BLACKMAIL CHARGES
ALLEGED EXTORTIONS FROM SWINDLER SEQUEL TO EXPOSURE IN NEW YORK EIGHT PERSONS IMPLICATED. DEMANDS ON SCOTTISH FIRMS DISPUTED. dy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. 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 Philip Musica, alias F. Donal Coster, whose career of swindling in the United States were recently exposed when the big chemical firm, 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 examining the McKesson and Robbins case.
The accounts are for goods allegedlj' supplied. The firms deny liability and suggest that their names were taken at random from a directory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 5
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146BLACKMAIL CHARGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 5
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