re: Huey's legendary deduct box never found

quote:

---

bet somebody found it..

---

quote:

---

Before Long last left his 12th-floor suite at the Roosevelt for the journey to Baton Rouge, where he would be assassinated in September 1935, Weiss purportedly asked him, "Huey, where's the deduct box?" "I'll tell you later, Seymour, " Long is reported to have said.

---

quote:

---

Weiss, who was not related to Dr. Carl Weiss, Long's assassin, was a pallbearer at Long's funeral. After the assassination, Seymour Weiss served 16 months in federal prison on tax evasion charges related to business dealings with Long. He was paroled in 1942 and was given a pardon by President Harry Truman in 1947. Weiss would go on to become one of the city's most influential businessmen. He sold the Roosevelt in 1965. When he died in 1969, he was reportedly worth more than $15 million.

---