Date: 5/19/201 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-10278-10365 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-6054-3RD NR 790 * as Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI - FROM: SAC, CV TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: -DATE: = 10/02/1964 “PAGES: 6 SUBJECTS : ~ LCN, MEMBERS, BENCH WARRANT, GAMBLING ACT, PDT, . OC ACT, B/F INT : DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/26/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS :. rrr v9.1 Doclda: 32301530 Page 1
DoclId: 32301530 Page 2? Transmit the following in , BYHSO (NEV. Decent) FBI Date: 10/2/64 Via. AIRTEL ORIGINAL FILED It Boa Go A ,e TO: DIRECTOR, FBI FROM: SAC, CLEVELAND (92-621) RE: CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO | | WEEKLY SUMMARY ee ; OLB COSA Ne STRA | Re Bureau airtel to Cleveland 9/29/64 captioned . { RE; PAUL HOLOVATICH, aka "Pinto" | | 4 On 9/24/64, HOLOVATICH appeared before Struthers Municipal Judge ROBERT J, KALAFUT, after a defense motion to supress the evidence at the time of the arrest of HOLOVATICH by Mahoning County Sheriff's deputies on 8/12/64. In this .. ~ matter, the judge had taken the defense motion under study for a week, The judge ruled the evidence siezed on 8/12/64 was inadmissable because the bench warrant used was not signed by the Clerk of Court, and his name was only typed in. On (6 -)Bureau. _ a Coe ~- 92-6054) D2 60 5 Y _ 7 - Cleveland i ieeareroes tare 150 oct 7 1984 dpe 1 ~ 137-1343) an | ; 1 = 92-748 nee nen a 1 = 80-216 SEP/e js | (12)  Approveds  _ M Per
CV 92-621 the following day, 8/13/64, the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office secured a search warrant and recovered other evidence, and again the defense filed a motion to supress the evidence, at which time the judge again stated he would have to study this motion before ruling. Current attempts are being made by the Mahoning County Sheriff's Office, Youngs- town, to have the evidence presented directly to a grand jury — for indictment. RE: DOMINICK MALLAMO, aka "Big Dom", Calabrese organizatim leader CV 544-c advised on 9/24/64, he was approached by MALLAMO, who asked him if he had been at the Tropics Lounge, Market Street, Youngstown, recently or if any of the boys from the C.M, A, S, Club had been there. He stated he told ‘“MALLAMO he had not been to the Tropics and knew of no one from the Club who had been there, although he knew that TONY BRUNO, the present steward of the C.,M.A.S, Club had been there two ' nights before, MALLAMO told him he was glad to hear that -no - one from the Club had been at the Tropics and told cV BANC to tell the boys to stay away from the Tropics and not go ener any more because the crowd hanging around there is no goo RE; LOCAL GAMBLING AND RACKETEER ING cv 5S44.¢c stated that recently JASPER JOSEPH AIELLO, IR. aka "Fats", appwached JOHN "POPEYE" STEVENS and asked STEVENS - if he was connected with EUGENE MC NAMARA, as they were. taking MC NAMARA in as a partner and STEVENS told ATELLO he was out of the gambling business entirely. Then later STEVENS received an anonymous phone call at his home threatening him that if he was still in business he should get out, and not say he is out of business and actually be in business, or in this way he could get hurt, DAN PETRICK, PCI, advised that NELLO RONCI, local gambler, cheater at gambling games, and racketeer, is in the same group as LOU TIBERIO, owner of the Tropics Lounge, and JASPER JOSEPH AIELLO, JR., aka "Fats", which frequent the ~ 2. ~* ee Docld: 32301530 Page 3
ro AB an - CV 92-621 — Tropics. He stated this group is operating with full police protection, and they have no fears of being raided at any time, He stated RONCI recently purchased a poolroom (Past Time. Billiards) located below the Tropics on the same side of the street (next door to the Shang-Ri-La) from BERNIE ALTSCHULER, another gambling hustler, who is currently . 7 in Florida. He stated he feels this group may be banking _ | their bets at this poolroom, as it is only a short distance Keon below the Tropics. .He also stated he has heard that this” group is not using the upstairs of the Tropics for banking their gambling operation. CV 559-PC advised that the group hanging around the Tropics is becoming very powerful in gambling operations consisting of numbers, horses and sports bets, He stated that EUGENE MC NAMARA has broken from his operation with JOHN BURNICH and went into the gambling business for himself, MC NAMARA came to the irformant one day and asked him if he wanted to be a 50 per cent partner with him inasmuch as he has taken over much of informant's former stops. He stated he told MC NAMARA that if he wanted to be in the business he would be in it 100 per cent, and would split with no one, and in view of this MC NAMARA could have any business he wanted and should not even contact him regarding any problems as he was out entirely. CV 559-PC stated a few days later he was approached by ATELLO and AIELLO asked him "if I would ask you some questions, would you give me a truthful answer?" Informant stated he told AIELLO that if the questions were such that he felt he could answer them he would answer truthfully, and if they were such that he felt he could not answer truth- fully, he would answer by telling AIELLO "I can't answer that’. ATELLO said that was fine and better than he expected, AIELLO then asked the informant if he was in the gambling business... | with EUGENE MC NAMARA, and informmt stated he was not, has not been, and has no intentions of doing same, AIELLO stated he was happy to learn this and happy that CV 559-PC.spoke so truthfully and then said that he and his group (which according to CV 559-PC consists of RONALD DAVID CARABBIA, DOMINIC P, SENZARINO, JR,, LOU TIBERIO, ATELLIO VELTRI, aka "New York. Jack", and JAMES PETRELLA, aka "Dankers", and possibly others) are considering taking MC NAMARA into their organization, but. “= 3 va I t ee | DoclId: 32301530 Page 4
CV 92-621 they wanted to know for sure whether or not CV 559-PC is connected with MC NAMARA. He stated he also told AIELLO that he doesn't want anyone coming to him complaining. to him about MC NAMARA, or how MC NAMARA does business, or that MC NAMARA is not paying his bills, because he has nothing to do with MC NAMARA. . CV 559-PC stated this group is attempting to monopolize the gambling business in Youngstown and apparently hopes to have full control in the near future, He stated they have apparent full police protection, and know the FBI - has the Tropics Lounge under surveillance and for tis reason, inasmuch as they congregate so in the open at the Tropics, they are not banking their business there, and that is done elsewhere and they have nothing to fear at the Tropics and would welcome a raid to further inflate themselves in the eyes of the public, and their associates, that they cannot be. touched, CV 278-C-TE advised that JAMES PETRELLA, aka "Dankers", has closed his 98 Club in downtown Youngstown, and has. placed his liquor license in escrow, inasmuch as the State of Ohio would have closed the place for non-payment of taxes, CV 278-C-TE stated that on the night of 9/27/64, he received a phone call from "Fats" AIELLO and "Fats" told him he would.like to see him, Informant agreed, and AIELLO, accompanied by LEO MOCERI, aka "Lips", (close associate of JAMES LIGAVOLI, aka Jack White, of Cleveland) picked him up with ATELLO driving MOCERI's Cadillac. He stated they drove to a restaurant and drank coffee and spent a good deal of time talking. MOCERI asked informant about his partner (MICKEY SAFFRON, owner of Saffron Cigarette Service) and informant stated he __ has no partner, and he only works for SAFFRON, MOCERI then asked informant if he minded if he, MOCERI and AIELLO would shake SAFFRON for a couple hundred dollars, and informant stated he wouldn't mind as long as they gave him a "cut" of the money, and MOCERI promised informant he would give him $50 if successful, MOCERI also asked informant about the City of Campbell, as he had heard that informant had all of the pool tables in Campbell on location, CV 278~C-TE stated this was _ not true, that he had none, and he then mentioned to AIELLO. that he was not doing any of the talking, at which time ATELLO ~ ho net Docld: 32301530 Page 5