Charles Cohen, president of the Federation of Kosher Butchers, was released on $1,000 ball yesterday. He was arrested the previous day on an indictment for conspiracy obtained by Bernard Bien-stock of the New York State Attorney General’s Anti-Racket Bureau in collaboration with the Queens District Attorney’s office.
Philip Kipnis and D. Schatz, indicted with Cohen by the Queens Grand Jury July 18, were not arrested, but will be surr### by David S. Andron, counsel to the defendants, at the arraignment in Queens Special Sessions Court in Jamaica this morning.
The investigation into the kosher butcher trade was lent impetus by the avowed desire of New York State Attorney General John J. Bennett to “clean up the kosher meat industry.”
Through Andron, his attorney, Cohen issued a vigorous categoric denial of the racketeering charges
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