This is Your FBI: The Corruptors

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI This is your FBI The Office of Lord has from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society is representative in your community Later in the program, we will bring you an important message from Mr. J. Edgar Hoover

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Illegal Gambling, its title, The Corrupters. The illegal gambling in the United States is big business.

One bookmaker recently admitted to a gross take of over $20 million in a single year, and he is merely one of hundreds. With such sums of money at their disposal, sooner or later the men who control the horse rooms, the gambling houses, and the numbers racket move in and attempt to control the political

machine. to higher ups, tie the hands of every conscientious police officer. To prove, however, that it is by no means impossible to break up such a situation. The following case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been selected for dramatization.