EXTORTION ALLEGED
BROTHER AND SISTER
BLACKMAIL OF SWINDLER
NEW YORK, December 28
Walter Cragg, aged 57, a. disbarred attorney, and Joseph and Mary Brandino, brother and sister, were charged today with extorting 8000 dollars a year from Phillip Musica, alias F.- Donald Coster, whose career of swindling in the United States was exposed recently when the big chemical firm of McKesson and Robbins, of which he was president, went bankrupt.
G-men state that altogether eight persons knew Coster was a swindler and blackmailed him for 50,000 to 150,000 dollars yearly.
Four Scottish firms have received demands totalling more than £23,000 from the commission which is examining the McKesson and' Robbins case. The accounts are for goods alleged to have been supplied. The firms deriy liability and suggest that their names were taken at random from a directory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 9
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