JFK Assassination System Date: 5/11/201 Identification Form -. Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90104-10159 Assassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES : HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). asex#: NW Séa7g2 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: —92-2940-37 aie tis Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PG TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 09/04/1958 “PAGES: 30 SUBJECTS : SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 HW 56792 Bocld: 32332661 Page 1
PG 92-226 The Pittsburgh "Sun-Telegraph,” Blue Streak Edition, dated July 15, 1958, carried an article on Page 3 regarding the failure of LA ROCCA to answer the Government's invitation to his preliminary naturalization hearing, The article described LA ROCCA as the one-time boss of the East Liberty numbers racket, — : ~ A similar article appeared in the Final Edition of the Pittsburgh "Post-Gazette" on July 16, 1958, and described LA ROCCA . as one of the few who escaped @ round-up of sixty ganglords at a rural retreat in upstate New York last fall. Information Regarding Subpoena for La Rocca to Appear t ‘Before United States Senate Labor Rackets Committ. ALBERT DI MEOLO, United States Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, advised SA VOEGE on July il, 1958, that he had received a Subpoena to serve to SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor Management Field,” - He stated further that LA ROCGAS elose associate, MIKE GENOVESE, had already been served with a Subpoena to appear before that committee and that he had been contacted in this regard at Archie's Automatic Car Wash, 8050 Bennett Street, Pittsburgh, by a Deputy United States Marshal on June 20, 1958. He explained that both subpoenas* advise the recipients or their lawyers to contact telephone number Capitol 423121. at Washington, D. C., for further advice as to when to appear before this committee, — DI MEOLO was recontacted on August 25, 1958, and August 26, 1958, by SA VOEGE at which time he advised that he had learned nothing new concerning the present whereabouts of LA ROCCA and that he was still interested in learning the ~ present whereabouts of GABRIEL MANNARINO, a close associate of LA ROCCA and a Pittsburgh top hoodlum, who has also "disappeared" from the Pittsburgh vicinity. It was observed by DI MEOLO at this time a subpoena is still outstanding for the appearance of \before the Federal | Grand Jury for the to testify and aie evidence in nena “8a alleged viola Torof[ | ~ “SEK Law 40(a)2 = 28 ee G9-8G00 39 10) ee “. |. 56792 Docld:323327361 Page 2
PG 92-226 INFORMANTS T-1 is GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a potential criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office, who was contacted on July 21, 1958, by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, T-2 is H. W. GLENN, Postal Inspector, U, S. Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pa., who was contacted on July 10, 1958, ana August 26, 1958, by SA VOEGE and who has requested that his identity be concealed. T-3 is WILLIAM MEREDITH, Special Agent, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, who was contacted by SA HAROLD L. STEVENS on August 27, 1958, and who has requested that his _ identity be conéealed, T-4 18 Miss HELEN TURNER of the New York Telephone Company at Buffalo, New York; who was contacted on July 21, 1958, by a Buffalo Agent, and who has requested that her identity be concealed. : T-5 is PG 573-C, who was contacted by SA JOHN S. PORTELLA on July 23, 1958. ~ T=6 as) potential criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office, who was contacted on July 25, 1958, a and August 26, 1958, by SA VOEGE. = 30 - Docld: 3233276861 Page 3