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YICIOUS a $300,D00 loan from a bank he was director of, to enable Tino's associates to Start a tallow and lard business; that business then used phony merchandise receipts as collateral for big loans, just as Tino's salad oil business did. In 1977, a Congressional investigation into the Government of South Korea's bribery of American officials disclosed that as late as 1974, Congressman Gallagher had arranged for Korean money io finance a pork business, apparently Tino's. When Nat Lokietz called, Tino proved he could handle New York City as well as New Jersey. "Listen," Lokietz asked him, "you got any connections in the City of New York?... It's a whole lot of things. Have you?... To put a cubosh on Pacetta. To reach Pacetta. Do you know anyone?... Hah? .. And it could be done?. .. It's a very big problem. ... This thing could Spread like wildfire. ... You're going to be in the motel? ... When are you going to be home?... You think you got somebody, right?... Tino, see, I ... We buy meat from Charlie Anselmo.. .". Tino De Angelis said he knew a Brooklyn lawyer who was counsel to a State legislative committee. He said he'd check with the lawyer and call back. A little while later Tino reported that J. Louis *Jack" Fox, an eighteen-term Democratic stale assemblyman from Far Rockaway, Queens, was the guy who got Pacetta his job. Pacetta wus also from Queens. Tino said he had arranged an appoiniment for Lokieiz that Sunday at Fox's house. Tino De Angelis was never charged with this bribery plot. The D.A.'s lawyers eventually decided that without a lape recording, there was no proof of what De Angelis and Fox had actually said to each other. But Nicholson knew there had to be a bribcry case against someone in what he'd heard. On Sunday, December l4, he followed Lokietz to Fox's house, then followed hin back to his own house and heard him call his partner Sam Goldman on the lelephone-which Nicholson had wiretapped. Lokietz toid Goldman that As- semblyman Fox would take care of Pacetta for $10,000. The first half was to be paid the following morning at ten o'clock in Fox's law oflice. The bribe would be split fifty-fifty between Fox and Pacetta. Armed with a tape recording of that conversation between Lokierz and Goldman, Nicholson located a D.A., who located a judge, who granted a judicial order on Sunday evening to bug Fox's ofliee. Nicholson and a partner spent all night picking the lock, installing the microphone and transinitter, then locating and setting up a listening post. With the firsi rays of dawn they sat back io wait for ten o'clock, and, they hoped, the sounds of an indictable erime.. They heard Lokietz ushered in, and heard Fox say he had talked to "my people on Saturday afternoon . .. Unless the complaint originated from some other department, like the commissioner of investigations, or unless it came through the mayor's office," Fox said, the matter could be taken care of to Lokieiz's satisfaction. "If it originated within his [Pacetta's] office, that's one thing. If it originated outside his office, that's another thing. This is the whole crux of the matter," Fox said..