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NY 92-657 entitled "A ‘Burke's Peerage' of Dress Racketeers" sub captioned "Empires in Industry are Found Built by Intermarriages, Partnerships and Alliances". This article by DON HOGAN and PETER BRAESTRUP among other things, alleged the following: "Racketeers build empires by intermarriage, partnerships and alliances. The unfolding and sifting of these relationships will require a Burke's Pecrage of Crime. When the unraveling is done one thing is clear-all roads lead — the garment industry. "“Dne five men with the most unsavory repu- tations in the New York endof the garment business are Abraham Chait, Thomas ("Three Finger Brown’ " Luchese, Benjamin ("Boom Boom" ) Levine, Harry ("Big Nig Rosen") Stromberg, and James (“Jimmy Doyle") Plumeri. "These men can all be tied together; they belong to the same blood even though the Italians among them have their own association which is often called the Mafia. There is no question, however, that members of this association play footsie with their opposite numbers. -In the garment industry they got married. "From the "Big Five" 4n the "garment pusiness a web of connections can be spun to every major racketeer in the country. In other fields, e.g. the water front, the racketeers have mostly been rooted out. In the garment business they are still treated with respect. "Another example of involved relationships among the top racketeers comes through Carlo Gambino, | a labor consultant. of Schiller and Saltzstein, 141 ‘ East 44th Street. Gambino a former associate of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano was among the underworld people at Apalachin, "Carlo Gambino's gon, “ghomss’ ‘who was graduated