Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Crime and Business - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: William J. Cook (left), friend and campaign worker for William G. Bonelli, lobbyist Edward Levine (center), and unknown (last name O'Brien?) at the liquor license bribe trial. Cook and Levine are both accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which they allegedly conspired with at least five others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:: August 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William G. Bonelli (center), member of the State Board of Equalization, who is accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from local liquor retailers, standing between A. Brigham Rose (left) and Judge Carlos S. Hardy (right). A. Brigham Rose is the attorney for Ed Levine, a lobbyist also accused of involvement in the liquor license bribe scandal. It is unclear how Judge Hardy is involved with Bonelli, as he is not the judge for this trial.
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: State board of equalization member William G. Bonelli (left) talking with attorney A. Brigham Rose at the liquor license bribe trial. Bonelli is accused of involvement in a liquor license bribe scandal in which he and at least six others allegedly conspired to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license. Rose is representation for Ed Levine, a lobbyist, also involved in the scandal
Date:: between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Maier (Maxie) Joskowitz, cafe owner and confessed front man in a liquor license pay-off plot involving at least six others, with his attorney Paul Angelillo during the trial
Date:: between October 28, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Maier (Maxie) Joskowitz, cafe owner and confessed front man in a liquor license pay-off plot involving at least six others, looking through a doorway during the trial
Date:: between October 28, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The entrance to a local casino. Hawthorne, Compton, Monterey Park, and Long Beach closed several gaming places after Attorney General Webb found games of chance unlawful.
Date:: [circa January 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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