JFK Assassination System Date: 4/27/201 Identification Form Ore eee ee Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10300-10083 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 62-75147-29-723 ; ee ; Document Information ; ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : ‘DATE: = 01/31/1958 “PAGES: 6 SUBJECTS : - NRO, ASSOC, CRIM ACT, GAMBLING ACT, HOODLUMS, MM, ‘CUBA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: ~ 05/04/1998 a OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : Se ee sw v9.1 , 16 . | Docld: 32309717 Page 1
Mt Tot ¢ i Office Memorandum - UNITED). "7 a, _GOVER oe i Mr. Miphy ; | TO : Director, FBI (62-75147-29) 5, CONRDEN iB, January Mr. Nease__ te 1958. — ATTENTION: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR} A Rasen __ SAC, Miami (62-1273) : MIAMI WINTER SEASON, 1957-1958, Seoul Zovestigal. CRIMINAL SECTION, INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION, 2 #02 ve fae. Lz é ee ‘ReBulet 9/18/57. els 2, /ewee sYiace, fy - ™ © Chief of Police TIN DARDIS, Novth F Bay V —— advised he arrested RUBII INER, Miami Beach PD Number a 7066 » fer vagrancy at Treasure’ Iste Movers Ne 3 ges as” previously reported in Miami letter to the C3 aon a “ Bubeaw January 17, 1958,.and again arrested him at the 2, Sage motel on January 27, 1958, for bookmaking. DARDIS o i stated on both occastons an investigator from the Florida x Hotel Cémmission and: investigators from the State's Attorne Office ¢ assisted ins the arrest. He said that when WEINER 7 was arrested on the first occasion the officials of the / Treasure Isle Motel were informed that WEINER had been j bookmaking on their premises, and they were: requested to see that WEINER terminated his residence there;. He fur- ther stated that the officials'of the motél did: not ask WEINER to move and condoned his bookmaking operations:=, which resulted in the second arrest of WEINER. : DARDIS mentioned that WEINER, on | the “second occa~" ae sion, was charged only with bookmaking, adthough he,was~ - a also engaged in running a dice game at thk{mote#. “DARDIS . related that the Florida Hotel Commission: is considering t the: revokation of the license of the Treasure Isie Motel for thirty to sixty days for permitting WEINER to remain as a guest at the motel and also permitting. him to operate as a bookmaker. This information he said was furnished to the officials of the. motel _who have since been considering | ee 3 > Miami - 62 2 BF- pas = SH RFF : GK (6) BATYO aa g cS wt\x 24 ft ss & ies Es Sy ig for peview at - gins (Seen \(Se 5 V FEB 28 ‘sa Doclda: 32309717 Page 2?
| CONFIRENTIAL MM 62-1273 | various means to have the matter squashed. DARDIS related | in stric fofidence that one of his sergeants was approached ASSER, one of the owners of Chary's Restaurant and i) - Cocktail ounge, North Bay Village, to determine if he, | | "| DARDIS, could be approached with a proposition. LASSER indi- | oo cated that he was acting as a middle man in an effort to get. . | this matter squashed. DARDIS commented that his sergeant told him a sum of $15,000.00 would be paid to DARDIS if he would see to it that the matter was dropped. DARDIS also said his sergeant learned from LASSER that LASSER was acting in behalf of SAMUE CHLAR, owner of the Treasure Isle Motel. He remarked that PAS sergeant has set up another meeting with LASSER and at that time LASSER will be told that DARDIS will ‘flonly talk to SCHLAR regarding the matter. tS Ww | t DARDIS further stated that he has discussed the matter with DANIEL P. SULLIVAN, Operating Manager of the Miami Crime Commission, and the State's Attorney's Office. He said the State's Attorney's Office is making plans to a secure adequate evidence with the view toward prosecuting o ‘SCHLAR should he make the $15,000.00 offer to DARDIS per- sonally. - DARDIS also advised that another similar payoff a proposition is beginning to move beyond the rumer stage. He , = said one of his men was approached by one TOMMI OMPSON, pOler whose identity or background is unknown to DARDIS\as -to the amount of money that would bereeded to pay off the Chief of Police so that gambling would be permitted at the Harbor Spa Hotel, North Bay Village. DARDIS related this proposi- tion is moving much slower than the one previously explained, and as a result he is concentrating on the Treasure Isle deal and hopes to obtain satisfactory evidence for prosecu- tion of SCHLAR. . DARDIS is a new Chief of Police at North Bay Vil- | Jace and a former New York state trooper. SAMUEL SCHLAR —~ > jis originally from Chicago and the Treasure Isle Motel has °° | been regarded as a criminal hangout. —{\ ~ Forentian Ceaminac In FoRmaxr vi | SID WILD, PCI, advised that he observed ABEYSISKING , a detective of the Miami.Beach police force, enter the ~ fF t | grocery store of SALVATORMX FALCONE in Miami carrying a small. . i lenvelope. He said ZISKIN ‘immediately went into the back room | i of this establishment, indicating that he had previously been | . - FEL JEG 2 IGE a CONFIDENTIAL. y | Docld: 32309717 Page 3
Zz —petrons at~t os in the store, knew his way around, and was acquainted with ‘the personnel. FALCONE has. FBI Number 1697794 and is a {Top Hoodlum of the Miami Division. Captain JOHN CONNORS, Hialeah Police Department, advised that @X RUGGLES, a. Hialeah policeman, was shot and seriously wouynfled on January 24, 1958, in a gun battle with CURLEY EDISONVESTES, an ex-convict who robbed and terrorized @ Politician Bar.in Hialeah. He related ESTES was also wounded in the left leg and. was apprehended a short time later in Miami Springs. ESTES has been charged with armed robbery and attempted murder. The "Miami Herald" newspaper of January 24, 1958, reported that lie detector tests were ordered for five mem-— bers of the Coral Gables Traffic Bureau on January 23, 1958, after a discrepancy of $10.00 was noted betwéen the amount turnéd in to the Traffic Bureau and the amount paid by an individual, who violatad a traffic ordinance. The article related that RICHARD N.XRACO of Miami violated a traffic regulation and produced’ & receipt for $35.00 written. by DONALD n, RROLEY, Coral Gables Police Department, on a slip of plain white paper. RACO was skeptical of the re- ceipt because it was not written on’a printed receipt form. The receipt was charged against the summons on file at the Police Department and it was found that only a $25.00 fine was recorded. The article indicated that there was evidence of erasure on the ticket in the Police Department, which altered the. offense from driving sixty miles an hour in a twenty-five mile zone, to fifty miles an hour. This article pointed out that. the penalty for a sixty mile violation. was. $35.00 and the penalty for a fifty mile violation was $25.00. Chief WILLIAM G. KIMBROUGH, according to the yarticle, stated Patrolman DOOLEY's work sheet reflected a sixty-mile-an-hour entry, which apparently clears DOOLEY. |The five employees, according to KIMBROUGH, who agreed to {the lie detector tests had access to the Coral Gables —— hs. | | Traffic Bureau cash register. KIMBROUGH also commented with respect to the receipt issued by DOOLEY that the Department had run out of regular receipt forms. CRIMINAL RACKET ACTIVITIES MM 369-S advised the National Labor Relations Boar hearing was held on January 14, 1958, at Miami relative to a CON IDE NAL e a | | - ) DoclId: 32309717 Page 4