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 56792 DocId: 323313887 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90100-10105 . HQ 52-72398-108 Document Information FBI PG HQ 02/12/1959 78 JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA STUART SUTOR PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 10(a)2 Redact 08/07/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF ATF RPT Released under the John Kennedy Wesassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW Sé6792 Date: N4-O9-2016 Page 1 Date: 6/2/2015
PG 52-1687 } We age? hese. U. S. Attorney ALBERT M. MORGAN, Fairmont, W. Va. » on February 3, ; 1959, advised SA WATSON that he had just received a telephone a, : call from C. HOWARD HARDESTY, JR., of the Furbee and Hardesty ; Law Firm of Fairmont which firm is representing the Dupont Air Interests in the recovery of the twin engine Beech Aircraft piloted by. SUTOR. Mr. MORGAN also pointed out that this is the same firm that. employs ROBERT SARVER and added that ' HARDESTY told him that SARVER might possibly represent SUTOR. MORGAN said that the Beech Craft was released by the government. and would be turned over to the Dupont Air Interests on February 5, 1959. He also said that it' is his understanding - '- that if SARVER eventually represents SUTOR he, SARVER, intends to strongly advise SUTOR to cooperate with Special Agents of the FBI, ' , Deputy Sheriff RIDGLEY, Faitmont ; on January 26, 1959, advised SA WATSON that on the same date he censored a letter received at the Marion.County Jail from SUTOR's wife, KAY SUTOR, ~ of Miami, Florida, RIDGLEY said that in her letter Mrs. SUTOR mentioned that one EDDIE HOFFMAN of 104 Seventh Street, south St. Petersburg, Florida, had been asking about SUTOR and offered to assist SUTOR in anyway possible. _ SAMUEL MANNARINO , ° | FBI Number 115840 oo. ‘NORMAN ROTHMAN - , i FBI Number 152585B ; . _ PCI CHARLES F, TEEMER, a former top hoodlum of the Pittsburgh Office, and one -t ime officer in the Sans Souci Night Club . in Havana, Cuba, advised SA JOHN S, PORTELLA on January 22, - - 1959, that in his opinion SAM MANNARINO engineered the theft ; of firearms from the National Guard Armory in Canton, Ohio, | but is being shunned by the racket element for his foolishness ‘in becoming involved in such an undertaking. TEEMER said that a MANNARINO is showing signs of mental illness and speculated . “ that MANNARINO fingered the burglary of the armory without ue oo ,the knowledge or consent of his brother, GABRIEL MANNARINO ~~ (Pittsburgh top hoodlum). - TEEMER recalled that.while he was connected with the Sans . Ssouei during) the period 1951-1952 he felt that NORMAN ROTHMAN © COVER PAGE 52-7 230 —10F | aw 56792 Docld:323313687 Page 2?
| HW 56792 PG 52-1687 ¢ a ae On instructions from SAM GIARUSSO, RICCI went to Newburgh, New York, and obtained a sample MG from TRAPINI on September 4, 1958. RICCI took the MG to the Pygmalion Club, New York City, where he met SAM GIARUSSO and they in turn went | to the Warwick Hotel also in New York City. They parked in front of the hotel and a man, later identified as JOE MEROLA, approached the car, took the MG from RICCI and entered the hotel. RICCI and SAM GIARUSSO then returned to the Pygmalion Club. Shortly thereafter, MEROLA entered the club and handed the MG back to RICCI and said, "This is what I want, get me all you can, but clean them up. RICCI returned to his home in Middletown, New Jersey, with the MG. On September 11, 1958, RICCI was arrested by ATU Agents at his home and the following items were seized: 1 .45 caliber Thompson MG, SN 750471 6 Cases of M-1 Carbine parts . . 1 1958 Edsel station wagon (RICCI's auto) It has been determined that RICCI legitimately purchased the M-1 Carbine parts for $1000 cash from THOMAS A. GREALY, Grealy Arms Company, 448 Pompton Avenue, Cedar Grove, $10 Jersey. RICCI stated that SAM GIARUSSO furnished the 1000. Since RICCI's arrest, JOE GIARUSSO has made several contacts with RICCI, who is out on bail, for more guns. JOE GIARUSSO said that "Bayonne JOE" is interested in securing a@ source for quantity of American-type guns. "Bayonne | JOE" is JOSEPH ZICARELLI, a top hoodlum in the Newark Office. 7 It should be noted that the above information was acquired ; by ATU Agents from RICCI on a confidential basis. They are ! presently attempting to develop RICCI as an informant and, - therefore, request that none of the above information be - disseminated outside the FBI. ‘ a DANIEL HANNA ce ce An anonymous letter delivered to the Pittsburgh Office in November, 1958, stated that the S & S Distributing Company -I- COVER PAGE donptafeint — G 2-725 5 15-10P_ Doclda: 32331887 Page 3