Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/14/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10290-10250

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-3171-150

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ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, CG

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

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USC

FEDERAL

BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAR 14 1961

ALL INFORIATION CONTAINED

GLETYPE

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE5-2384 BYS 5056/CAL

URGENT

3-14-61

8-15 PM DFS

Mr. Tolson.

Mr. Parsons.

Mr. Mohr

Mr. Belmont

Mr. Callahan.

Mr. Conrad

Mr. DeLoad

Mr.

Evanst

Mr. Malone

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele. Room

Mr. Ingram

Miss Gandy.

TO DIRECTOR, FBI 92-3171

FROM SAC,

CHICAGO 92-349

Meter

SAMUEL A ELANCANA, ANA, AR DAILY SUMMARY MENED, AREA RE

TECT IDENTITY ENPAREN RECONTACTED RE KNOWLEDGE OF GIANCANA-S ACTIVI-

TIES NORTHWEST SUBURBS OF CHICAGO, HODL ADVISED HE WAS POKER AND DICE

DEALER AND HANDLED BOOKMAKING OPERATIONS FOR APPROX. TEN YEARS

AT THE LAGON WHEEL, CHICAGO

AND AT THE

[VIERA, NILES, ILL. STATED

LEFT EMPLOYMENT IN AUG. LAST. SAID THAT CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING HIS

LEAVING EMPLOYMENT WERE INAT LATE LAST SUMMER HE REQUESTED PERMISSION

FROM

ROCCO

POTENZO OF RIVIERA TO DEAL POKER GAME AT THE

AINBO LOUNGE,

CICERO. PERMISSION GRANTED AND AFTER APPROX. TWO WEEKS WAS FIRED FOR

TRANSPORTING CLIENTELE FROM POTENZO-S ESTABLISHMENT TO CICERO. HODL

STATES THAT WAGON WHEEL WAS RUN AS GAMBLING OPERATION FOR YEARS BY

NICKS-AMICO, WHO-THEN RELENTED TO PRESSURE BY GIANCANA AND WAS TAKEN

IN AS QUOTE PARTNER UNQUOTE WITH GIANCANA AT THE WAGON WHEEL ABOUT THREE

YEARS AGO. WAGON WHEEL IS NOW OPERATING AS A HORSE BOOK, RACING WIRE

SERVICE WITH POKER AND CRAP TABLES IN SAME LOCATION. AVERAGE DAILY

NET FOR HORSE RACING OPERATION APPROXE -NE THOUS

THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY.

REC- 14

POKER GAME IS ONE TO TWO DOLLAR LIN CAMSHANDLEY THE HOUSE, THE

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GAME AT THE RIVIERA IS RUN BY SALVATORE MERCURIO WHOSE NAME APPEARS ON

THE LIQUOR LICENSE AT THIS ESTABLISHMENT. MERCURIO-S POSITION SIMILAR

TO THAT OF HODL WHEN LATTER WAS EMPLOYED THERE. HORSE BOOK OPERATION AT

RIVIERA RUN BY JASPERPELLCANE AND THE STRIP GIRLS AND PROSTITUTES E

WORKING OUT OF THE DOWNSTAIRS BAR RUN BY THOMAS PROTENZO, BROTHER OF

ROCCO. ROSE TUMMINELLO, OWNER OF PREMISES AT SIX FIVE FOUR ZERO NORTH

MILWAUKEE AVE., NILES, IS DESCRIBED BY HODL AS THE WIFE OF ROCCO POT-

ENZO. • HOWEVER, THIS BELIEVED TO BE IN ERROR. HODL STATES EACH EVEN-

ING MONEY IS COLLECTED FROM THE OPERATIONS AT THE WAGON WHEEL AND TURN-

ED OVER TO A REPRESENTATIVE OF POTENZO AT THE RIVIERA. HODL STATES

GIANCANA HAS IN THE PAST UTILIZED THE

FLAMINGO MOTEL, WHEELING,_ ILLOS

AS MEETING PLACE AND ALSO MET WITH POTENZO AT CORSICA HIGHLANDS RES-

JAURANT, NOW CLOSED. HOWEVER, ROOMS IN THE ADJACENT MOTEL, MAY STILL BE

USED FOR MEETINGS. HODL ADVISED THAT WHEN HE BECAME LICENSEE FORIATRE

LINER LOUNGE, ROSEMONT ILLEg HE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE VILLAGE PRESIDENT

STEVENS BY CHARLES

GLANCANA, BROTHER OF THE SUBJECT. CHARLES

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GIANCANA INSTRUCTED STEVENS TO QUOTE TREAT HODL RIGHT UNQUOTE. HODL

SAID THAT HE HAD NO TROUBLE WITH STEVENS AND WAS NOT CONTACTED BY HIM

TO CLOSE DOWN BOOKMAKING OPERATIONS. NOTED THAT STEVENS INTERVIEWED BY

BUREAU AGENTS RECENTLY AND SAID THAT HE- INSTRUCTED HODL TO CLOSE DOWN

BOOKMAKING OPERATIONS WHEN HE BECAME AWARE OF THEM. HODL ADVISED HE IS

MAKING ATTEMPTS AT THIS TIME TO REGAIN HIS FORMER EMPLOYMENT WITH ROCCO

POTENZO AT THE RIVIERA LOUNGE. NOTED ALSO THAT SALVATORE MERCURIO

INTERVIEWED BY BUREAUAGENTS AND STATED THAT HE IS THE MANAGER OF THE

RIVIERA DOWNSTARIS BAR AND INDICATED THE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOODLUM

ACTIVITIES WITHING THE ESTABLISHMENT, STATING HE RAN A QUOTE LEGITI-

MATE BUSINESS UNQUOTE. MARK

IRIEDMAN, VICE PRESIDENT

JUPITER DASH MID-

BEST OR COMPANY, SUBSIDIARY OF JUPITER ONES LIMITED, CONTACTED INSTANT

DATE, ADVISED THAT JUPITER OILS LEASED PROPERTY OCCUPIED BY VILLA

MODERNE MOTEL, NORTHBROOK, ILLO, JAN. LAST. FRIEDMAN INDICATED THAT JUP-

TIER OILS ALSO HAS INTERESTS IN OR OWNS THE

CROSSROADS, DEAUVILLE EL

AND OTHER LARGE MOTELS LOCATED NEAR O-HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORI,

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