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Discover the Truth at: http://www.theblackvault.com JFK Assassination System Date: 4/27/201 Identification Fonn Agency lnfonnation AGENCY : FBI RECORD NUMBER : 124-10306-10102 RECORD SERJES : HQ AGENCY ALE NUMBER : CR 62-75147-34-240 Document lnfonnation ORJGINA TOR : FBI FROM: SAC, NY TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 10/15/1956 PAGES: 75 SUBJECTS: NRO, ASSOC, OC, GAMBLING ACT, B/F INT DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIACA TION : Unclassified RESTRICTIONS : 4 CURRENTSTATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/0511998 OPENING CRJTERJA : INDEFINITE COMMENTS: INC RPT, 2 ADMIN PAGES ! v9.J I lnf 45946 Dooid: 32310693 Page 1· r --, \·...... .. ...: ,, . ....~ ..; . GOl'BffNMENT :O.!~TOR., FBI DATB: 10/l.$/56 . ·.,.. '··· :~·.:~~\~}.~::::~here 1B transmitted herewith two oopiea ot the ~e~·~~~·~ · General ·Investigative Intelligence Report ~or ....,. ..... '"" Division of the por1oc:l April 15, 1956, to · ·~s. 19S6 •. ·.. · Tb.ts is· an administrative repor~ aDQ the ... to "( ~,A ... Y.A.u,&a.A. •gents contributed to the various captioned o1'· thJ.a ) report: 1 :-; 1;: ,,.. OlnAHIZED CRIME SA LEON c. ULMER . ~ ~ ~ B• IBDIVIDUAL MOBSTERS SA LEON C. KELMER \...,. AJIQ. .BA~EBRS ~ .,..1 c. POLI'l'ICAL T~ WJD .. SA LEON c. KBLMER I \l· ORGAJIIZED CRIMI ..-:- .· .r \J ~. ' · ~"" D. P.OLICE EFFICIENCY SA ·AUGUST J. lUCEK ;:,.. (..'\. ·~· I -· Q' E. · GAMB~m ---- ..... SA LEQB c. KEL.V.Eii • "'..... ~: . NW 45946 Docid:3 2310693 Page Z LCK:mar - 1 - NY 94-41.9 A. ORG!J·iiZ):!!D GANGS NY 169-C, NY 204-C, NY 842-C, ~TY 1449-C, as well as other reliable informants and reliable Police sources, state that the Syndicate still controls most of the v organized gangs in the New York Metropolitan area. The Syndicate, as previously reported, controls ma jor rackets in the United States, such as bookmaking, narcotics, numbers, gambling, garmant trucking, vending machines , juke,-boxes and many other rackets. Mr. EmJARD JONES, Investigato:£> 1 New York City Anti~Crime Committee, advised that he had received information f'rom a confidential source, who has furnished him reliable ·information in the past, that on the afte~noon of May 18, 1956, there was a meeting.of about 35 of' the top racketeers / . who are members of the E~stern Syndicate of the United · Sta~es in Suite 20fr3 in t~e St. Moritz Hotel, New York City. Among those present at the meeting who could be identified by~ informant wer~op hoodl~ VINCENT ALO, 11 TRIGGE:'R MIKE .'~PPOLA, JOEfRAO, BENl'l~"LZVINl]! and ~iEYER L..4.NSKY . Also _._present at th~ ~et _ing was the notorious New York g$mb1er, TO~LO, gambler ARTHUR "LEFTY~RK, and Miami Beach Fontainebleau Hotel owner B~~!AK . .. I I According to JONES, those present at the meeting \ decided that with FP.ANK COSTELJ.JO• .s conviction, his useful- f I \; ness as the head of the Eastern Syndicate wa~ at an end and that an election should be held for a replacement for COSTELLO • . Nfn.J York to~odlum YINCENT ALO w_as eeleoted _to replace COSTELLO as he! the Eastern Syndicate and Miami top hoodlum CSAHL ~ - · RIN~ vJas selected as the "enforcer." / Also at the meetin~ was New Yorl\: gar.1bler, JERR! RYAN, who had recently lost $35,000 in an open crap game at. the Hotel Victoria, New York City. RYAN was warned that, in the future, he was not to flash that kind of money. - l - (~ NW 45946 Docld:32310693 Page 3 ,...r· . ... LCK:mar - 2 - Mr. JONES advisad that Suite 200) at the Hotel St • ?1orit z was r ented on a long-term basis by a garment manufaqturer ~- one LEO MORRIS, who is co~ected with the furrier firm of Morris, Suskind. and Reich, 243 West 30th Stre~t, New York City. Mr. ~ONES advised that top hoodlum BENi'~ Y L'SVINE :and ·. Fontainebleau Hotel owner BEN NOV~( and NOVM~'s sister, own Laurels City Club, Sackett Lake, New York, which is a well known New York SQmmer resort •. In regard to VINCENT ALO, Nr. J ONES advised that · September 12, 1956, VINCENT ALO, ~R LANSKY and Maz.q_~ . OGAN 1 o£ J~~s~eY. C~!Y, -~e~ -~?.,~ r..a8.'3., met in a suite on the '. · twelfth floor o'f "£ne HO'"'t.e! L~nc ln, l!ew York City. J . / ·---· · Ac cor.ding to Mr. J ONES , l·1ARI R~ , ~~J).e.r _or _the_. .H..~tel. ~ ; tinc.o.l.n~ is a clos~ £riend o the ~ell kno~p l?-..999-J.U!!ll .. 0\VNEY ~\ UADDEN.. :tft.ADDEN stays at the Hotel Lincol':n wfi en in New York. · · ·AiiJO'NE"S"Stated that the manager of the Hotel tincoln is. a ~~· mob cont.act, and that· when VINCENT ALO visits the Hotel · 1 Li~coln, he shake$. hands with the manager, giving him a . $100 bill. NY 1449-C advised in regard to the r 2cket s~t-up ./ in the g·arment area that 2 gangs control all criminal _ activities in the·se areas. He stated that one of thes.e :/ gangs~- which is h~aded by· VITO GENOVESE, · ociitrols. the . Italian .element in these . ar$-as~ The other· gang consist·s .,/ of the control of the Jewish element which · 1s c.ontrolled by IviSYER LANSKY. Ttte info·rmant stated VITO GENOVESE is the biggest1{6odlum in the Vnited States today, and that o·n1y one man ·is stron~er than GBNOVESE in the Unit.ed States, and that n1an is F.I$HETTI of Chicago" Illinois.. He stat.e-d that because of' the vast pol-Je·r that GENOVES~ presently holds 1n the United States,. he cannot adequately place t .oo much control in one area·. Hence, his control in the garment area o-f New York City is rath.er loose, and tb.e Jewish G?Dgs apparently at the pres·ent time, have a striC'ter enforcement code to oontrol this specific area. The informant furnished the following information concerning. the control in the garment area by the Jewish Gangs: He stated that MEYER LMiSKY is presently the top man in th~s area. He continued that LANSKY r~cently \ I - 2 - --------- -/ mf 4.5946 Docid: 3 2 3 10693 Page 4· .. LCK:mar - 4 - NY 94-419 , ' HYI-.ttE SEIGEL eats each morning in the :st~ge Re-staurant, . located at. 51st Stre-et and Seventh Avenue, w1 th the NEWMAN brothers. SEIGE4 has purchased part of the Reed Courtney Combine and -SEIGEL presently has offices at 140· West. 37th Street, Ne1·i ·York City• . The ini'ormant described these Offices as ·A Trucking O'f'fice in which SEIGEL operates from· a rear room. Concerning LEVINE,.. the !t:nformant· reported.that tEVIN$ has non-union shops ~hich make ·coats and dresses 1.n Farmingdale.; Long Island, New Jeraey and Baltimore~ · Maryland. · The informant stat&d LEVINE ~an be located at the Fabric, UlU, lo~ated at 500 Seventh Avenue. LEVINE ~wns a part in this flrmo It is to be noted ~LMIE SEIGEL was arrested on February 3, 1956, at an apartment located at IvJiam1 Beach., Florida, by Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service, for failure to regist.er ·for a e5o .g$I11bl1ng. ~;~tamp. SEIGEL's Dade County Sher~rr•s . Off~ce Number '191295. This raid~ · aec.or<iiing to the Miami Office, was. c-onducted 1n an effort t .o. ascertain more irif'ormat·ion concerning the Ree.d Co\U'tney Combine. · Inf'ormants, NY 204-C, NY 169-C and NY 8tt2'!-C, as well as L1eut$nant WALTER CASEY,. of the B\Weau. Qf C~iminal In~ormation, ·New. York City Police Department, al.l advise~ that . the .t?JL_..l~~4~!'S .or_ J;b._e-..S-m~-~~~q_ ~!}' . / New York Metropolit1i¥anar~·a, a : . ·: . .. · ~~L" ~ BLUE- = - . A" - Repo~ted naWUprime Minister . , -r<f.r-}i~r~;j~'k.~ii?~~te." . -IV ~r FRMTK COSTELLO ... Former "Rrime I~I inister of the .Syndicat&t'!} 1.te . ·:-"' -..=·-=--. front man and political conta~t, who is now in jail. THDr1AS LUCHESE ... Asso.ciated \-Iith "TRIGG~R MIKE". COPPOLA,. 1n the Eas·t Harlem mob and influential garment district racketeer with politieal connecti9ns. ~ 4- 1 ' . \ \ ~ ,,_.:,·_ ~-··-- - ·--·- -- _____ lnf 45946 Doc ld: 32310693 Page 5· · · r-~ c:· \.._ I \. ' '; ( \. 0 -.. '-: 1:-' ~ LCK:mar - 7 - N'Y 94-419 Lower East Side Ital-ian mob is headed by JOSEPH "SOClffi 1 ~ A, a top hoodlum, who-se center of operat1oQs fias be.en Fult~F'isn Marftet' ar~a Other - ~~j. · t his mgh =- are TO?.fi LJ.lER, SALVATO " ,ANELLO, ANIELL . el CROCE, ,./ ...., PET~ o. Also appearin in the Lower Ea Side are. th .: IOG~~~~J. brother~, JOHNNY and FRApL whose principal !J /) t .· .1 r 11/-•. , ar,e' . f operat"j,.ons is~the g~rment · district. The DlPG~RDIA ,. ', brothers t uncle is J:p . LUMERI, with alj.as : Jirnm~le 1 · .:.....L ~~ garment; a~_!a tr~ld.~ .ke~ . and associate ·of FRANK .RBO, ?: ~ ~~~~x~ng rackE!~· ·. ~ - 'I · New York vJe.terfrc:mt J •. t I The .New York ltJaterfront, according to Nel_t Yor~ . 16.3-C, and the New York-New Jersey \vaterfront Commis. s!:oti~ is under the control of EDDIE MC' GRATH I a top ho·odlum. They stat~ t;be.t no murder de·cisions are made by- hoodlums on the Waterfront without the knowledge or bonsent of MC GRATa.
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