Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: GALE, J. H.
To: DELOACH
Document date: 08/30/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

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Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10288-10427

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-6054-2418

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

GALE, J. H

TO:

DELOACH

TITLE :

DATE: 08/30/1968

' PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

LCN, BURGLARS, BUSCEMI, LEONARD, MURIELLO, FRANK,

ARRESTED, BKG, SUR

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

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5010-106

MAY 1962 EDITION

DID GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

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UNITED STATES

KNMENT

Memorandum

TO

: Mr. DeLoa

DATE: August 30, 1968

FROM

J. H. Gale

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SUBJECT: LA COSA NOSTRA

BUFFALO DIVISION

SYNOPSIS::

SAC, Buffalo, requests Buffalo Office be given credit

for recoveries totaling $2,432,986.09. Of this amount, $2,428,986.09

is market value of stocks and bonds stolen in burglary July 3, 1968,

recovered by Bureau Agents.

of money and property recovered when the burglars, Leonard Buscemi

and Frank Muriello, were arrested.

The recoveries and arrests

were based on information received from Buffalo top echelon

informant.

BACKGROUND:

Top echelon informant BU 332-C-TE advised that two

well-known burglars, Leonard Buscemi and Frank Muriello, had

contacted him with reference to fencing some stolen property,

including stocks and bonds taken in the burglary of, the residence

of David M. Strasenburgh, Brighton, New York, and concealed by.

• in water in Irondequoit Bay (Lake

Ontario),.

These

stocks and bonds had a market value of $2,428,986.09 at the

time";

of the burglary on July 3, 1968.

In addition, the informant advised that Buscemi

Muriello were involved in a burglary of the residence of i

and:

Martin E. Nash, 690 Maniton Road, Greece, New York, on

August 8;

1968, in which a safe containing $3,000 in cash

and

$20,000 in

United States Savings Bonds was taken.

The safe taken. from the strasenburgh residences

with the stolen securities intact was recovered by an Agent

of the Buffalo Office usingascuba

diving equipment on July 31,

1968.

No Bureau violation was found, and upon dissémination

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