleaded not guilty and claimed he was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: no killer, but police were convinced that he was the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: one because he had been in possession at the time
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: of his arrest of Harry's diamond ring, that very recognizable
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: ring that Harry wore every day. Now, Harry's case went
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to trial in September nineteen sixty nine, just two months
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: after the Stonewall riots and gay culture at the time
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: was shifting. Evidence was brought forward in the form of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Harry's clothing and scores of witnesses were called. A one
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: time cell mate of Christopher Hughes, the accused we used
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to repeat under oath what he'd apparently told the police
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: during the investigation. That Christopher Hughes had confessed to the murder.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Even being charged with obstruction of justice didn't loosen Murray's tongue.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: He seemed to be afraid a conviction would have to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: rely entirely on Lickfield's testimony. One of those two witnesses
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: who saw the three men that evening that Harry was murdered,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and she was asked at the time to point out
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: who in the courtroom resembled the man who killed Harry,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but instead of pointing at Hughes, the accused, she pointed
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to a very surprised sheriff standing in the back. The
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: courtroom erupted. Hughes was acquitted within the hour, and it
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was reported that unless new suspects appeared, quote, law enforcement
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: officials regarded the murder case as closed, and the case
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of Harry's murder went cold. But we all know that
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the US government loves blackmail, right We know that they
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: love these hidden operations, They love getting dirt on people.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But there's no way the US government was involved in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the Chicken and the Bulls right now. As we mentioned
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: in the beginning of this episode, the Chicken and the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Bulls ring operated primarily out of a New York night
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and involved many corrupt law enforcement officials. But did it
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: operate completely outside of the US government. It appeared so
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: at first. However, a character that I mentioned at the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: beginning of the show enter j Edgar Hoover head at
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the time of the FBI from nineteen twenty four to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, actually where he served in the White
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: House under six different presidents. Now, j Edgar Hoover was
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: instrumental in founding the FBI, where he expanded it into
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a larger entity to fight crime and instituted a number
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: of modernizations to policing technology, such as a centralized fingerprint
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: file and forensic laboratories. Additionally, he established and expanded a
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: national blacklist referred to as the FBI Index, that he
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: likely should have been on himself. Later in his life,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: the evidence of Jaedgar Hoover's secretive abuses of power began
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to surface. He was found to have routinely violated both
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: the FBI's own policies and the very laws which the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: FBI was charged with enforcing, to have used the FBI
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to harass and sabotage political dissidents, and to extensively collected
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: information blackmail information on elected officials and private citizens using surveillance, wiretapping,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and even burglaries. As a result, Jaigar Hoover amassed a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: great deal of power and was able to intimidate and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: threaten high ranking political figures. But what's Jaggar Hoover's connection
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: to the Chicken and the bulls? Well, the answer may
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: lie with Hoover's involvements with Israel, Roy Kohane and a
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: man named Meyer Lansky.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Hoover reviewed the gay community with suspicion and antagonism, including
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: one period known as the Lavender Scare, in which he
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: convinced President Eisenhower to seek God and fire all homosexual
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: government employees because it was believed their lifestyles made them
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: more susceptible to blackmail and extortion by enemies of the state.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: But despite such actions, there's evidence to suggest the FBI
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: director might have been gay himself. Today, it seems plausible
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: that Hoover might have been in a relationship with one
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: of his closest advisors, a man named Clyde Toulsen. The
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: two were lifelong bachelors who were known to dine together
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: every day, take vacations together, and wear matching suits. At
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Hoover's funeral, it was Toulson who collected the folded American
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: flag handed out by government officials.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: According to Burton Hirsch, the author of Bobby and j
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Edgar Manhattan, DA Frank Hogan's mid sixties racket squad investigation
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: into the Chicken and the Bulls ring uncovered a photograph
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of Jay Edgar Hoover himself quote posing amicably with none
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: other than Sherman Kaminsky, while Hoover's alleged lover, a man
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: named Clyde Tolson, had reportedly fallen victim to the extortion ring.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: So he got a picture of JEdgar Hoover, the head
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of the FBI, with Sherman Kaminsky, one of the guys
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: running the Chicken and the Bulls ring. Additionally, Susan Kaufman,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the fourth wife of Jewish tycoon Lewis Rosentiel, a business
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: partner of Meyer Lanski, who was the chairman of the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Board of Organized Crime in America, one of the most
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: infamous mobsters in American history. This Susan Kaufman, who's married
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: essentially into the mob, made the case to investigators that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Jaedgar Hoover himself had been compromised on the basis of
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: his own deviant proclivities, which which solidified to many the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: basis of claims that Jay Edgar Hoover was involved with
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the Chicken and the bulls saying that quote by the fifties,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Rosentiel was surrounded by familiar figures from Edward's world. Closest
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of all was Roy Cohne, now a high profile New
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: York attorney. His services were at the disposal of Lewis Rosentil.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Rosentiel cultivated Edgar assiduously. Susan Rosentil's final and most sensational
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: revelations suggest her husband and Roy Cone involved Edgar and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that's Ja Edgar Hoover instant, thus laying him more open
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: than ever to pressure from organized crime end quote. Now.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Susan Kaufman, the wife of the mob connected businessman, went
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: on to describe these that involved her husband, Roy Cohne,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: who would go on to be Donald Trump's political mentor,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Jay Edgar Hoover, and teenage boys that took place in
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: New York's Plaza hotel in a quote beautiful suite, one
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: of their biggest, all done in light blue end quote.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Declassified New York government files and spade work by a
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: blue suite at the Plaza numbered as Sweet two thirty
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: three quote. Roy Cone was providing prosecution. Klotz discovered there
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: were a bunch ofs involved. That's where Cone got his
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: power from blackmail. End quote. In One Nation Under Blackmail
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the book Guy recommended you read. At the beginning of
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: this episode, author Whitney Webb related a similar event, saying
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that there was another occasion in which Susan the mob
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: businessman's wife accompanied her husband to a party hosted by
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Roy Cohne at the Plaza Hotel in New York, and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: in the book she describes this in vivid detail.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Quote.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty eight, Kaufman aka Susan Kaufman, the mob
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: connected businessman's wife, accompanied her husband Louis Rosenthield, to a
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: party hosted by Cone at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Kaufman recalled entering through a side entrance and taking an
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: elevator to the second or third floor. Her husband knew
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the way well enough that she quote had the impression
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: that he had been there before. End quote. The suite
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: was one of the largest available at the hotel, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: it was quote all done in light blue end quote.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Inside the suite were Cone, Roy Cone, and another figure
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: closely associated with both Roy Cohne and Louis Rosenthiel FBI
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: director J Edgar Hoover. To Kaufman's surprise, Hoover was wearing
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: women's clothes and a wig, with Cone introducing him as
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Mary in about of barely concealed laughter. Mary was also
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: incidentally the nickname widely used among New York Catholic clergy
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: for Cardinal Spellman, who was also alleged to attend other
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: parties hosted by Cohne. In the Plaza's blue suite. After
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: being served a few drinks, Kaufman recalled seeing quote, a
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: couple of boys come in, young blonde boys, I'd say
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: about eighteen or nineteen, and then Roy Cohne makes the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: signal we should go into the bedroom. End quote. He's
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: between the young blonde boys. Cone and Hoover ensued, with
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Susan Kaufman declining to participate after being urged to do
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: so by her then husband. The Rosentials then left, leaving
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the boys alone with Cohane and Hoover. Cone later laughed
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: about the incident to see Susan Kaufman, saying that Mary
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Hoover attends his parties regularly and that he would make
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: sure to quote arrive at the plaza first with his clothes.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: The female clothes allegedly used by Hoover at the parties
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: in a suitcase end quote. Per her testimony, Susan Kaufman
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: was repulsed by the entire affair, but ended up attending
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: another one of these parties at the Plaza after Rosentiel,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: her husband bribed her with quote an expensive pair of
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: earrings from Harry Winston's end quote. The events of that
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: evening played out as they had the time before, but
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the Rosentials later quarreled and she never attended any more
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: co hosted parties at the Plaza Hotel. These allegations made
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: by Susan Kaufman resulted in considerable efforts to discredit her testimony,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: especially during the nineteen seventy one New York State Legislative
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Committee on Crime. Susan Kaufman had agreed to serve as
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: a witness for the state regarding her ex husband's ties
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: to organized crime figures. The very weak that she was
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: due to testify, Kaufman was hit with a quote attempted
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: perjury charge that was regarded as unprecedented and bizarre by
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: lawyers and outrage the committee's chairman and chief council. Susan
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Kaufman still testified, but mostly behind closed doors in executive session.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Her full testimony several decades later to this day, still
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: remains sealed about what she said she saw happening between
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the leader of the FBI, Jaedgar Hoover, Roy Cohne, and
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: all these prominent political and social figures in New York City.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: So that's crazy. So you got the leader of the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: FBI not only running a blackmail ring, like we all know,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: it's known fact that Jaedgar Hoover collected blackmail on people,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: but he was running a blackmail operation. A lot of
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: people credit Jaedgar Hoover and Roy Cohne with creating the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: idea essentially of blackmail in this form like recording those
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: parties and then using that against people, which you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: parlayed later on into things like the Franklin cover up
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: and obviously Epstein. But further evidence of Jaegar Hoover's involvement
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: with the Chicken and Bulls ring particularly came from journalist
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and author Burton Hirsch, who alleges in his book Bobby
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and Jay Edgar the Jaigar Hoover I'd been tied to
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Sherman Kaminsky, one of the leaders of the ring, But
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: why would they have been involved. One possibility is that
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Hoover had been blackmailed by Sherman Kaminski himself, though it's
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: more likely that Sherman Kaminski instead had ties to figures
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and organized crime that had already blackmailed JEdgar Hoover a
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: long time before that. Another possibility is that Jaugar Hoover
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: was cozy to the concept of a second blackmail operation
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: going on in the city of New York targeting closeted
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: homosexual men because he sought to pat his own library
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: of blackmail for personal and professional game. I mean, imagine
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: that he's already deep in a blackmail operation. Some other
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: guy says, you know, we're getting all these prominent famous people.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Do you want to get in on this, and you know,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: protect us and YadA YadA, hmm, a whole library of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: new blackmail and new people that I can control. Obviously,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I think Jayegar Hoover would have said yes. Regardless, Hoover
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: was well aware of the power that a massing blackmail
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: afforded and was willing to indulge in taboo behavior at
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the Blue Suite because he was no longer concerned about
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: being extorted or manipulated with blackmail in the way that
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: would end his career or destroy his public image. Essentially,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: everyone was blackmailing everyone, So organized crime allegedly had blackmail
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: on Jaegar Hoover. JEdgar Hoover had blackmail on organized crime
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: and hid the power of the FBI, and he had
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: blackmail on all these political figures. The organized crime had
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the blackmail on political figures and prominent citizens that Jaedgar
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Hoover got from them. So it was just this cesspit
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: in American politics of disgusting behavior, not only having with
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: underage children, but doing all this photographing it and keeping
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: it in some sort of library. Jadegar Hoover had fallen
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: in with the very crowd that had reportedly blackmailed him
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: at first, and later developed a symbiotic relationship with the
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: same organized crime network. The most obvious and troubling symptom
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: of this symbiosis was Hoover's reluctance to tackle organized crime
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: as the FBI director. According to reports and records, Hoover
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: repeatedly declined to use the bureau to target organized crime
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: or mafia a mob figures, referring to organized crime as
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a local problem in which the FBI did not need
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to intervene for most of his nearly fifty year stint
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: as the top law enforcement enforcement officer in the country. Additionally,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Hoover's other interesting associations included Mayor Lanski and the Anti
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Defamation League of Nai Brith. According to Mayor Lanski's close
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: associate and covert FBI operative Michael Milan, Mayor Lanski the
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: kingpin essentially of all organized crime in America, and Jay
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover quote sometimes broke bread together well. Mister l
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: was never rousted, was rarely served with federal subpoenas, and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: was generally left alone to conduct his business. End quote.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: In violation of an American arms embargo against the occupiers
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: in Palestine, Mayor Lansky, the organized crime chief, worked with
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Hagana terrorist Yehudah Arazi to ensure quote that weapons destined
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: for the Arabs mysteriously got lost, fell overboard, or were
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: mistakenly loaded onto a ship bound for Israel end quote,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: and Hoover moreover, was a note beneficiary of ADL Largesse.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: It was the largest pro Israel anti defamation league ADL
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: of Bni Barith that was largely responsible for the establishment
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: of the j. Edgar Hoover Foundation in nineteen forty seven.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: In fact, top meyer Lanski and mob backed associates have
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: long been generous financial backers of the ADL. The Hoover
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Foundation's first president was Rabbi Paul Richmond Washington, director of
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the ADL. Hoover's longtime associate, Lewis B. Nichols, the FBI's
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Assistant Director in charge of the Records and Communications Division
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: of the Bureau, was the FBI's key contact with the
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: ADL when the ADL helped orchestrate mass sedition trials against
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: key critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. Louis B.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Nichols went on to serve as president of the j.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Edgar Hoover Foundation, but only after he left the FBI.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Upon retirement from the Bureau, he signed on as executive
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: vice president of Shenley Industries, a major liquor firm run
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: by ex bootlegger and meyer Lansky's close associate drum Roll
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Lewis ah Rosentiel. Right back to the beginning at the
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: guy who was at the parties with Jagger Hoover with
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: underaged children. So as you can see there's crimes covering
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: up crimes, and you can see right there. Jaedgar Hoover,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: for most of his career never targeted organized crime, and
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: that's probably because they had blackmail of him dressing up
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: like a lady with underaged children in the blue suite
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: at the Plaza Hotel. It's I mean, it's all really
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: bizarre stuff. But then you have these people donating to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Jaedgar Hoover, these people getting involved with Hoover's association, the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: arms shipments that went missing in the name of foreign
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: governments and ended up in the hands of foreign governments.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: It's all pretty crazy. But what became of that Harry
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Angelmeyer case? What were the connections? What happened? I mean,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: he was murdered. There was a connection, a tenuous connection
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: to the chicken and the bulls, But why do we
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: talk about it well. In twenty twenty three, Tom Donahy
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: of Atavist magazine published an article that recounted many details
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: surrounding angel Meyer's death and several connections that investigators had
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: appeared to completely miss. Starting within given to him by
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: local historian William Kelly, Donahee followed up on a lead
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: to talk to a young mother whom angel Meyer had
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: once gifted a clothes dryer to. The mother informed Donahey,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: the investigative journalist, that she was at the dunes the
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: night that Harry Angelmeyer was murdered. She saw him leave,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and she saw who he left with, a killer from
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: a prominent family who had relocated to Florida after the crime,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and whose family the mother occasionally socialized with. But the
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: mother went back on our words, saying, quote, maybe this
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: whole thing wasn't a good idea. You have to promise
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: not to tell anyone. I won't see his family for
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a while. Quote. After the mother backed out, local historian
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Kelly suggested that investigative journalist Donahe get his hands on
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: an affidavit that would prove for allegations, particularly dictated by
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Milkman Leu Esposito. Esposito told Kelly that he had driven
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: by the dunes, seen state police examining the scene, and
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: pulled off the road to learn what he could. At
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that point, he'd heard voices behind him in the marsh
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: and turned around to recognize three local men, one of
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: which the mother had reported to cal Lly she had
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: seen leave with Harry, saying he didn't have to die.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: The man then threw a bloody shirt into the water
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: behind him, and Esposito drove off, thinking he had gone undetected,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: But later that night he received a threatening phone call
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: from an anonymous caller demanding he'd be quiet about what
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: he saw. Then, towards the end of his life, he
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: dictated all this information to his lawyer. Donahey later got
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: an anonymous call from a man claiming that Esposito was
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: his father, Lou Junior. Lou Junior related that it was
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a dirty business, a broad cover up, and that law
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: enforcement had definitely been involved in Harry Angelmeyer's death. Lou
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: had been ten years old when Harry was murdered, and
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: even then he knew that Harry was gay. Then Lou
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: informed donnahe the investigative journalist, that he had the wrong Esposito.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: There was a second, another Esposito, who his father knew,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the correct Esposito, who actually had a couple daughters who
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: might still be around. So in twenty twenty two, Donahey
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: returned to Ocean City to talk to locals and law
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: enforcement agencies that handled the initial investigation. He reached out
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: to Captain Pat Snyder at the Atlantic County Prosecutor's office,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and then went to the bookstore to check out information
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: on Copper Kettle the fudge factory. The clerk at the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: bookstore told him that Detective Longo had directly been involved
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: in Harry's murder and that they had been having an affair.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: The clerk also claimed that the same man whom the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: young mother had mentioned was involved too, but that that's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: all she knew. This was just local rumor. She suggested
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a local author who had written a book about Harry's murder,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: but would not give donnahe his name, as he was
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: a local who wrote under a pseudonym quote because he
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: knew too much end quote. Captain Snyder later reached out
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: to investigative journalist Donahe to say that he was looking
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: for information, and later told him that he had found
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: some things and would need to request the public records,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: which could take months. Enter the one hundred and sixty
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: eight pages of investigative material pertaining to Angel Meyer's murder
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: with almost one hundred witnesses handled by New Jersey State police,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies in several other states, and the FBI.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: According to these released reports, investigators began by looking for
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: anyone with damaged fists, as the assault had been incredibly
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: bloody and brutal, and spoke to multiple people whom angel
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Meyer had seen in the twenty four hours prior to
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: his murder, his secretary, Daniel Leroy, his sister Elaine, the
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: staff at the Dunes, and none of those people recalled
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: seeing Harry that evening. In the documents, it was revealed
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: that a former fudge cutter who had once worked for
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Harry and one of the punks who had assaulted him
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: at one point both admitted to investigators that they were
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: after his expensive ring, but police ruled them out almost
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: immediately as suspects. Then there was the report from Joyce Lakefield,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: who had described in detail the man that angel Meyer
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: had walked to his car with the night of his murder.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: He said that the man was in his late twenties,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: white but with a dark complexion and sported slick black hair.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: He was also quote maybe of Italian extraction, medium build,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: taller than average, wearing a dark suit, white shirt and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: black tie. Donnie. He reported that some of the more
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: promising information came from Catherine Lee Gordon, Harry angel Meyer's
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: personal maid. Catherine had reported that she'd seen many men
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: come out go from Harry's apartment, including local jockey Howard
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Grant and airman Thomas Campbell. Howard Grant had moved into
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: the apartment with Harry at one point, and Thomas Campbell,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: who had also lived with Harry at one point, liked
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: to party and sing and play pianos into the wee
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: hours of the night full of whiskey, But those tips
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: were all dead ends. Howard Grant was never questioned by
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the police, and case files showed that Campbell learned about
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Harry's death from a mutual friend on the beach and
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: then flew out to Germany a few days later to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: fulfill his Air Force duties. But Detective Longo, who locals
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: had named as being a big part in the murder,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: had only been mentioned three different times in the entire
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight pages, even though there was
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: that huge, you know, public spat and the charges between
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the two of them that were happening at around the
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: same time. One was an anonymous letter in the file
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: that read, why don't you ask Longo what happened? Later,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: a caller told the police that the sketch of the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: suspect looked a lot like Longo. Finally, the third piece
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: of information when he was mentioned in the files was
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: when Longo talked to investigators himself, saying that he had
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: contracted an investigator to say that the sketch resembled a
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: drifter from Longport whose father has an ESO gas station
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: who had a warrant out for writing bad checks. Stretch's
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: name also came up in the files, where an anonymous
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: caller claimed Stretches the guy who put the money up
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: to have angel Meyer kill, and three henchmen did the job.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: But there was no record on police following up on
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: any of these leads, nor any documentation of Longo or
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Stretch ever being questioned a single time. Even though the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: police had these direct leads and motives, they never questioned
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: any of it. Now Donahe, the investigative reporter who dug
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: through all of this and wrote the article, suggested that
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: everything that he read, despite parts of the file being redacted,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: suggested that nobody in law enforcement had ever considered either
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: of those two men who were closely tied into Harry
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: as suspects, and both at the time that this article
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: was written were already dead. Then there was the nineteen
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: sixty three ludnus charge against Harry in a two page
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: memo issued by an Atlantic County detective. It listed his
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: three US users as we spoke about earlier, Bridge tender
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Thomas Sullivan, engineer James Luddy, and a man named Bill Blevin.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Wait Bill Blevin, it wasn't Sergeant Longo. Bill Blevin had
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: been the same man that the mother that the investigative
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: reporter had talked to had seen that evening leaving the
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: dunes with Harry, the same person that the bookstore clerk
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: believed was involved in the killing, and the same name
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: supposedly in Los Esposito's missing affid Davit, but he was
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: mentioned nowhere else in the investigative documents. So all these people,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: these people saw this guy with Harry on the night
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: that he's murdered, walking out of the casino, right before
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: he's murdered. They heard that he was involved in the murder,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: that he was supposedly named in another missing Affid Davit.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: This guy was in previous litigation, had made allegations against
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: this guy before, and he was never investigated. Donaheve. The
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: investigative reporter reached out to several sources connected to Bill Blevin,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and only one came through a friend who said that
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Blevin had become a target of Longo's grievances, and, knowing
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Longo's expandings, f fear of influence, set sail from the
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: shore forever, basically running off to who knows where. Nobody
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: knew where he was anymore. Over the course of the investigation,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: New Jersey law enforcement ruled out suspect after suspect until
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: only Christopher Brendan Hughes's name remained. He spent his time
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: extorting money from gay men from Baltimore to Chicago. His
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: name was given to New Jersey State Police by the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: FBI after they interviewed an associate of his name, Thomas Rochford.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: The extortion ring that these men were in was known
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to police at the time as the Chicken and the Bulls.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Hughes was a chicken and a particularly effective young one.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: According to the FBI files, Hughes took Harry's ring to
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Chicago to fence it. It was later stripped of its
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: stones and became part of an engagement band given to
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the fiance of one of the bulls, and another was
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: placed in a tie pin for which a dirty cop
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: held the pawn ticket. Prosecutors couldn't lean on other members
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: of the Chicken and the Bulls to place Hughes at
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the dunes on the night of Harry's death, and Rockford,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: his associate who they interviewed, was institutionalized and his memory
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: was wiped from shock treatments. And after a conversation with
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: witness Joyce Lakefield, it turns out that the reason she
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: had pointed to someone else at the trial that wasn't
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Hughes was because she hadn't even seen him in prison.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Before he'd been in jail, Donahey talked to Leland Stanford,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Hughes his lawyer, who said Hughes would have never gone
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: after Harry, that he only targeted men who didn't want
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the world to know they were gay. Harry was basically
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: two out of the closet to be extorted end quote.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: But Hughes, the accused killer, had told the investigator of
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: the real killer and told him that he had possibly
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: helped the real killers stuff him in the car, and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: then at that point he had taken off with Harry's ring.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Now Donahy, the reporter asked Stanford if he had met
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the person Hughes named as a killer and if he
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: had told anyone else's name. Stanford did to Atlantic County
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Prosecutor Solomon Foreman, and when he told him, Foreman admitted
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: that he'd thought the county's case against Hughes was lousy
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: and agreed that the wrong person had been tried. Solomon Foreman,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: the Atlantic County prosecutor, also said that he had been
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: assigned to the case as Atlantic County's best trial attorney
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: at the time, and after five years of the Fudge
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: King's murder remaining unsolved, there was considerable pressure for them
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: to put the damn thing to bet. Finally, after investigative
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: reporter and author of the article, Donnie He sent the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: evidence he had gathered to Stanford, including many obituaries of
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: possible victims, Stanford finally revealed the killer's name. It was
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: none other than Christopher Hughes's younger brother Kevin, and he
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: hadn't been suspected or investigated at all. He additionally was
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: never suspected as having taken part in the extortion ring.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: But what does all this mean? Well, when Manhattan da
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Frank Hogan announced in nineteen sixty six that the chickens
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: and bulls ring had been broken up. He said, the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: victims had all been shaken down quote on the threat
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: that their homosexual proclivities would be exposed, and lesslie paid
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: for silence end quote. Once ring leaders Hammock and Kaminsky
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: were arrested for their crimes of extortion, they began working
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: with the FBI to reveal the full scope of the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: operation and even helped the FBI take down their former
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: associate and the other one out of three leaders of
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the Chicken and the bulls Ring, John Pine, Paul Bronna,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and the FBI agent who worked on the case, spoke
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: in detail about the arrests, saying, quote, once Kaminsky was
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: arrested by me the second time, he became extensively cooperative.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: He was telling me about all the extortions that he
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: had committed in the United States end quote. Mister Kominski, Hammock,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and Pine pleaded guilty to the extortion charges in Federal
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: District court in August nineteen sixty six. However, Kaminsky forfeited
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars of bail money posted on the
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: federal charges, five thousand dollars posted on New York charges,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and fifteen thousand dollars on federal charges in Chicago. However,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: after Admiral William Church unalive to himself, Frank Hogan raised
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: the prospect of prosecuting Kominsky on manslaughter charges. Kaminsky tried
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: to strike a deal, but Feds refused, and he ultimately
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: jumped bail, becoming a fugitive from the law for eleven years.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: As a result, little could be determined about Kaminsky's life
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: since he jumped bail, although many agents said that he
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: owned a company called United Farm Industries INK and Adonna's
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Hair Replacement Distributors, both based in Denver, but Frank DeBono,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: owner of both concerns, said that wasn't the case. Then,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: in January nineteen seventy eight, the FBI got a tip
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: and apprehended Kaminski at the airport in Seattle, where at
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: the time he was headed to Denver. He had apparently
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: been operating out of Denver for eleven years under the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: name of Calvin Paley, but because he had deliberately fled
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the federal statute of limitations on his extortion conviction was voided.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Sherman Kaminsky dodged jail
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: making a deal with federal prosecutors. Let's think about who
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: was the head of the FBI at the time, JEdgar Hoover,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: to gather state's evidence on a fellow detainee who was
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: a part of another major case. As a result, the
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: amount of effort that the police put into the investigation
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: of the extortion ring was rare for any crimes involving homosexuals,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: as the police force as a whole was rather homophobic
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties, as evident by the work done
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: on the Harry Angelmeyer case. But things were still amiss,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't until later events such as the Stonewall
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: riots in nineteen sixty nine and the election of Harvey
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Milk in nineteen six seventy seven, the things really began
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: to change for people who were gay, including those who
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: were adversely affected by the extortion ring and the bulls involved.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: And this is I'm talking about people who were affected
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: by this ring who the chickens were of age, because
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: that did happen too in this whole thing. There were
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: some people that were targeting underage boys, but some of
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: these you know, chickens were twenty twenty one, twenty three
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: years old, and there were some men that were just
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: blackmailed for being gay. They weren't all necessarily, but the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: ring itself was just another piece of an intricate and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: complicated puzzle of networks that ran deep within the country
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: of the United States for decades. But as for now,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the question still remains. Best said by former CIA officer
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: and whistleblower Bruce Hemmings in nineteen ninety quote, who are
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: these people? They are the group that is popularly called
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: the enterprise. They are in and outside the CIA. They
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: are mostly right wing Republicans, but you will find a
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: mix of Democrats, mercenaries, ex officio, mafia, and opportunists within
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: the group. They are c they are bankers, they are presidents.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: They own airlines, they own national television networks. They own
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: six of the seven video documentary companies of Washington, d C.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: And they do not give a damn about the law
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: or the Constitution, or the Congress or the oversight committees.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Accept as something to be subverted and manipulated and lied to.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: They ruin their detractors, and they fear the truth. If
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: they can, they will blackmail you deals whatever it takes.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: End quote. And so there you have the chicken and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: the bulls. I know it's a long story, but it's
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: a crazy one. And if you're not understanding at this
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: point that the US government is involved in clandestine blackmail
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: gathering operations against our own people, I don't know what
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: to tell you. I mean, Jaeger Hoover was doing this
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: back in the fifties sixties at the Plaza Hotel, just
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: for his own you know, sometimes personal gains. But imagine
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: if foreign governments got blackmail on US politicians wink. It
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: might show you why certain US politicians blindly support foreign
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: governments or issues relating to foreign peoples whose governments have
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: blackmail on them. I mean, we all know the blackmail
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: is a thing. If you really don't think that the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: US government would use blackmail to target someone, like I said,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you, because it's powerful.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, especially in a case like Epstein. If they
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: get you on video with a child, your life's over
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: and they own you. They will tell you to jump.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: You're gonna jump. They're gonna tell you to run. You're
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: gonna run. They're gonna tell you to vote yes on
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: something or know on something you're gonna vote. How they
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: tell you otherwise. Oops, this image somehow gets leaked to
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: the press, and all of a sudden, not only is
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: your life over, your marriage is ruined, your political career
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: is in the trash, and you're probably going to prison.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: You're becoming the most hated person in America. And it's
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: sad that so many of our politicians and powerful figures
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: are like that and are into that sort of But
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you other than you know,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: evil exists. Power corrupts, money corrupts, wealth corrupt. I know
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: this has been a long one. I'm gonna get out
• 1:02:58
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