, MM 92-853 DWW: JMS He said EDDIE GOLD continues to front. for COPPOLA in bookmaking and that BENNIE ZEEMAN is presently handling the action at Amvets Post #35, formerly handled by GOLD, . MM T- 6 advised August 30, 1961 that COPPOLA and MORRISON were pretending to have separated their gambling and bookmaking interests in hope it would help COPPOLA convince the government that this separation © had occurred, They stated the operation actually con= tinues as before, with the exception that MORRISON has. ant ited fils bookmaking activity to the Normandy Isle Golf Club. MM T- 11 advised February 22, 1962 that one source of MICHAEL COPPOLA’s imcome is the numbers racket in New York City. This source stated the largest supply of cash from New York would be brought to COPPOLA by courier in the past. When ANTHONY SALERNO was im New York he was the individual who collected these: funds for COPPOLA and brought them to Miami: subsequently such activity was handled by PASQUALE ERRA and by PHIL LOMBARDO, also known as "COCKEYED BENNY." After SALERNO moved to Miami, RALPH COPPOLA would assist in gathering these funds im New York for transfer to Miami by courier. IV. CONSPIRATORIAL ASPECTS . . MM T-15 9 °°" advised December 6, 1957 that COPPOLA and JOSEPH MASSEI were both members of the Italian group of Miami Beach. On May 6, 1953 JOSEPH MASSEI was by Agents of the Internal Revenue Service a interviewed uo JEK Law 11 (a) 19, G2-60S7 . 45639 Docld: 32302187 Page &
‘\ . a ‘ mo , , 7 i “ wa QY MM 92-853 DWW: JMS Ps _ i MM T~ 10 advised in 1957 that his records reflected COPPOLA headed a syndicate which controlled bookmaking at Tropical Park Race Track, Miami, Florida, The syndicate allegedly consisted of MEYER LANSKY, JOSEPH STRACCE and CORNELIUS NOONAN (a lieutenant of EDWARD McGRATH). According to this source, ANTHONY SALERNO was &@ messenger between COPPOLA and LANSKY. MM T-12 advised May 22, 1958 that MICHAEL COPPOLA was meeting JOSEPH MASSEI, JOE BOMMARITA, JOE DI CARLO and FREDDIE FRANCO daily at the Carib Hotel, i Miami Beach. MM Te 12 a advised February 13, 1959 that COPPOLA for the past 2 weeks had held daily conferences at the Midtown Social Club with JOSEPH MASSEI and DAVE YURRAS . MM T-6 advised October 28, 1960 that he was told that recently am argument arose between GEORGE LEVINSON, operator of George's News. Stand, 23rd Street, Miami Beach, and one RALPH (Last Name Unknown), operator of a grocery store im the same area, as both were selling beer and insisted that the other discontinue such sales. LEVINSON went to JOE MASSEI to cause RALPH to stop the sale of beer, and RALPH went to ANTHONY SALERNO to have LEVINSON discontinue. As a result SALERNO contacted MASSEL and advised MASSEI that he (SALERNO), would dictate policy on 23rd Street. As 4 result, LEVINSON had to discontinue the sale of beer. 20. 92-60SY ~/3 MOE ATES 2 ~ — MW 45839 Docld: 32302187 Page 3
a VY MM 92-853 ‘MM Te12 advised on July 18, 1958, that JOSEPH . BOMMARITO, JOSEPH MASSEI, saw a great deal of each other and were closely associated. Informant said that in contacts with MASSEI , and BOMMARITO, he gained the definite impression that BOMMARITO was a Lieutenant for MASSEI and handled some of MASSEL’s interests in Detroit, Michigan. JEK Law 11 (a) MM T-37 reported in 1951 that he had. received information that MASSEI in 1951 received a percentage of the numbers racket money, which was Elourishing in Detroit. Hedidentified MASSEI’s flunk men as PETE LICAVOLI, mo MIKE RUBINO and WILLIAM "BLACKBILL" TOCCO. He said he also y heard that MASSEI received a cut of all gambling in Toledo, and had received information that MASSEI was the “money man behind. larger trapings in Miami Beach and carried on gambling activities generally in the Miami Beath area, ACTIVITIES . . MM T-35 advised on February 16, 1961, JOSEPH... BOMMARTITO was d@nérémeed with a problem by a member of © the organization*of Detroit who came to Miami specifically for assistance.- This individual had been fired from . his duties as ahandfsapper and obtaining race results information, * ms -. Accordhg to the informant, BOMMARITO directed the individual from Detroit to take up his problem with PETE LICAVOLI in Detroit. 32. ~ . G2-60SY-9 MW 45839 Docld: 32302157 Page 10
MM 92-853 MM T-33 advised on May 13, 1961, that JOSEPH "SCARFACE" BOMMARITO from Detroit went from Miami to Detroit to take up the matter of a drop in the numbers business in Flint and Pontiac, Michigan. Informant advised that the LICAVOLI-BOMMARITO group "daily takeofé" as of about September, 1961, in the numbers operation amounted to approximately $40, 000.00. | MM T-33 advised on January 14, 1961, that the numbers racket of the organized Sicilian groups in | Detroit eontinues €9: be controlled by three factions. ‘The old-timers are “the besses but the actual work is done by the younger men who have come to the front during the past 10 or 12 years. The numbers business in Detroit has an average daily take of approximately $60 to $80,000.00. The various lieutenants working for the group draw $150.00 per week as salary. Source advised that after the various employees are paid their salary, a percentage of the earnings is then taken off the top and paid to the elders’, among whom | are JOE ZERILLI, BILL TOCCO, ANGELO MELI, and others. The informant advised that DOMINICK PETER CORRADO has taken over from his father PETER CORRADO, deceased. He estimated CORRADO’s net worth at between 25 and 30 million dollars. 33. G2 -6°SY -79 _ ——A MW 45839 Doocld: 32302157 Page ii