AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS :. v9.1 HW 45712 Docld: 32328220 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90071-10020 HQ CR 92-3224-33 Document Information FBI CV HQ 05/10/1960 7 DOMINICK EDWARD BARTONE WILLIAM PRESSER PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 11/04/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS RPT Page 1 Date: 4/22/201 Peleased under the John Kennedy WKssassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 45712 Date: 1i-i17-2017
ee eee CV 92-178 CLEVELAND | At Akron, Ohio: Will locate and interview JOSEPH E. STAUFFER, former business agent of Local 348, Teamsters Union, concerning his charges that he was fired from his job because of his unwill- ingness to contribute $100 toward subject's defense of charges in United States District Courts in Washington, D.C. and Cleveland, Ohio. Will obtain any other information known by © STAUFFER concerning illegal activities on the part of subject. At Cleveland, Ohio: Will follow prosecutive action against subject on his obstruction of justice charge in United States District Court. oO ; CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE The following sources are being utilized to follow subject's activities: ee REVIEWED BY-BEIOEK TASK FORCE - oe w 622. | Cl RECSASE IN FULL X RELEASE IN PART. ; © TOTAL OEMAL In addition, contact is being maintained with Mr. FRANK NOUSEK, Intelligence Division, Internal Revenue Service Cleveland, Ohio, PK Law 11 (a) ADMINISTRATIVE On March 23, 1960, por| sé furnished the following information: WILLIAM PRESSER is strictly a front for the Italian guys in the Teamsters Union. Men like "BABE" TRISCARO and - B - COVER PAGE 3224-33 MQ \QS5S HW 45712 DBocld:323262270 Page 2?
CV 92-178 JOHN FELICE can give the orders to PRESSER. Although his salary is not known to the informant, he feels certain that PRESSER does not make the big money that many people attribute to him. PRESSER does not have any income outside of his union money as far as he knows. His wife, FAYE PRESSER, was just in Mt. Sinai Hospital several weeks ago for a rest. She goes into the hospital about twice a year for this purpose. She still is a big gambler, goes big for the horses and just as big for cards. She -has been nabbed a couple times while participating in a couple of "RED" MASON's poker games, where other women players took part in these games set up by MASON, ALLEN FRIEDMAN, FAYE's brother, does some gambling, but not like his/ brother, HARRY, who is.a-real "horse degen- erate.” He follows the horses all over the country. He does not attend the local area tracks very much. He has- said that -around here he could fix one jockey, but then there are other guys who would be: fixing two or three jockeys in the same race. Informant believed’that he has been at the California tracks  @uring this past winter and may still be out there. TOBY PRESSER, HARRY FRIEDMAN's daughter, who with her brother were adopted by the PRESSERs, will be getting married shortly to a Jewish fellow who drives a truck on some type of business route. JACKIE PRESSER is in the vending machine business with an uncle, MILTON PRESSER. They are doing well financially. ‘This is one of the few occasions on which WILLIAM PRESSER has allowed anybody to use his name and union connection. -He has allowed JACKIE to mention in his vending machine contacts that his father heads up the Teamsters in this area, and would like to see his son do well in the business. : On April 15, ;1960, cv-428-c furnished the following information to SAs W. ARK FULLER and ROBERT L. SCHWARTZ: CO bad brit Dens GD Lowe LOUIS "BABE'VTRISCARO, DOMINIG BARTONE, WILLIAM PRESSER, an unidentif male from Cincinnati, Ohio, and an unidentified male from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have report- edly been running guns and ammunition over the past five years. Source advised that he had heard that this group had gotten some of these guns as a result of burglaries of various - C - COVER PAGE aSHIE 190940 HW 45712 DBocld:323262270 Page 3