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Howard W. Nugent Appointed To New York Pinkerton Unit BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 17. — Howard W. Nugent, deputy chief inspector of the New York State Police, joined the new Pinkerton investigative unit for New York racing today, according to announcement made by Jerome V. OGrady, special assistant to the protective detective agency head, Robert Pinkerton. OGrady. a former administrative assistant to director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, who heads the recently organized group, stated that Nugent will add considerable strength to the already outstanding membership of the New York racing investigative unit. Numbered among the present group are former special agents of the FBI and Secret Service, investigators from Governor Deweys former racket squad and ranking officers of Naval Intelligence. Nugent played an important part in the growth of the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation, serving in that bureau from July 1, 1936, to May 1, 1947. He served for a number of years as inspector in charge in the zone covering Orange, Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester and Suffolk counties.
