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Huey's legendary deduct box never found
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:23 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:23 am
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Among the many legends and greatest mysteries revolving around Long is something called the deduct box. Every state employee who received a job from Long was expected to pay between 5 percent and 10 percent of his salary -- estimated at more than $1 million annually -- to Long's political machine, biographer White wrote. Those funds were kept in the locked deduct box.
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The locked box where legendary Louisiana Gov. Huey Long kept “deducts” from state employee salaries to fund his political operation. Estimates suggest Long collected between $50,000 to $75,000 each election cycle from government workers. The deduct box was kept at his Roosevelt Hotel headquarters in New Orleans. After being shot in 1935, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports Long was asked on his deathbed by Roosevelt Hotel owner Seymour Weiss, “Huey, where is the deduct box?” Before falling into a coma, Long responded, “I’ll tell you later, Seymour.”
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Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:29 am to SuperSaint
I bet somebody found it...
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:36 am to WavinWilly
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bet somebody found it..
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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.
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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.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:38 am to SuperSaint
Yes, we all learned about this in middle school. 
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:38 am to SuperSaint
That's a good photograph for 1935.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:41 am to BACONisMEATcandy
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Yes, we all learned about this in middle school.
There you go again over-estimating the grade of posters we have on the OT.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:42 am to SuperSaint
quote:Jimmy Hoffa has it....
Huey's legendary deduct box never found
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:43 am to SuperSaint
Only LA would deify a fricking corrupt politician.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:45 am to SuperSaint
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:45 am to WavinWilly
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I bet somebody found it..
Geraldo Rivera
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:51 am to SuperSaint
From the picture you posted, it looks like it has been found and photographed.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:54 am to kywildcatfanone
That's a replica that you can see in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:56 am to kywildcatfanone
Don't you think his secretary knew where it was. Wonder who that was. The clue is it was a guy who eventually had a Federal Judge in the family.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:57 am to oreeg
So how were people supposed to pay their deductions? It's not like they could just pay online or from a credit card?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 10:59 am to supadave3
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So how were people supposed to pay their deductions? It's not like they could just pay online or from a credit card?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 11:00 am to supadave3
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So how were people supposed to pay their deductions? It's not like they could just pay online or from a credit card?
Bruh
Posted on 6/13/17 at 11:05 am to upgrayedd
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So how were people supposed to pay their deductions? It's not like they could just pay online or from a credit card?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 11:05 am to upgrayedd
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Huey's legendary deduct box never found by upgrayedd
Only LA would deify a fricking corrupt politician.
And you have 2 down votes. Wish the 2 silly son of a bitches would identify themselves
Posted on 6/13/17 at 11:08 am to jorconalx
Well, not to mention that the Roosevelt Hotel loves to celebrate extortion. Every man a king!
Posted on 6/13/17 at 11:09 am to SuperSaint
I got the box...am I supposed to turn it in or sumptin?
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