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The Mer candal / 27 Meanwhile, Charlie Anselmo had called from across the street, as in- structed, and was invited up to the office. He arrived, still trying to bluff his insisted. "I buy it the way it comes in.". "Where?" Lokietz demanded. "That's what they been asking me all over," Anselmo replied. "The guy comes in and we give him cash.". Lokietz laughed out loud. "Oh, my God," he said.. I pay cash, straight dough," Ansclmo insisted. "I don't give no checks to nobody. . .. I don't know myself [where it comes from] to tell you the truth." "Don't be a shmuck, Charlie," Lokietz told him.. "I don't know." Anselmo kept on. "I don't pay the,truckman. It comes directly from the plants. A & R, R & A; I think it's A & R." Someone in the office confirmed that the meat was brought in by R & A Trucking Company. Nat asked for a copy of the bill from one of the loads, and his aide said there was none--pointing out that Merkel, too, paid cash for the shipments.. "The meat was all right,' Anselmo repeated. Then he got on the phone to Herbie Newman as Newman had asked. "It's very important," Anselmo told Newman. *Nat'll appreciate it to the end.... What do you think? . .. You sure the guy could do something? . .. Positive?. .. All right, I give you the jurisdiction to get hold of Moe. And let him reach Pacetta."' Note the ianguage. Moe Steinman's direct tie-in was to the Lucchese Mafia family through Johni Dioguardi, while Lokietz was tied in through Anselmo to the Bonanno family. Favors between families clearly had to be approved according to protocol. 'I give you the jurisdiction to get hoid of Moe. And let him reach Pacetta,' Anselmo had said.. Then Lokietz took the phone and told Newman, "I'm in the clear. The only thing is-who, Moe?-well, the thing is, I'm in the clear. The only thing I'm worried about is, I don't want no publicity on this stuff. I never even knew about it. We buy meat from inspected houses.... We're helping Charlie out, buying a lot of meat from him."' Moe Steinman, however, couldn't be reached that day. It was a Friday in December, a time Steinman often prefers to be on a golf course in Florida. So Lokietz and Anselmo resumed Iaying plans for a transfer of meat out of the Merkel plant by truck that night, while still looking for a political fixer. And soon they found that fixer, who really did reach out with the big bribe. He was the very next man on Lokietz's list of potential octopuses: Tino.De Angelis, the great salad oil swindler who had set Lokietz up in business in the first place. Tino had plenty. of political contacts, including Congressman Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey. Gallagher's district included Bayonne, where Tino proved devastatingly accurate in every confirmable detail), Gallagher received $50,000 in lega! fees from Tino during the time the salad oil swindle was in operation. After the scandaI was exposed, Life reported, Gallagher engineered