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: SIpNey R. KORSHAK introduced KORSHAK to WILLIE BIOFF, pander and labor racketeer, this way: 'I want you to pay attention to KORSHAK. When he tells you something, he knows what he is talking about. Any message he may deliver to you is a message from us.'!" VELIE Showed that BIOFF so testified in the million-dollar movie shakedown trial of 1943, “which sent seven CAPONE mobsters to- Jail. , (One who went to jail is the afore-mentioned JOHN ROSELL ° “ft { : Continuing, VELIE wrote that KORSHAK had gone on to have powerful friends in Illinois and West Coast politics, in the underworld and in racketeer-tainted unions. He added "he is close to JIMMY HOFFA, the Mid-west Teamster boss now under indictment on charges of bribing a Senate investigator.” t VELIE went on that although KORSHAK is a lawyer who rarely puts his name ina legal document and has seldom appeared in court on labor matters, "SHEFFERMAN finds his services valuable. ,As SHEFFERMAN's own records show, the two confer frequently...It is not Surprising, then, that KORSHAK Pplayei a role in the events that led to a substandard contract for the employees in the Indiana Plant of The Englander company." The rest of the VELIE article is devoted to additional illustrations showing the relationship then extant between HOFFA and KORSHAK, and between other Teamster leaders with SHEFFERMAN. VELIE's story about the introduction of WILLIE BIOFF and KORSHAK is sur lemented in other news media to show that the meeting took place in 1940 at the Bismark Hotel in Chicago and was attended not only by "CHERRY NOSE" GIOE, but by other nubs mobsters such as FRANK NITTI, PAUL RICCA and LOUIS . CAMPAGNA, : / Testifying before the Kefauver Committee in 1950, . CHARLES "CHERRY NOSE" GIOE himself admitted frequent meetings with Attorney SIDNEY KORSHAK, his neighbor, at the Seneca Hotel - 22.