Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 02/24/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/11/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90104-10230

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-74

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/24/1961

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note) .

DATE: 151417-2017

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AIRTEL

FBI

Date:

2/24/61

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TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2940)

SAC PITTSBURGH (92-226)

SEBASTIAN JOHN

LA ROCCA, aka.

AR

RELY

ReBuairtel to New York captioned, "CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE

dated 2/15/61.

Pittsbush eriminal intomant advised this date that FRANt

JOSEPH VALENTI has returned to Pittsburgh vicinity and Is once

agata appearing "in the open" and endeavoring to exert his

temporarily lost influence in the area. He said that VALENTI,

close associate and one-time lieutenant of LA ROCCA, appeared

at the. Red Eagle Club, formerly known as the Genovese Cocktall

Lounge, 412 Larimer Ave., Pittsburgh, on the evening of 2/23/61,

became extremely angry when he saw PG 573-c, with whom he

has had a falling-out, tending bar for the establishment,

which is operated by MIKE GENOVESE, Pittsburgh and national

top hoodlum, who 1s,

a protege of LA ROCCA.

In order to appease VALENTI, FIORE GENOVESE, younger brother

charge of the bar operation,

other Pittsburgn informant

are presently being contacted to ascertain whether or not VALENTI

Its into the LA ROCCA organizational picture for the future,

and whether he intends to once again become prominent in

Pittsburgh rackets.

VALENTI voluntarily surrendered himself to the Monroe County

District Attorney at Rochester, New York,

on 1/18/61. He had

been indicted there for vote fraud and has been released on

$1,500 ba1l.

IN VIEW OF THE CONVICTION OF LA ROCCA FOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT

TO KILL AND HIS ARREST FOR CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON,

MAY BE ARMED AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.

P

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