SSE ny) 2 Ww He) i) Co OF LEADS (Continued) wee NEW YORK At New York City, New Your _ Will determine throug’ sources, the degree of relationship between MIKE MIRANDA and KENLY MANNARINC, if any, it being noted thet MTRANDA pnuvchased a 1950 Cadillac from MANNA RENO 4im-1951, and, as New York advised Pistsbuveh in the past, 1s 3 3 = a . a top hoodium of that diviclon and associated with DAVID DUBINSKY and the late ALBEDT ANASTASTA, Will contact informants and/or sources regarding the "Wizards Figure Guide,” also Imown as “wea,” 29-48 41st Ave., Long Island City, a reported horse-playing setup. Will furnisn any info available regarding its operation, the principles involved and any info linking KELLY and/or SAM MANNARITNO. PITTSBURGH SP pen hte ee noe Peete ee ee ee At Pittsburgh, Pas (illeghery County) 1. Will recontacs CONNIE CLZEWSKI, Kaufmann's Department Store, Beauty Saion, Sor eny further info she may have as to the activities of KILI MANNARINO, . | 2, Will maintain comtact with PG-564-C for information regardc- ing current activities in the New Kensington area inveiving the MANNAREINOS, ('T-9) 3. Will further taentity ane characterize associates of KELLY MANNARINO in the Pittsburgh area to determine the degree or association in order to ascertain best motshod to be followed in order to infiltrate the MANNARINO organization. , en Oe ee -3- pannene Cannes oe . } = esta os eens HW 45852 DoclId:32296436 Page 2?
L - MANNARINOS . PG 92-236 | LEADS (continued ) At Pittsbureh, Pa. (Continued) A, Will contact PG 566-C for additional information on the up-to-date activities of the MANNARINOS, (T-12) 5, Will contact all informants conversant with racket activities in the Pitssburgh and New Kensington areas for further information reparding KELLY MANNARENO and his activities. R. BF, MESRLING, Trnternal Reverie Service, 6, Will contact 3 Intelligence -(Hacket Squad), 4th and Market, (telephone~ — Atlantic 1-2722), for additional “nformation regarding the 7. Will verify KELLY’s ownership of a cabin cruiser and locate its berthing spov. , tO, At New Kensington, Pa. (Westmoreiand Cour 1, Will maintain contact with WALTER J. SHARKEY, RD #2, for additional current informacion regarding the activities of — wv he eee the MANNARINOS in the New Kensington arée, an contact with PG-545-C for current information 2, Will mainte o activities of the MANNARINOS. (T-5) regarding tn 3, Will dcstermine the present owners and accivities surrounding the Family Outdoor Theatre, Leech Road and Wildlife Loage Road. , ‘4, Will cause telephones toll checks to be mace on telepnones from. the residence of KELLY MANNARINO. ‘ 5, Will determine thru records, status and ownersnip of | the ROCCO BUFFONE Construction Co. REFRRENCE Bureau letter to New York, 11/27/57. he sere nose oe = = ~ HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page 3
PG 92-236 had been listed for December 9, 1953; and the claimant, GABRIEL MANNARINO, did not appear. United States.Marshal's Deputies, Pittsburgh, destroyed these machines on December 22, 1953. The aforementioned Pennsylvania State Police Intelligence | Report No. 1-A~6902 reflects that KELLY MANNARINO along with brother SAM, control the operations surrounding juke boxes, pinball machines and coin operated slots. First ‘Sergeant MARCUS WHITE, Pennsylvania State Police, in’a report dated December 9, 199, Sergeant WHITE, then in charge of the Kittanning, Pa., Substation, advised that all of the slot machines wasn were in Armstrong County were owned by the MANNARINO organization. WHITS further advised in this report that’ any’ person, club or group who deatred a slot machine would have to sacquire it through SAM MANNARINO. In January, 1950, Corporal J. P, HELFENSTEIN, Pennsylvania State Police, Greensburg, Pa., acvised WILLIAM J. MYERS that in-a previous interview SAM MANN/RINO had stated that he had Anvested heavily in a plant to manufacture juke boxes called the Fiibin Coin Machine Compariy, Chicago, tllinois, but that the venture was a failure and according to HELFENSTEIN, MANNA RINO expected to lose several hundred thousand dollar, in February , 1950, according to Corporal HELFENSTEIN, TOM TANNAS, in speaking of his interest in the Filbin Coin Machine Company, advised that he had lost money, but not a considerable amount., He stated, however, that SAM MANNARINO and some othérs interested in the venture, héd lost a low, of money as the business hsa been entirely liquicated, Horse Racing and Baseball Pools ~ T-~13, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised on:May 9, 1956, that she had spent recent nights in New Kensington, Pa., in the compeny of MIKE (LNU), who is employed by the MANNARINO organization, Y~13 described MIKE as white, male, Italian extreétion, 579" 184 pounds, about HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page 4 36 years of age, bald headed, single, and a very close associate acct a Se.
PG 92-236 NAMEY at 10th Street and Second Avenue, New Kensington, contimied to operate the "Sure Winner" horse betting racket. T-9 made available a letter and a selection sheet listing twelve "good picks" for races to be run on October 3, 1956. . This literature bore the figurehead of "Wizard's Figure Guide," also known as "W#d," 29-48 41st Avenue, Long Island /City, New York. T-9 advised that she had received this literature on loan from MAMIE GALES, 1302 Fourth Avenue, New Kensington, who veceives it through the mail. - ° T-9 further stated tnat if a winner is picked the payoff is ‘made through MIKE NAMEY's establishinent in New Kensington, Bookmale ig f-5 advised on June 1, 1955, that through a source who works. (jat the: Family Outdoor Theatre located at the corner of Leech Road and Wildlife nocdwe Road, New Kensington, he has learned that _NATTIE PARBARABLLY MANNARINO and two other men were running a bookmaking establishment from the ticket booth and other offices located on the premises, T-5 stated shat he has been able to leaim that this operation has been in progress ever since the outdoor theatres opened the current season and his source had remarked.that the telephone - bills from this theatre run‘as high as $500 to $1000 per month, T-5 statgdthat he has seen KELLY MANNARINO on the premises of thgamily—Outdoor-Theatre, and had noted that there was . ; MEUGE ELS « x7 T-5 stated that it had come to his attention that KELLY and SAM MANNARINO, NATIE FARBER and two others own the Family Outdoor Theatre. On May 10, 1956, MIKE ZERVIS; advised SA PORTELLA that he was the former racket boss of New Kensington before being sent to ' Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh, where he served : 233 years on a murder charge and was released in 1952, ZERVIS has furnished reliable information in the past. ZERVIS stated that the bookmaking operations, recently disturbed by the Federal Internal Revenue Service, had been moved to the -22- HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page 5
At HW 45352 ~ . PG 92-236 Laetus Club: Located on'Fifth Avenue near the Ken Mawr Hotel, New, Kensington, that the operation is strictly MANNARINO controlled, ZERVIS stated that the telephone bets were | ‘ chafineled to the following numbers: Edison 9-9209 Edison 5-7871 ZERVIS stated that a young New Kensington man named DE PHILLIPS, nick-named "ATI", handles the telephone business for the MANNARINOS. ; ZERVIS further stated the MANNARINO controlled the numbers racket in New Kensington. ZERVIS further advised that FRINKIR- PHILLIPS, father of young FRANKIE PHILLIPS, is hated by SAM MANNARINO but respected: by KELLY MANNARINO because KELLY realizéd tnat FRINKIE PHILLIPS remaingi very close to BIT.L NOWE (deceased) and Judge BARR, _ both of New Kensington, who have political control of all rackets and gambling establishments in Westmoreland County. ZERVIS went on to sdvise that KELLY MANNARINO continued to . ,.operate his gambling establishments and rackets and, therefore, must show FRANKIE PHILLIPS some consideration in order to not incur the wrath of BILL NOWE, Card Games jOn. November 25, 1957, MIKE ZERVIS advised SA PORTELLA that ithe MANNARINO brothers operate a huge Barbout game in the building next to the Ken Mawr Hotel on the Second Floor, entrance on Constitution Avenue, New Kensington. ZERVIS stated jthat SPIRO HANNA (phonetic) a Syrian, and a Pittsburgher from the North Side known, as"MIKE THE GREEK," eré two of the main’ dealers at this game . . ZERVIS steed “that KELLY MANNARINO is more in charge of this operation than SAM MANNARINO and that ithe big games take place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at which time there are about 200 people in the place. ZERVIS stated that on Friday, November 22, 1957, an Aliquippa, Pa., businessman was in this Barbout game and lost $15, 000. -23- Docld: 32727968436 Page 6 Pies ‘
jem : . , ; C. , ; > PG 92-236 ZERVIS advised also that MIKE NAMEY who is in the ice cream and restaurant business in New Kensington, is operating a ard game in his store near: the main gate of the Alco Plant. On December 9, 1957, ZERVIS advised SA°PORTELLA that the me MANNARINOS, especially SAM, have been friendly with a stranger in New Kensington. who is’ supposedly. from New Orleans, Louisiana, He stated that this stranger must be close to the MANNARINOS [because they have set him up in a small business located two or three doors from Alderman BARNEY SAKULSKY's office in New Kensington and from this small business he is running a card game. ZERVIS stated he did not know this man's name; however, described him.as approximately 50 years of age, and as having reportedly served time in New Orleans, Prostitution - Both KELLY MANNARINO and SAM MA NNARINO on past ‘interviews . with Special Agents have denied complicity in the prostitution activities in New Kens sington. T-14, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised on April 9, 1956, that Constable. JIMMY BUFFONE had been trying to. open a house of prostitution in New Kensington, but T- 7 stated that BUFFONE would not succeed because..KELLY MANNARINO.. was dead-set against permitting any Prostitution: An’ New Kensington. previous occasions, that KELLY and SAM MANNARINO are not ; openly connected with prostitution activities. in New Kens ing torts | however, the control of this racket ig vested usually with © rorprnano. on of Chief of Pg QYLE. Captain J ‘MON “eLose associates - { T-9 advised on December 17, 1957, as well as on many other & Ze Vegtovt. Captain BORDINARO, Mayor GARDLOCK, Suage, ED = ‘District Attorney SCULCO,” are "ell in his. corner’ meant : MANNARINO,: T-10: stated: that SAM and KELLY give orders to these | men. and they. take" them, . A 2h. A HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page 7
PG 92-236 | : that. the present owner, LOUTS _ SANTOS, was at the meeting of top | LL poodiums 2a tpelachins New Souk. KELLY also attended this meeting. T.~10 advised on December 13, 1957, thas SAM MANNARTNO was. a the background pulling the ape eee end that, ROG WONT! for SAM MANNARINO, had tried to buy T-10's 20° a 1C for $35,000 a few months previous. ‘LO frusher stated thas 7 SAM MANNARENO theough BUSPFONE, has been attempting to buy. 3 -adjointag propertios meucceesfully and has offered neighbors uD to $22,590 eash for the proverties, but all refused when they found out it was SAM MANNARLNO who wanted the property. T-10 stated that everyone of the neighbors upgei their price upon ie learning that SAM MAIINAREINO was the interestec party. 7 “t , “Pe10 furthev edvised thas a highway is contemplated through portions of his and adjoining properties and thav also a tagh new aluminum pliant 4s proposed for the upper part of his township and feels that MANNS RINO igs attempting to buy SO : up all-surrounding property for a financial kill. TH1O stated thet he asked SLM MANNARINO personally what he would do about paying a tax on $35,000 cash and SAM answered, "there are a lot of ways to get around that." so Buffone. l2y owned by ARINOS! cousin, m5 advised on November 21, 1956, that the Roo py’ Construction Company. New Kensington, is actua SAM and KELLY MANNARINO and that BUFFONE, MANN. merely fronts for them. thet SAM and KELLY MANNARINO On January 23, 195 5 advise own the Family Ouneor Theapre seriously interested in manufac ed and cligimea thet they were tu airing cutdoor theatve. speakers. nS further advised tha: he has come to “now GAM and KET LLY MANNARINO quite weil theougen real estate dealings and that ? SAM has remarked that he is barred from Cuba and Fliorid: and was in bad Panancial shave indicating that he had very little cash to work with. T~Q advised on December 11, 1957, that the attorneys woich geemed to do most of the real estate dealing for the MANNARINOS are MORRIS CLASTER of the firm of CLASTER and CLASTER, 9th Street, atte hak Deeliaemetrteabpinind neler: tekat hie ge timeline ee late ae ae ae * ! -28- HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page @
PG 92-236 INFORMANTS Tol is JACK SCHWARTZ, Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service, Intelligence Section, New Federal Building, Pittsburch, Pa., who advised from records ard personal knowledge. This information was furnished to SA NORMAN Te THOMPSON. T-2 is LEONARD PALETTA, Assistant United States Attorney, Pitts- burgh, Pa., who requested his identity be concealed, Tnis information was furnished to SA NORMAN 7, ‘THOMPSON, T-3 is R, M. ERDMAN, Manager, Retail Credit Company, Insurance Investigators, Crown Building, New Kensington, who made <a available files. Contacted by SA NORMAN T, THOMPSON, T-4 is BERTHA PPIEFER, Cierik, Solective Service Board No, 3, New Kensington, Pa. . {Agent contacting 1-4 is unknown). T-5 is PG-545-C. Contactad & vy SA JOHN S, PORTELLA T-6 is sribocorl fon. Comtacted by SA JOHN S, PORTELLA. T-7 is Former P@-509-C, Contacted by SA JOHN S, PORTELLA, T-8 is PG-561-C. Contacted by SA CARL L, SH#KWOOD, . JFK Act 6 (4) T-9 is PG-564-C, Contacted by SA NORMAN T, THOMPSON, . lest as Ce onl enn T-10 is WALTER ¢. SHARKEY, RD #2, New K ensington, Lower Burrell Township, retired, New Kensington Police Sergeant. Contacted by SA NORMAN. .T, THOMPSON. o Pall is CHESTER STUPAK, Cr, Contacted by SA JOHN S, FODTELLA. T-12 is PG-566-C. Contacted by. SA JOHN R, ACKSRLY. >» T-13 is Former Pf Contacted by SA JOBN R. ACKERLY. . 7.14 is Former PG-511-C.  Contacted by SA JOHN S, PORTELLA, T-15 is BE. V. Reichstetter, Tum. and Bradstreet, Pittsburgh, contacted by SA NORMAN T. SHOMPSON . ~35- 2 i . as, VN nnn 2 glee nn scene ene ee en pee enna Senne ee a eckson enh Fy omen HW 45352 Docld:322964356 Page 9