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DESCRIPTION:I will be giving a talk and slideshow on the police corruption scandals on 
 1937, called "Dolly Fine and the fall of the house of McDonough."\n talk 
 and slide presentation is on February 24th at St. Philip's Church, 7:30 
 pm.\n725 Diamond Street, between Elizabeth Street & 24th Street).\n\n$5.00, 
 free for members. You are all invited.\n\n\n\nIn 1937, San Franciscans were 
 shocked to find police officers with huge fortunes from payoffs from 
 gambling, prostitution, liquor, betting on the horses, shakedowns of 
 legitimate businesses, fake raids and phony arrests. The city hired a 
 private investigator, an ex-Gman named Edwin Atherton and began Grand Jury 
 hearings. The newspapers had a field day and circulation war over the 
 scandals. Dozens of cops and the entire police commission were forced out 
 and it was the beginning of the end for the McDonough Brothers bail 
 bondsmen, whose office near the old Hall of Justice was the clearinghouse 
 for payoffs whom Atherton labeled the “Fountainhead of Corruption."\n\nI 
 transcribed the so-called “Atherton Report” from old newspaper accounts 
 (It disappeared from the clerk’s office in 1938), and am giving it away 
 on the internet. (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/131865), and I am 
 writing the history.\n\nI also published an e-book on the scandals, a 
 historical novel called “Bordello Politique.” 
 (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/106571)\n\ntalk and slide 
 presentation is on February 24th at St. Philip's Church\n725 Diamond 
 Street, between Elizabeth Street & 24th Street).\n7:45 p.m. $5.00, free for 
 members. You are all invited.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/15/18768571.php
SUMMARY:Police corruption in the 1930s - Talk and slideshow
LOCATION:St. Philip's Church, 7:30 pm.\n725 Diamond Street, between Elizabeth Street 
 & 24th Street)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/15/18768571.php
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