pence aes | a 459664 Docld:32336371 Page 4 Frontier Hotel deal. = -is fleecing him. LA 137-2528 Beverly Wilshire Hotel that day at about 1:30 PM and . Saw JOHN ROSELLI talking with LOU LEDERER. LOU had recently been in an auto accident and received a concussion. Also the previous day source saw SIDNEY KORSHAK who informed him that MOE MORTON had told him that SAM ANDERMAN was subpoenaed concerning the JOHN ROSELLI grand jury investigation. ea that there has not ~ On 6/14/66, source advised that KORSHAK left | Chicago on 6/13/66. 7 : . It is interesting to not been a grand jury inquiring into = _ On 7/14/66, source advised that KORSHAK has been in Chicago for about a week and. has not as yet returned to the Los Angeles area. | Source was told that MIKE BROWN brought ABE PHILLIPS to MORRIE FRIEDMAN, who took him in the New | Source has now learned that DAN TEITELBAUM and SAMMY LAZES set up source in the Miami bookmaking scan involving $50,000 which source had previously mentioned several years ago. Source has been told that TEITELBAUM was with Murder, Incorporated out of New York years — ago. On 7/19/66, source advised that KORSHAK has returned from Chicago and in about ten days is leaving for a short trip to Rome and London. His paramour, STELLA STEVENS, the actress, is meeting him in Europe. On 7/27/66, source learned from KORSHAK | that he is going to meet someone in Rome or London or both and the trip is for business reasons. He has heard that BERNIE ROTHKOPF has been | losing a lot of money at cards at the Friars Club and at La Costa Country Club near San Diego to MORRIE FRIEDMAN, who. OB cae syopso-isrme Ref + .
LA 137-2528 name unknown, reportedly sent someone to Los Angeles to -money in crooked card games, in his mind that the Desert Inn, the Stardust, and the he would play if he were going to gamble, next would be Source also learned that an Italian who has a bookmaking operation at the Harbor Island Spa, Miami Beach, as well as being a bookmaker in New Jersey, see TEITELBAUM. Reportedly, TEITELBAUM was advised to cease taking money out of Florida. It is noted that source has advised in the past that TEITELBAUM visits the Harbor | Island Spa every winter and wins:very large sums of mo On 8/1/66, source advised that the recent publicity in the Chicago newspaper reporting a raid on gambling equipment in Tulsa, Oklahoma mentioned crooked dice and the Riviera Hotel as well as KORSHAK by name. KORSHAK was very mad because his name was mentioned in this article. - _ Source said there has.never been any doubt Dunes Casinos use crooked dice and have done so for a.long time. There may be others also guilty but these are the ones source has reason to believe are guilty. - On 8/3/66, source advised the following: 7 - About two years, MAURICE FRIEDMAN, JOHN ROSELLI, and DAN TEITELBAUM arranged to cheat HARRY KARL and TED BRISKIN at gin rummy at the Friars Club. They brought in a man known as the spotter, who is the same man that TEITELBAUM uses in Miami Beach, who drilled peep holes in the ceiling and was able to signal with a transmitter . to FRIEDMAN so that he would know what cards to play. So - FRIEDMAN used AL MATHES as a partner playing against KARL and BRISKIN. Source was told this by MATHES who was not in on the deal but found out about it later. After several months play, KARL and BRISKIN reportedly lost several thousand dollars and never knew they had been cheated. , The source again mentioned crooked dice being used. in Las Vegas and said possibly the only. honest casino in his opinion was the Golden Nugget, where Ee 45064 Docld:32336371 Page 45
LA 137-2528 possibly the Sahara and then maybe the Tropicana. In his opinion, in all probability all the other casinos would use crooked dice on occasions when they considered - it necessary. KORSHAK has returned to town and has left again. He usually goes to Las Vegas the first of every month. Source speculated that this is probably to, . pick up money. . Source recalled that on 7/22/66, he observed JOHN ROSELLI and ALLEN SMILEY meeting two young girls for dinner at the Bistro Restaurant, Beverly Hills. . Source also mentioned that the Detroit Italian hoodlums had attempted to get into the Silver Slipper but as far as he knew, they were unsuccessful. The lessees now operating the casino are JACK SHAPIRO, [oda SHELLBY WILLIAMS, T. W. RICHARDSON and Dr. FRIEDMAN, no known relation to MORRIE FRIEDMAN. ; On 8/4/66, source advised hesaw HARRY KARL the ~ | previous night. KARL recently lost $25,000 at the dice © 2 | table at the Riviera Hotel. . When KARL returned from . # 4 Las Vegas and read the newspaper accounts of the crooked dice game, he asked KORSHAK if he should pay : his loss at the Riviera since they were reportedly — using crooked dice. . Although the remark was in jest, : .KORSHAK got mad. , On 8/17/66, source advised that he accidentally © . - met JOHN ROSELLI on the night of 8/15/66 at a restaurant. ' ROSELLI requested source to contact him to telephone him the following day. Source did phone ROSELLT at his residence on 8/16/66 and ROSELLI said he was concerned over the investigation currently being conducted by the Negada © Gaming Control Board and the FBI in Las Vegas. He indicated that he was aware that source in the past has been extremely close to Gaming Control official BUTCH _UEYPOLDT. ROSELLI said he suspected that LEYPOLDT and the head of the FBI, Las Vegas were working in concert in et 5 . HW 45364 Docld:32336371 Page 6
ownership in Las Vegas casinos are interested in divorcing cy LA 137-2528 an attempt to embarrass and harass casino operators and their associates. ROSELLI specifically requested source to contact LEYPOLDT to see if he could persuade him to reduce the heat on Las Vegas. Source told ROSELLI that if he should run into LEYPOLDT, he would mention it. Source said that while he was operating in Las Vegas as a hotel owner he was in frequent contact with LEYPOLDT, whom he déscribed as being very honest but he has not seen LEYPOLDT for the past six years and has no intention of bringing this to LEYPOLDT's attention even if he should run into him by accident. . On 8/26/66, source advised that on the previous day KORSHAK told him that Sands Hotel executive JACK ENTRATTER is currently in the process of arranging to. buy out all Italian hoodlum interests in the Sands Hotel based on the Italian's desire to be disassociated with Las Vegas as a result of current disclosures and heat applied from skimming information. KORSHAK mentioned his information is that all Italians having hidden themselves from their ownership and getting out of _ Las Vegas completely. fo | KORSHAK further advised source that MOE DALITZ, president of Desert Inn Hotel,has been in contact with. ALBERT PARVIN about buying and taking over the Desert Inn. “On 9/12/66, source advised that KORSHAK was | in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for three or four days last . week, He was suffering from a stomach disorder. He MS ~ was scheduled to go to La Costa Country Club over the past weekend to attend a labor meeting concerning a - race track presumably Del Mar, but he was to ill and someone from Chicago went in his place. On 9/14/66, source advised that AL MATHES told him that day that LOUIS TOM DRAGNA had been shaking him down for money. MATHES used to be a bookmaker but is now a restaurant owner in partner with STEVE CRANE and AL PARVIN is also partner in their newest reataurant, the Scam, on Sunset Boulevard. . : vo, _ 6. oe 7 a rt HW 45364 DoclId: 32336371 Page 7
LA 137-2528 °On 9/19/66, source advised the following: \ About four weeks ago, he was contacted by ‘ ALBERT PARVIN who desired to buy land owned by source in Las Vegas and offered three million. Source requested _ three and a half million and no agreement was reached 7 at that time. On 9/7/66, source met with SIDNEY = ' KORSHAK and attorney HARVEY SILBERT. KORSHAK and SILBERT told source independently that when PARVIN bought the Fremont Hotel he made a secret agreement to pay off the hidden Italian interests for two and a half million within a year and a half from skimmed funds. Now based on skimmed revealations, the Italians want | their money. PARVIN desires to purchase source's property as a device to obtain a kickback of one million dollars under the table in order to make this money available to the unknown Italians. Source agreed to sell his land for four million dollars and go ahead with their proposal to attempt to compromise PARVIN, KORSHAK and SILBERT.in this matter. SILBERT said the price was too high but invited source to travel with he and KORSHAK to Las Vegas on 9/20/66 to further discuss the deal. Source stated that the Italians! a names were never mentioned but speculated they would , . probably include JERRY CATENA of New Jersey because _ he was previously assockted with prior owners of the Fremont Hotel. | On 9/22/66, source advised that he did travel . to Las Vegas on 9/20/66 with KORSHAK and SILBERT and : they stayed at the Riviera Hotel. Source again. presented , his offer to SILBERT, who was non-commital. During . 7 this discussion AL PARVIN left for Europe so was not . in on this past negotiations. “On 9/26/66 source advised that KORSHAK left wy on the morning: of 9/25/66, probably for Chicago. rs PAUL RAFFLES told source that KORSHAK is using RALPH STOLKIN, wealthy principal stockholder of Brunswick Manufacturing Company and National Video in an attempt to take over the ownership of Columbia Studios. . a. erent tr oman ore + natn tte HW 45364 Docld:32336371 Page 6