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. =According to govern-| _ Garbo was convicted in the! -____Owns-25 Per Cent ““",, }, “‘ rane Comnissi at California boxing extorhon’ Glickman picked upa 25 per is serving a 25-year|cent share of Liston’s contract pre nt terme In the same case! in 1957. Then, Liston’s career aS ear prison sentence was was in the doldrums. Promoters ¥ ' showed no interest in him. He went 21 months without a single 960 in testimony’ before aff| ¢ S. Senate committee investi ating boxing. ; . (Palermo’s police record in| & Philadelphia is part of the rec- ord of the committee hearings. It shows that Palermo served a jail term for operating a lot- tery” and was arrested nine times on charges including as- Sault and battery, operating a disorderly ¢lub, and réckless use of firearms, ~ ; (Vitale’s police dossier, also | in the committee record, dis-! closes that he served a prison term for dope peddling. He was ested 13 times by St. Louis lice‘as a suspect in murders’: bberies, thefts and gambling! erations. . , * (All three — Carbo, Palermo ! ¢ and Vitale — appeared before the committee. All refused to testify about their contro! of | J Liston, citing fear of possible : self-incrimination.) - (subservient to Giancana, whose . The first account of the dis-} rackets authority as a Commis- pute over Liston’s contract, The | sion delegate covers Ilinois and! Sun-Times was told, came] eastern Missouri. . ; from the network of informants} (Glickman is a buddy of Gi- used by the FBI to infiltrate} ancana and Tony Accardo, the and expose LaCosa Nostra. | predecessor of Giancana as the _A source high in the Justice Chicago mob’s delegate on the Department reported that a sub- gangland Commission. In 1960, | posed of mob chiefs from Chi- cago and eight other cities. The Chicago gang boss, Momo Sal- t e ivatore (Moe) Giancane, has | imposed upon Palermo.- ' n identified as one of (Carbo’s control over SCO: —_ . lot fighters was spelled out an em idwest gangsters on thé mmission. , The 1961 dispute over Lis- ton’s contract, federal investi- gators said, brought Giancana into conflict with three other! members of the Commission —~ Angelo Bruno, of Philadelphia, and two Brooklyn mobsters, Tommy (Three-Finger Brown) -Pucchese and Carlo Gambino. Rule Against Giancana The hassle reached the Co ‘mission, which eventually ruled ainst Giancana, after sim! ering for months on a lowe vel of gangland, it was re-' ealed. ‘ oo 9 EF 3 3 ne mee ‘ SONNY LISTON Object of gang war Share In contrad At the start, the governmeat und, four lesser gangladd: figures were involved in the’ bickering over Liston’s earn They were identified as Paul: John (Frankie) Carbo, 59, one- ‘time underworld boxing czar; Frank (Blinky) Palermo, 58, a Philadelphia fight manager; John Vitale, 54, a St. Louis gang boss, and Bernard Glick- man, 43, a Chicago boxing manager and pal of crime syn- _dicate gangsters. . The FBI investigation dis- closed that all four held secret revealed the: full story of the ess at <Accardo’s trial quarrel. harges of income tax fraud. The government spokesman lickman was.observed by_ (said the FBI had found that:|ice at Accardo’s lavish Ind Aides of Vitale, the St. Louis] pendence Day~ lawn parties rackets chief, acquired control/ from 1954 to 1956.) , f Liston in 1952 after Liston} In 1958, Liston’s contract Missouri prison _sen-| went to Barone, in Philadel- ence for robbery: -{phia. As part of the deal, ‘Glickman retained his interest in Liston, . Tom ’. At the time, the explanation offered by Liston’s backers for ‘bis moye to Philadelphia was that he could obtain better ini acilities and, sparring /partners there. } shares of Liston’s contract from 1958 early 1961, Justice Denaient officials’ said. ~~ sequent inquiry by FBI agents} Glickman was a defense wit-. | ” Soon, howevet; Carbo and” re revealed as the true owners of ,Liston, They permitted Glickman to keep his share of Liston—for a price. During this period, Glickman ‘foaned” $10,000 to Carbo and. made other “loans” reportedly | “lexceeding $35,000 to Palermo. : ast (The U.S. Senate committee ”jinvestigating boxing heard tes- {timony in 1960 that Liston’s contract was cut up this way— Carbo, 52 per cent; Palermo, ‘12 per cent; Vitale, 12 per ‘cent, and two other persons “not identified,” 12 per cent feach, La: (in his testimony before nate - committee, Glickm escribed his big-money deals {with Carbo on a number éf fighters but did not ‘mention Liston. Loe (From the witness stand, | Glickman admitted pooling fight bets with Carbo. He also | conceded that he had given a total stranger $10,000 to de- | liver to Carbo. Glickman called the $10,000 a “loan.” He confessed however, that the transaction was strange, like Carbo’s messenger, . Has His Regrets (At another point in his com- mittee testimony, Glickman said he regretted ever getting to boxing where, he said, “I: robably am wrong and I pa’ or it.” . | (Boxing, he added, h | Tuined his awning manufac ing business in Chicago. (“My reputation is gone,” Glickman testified. “Everybody thinks I am a thief gad a hood- lum and a crook.”) 4 The dispute over Liston! flared Jate in 1960 when the! Palermo-Carbo combine’ sud- denly stripped Glickman of his interest in the heavyweight con-! tender. : . | This action provoked a quick protest from Giancana. But the ouster of Glickman | by Palermo and Carbo was! backed by the three Eastern. Commission delegates—Bruno, ' i Philadelphia, Pucghese_and ambino, in Brooklyn. . |: