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Show LEPKE FACING LIFE III PRISON essssssBSSBSiM ' NTW YORK. March 3 UB-The eouru have finished with big shot racketeer Louis lLepke Bucha ter. Early toflay a general eeesloM jury found him guilty an 1 counts ef extorting 150,000 In a trucking racket, lie's fourth offender and that face Ufa sentence, but nobody got excited. eerUinly not Buchalter. He dldnt bat an eyelash. eye-lash. He stopped batting eyeuuhea long before this anticlimax, lent before the government recently handed him a It-year sentence for smuggling narcotics all over the world. Federal agents have traced bis -rise to the top of three lucrative rackets narcotics, furs, trucking from the time the law started getting him for larceny and burglary bur-glary in the turbulent twenties. As head of a $10,000,000 narcotics syndicate, he was dubbed the nation's na-tion's racketeer No. 1. In 1937 things got hot and Buchalter turned fugitive. Last summer his day ended. He surrendered to J. Edgar Hoover on a Manhattan street, still cooL Friends deserted him and turned state's witnesses; the huge chunks of "glitter" dwindled and nil racketeering rack-eteering wee finished. Convicted with him today on all IS extortion counts was Max 811 verms n, who may be sentenced to IS to 30 years. Harold Silverman, the Utter s son, wat convicted on seven counts, with a possible 7 to 15 years' prison term. The state said thousands of dollars had been paid to the Buchalter ring by intimidated bakers and flour truckmen. truck-men. Last January the government re- s leased him to stand trial In general sessions for extortion, but It said the state sentence could be served only after the convicted racketeer had completed hit federal term. So there's Just the matter of another sentence, now; that comes March 18, and Judge John J. Fres-chi Fres-chi can, if he wants to, pile up year after year for the guy with dead black eyes. |