Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/3/2015 Identification Form eee + Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10286-10137 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 162-872-4 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BARRETT, ROBERT M. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: DATE: — 05/22/1962 PAGES: 41 SUBJECTS : ' JEST, BOOKMAKING A/O GAMBLING ACT, FINANCES, IMI, ASSOC, BKG, REL, RES, TELCAL, TESUR, NUMEROUS INTV DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact i ; DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/30/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : naan nnn v9.1 1 Doclda:32304507FT Page 1
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Isc 2107 Hote i DATE: Al- 14-2017 rN - i 7 oe ou eG __ DL 162-129 By communication 4/10/62, the Los Angeles Office furnished the following and requested that it be placed in - the Administrative pages of any report submitted by Dallas: LA 4269-C, whose reliability is not known at this | time, has advised on a number of different occasions, that STEVE. | LESCHETSKO; who is known to LA 4269-C as STEVE BECINA, is a | close associate of ANDREW ‘JOSEPH LOCOCO and regularly engages in poker games. with him, LA 4269-C is of the opinion that ANDY LOCOCO and LESCHETSKO are engaged in various gambling activities together./ This informant advised that LESCHETSKQ,. - drives a 1959 blackfover yellow four-door: Cadillac, which is registered to STE! yj LESCHETSKO, 23022 Catskill, - Wilmington, _ Calif. . OT In September, 1960, LA 4269-C. advised that football pool tickets were scheduled to be utilized by gamblers in the _ Los Angeles area beginning in September , 1960. He said STEVE -LESCHETSKO and ANDY LOCOCO have the beach area from Santa Monica to Long Beach, ‘Calif. as their territory. in the distribution. of. football pool cards. This. source stated that LOCOCO takes the north part. of the beach area and LESCHETSKO the southern part, incQuding San Pedro and Long Beach. - Informant. stated. that drivers for the Corsaro Produce Company in Redondo Beach,- Calif. are used to distributing football pool tickets to various restaurants and bars throughout the area as they are in | daily, contact with those establishments. lt te  t Source stated that STEVE LESCHETSKO and annrewkococo @ Aulr do not personally handle the football pool cards but that they handle the administration of the distribution of the cards and collect the money. - ' aod “= LA 4269-C said that LESCHETSKO in 1959. séid more. ae cards than did LOCOCO but that ‘this did not matter. because the . two. operate together for the overall control of the cards. 4 _ ANDREW. sosepyXSc0c0 $ is prégently the subject of a ‘pending. Anti-Racketeering case in the Los Angeles Office and. is being investigated under . the- Top Hoodlum Program, Los Angeles is currently attempting’to determine the reliability or. unreliability of LA 4269-C. : COVER PAGE Doclda:32304507T Page 2?
" Released under the John F. Kennedy | Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44°08 2107 Hote). - x. < , , ea DL i622i29--—— ~~ IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS: The following informants contacted by the Agents so designated have all furnished reliable information in the past and careful consideration hg@s been given to each source concealed and T symbols were utilized in this report only in those instances where the identities of the: sources must be - concealed. “DL T-1 is DL-95-C, contacted by SA ROBERT M. BARRETT. DL T-4 is DL-144-C¥, contacted by SA ROBERT P,. _GEMBERLING. DL T-5. is Mr. R.. A, . BURROW, Chief Special Agent, Southwestern. Bell Telephone ‘Company ; contacted by SA BARRETT, DL T-6 is BILL TRIMBLE, Southwestern States Telephone Company, Irving, Texas, contacted by SA™ BARRETT. -DL T-7 is BOGER GAGE, Office Manager, Central. ‘Telephone Company , Decatur, Texas, contacted by ‘8A ROBLEY Dd. MADLAND. . Sim =Ga* | COVER PAGE Docld:32304507T Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 3107 Hotey. DATE: ii- 14-7017 -_ - DL 162-129 ‘February 11, 1962, YEAGER asked informant, with whom YEAGER has become quite friendly, if he wanted to join YEAGER in a trip to Waco, Texas on the night of February 12, 1962, YEAGER stated to DL.T-1 that during the past weekend YEAGER had a placed bets on 14 separate basketball games. with DON: FULTON, _ LITTLE's employee at the club, and had won on all 14 games. . YEAGER told informant he won on these bets based on informa-. tion{he was receiving through a contact in- ‘Waco. On February 13, 1962, DL T-1 advised that he and YEAGER had made the trip to Waco the night of February 12, 1962 in’ YEAGER's tan 1962 Chevrolet. They arrived at about | 9:30 pm and. went to the Sportsman Bar where they met two men, one named PARKER and the other who was not named, but “herein referred | to as UNSUB No. 1. DL T-1 observed YEAGER give/UNSUB No. 1 $2500. cash but there was no reason for this payment stated. Informant also observed YEAGER give to o UNSUB No. 1 an additional $500 and told him to bet in on Mississippi State, at even money, in connection with the game to be played that night between Mississippi State and Kentucky. It is noted Kentucky was a heavy favorite but Mississippi State won the ball game, DL Tel stated YEAGER claimed to have been formerly connected with the "Turf", Galveston, Texas. DL T-1 stated YEAGER, when in Dallas, makes all» his: bets from a pay phone located across the street from — 3109 West Davis. fP—L T-1 described YEAGER as a white, male in his fifties, 5'8",. 160. pounds, graying hair, wears a suit, dark ‘glasses and a hat at all times. - He gives the appearance of a gambler. — . On February 12, 1962, DL T-1 identifiéd Dallas . gambler BOBBY. JOE. CHAPMAN’ as. having been at the Redmen Club | : on the night of February 11, 1962; and further stated that CHAPMAN along with persons. described by informant as gamblers and identified as WILLIAM MARTIN, _GLENN BURNETT and MARVIN RALPH PRESTRIDGE, were all. planning ‘to travel to Hot) Springs, Arkansas for the racing season, DL -T-1l also stated that frequent visitor at the club, MIKE LESCHETSKO, appeared to have suffered some heavy loses recently on basketball bets. DL T-1. stated that part-owner of the club.FRED COMPTON, recently won $2200 in a poker game at the club from EVERETT | GOOLSBY, FBI: #47353D. Informant stated GOOLSBY is a constant visitor at the club. DoclId:32304507T Page 4