CELLERI as the one blocking action by the joint committee. These charges have been corroborated by Chairman STEED in the printed testimony of the hearing on this issue. Rumors are rampant on Capitol Hill and in the press galleries about large payoffs running into hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix immigration cases through private bills. Let me quote from one such story. the syndicated column of Leslie Carpenter. which appeared in the Washington Post on February 29. 1964: Snarled in a behindthescenes feud high up in the House Judiciary Committee is a possible explosive investigation of bigmoney fees for fixing immigration cases. The money is said to have gone to some firms in which a Congressman or Senator was a law partner. Such firms are rumored to have earned as much as $100.000 for a single case when a gangster or some other wealthy undesirable alien was about to be hustled out of the country. Quickly a private bill would be introduced in Congress to block the deportation. Sometimes. when enough influence came into play the bill went through. How much of a payoffif anywent to Members of Congress in such instances. is an unanswered question.
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