The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 13

Page A13 THE SACRAMENTO DEE Wednesday May 3 1972 24 In NY Public Morals Squad Are Indicted In Payoff: By Morris Kaplan this week only if in payoffs to protect gamblers linked to the Mafia The arrests under what was called the largest single indictment ever handed up here against members of the police force followed by a day the suicide of a police lieutenant under investigation who shot himself in the 18 months Kings County Dist Atty Eugene Golf who was joined by Deputy Police Commissioner William McCarthy in announcing the charges said the 44-year-old lieutenant who joined the force in November 19oi would have been indicted head in a rented hotel room The lieutenant Fletcher Heuston had been second in command of the Public Morals Squad of the 13th division in Brooklyn the unit to which each of the individuals named in the indictment had been assigned during some portion of the past New York Times News Service NEW YORK Three police sergeants 20 patrolmen and one patrolwoman were arrested and suspended from the police department today after they were indicted and accused of taking a quarter of a million dollars 4 ki jmL-Mi nice EmergencyMedicareAudit Is Refused Gold said each of the patrolmen allegedly implicated in the operation that involved 40 gamblers and bookmakers had profited by about $10000 a year while superiors received between $13000 and $20000 a year The payoffs in return for protection of such illegal gambling activities as policy liorseracing and other sports events were said to have amounted to SI million in four years Each of the suspects was identified as having conspired to receive bribes and promote bambling in addition to having received "rewards for official misconduct" All the defendants are or were assigned to plainclothes patrol in the 13th division whichencompasses four precincts in the Brownsville Bedford-Stuyvesant Fort Greene and Cumberland sections of Brooklyn According to Gold the indictment resulted from an investigation that began late in 1970 and was intensified with the assistance of undercover policemen who infiltrated the Public Morals Squad BEVERLY HILLS (AP) refused to make the emer-Secretary of State Edmund gency audits of Medicare Brown Jr said Tuesday records he requested in Jan-the federal government has uary when he accused insur- Iceland Lands Chess World Title Playoffs ance companies of fraud Brown said Health Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson had told him the allegations will be investigated "in accordance with the regular audit schedule" But Brown said "it was this same regular audit schedule that allowed private insurance companies to line their own pockets with money that was meant for the ill" Brown announced last January that his office found at least $100 million may have been "squandered" on such items as duplicate payments to hospitals and doctors mismanagement un-needed computers and trips for the wives of company He said some of the companies involved in the misuse 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