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Terrorized Immigrants Pay Yearly Toll of More Than Million Dollars. Copyright 1935 by The Associated Press By GARDNER BRIDGE NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—(#)—Federal investigators, smashing through the traffic in faked naturalization papers, disclosed details ‘tonight of a nation wide racket that has terrorized immi grants and taken a yearly toll of more than $1,000,000. After three months of quiet sleuth ing, special Prosecutor Samuel H. Kaufman declared he and his staff had uncovered a maze of racketeering that extended from Ellis Island into virtually every large city in the coun try. Sufficient evidence to convict or in dict 10 government employes at Ellis Island already has been amassed, he said, and his agents are concentrating now on the “brains” of the outside organization. After Ringleaders “We haven’t caught the ringleaders yet but when we do we will have them right,” he said. “The nature of these cases, with the documentary evidence involved,makes it almost impossible for them to escape conviction.” Kaufman, appointed special assist ant to Attorney General Homer 8. Cummings to smash the fraudulent naturalization racket that sprang up when the 1921 quota ilaw went into effect, disclosed that he was hot on the trail of a Brooklyn organization suspected of being the nucleus of the entire set-up. In addition to paying from $50 to $2500 for faked records, Kaufman disclosed, aliens who enter the country illegally are blackmailed regularly thereafter. He promised immunity from prose cution of all aliens who would testify against the extortionists. “It’s the most consummate shake down racket I have ever seen, he said. Kaufman said the government em ployes rarely received more than $50 for falsifying records. Given Four Years The penalty drawn last week by one of them, Joseph Lamonte, 42, a former Ellis Island guard, was a four-year prison sentence. One other Ellis Island employe has been convicted, two have pleaded guilty, and six are awaiting trial. Among the latter is Frederick A. Tuttle, 55, of Elizabeth, N. J., who became inspector in charge after years in the service and who now is under indictment.
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Sun, Aug 04, 1935
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