JFK Assassination System Date: —-6/12/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy Wsc5asgsination Records AGENCY: FBI, RECORD NUMBER:  124-10201-10029 ollection bet of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). asef#: NW 45679 Date: 1-16-2017 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER > -92-3182-32 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: ROEMER, WILLIAM F. JR. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: 11/25/1958 PAGES: 31 SUBJECTS : GAL, BKG, INVEST, ASSOC DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a) CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/06/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS COMMENTS : ——__eOOC rr yn sy v9.1 176 ‘ HW 45679 Docld:327692753 Page 1
CG 92-373 On October 15, 1958, HERB WARD, Manager, Beach Garage, 5939 South Lake Park, advised SAs PAUL B. FRANKFURT and ROEMER that "BUTCH" LADON doés not keep his Pontiac. . in the Beach Garage as he did heretofore, but instead now keeps a 1958 black Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special, Illinois license number 1170 1.8, in the garage. It is noted that this is the car that LADON has been using to chauffeur ALEX. WARD also furnished information that LADON has now changed his pattern in that he now takes his car from the garage around 10 a.m., whereas his former procedure was to take the car before 9 a.m.,.and sometimes before 8 a.m. A surveillance of "BUTCH" LADON on October 15, 1958, by SAs FRANKFURT and ROEMER determined that LADON entered the Beach Garage at 10:21 a.m. and left it at 10:22 a.m., driving the above mentioned Cadillac. At 10:37 a.m. LADON exited from Lake Shore Drive at the Fullerton Street exit. At 10:52 a.m., the above described Cadillac was observed in a parking space at 320 Oakdale, the residence of EDDIE VOGEL and FRANK FERRARO, It is noted that LADON previous to his employment ‘as a chauffeur by ALEX was a chauffeur-body guard for EDDIE VOGEL, and the above information tends to indicate that LADON has resumed his associatéon with VOGEL. THOMAS ‘8 SYouuntzz0 ~~ THOMAS S-AMUNIZZO It is noted that T-5 has ‘furnished iviformation which has previously been reported, indicating that one "TOMMY" was a close associate of GUS ALEX, and that "TOMMY" was used by the hoodlums for contacts with the mayor of Chicago. It has also been reported that investigation determined that the "TOMMY" referred to by CG 6232- C is.in all probability THOMAS S AMUNIZ20. On September 2), 1958, T-5 was contacted to determine if the previous information which he had furnished regarding "TOMMY" concerned THOMAS S. MUNIZZO, 305 West 3lst Street, Chicago, Jllinois, the owner of the 31 Excavation — Company at that address. This informant stated that this Je(- \oo%d HW 45679 DBocld:3227892753 Page 2?
ia Sea ete aeeneiiniogennaninnaneeenedinmaneneimmennmieeenariniemniannenetemammenteemnemensiammemanemmemmmntemmmnememmmmmmmmemenenmeamememenaesmemdae teammate eet netemmndiats nana dacaniianmameniaimsanammeamisaiamtimesdoetsamaibatiemmmiiiemimaeeabaaloaaiade wememmemee! f : CG 92-373 ff who previously was listed gto JOSEPH D, PIGNATELLO, by LADON for GUS ALEX, and it™is this car which is described above under the caption, "NATHAN 'BUTCH' LADON." ‘It is also noted that J GNATELLO is an associate of hoodlums and ¥ “at one time waS believed to be a chauffeur-body guard for EDDIE VOGEL. He operates a pizzeria on West Roosevelt Road in Chicago. On October 6, 1958, PIGNATELLO was interviewed at his residence at 6918 South Paulina by SAs FRANKFURT and ROEMER. PIGNATELLO was most uncooperative during the interview, and refused to answer any questions whatsoever put to him by the interviewing agents. He repeated the following phrase approximately a dozen times during the course of the interview: "Give me your card and my attorney will contact you." ELLIOPTRPRECE = yy Ag 5. a ! T-1 advised that he had recently been in Boston, Massachusetts, and while there, was in contact with ELLIOTT PRICE, who is involved in the numbers racket and in \ bookmaking in Boston. PRICE advised the informant that he was a good friend of GUS ALEX. When the informant returned to Chi¢ago, he mentioned to ALEX that ELLIOTT | PRICH had sent his regards to him and ALEX told the informant that PRICE was "0.K." and"a real swell guy." RORSHAK hr? It is fdted + that prev Ticks information has been fa 1 SIDNEY I reported concerning the association which. exists between GUS and MARIANNE ALEX and STDNEW /aénd' BERNICEAKORS AK. Briefly, it is ngted that KORSHAK and his wife are close friends of the AUEXs, and that KORSHAK is an extremely (\wealthy attorney/with offices at 13) South La Salle, Chicago, - and a brother of MARSHALLVAORSMAK, Illinois State Senator, with whom he shares leg offices. It is also noted that Wwhiilé ALEX was evading the subpoena of the’Senate Rackets ommittee that he stayed in the Ocotillo Lodge in Palm Springs, California, for a period of time, and that while -ll-— _ ° HW 45679 DBocld:3227892753 Page 3