JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 4/21/201 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32309334 Page 1 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : ‘RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : Agency Information FBI 124-10298-10121 HQ 29-3 1889-156 Document Information FBI SAC, DE DIRECTOR, FBI 11/08/1963 7 [Restricted] PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified Consulted; 4 Redact 05/26/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF DOJ REFERRED TO DOJ, INC LHM 48
FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56) FBI oe Date: 11/8/63 Transmit the following in (Type in plain text or code) AIRTEL ' AIR MAIL Via 4 (Priority or Method of Mailing) | | ; DIRECTOR, FBI (29-31889) | hn i | phone io, DETROIT (29-1432) (?) JAMES RIDDL chorea; DOMINICK EDWARD BARTONE, aka ET AL | FRA; ITSP; MF; FBW; - ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED oft |. CONSPIRACY HERE IS UNCLASSIFIED i (I) (00: DETROIT) . ont =11-4 5H, 8 agape jes yar’ Remy airtel, 11/7/63... (a) flay Enclosed herewith is a LHM containing information concerning Q.)| DOMINICK EDWARD BARTONEand others. This information was a obtained by Department Attorney, WILLIAM FRENCH, Detroit, from {> ROBERT C. MEISSNER. One copy each of the LHM is being . furnished to Chicago and Miami for information inasmuch as _ “Btls MEISSNER resides in Chicago and BARTONE resides in the Miami Division, , One copy of the LHM is also being furnished to Department A Attorney WILLIAM FRENCH, Detroit. re f @ Bureau (Enc 4 i - Chicago (29; Soe” (Enc. 1) (Info) 1 - Miami (8921217) (Bne.1) (Info) | 1 - Detroit . VGW/pjb . (6) - Gf . a thn, Lag Cc, Criminal Division Ez a nd eC 12 - ‘Attention: Mr. Walter J. Sheridan AL EE f—- /9 3 Room 2509 iD, | Alaa LAG Lace ma y 4 NGY Y ines ; a a AES Pee ae oY, f ane EIS ce wae eo ar) ¢ - Approved; Sent LM Per Special Agent in Charge Docld: 32309334 Page 2?
eats mee sincarmeesime stan gpg COG emt Ae hn nS Ae PARR AN At Pt A PERSIE SS RO SIS U “TED STATES DEPARTMENT C ‘JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to Detroit, Michigan File No. November 8, 1963 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HERE IS INAS onte/O- Epi ese OZ JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA; DOMINICK a) EDWARD BARTONE; ET AL FEDERAL RESERVE ACT; INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN — PROPERTY; MAIL FRAUD; FRAUD BY WIRE; CONSPIRACY The following information, based upon statements reportedly made by Dominick Edward Bartone at various times in the past, was received by the Department of Justice from a confidential source who has furnished reliable information in the past: In regard to money invested by Bartone in Niagara Crushed Stone (Humberstone) Ltd. (NCS) in 1959, Bartone advised that he had the money in a French bank in Panama and wrote a check for it in Canada, so that the money went from one foreign country to another without going through the United States. In regard to money borrowed from Public Bank for use in connection with the operation of the NCS quarry, Bartone stated this was bank money and not Union ' money. He also expressed the belief that Public Bank borrowed money from the Central States Teamsters organization at a low interest rate and then lent it out to Bartone and others at a higher rate. Bartone stated, however, that he was not certain about a lot of this information, but he had found out various things and then had “figured from there". Bartone stated that when he was called before the Federal Grand Jury at Detroit in September, 1963, he "took the Fifth" because he did not want to get into trouble with Docld: 32309334 Page 3 |
o the "racketeers"'. Bartone was apprehensive that he might be asked how he had got to Joseph F. Verhelle, former President of Public Bank, and why Verhelle had given him the loan. Bartone did not want to get involved in saying that James Hoffa told Verhelle to give the loan. Bartone said, however, that Verhelle was not tied jn with the’ “racketeers", , Referring te i : WoTriscaro—and William Azessex. Ba t bé"known that they , had a twenty-five per cent interest in the NCS quarry but ‘they actually did not. Bartone said they had- probably 7 received favors from James Hoffa but they did not "come up with the scratch". Bartone stated he, himself, had never been involved in any "payoffs" with Hoffa. After. Bartone had additional financial problems with NCS, he reportedly had a discussion with Hoffa during which Bartone became angry and "exposed his people" in front of Hoffa but Hoffa did not do anything about it. Hoffa subsequently told Bartone that it looked like Bartone had a "bad deal" and not to blame Hoffa but to blame “your people". Hoffa said they did not know how to count up to.a million, let alone borrow a million, and they did not know how to do business. Hoffa indicated Bartone should have come directly to: Hoffa rather than going through them, and Bartone said he did not cut corners and it was through them that he had met Hoffa. Bartone indicated that in 1961 when he was trying to obtain new financing for NCS and. was having a survey made jj, ibySMeissner Engineers, Inc, (MEI), Verhelle either would not: . IZ release the né¢éSsary information or else gave Bartone and L/ MEI incorrect figures. Verhelle finally gave some papers to . MEI after an official of the Continental Bank in Chicago (with which Verhelle was formerly associated) had been requested to contact Verhelle concerning the matter. Following the MEI survey there was a proposal that Salk, Ward and Salk provide additional financing but they did not do so because they knew Verhelle and he promised he was going to let some- body else buy it and they would "get a piece", according to Bartone. Bartone expressed the opinion that Salk, Ward and : ¢ r _ SS RAMAN - Docld: 32309334 Page 4
Salk were “crooks"; that if they lent money they wound up with a piece of it; and they would try to get forty or fifty per cent of a deal if they knew the. borrower was in a disadvantageous position. Bartone said that Alvin A.fNaiman had led: government agencies to believe that’ Bartone had no authority to try to get additional financing for NCS, establish letters of credit, etc.; but Bartone had made records available to show that he had such authority through Powers of Attorney and other documents giving him the right to go out to seek private financing through ELlioeJaneway, MEI, Salk, Ward and Salk, or any other ource‘ Bartone wanted to use. Bartone said that the present owners of the NCS quarry are going broke on the operation and want to give it back to Bartone "on a platter". Bartone said the quarry had only been producing about 300,000 tons a year and nobody will do business with them; that Bartone had "knocked them out" of about 700,000 tons; that after Alvin Naiman had lost. the sales and distribution business for NCS in the Cleveland area, it was given to a former Naiman associate (probably named Barricelli) who used to haul for Sandusky Crushed Stone; that there had been a shortage in payments; and “they ought to do business with us this year", In regard to $50,000.00 which had been posted with bankruptcy officials in Canada in connection with an attempt to regain control of NCS in 1961, Bartone advised. that the money was sent back and Bartone gave_$25,000.00 ' to the Metropolitan Bank for the benefit of Don Ross and . Mekal he others, and Bartone used the other $25,000.00 fo Janefield Village and other interests of Bartone. He referred to ‘Janefierd Village as potentially a 2 3/4 million dollar Florida real estate development in which he has over $100,000.00 and has a twenty-five per cent interest. Two brothers and the widow of the original owner have the’ other seventy-five per cent. Bartone said he has been working on it over a year and a half and recently has been BSN Docld: 32309334 Page 45
borrow money to’ buy out his partners and finance improve- ment of the property, which is about 1% miles west of Cypress Gardens. Bartone indicated that Advance Mortgage was going to put up the development money and Bartone may have a quarter million dollars “preliminary money". Bartone said that in regard to this matter he was staying away from Hoffa and that if Bartone's present plans work out Bartone would not need assistance from Hoffa or others. | | | Miche | negotiating DN avange worteage.co ans of Detroit Bartone also advised that he recently was involved in borrowing $155,000.00 in connection with a _ frozen food plant in Miami and also is involved in a ~ $125,000.00 deal through which equipment would be pur- chased possibly for an oil field development in Guatemala. He indicated he is involved with a bonding company and has a partner by the name of Wysockie (phonetic) who may have some racketeer connections. Bartone indicated that he has people who can go to a bank and get loans on their signatures | provided Bartone can post a guaranteed bond for them. Through this means, it cost Bartone $23,000.00 to borrow $175,000.00. He advised that he had supplied some property as collateral so that Wysockie could write a $100,000.00 bond and that Bartone had been selling a few lots for expense money to get around. : - In early 1961 Bartone claimed he owned the Playboy Club franchise in Mexico City, Mexico, and in the summer of 1961 he said that he had or could get 10,000 Ml rifles. He recently indicated he .has banking conections at “the Royal Bank of Canada.in Nassau and has an interest in th"sritish 7 ~ Colonial Savings and Loan't_in Nassau, in which he } 100,000 shares when the stock was a dollar a share. This .savings and loan organization had made mortgage loans of over $100,000.00, had reinvested about $25,000.00 savings deposits, and kept its money in the/Royal Bank of Canada at a good rate of interest. Latham Lh jad, SLAW Docld: 32309334 Page 6
Bartone allegedly travels only at night and by automobile. He has recently been aecompanied on some of. ZA . his business trips by Nicholas (Nick¥Morris., Morris a reportedly resides in Miami with his) father and has a sister who is employed by the State Department and is = married to Grego ahules, a Miami attorney. When Bartone was in Chicago abéut=1961, he and some of his associates, particularly Morris, were believed to be carrying guns. Also about that time Bartone reportedly stated that he was connected with Hoffa and got a new Cadillac every year, Bartone subsequently claimed to have “told off Hoffa and to have fallen into disfavor. When in Chicago in the past, Bartone reportedly was in contact with Barney Baker, Joe Glimco and Tony Accardo. Bartone was associated with Don Ross at one time in the ownership of a catering business, now defunct; and in 1962 Bartone allegedly owed $67,000.00 to Ross. Ross reportedly was "started out" in Chicago by Dave Yaras; operated an automobile dealership and had other business interests in the Chicago area; and recently had something to do with a juke box enterprise in California. Bartone once said. that EM, been som e ge "shenanigans" between P. DofMaktos and PeterClayton GS 0A regarding promising, or getting legal fees, to get Union loans for people. Bartone was skeptical about individuals who claim they can get a loan from Hoffa, According to Bartone, the Central States committee recommends whatever Hoffa recommends and it has to be a "good legitimate deal" - but Hoffa makes the decision. Wy This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DocId: 32309334 Page ?f