Part 19 (1/2)
”446 East 116th Street; 416 East 116th Street; and 7 and 23 East Third; and 536 East Thirteenth Street.”
”These were all multiple dwellings?” Krieger asked.
”Yes.”
”Basically railroad flats?”
”Yes.”
”Now,” Krieger went on, ”were you ever employed by Western Electric?”
”Yes.”
”When?”
”1960. In that area.”
”And in what capacity?”
”As an engineering a.s.sociate.”
”What does that mean?”
Torrillo seemed confused.
”That means that I was an engineering a.s.sociate,” Torrillo said, finally, ”whatever that means.”
”Well,” Krieger asked, ”are you an engineer?”
”No.”
”Are you a graduate engineer?”
”No.”
”Did you ever go to college?”
”Yes.”
”And what degree did you get?”
”I didn't finish.”
”Now, were you also at one time in the stock market business?”
”Yes, I was.”
”In what capacity?”
”Your Honor,” Walter Phillips said, rising, ”I'm going to object. I don't see any relevance to this testimony.”
”I will tie it up, if Your Honor please,” Krieger said.
Judge Mansfield overruled Phillip's objection, and Krieger asked Torrillo: ”What were you doing in the stock market?”
”I started in the Research Department and then as a salesman.”
”Now, you first got a Diners' Club card in 1963, isn't that so?”
”I believe so, yes.”
”And what was your income in 1963?”
”Oh, approximately $30,000. Thirty and change.”
”Pardon?”
”Approximately $30,000.”
”And in 1962?”
”It is hard for me to remember because there was a transition period between Western Electric and the stock market, and I was also in the army for a time in 1962. So I don't remember.”
”You didn't make any $60,000 in 1962, did you?”
”No.”
”And did you make an application to Diners' Club in 1963 where you represented yourself to be-well, to have an annual income of $60,000?”
”Yes.”
”And characterized yourself as being the head of research of a brokerage house?”
”I was at the time.”
”You weren't making any $60,000, were you?”
”No.”
”What did you make?”
”I made thirty, I think, for a year, but that sixty was projected earnings. That's what I felt I would have made if I had finished it out.”
When Krieger asked Torrillo if he had any unpaid debts of his own in the Diners' Club account before receiving bills that were incurred by Perrone and Bonanno, Torrillo admitted that he had-approximately $1,500 in bills, which included monies due on a monthly installment plan he had with Diners' Club in addition to bills for Christmas gifts he had bought in 1967, and also one business trip he had made.
”You didn't clean up your account with Diners' in January of 1968?” Krieger asked, which was when Perrone had taken his card.
”No, not at all,” Torrillo admitted.