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Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 9

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CiUklER-POST, Comd.n, N. Tuisdoy, January 9, 1973 Court to Decide Who Gets Evidence Crime Unit Renews Probe Into Police Corruption $90,000 to Gerard Engineering contractor John Merrigan by the former Democratic party chairman in Hudson County, Walter Wolfe. Wolfe said former county treasurer Joseph B. Stapleton told him to give it back. Stern said $23,550 more was "kickback" money also presumably returned at the direction of four of the defendants.

The remainder, including money orders, was seized from the offices of former county Police Chief Fred Kropke. Other defendants who were convicted included former; Port of New York Authority! Commissioner William A. Sternkopf, former Jersey City Purchasing Agent Bernard G. Murphy and former Business NEWARK (UPI)-The government has asked a federal court to decide jurisdiction over $90,000 used as evidence in the 1971 kickback trial of eight prominent Hudson County political figures convicted of extortion and conspiracy. U.S.

Attorney Herbert J. Stern said Monday the defendants have exhausted all possible appeals and the gov- erament no longer needs the money as evidence. Their ap peals ended after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review their case. Stern's office filed a complaint in U.S.

District Court Monday asking the court to decide who has legitimate claim to the kickback money. The county and Jersey City may bid for the money, but' Stern said the defendants themselves may try to claim it. Once it is decided who can claim' ownership, Stern said, the Internal Revenue' Service (IRS) also may file a claim for some of the money. Stern also said the government last Wednesday and on Dec. 20 returned 1695,000 in- bearer bonds and $32,319 in connection with former Hud- son County boss John V.

Kenny's guilty plea to income tax evasion. The funds still to be returned were used, in evidence at the trial in which former Jersey City Mayor Thomas Whelan and former City Council President Fla-. herty and six others were charged with extorting from three businesses and plotting with Kenny and others to get kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Whelan and Flaherty are serving 15-year jail terms. who was severed from the trial due to poor health, since has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and was sent to a federal prison hospital in Missouri.

Stern said the money the government wants to return includes $50,090 which John J. Kenny, John V. Kenny's onetime righthand man, said his boss had directed be given to him. Another $17,000, according to court testimony, was "kickback" money returned Barger; Russell J. O'Malley, Clarks Green; Ronald Davenport, Pittsburgh, head of the Duquesne University Law School; and George Barco, Meadville.

Former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, also a commission member, was ill and could not attend, but he participated by telephone. Packel and the other members consistently refused to comment on their deci-sions, saying only: "The statements speak for themselves." The only reason given for pulling the men out of Specter's office was to "consolidate the effort." mm wmrn una minim. IihiMC 'i Minim. "Ite una biiiih HARRISBURG (UPI) Crime Commission investigators renewed a probe into Philadelphia police corruption today with the full endorsement of Gov. Milton J.

Shapp and State Police Commissioner James Barger. The investigation stopped last November when commission investigators found taps on their telephone lines. It re- mained in limbo for six weeks while a dispute over the taps raged. The revamped Crime Commission approved a resolution Monday beefing up the probe and calling for citizen participation in routing out police graft. "The investigation into the quality of law enforcement in Philadelphia will continue, be intensified, and receive the highest priority," the resolution said.

"All citizens are urged to come forward with evidence of police corruption and any other criminal activity." Specter Angered The commission also decided to pull 17 stat policemen off of a special detail in the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter. Specter had been using the men in his own police probe and was' angered by the decision. "I'm not going to concede this very important issue," Specter said. He indicated he might Appeal directly to Shapp to get the men But Shapp said Monday he would stand "fully and completely behind" the commission. State Police Commissioner James Barger attended the Crime Commission meeting as a non-voting member and also endorsed the commission's efforts.

Rep. George W. Gekas, R-Dauphin, however, said that Barger should have "stood up to the commission and told them of the procedures spelled out in the State Administrative Code." Assistance to Cities He said the code calls for the state police "whenever possible" to assist cities in the detection of crime and the apprehension of criminals. The transfers were "thwarting the language of the State Administrative Code by having them dropped out of the investigation," Gekas said. "He Barger doesn't have the right to refuse assistance in the first place and certainly not to withdraw men who are already assigned and in the midst of an investigation," the lawmaker said.

"I suggest that he refuse setting this precedent and to specifically consult the law that administers the state police before he starts moving the police around like chess pieces and he himself becomes a political pawn of forces outside the state police," Gekas said. Shapp put teeth into his promise of support by issuing a directive to all departments and agencies demanding immediate and complete cooperation with Crime Commission. Must Comply With Requests He ordered them to comply with all commission requests for information, equipment or materials within 24 hours. "Sometimes there have been delays," he explained later. "Most of them have been normal.

But due to the urgency of the work involved, I wanted to make sure there would be no delays. "If they need something special I want to make sure they get it and get it properly." The commission meeting Monday was attended by Attorney General Israel Packel, chairman of the commission; I I OF FAMOUS NAME BRANDS QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED! DISCOUNT DEPABTMBNT STORES ITTBJjTiri 0-3, nr tiny PHILCQ S2 khirlpo Bps Gallo Is Elected To Assembly Seat Administrator Philip Kunz. The motion on the suit is to be published in newspapers in Newark, Trenton and Jersey City to alert the public or anyone who wants to file a claim with the' court for the money. Stern noted.that the government last year gave the Hud- son County Democratic organ- i ization some $20,000 seized in the investigation leading up to the trial. DR.

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Joseph's School, Swedesboro, was struck at about 6:30 a.m. a mile from his home near Stone Meeting House Road, Donald Zane, township chief of police, said. The driver of the car, Charles W. Matthews, 51, of Lakeview Lane, Southampton Township, was charged with causing death by auto and freed on $1,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court Jan. 19, Zane said.

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There -were 90,000 persons eligible to vote in the special District 12-C election in North Bergen, Union City, Weehaw-ken, West New York, Gutten-berg and Hoboken. Failla, a Democrat, was slain in a holdup attempt last September in Neptune, as he walked from a tavern to his car. His two-year term runs until next January. Gallo, also Hoboken Board of Education secretary, will be seated in the new Legislature which convened today. A second special Assembly election is scheduled Jan.

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