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""'2.5 1.lQ 2.2 I"~ 111111.25 IIIII~ 11111 1.6 MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS,1963-A .~l Microfilming procedures used to create this fiche comply with the standards set forth in 41CFR 101-11.504. \ Points of view or opinions stated in this document are those of the author(s) and do not represent the official position or policies of the U. S. Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice United States Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20!l31 ,10/18/84 o • '0 ; f'---'-~''''--> ~ !Jtpartmtnt 'n~ ~tt~titt ~TATEMENT Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: I am pleased to be here today on behalf of the Department of Justice to discuss briefly the nature of the organized crime q problem in the Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan, regions. JOHN C. KEENEY ,\ DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY rr The mid-West has long been infested by the presence and CRIMINAL DIVISION :1 ,j c0Q criminal activities of professional criminal organizations, :=.~ 'I especially the traditional form of organized crime known vari- BEFORE I ously by such names as the "Mob," the "Outfit," and the "Syn- s; dicate." Due in large part to effective use of investigative and THE 'j prosecutive tools such as the RICO, wiretap and immunity statutes, :1 and the Witness Protection Program, the Department of Justice has PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS :! COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ! scored significant victories against the mob, both in Cleveland UNITED STATES SENATE ! ,I and Detroit. Nonetheless, we are still faced with very serious CONCERNING I organized criminal activities in Michigan and Ohio, especially by ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE GREAT ~ES REGION . I narcotics cartels as is true elsewhere in the country. I ! ON I I ! I will briefly discuss the history and present status of l r JANUARY 31, 1984 1 [ the organized crime picture in the Cleveland and Detroit regions I and I will mention along the way some of the prosecutive successes U.S. Department 01 Justice , !, National Institute 01 Justice ,. J we have achieved in recent years. This document has been reproduced exactly as received from the person or organization originating it. Points of view or opinions stated :I in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the National Institute of Justice. Permission to reproduce this c~ted material has been I granted by I Public Damain/U.S. Senate I f I u.s. Dept. of Justice I to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). \ I I Further reproduction outside of the NCJRS system requires permis­ sion of the ~hl owner. ... ''7- .. F - j " , i Page 2 Page 3 A. CLEVELAND and Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno __ all for offenses One of the oldest of the traditional organized crime groups involving or related to the Greene-Nardi murders. The Subcommittee in the United States is the Cleveland syndicate, or family. has been fully briefed on these prosecutions; and, as you know, Since the early 1920's, and with the assistance of" fellow mob- Mr. Sopko of your staff was one of the two principal f~deral sters in Detroit and Buffalo, the Cleveland family has tightly prosecutors in the case. controlled all traditional forms of racketeering throughout I'm pleased to report that on January 9, 1984, the CouTt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed all of northern Ohio - gambling, prostitution, loansharking, extortion~ the federal convictions in the Licavoli case. labor racketeering, bribery and corruption of public figures, Shortly after the 1977"deaths of Greene and Nardi, one of and, eventually, the illicit drug trade that now flourishes Greene's lieutenants James Cappola, along with then LeN throughout the region. asso- ciate Carmen Zagaria and others, organized a narcotics traffick- Until the early 1970's, this one family maintained a virtual ing operation. One of seven murders committed by this group was monopoly on the rackets in northern Ohio. At that time, the of Keith Ritson, a strong Danny Greene loyalist, drug dealer, first significant rival to the Cleveland mob emerged, a flam- and suspected informant. By mid-l979, the Zagaria group had boyant and vicious racketeer named Danny Greene. Greene built built a prospering narcotics business under the protection of a competing coalition that gradually usurped the power of the Angelo Lonardo, the underboss of the Cleveland f~mily. traditional mob, particularly in gambling, narcotics, and loan­ The operation was divided into subgroups: sharking. Greene further consolidated his position by aligning an East Side group that provided operating capital, drug sources in Florida, and a his group with John Nardi. a Cleveland Teamster official with drug distribution ring; a West Side group, under Carmen Zagaria, ties to the mob. that performed executive supervision of the narcotics enterprise, In 1977, the Cleveland mob struck back by murdering Greene its couriers and its distributors; and, finally, a small coterie and Nardi with car bombs. In the aftermath of this violence, of Danny Greene associates who maintained discipline in the the Organized Crime and Racketeering Strike Force spearheaded a ope~/ation through acts of violence and murder. law enforcement task force of federal and local agencies that This powerful ring was broken in 1982, after a 29-month eventually obtained convictions against eleven major organized federal and local investigation, coordinated by the Cleveland crime figures -- James Licavoli, John Calandra, Anthony Strike Force, that ultimately resulted in the racketeering and Liberatore, Ronald Carabbia, Pasquale Cisternino, Kenneth Ciarcia, narcotics convictions of six men, including Carmen Zagaria, Thomas Lanci, Raymond Ferritto, Louis Aratari, Ronald Guiles, > ' ..... 'i'.,. IF .,-- .... :0 K"~"-----·""";"'_#~-=~ 1'1 ~ II Page 5 Page 4 ! Angelo Lonardo, Joseph Gallo, Kevin McTaggart, Hartmut "Hans" in the region, Joseph Naples and 1 Orlando Carabbia, were Graewe, and Frederick "Fritz" Graewe. Four of these defendants in separate f d indicted e era! cases involving fi rearms and narcot" . received life sentences. Another defendant, organized crime I On December 12 ~cs. J 1983, Naples entered . I a plea of guilty to unlaw- leader Thomas Sinito, was convicted on unrelated charges. This ful possession of fjr . earms and is awaiting sentencing. But, case offers a graphic illustration of the fact that traditional t while the Department is making progress in Youngstown, the organized crime interests increasingly have become involved in animosity between the warring factions could erupt into new the profitable area of narcotics trafficking. violence at any ti me. Collectively, in the Licavoli and Zagaria cases, federal In addition to traditional organized crime., th e Department juries convicted almost the entire hierarchy of the Cleveland is concerned about increasing evidence in northern Ohio, and mob. elsewhere of the threat posed b y emerging groups. prinCipally Another aspect of organized crime in Cleveland and vicinity by outlaw motorcycle gangs. Three of the f our major outlaw is the history of violence and political corruption in the clubs have s i gnificant presences in Ohio -- the H II' In that area, rival th 0 e s Angels. Mahoning Valley, primarily in Youngstown. e utlaw Motorcycle Club d h • an t e Pagans. We believe that mob factions from Cleveland and Pittsburgh have struggled to some club members. who would pre f er to b . e v~ewed at worst as fill the vacuum left after the conviction of Ronald Carabbia, rowdy nonconformists, are actually engaged i h"' ill n sop ~st~cated a Clevrland mobster convicted in the Danny Greene RICO and egal activities. such as narcotics distributi "chop murder trials. Prior to his conviction, Carabbia had controlled shop" and stolen vehicle on. rings, strong-arm servO ~ces, and vice in the valley for the Cleveland family. The war between murder-for-hire. In the t pas, the Hell's Angels club in the the Pittsburgh and Cleveland families has resulted so far in Cleveland area has allegedly carried out murder contracts at least eight murders and attempted murders, and the disappear- ( bombings) against 1ugh-ranking " aSSOciates of the traditional ances of two notorious mob figures. At this time, an uneasy mob in the Cl eveland area. And a nationwide turf war between truce between the rival factions appears to have been the Hell's Angels and the Outlaw Motorcycle Club- h as accounted reached, perhaps in an effort to reduce their exposure to the for at least twelve homicides in northern Ohio over the past federal law enforcement efforts attracted by the violence. several years. In November 1981 , the F e d eral Bureau of The Cleveland Strike Force has obtained convictions of nine Investigation searched a warehouse leased b y a Hell's Angels' Youngstown targets in cases brought since June 1982. Most member and discovered 1 . a arge quantity of explosives and auto- recently, in October 1983, the two competing family overseers matic weapons, including hand grenandes, a military light mm Page 6 anti-tank weapon, and an M-16 automat i c r if 1 e. TWO members of Page 7 the Hell's Angels were indicted for possession of these weapons, B. DETROIT but earlier this month, one defendant was acqu itt e d and as to In 0 c t 0 b e r 1963, then Detroit Police Commissioner George C.
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