Lawrence Knohl – “Incorrigible Schemer”

In 1952, Lawrence (Larry the Fixer) Knohl was the subject of a bribery investigation as a result of allegedly acting as a go-between in an income tax scandal involving T. Lamar Caudle, a former Assistant United States Attorney General.

Lawrence (Larry the Fixer) Knohl - aka "Larry Kay" - was born in 1906 in NYC. He lived at 75 E. Beech Street in Long Beach, Long Island since the early 1950s. Knohl was a notorious “confidence man” and swindler originally based in New York City.

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He was said to have been a friend, minion, and the frontman of mob boss Francesco (Frank Costello) Castiglia. Later, he was “associated” with John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi, Gaetano Lucchese, and other top hoodlums.

He was also affiliated over the years with financial racketeers, such as Louis Ostrer (a Dioguardi follower).

His activities included embezzler, bribery, stock frauds, check fraud, influence peddler, tax evasion, and bankruptcy frauds.

Knohl's legitimate and semi-legitimate activities that he owned or had interests in (throughout the United States):

>> 11 race horses in New Orleans, LA

>> a resort farm in Nanuet, N.Y. (Rockland County)

>> oil well investments

>> extensive real estate holdings in Long Beach, Long Island

>> a publishing company

>> General Oglethorpe Hotel in Savannah, GA.

>> Cambridge Glass Co., in Cambridge, OH

>> Plantation Yacht Club in Plantation Key, FL

>> James Morrison Mfg., Co. Ltd., in Toronto, Canada

>> an “amusement park”

>> several investments and companies in Miami Beach

Knohl had a long criminal record including grand larceny (three times), embezzlement, making a false statement, income tax evasion (twice), securities law violations, criminally receiving stolen property, and influencing witnesses.

He had a conviction for embezzlement (15-month sentence).

In January 1939, Knohl was convicted of violating the “National Bankruptcy Act” and sentenced to 15 months in the federal prison at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary.

In 1952, Knohl was the subject of a bribery investigation as a result of allegedly acting as a go-between in an income tax scandal involving T. Lamar Caudle, a former Assistant United States Attorney General.

Arrested for income tax evasion in 1954, Knohl’s subsequent trial ended in a hung jury in 1956.

In 1954, Knohl was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury on income tax evasion charges for defrauding the U.S. government of $210,796 he owed in payment for income tax liability.

In 1966, he was indicted for attempting to influence Kay B. Fuller, a witness under subpoena to a grand jury. He received five years.

In 1970, he was already serving a five-year jail sentence for jury tampering when he was re-indicted on grand larceny charges.

He was accused of fleecing Geanette Daratz, the widow of a convicted bookmaker and loanshark of $33,500 in connection with the planned purchase of a motel.....that same year he was tried by jury and again convicted.

Law enforcement finally caught up to “Larry the Fixer” after decades of chasing him to no avail or solid punishment..... and by the late 1960s, he was serving multiple prison sentences!

I don’t know what the final outcome was with him or his dod!...or if he even survived prison.

Until next time..."The Other Guy!"

Lawrence Knohl – “Incorrigible Schemer”

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