"Those Wise Guys"

Al Capone's cousins, Charlie and Rocco Fischetti, blew into Washington from Brazil last week. Dressed in conservative blue suits, they made their first social call on Joe Duke, Senate sergeant at arms. They had heard they were wanted by the Kefauver committee, that there were warrants out for their arrest. Very politely they offered to post bond. Duke said it would be $3,000 apiece. The .Fischetti brothers had no need of a professional bondsman: they laid down the cash in big bills, picked up their receipts, thanked Joe Duke, and walked out. The casualness of it all offended Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, a member of the Kefauver committee. "Utterly fantastic," said he. "Those wise guys. . . have flouted the Senate." --

Another wise guy, Mobster Mickey Cohen, who had already done his turn in the Kefauver road show, was having things less his own way in Los Angeles. So broke that he had to sell his bulletproof limousine, so unpopular that all over Arizona, where he wanted to manage some drugstores, citizens howled in protest, Cohen got into more difficulties last week. He and his wife were indicted for evading more than $156,000 of income tax. Faced with the possibility of a stiff fine and a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted, the chubby hoodlum moaned: "I don't know what the hell to say. It's bad news."

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