: v9.1 | DocId: 32306622 Page 1 Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 7107 Hotey~ DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Identification Form : Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10290-10262 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-3171-162 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI. -FROM: EVANS, C. A. TO: PARSONS TITLE = DATE: 03/15/1961 “PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact ‘DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/16/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE , COMMENTS : 420
DATE: arto -14- 2017 Tolson . OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 Cc .. : a a : . : Parsons UNITED STATES GOVE: .<MENT Ae Mohr - Belmont M emorandum | —_ Trotter x —_ wend ALL INFOR NT on CO! Bs seney SUBJECT: UEL ° | ae SYNOPSIS cy / Current inquiry discloses Giancana attempted to mpros two Chicago jewel thieves as muscle men and paid killers. Giancana | pressured his way into partnership at gambling club Wagon Wheel which | now has gambling take averaging $1,000 per day. U ca go 7 XN pancana Attempts to Hire Muscle Men and Killers “A Chicago informant has advised that Giancana offered Chicago jewel thieves Steve Tomares and James D*Antonio employment in his organization. :.They were to be paid $150 per week and were to be placed on a. "stand-by basis." Their duties would be to take care of any job requiring strong-arm tactics or killing in connection with activities of the Giancana group. The informant advised Tomares and | D'Antonio turned the proposition down because “they might have to kill their friends. " EN Former Employee Advises Giancana Muscled Into Gambling at the Wagon Wheel . Henry Hodl, former employee of Giancana lieutenant Rocco Potenzo, .advised he was a poker and dice dealer and handled bookmaking operations at: the Wagon Wheel, Chicago, and the Riviera, Niles, Illinois, for approximately ten years. He infomed that the Wagon Wheel was run as a gambling operation for years by Nick D'Amico. D‘’Amico yielded to pressure. by Giancana and took him in as a “partner"™ at the Wagon Wheel 4 } wire service, affording poker and dice games at the same location. The average take for the horse racing operations runs to approximately ‘~ Phe Wagon Wheel is now operating as a horse book and racing if 000 -per day-\}, oe g we if <a The Riviera mentioned above is run by Salvatore Mercurio, according to Hodl. This club has a horse book operation and is the scene of operations for strip girls and prostitutes. Each evening the eins operations at the Wagon Wheel is coltected and turned va cana airtel ‘Rocco Potenzo at ‘the, Ri a ee — OF 47 MAR 28 1961 ( 1 = Mr Rosen JGL: ewb/rap i (doy? 66 APR 3 ef) VA omens t t | Docld: 32306622 Page 2? q f) sens TO : Mr. Parsons 4<I% pate: 3/15/61 Pain
FReleased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote DATE: 11-14>2017 _ wl “ eee Se : ‘\ q = C : ar) SN af ‘Memorandum to Mr. Parsons Re: Samuel M. Giancana Hodl also advised that when he became licensee for the Airliner Lounge, Rosemont, Illinois, he was introduced to the village president, D. E. Stevens, by Giancana’s brother Charles. Charles ‘instructed Stevens to "treat Hodl right." Hodl has had no trouble with . | Stevens and:has not been told to, limit or close down his bookmaking . activities, It is noted that when Stevens was recently interviewed by Bureau Agents he made a statement that he had instructed Hodl to. close down bookmaking operations. W ; —-4--- - Oil Company Leases Property in Which Giancana May have Interest Recent investigation has indicated that Giancana has an interest in the Villa Moderne Motel, Northbrook, Illinois. Mark | Friedman, vice president of the Jupiter - Midwest Oil Company, advised a March 14, 1961, that the company in January, 1961, leased the property | occupied by the Villa Moderne Motel, Northbrook, Illinois. Friedman was questioned cmcerning the possible interest of Giancana in the Villa Moderne and he denied any such connection, When questioned , further concerning the history of the leasing transaction in connection |, | with Villa Moderne, Friedman terminated the interview and asked interviewing Agents to meet him in the office of his lawyer if any | further information was desired.\ ae | | | : ACTION - Se | The Chicago Office is continuing intensive investigation to develop fully the identities of enterprises in which Giancana has a financial interest. Additional information is being sought to develop fully the picture as to the various gambling enterprises — oo he operates particularly as to the size of these operations and the identities of associates who are conducting them.\ \\ All offices having leads in this matter have been - instructed to afford inquiries top priority in an effort to develop | | a prosecutable violation on Giancana at the earliest possible time.\\\ i ' DocId: 32306622 Page 3