Originator: FBI
From: CG
To: HQ
Document date: 12/17/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

4/1/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90086-10117

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-3141-99

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

CG

TO:

HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

12/17/1965

28

JOSEPH STEIN

FELIX ALDERISIO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

RPT

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

68252 Date: 09.22-2022

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JFK Act 5 (g) (2)(D)

CG 92-415

INFORMANTS

'Source

Date of Contact

CG T-1,

CG 6884-PC

Contacting Agent

SA PAUL B. FRANKFURT

CG T-2,

CG 6443-C-TE

CG T-3,

CG

PCI

August 26, 1965

SA JOSEPH G. SHEA

September

24, 1965

2,

6, 8, SA ROBERT L. MALONE

CG T-4,

CG 6769-C

September 15, 28, 1965

SA RALPH E. WILLIAMS

CG T-5,

PCI RUDY DROZD September 27, 1965 SA SAM T. GALOVICH

CG T-6,

MM1003-C-TE

October 18, 1965

SA RALPH R. HILL

CG T-7,

PCIT

On numerous occasions

during the month of

September, 1965

SA MICHAEL G. SIMON

CG T-8

CG 667ỏ-c

November 4, 1965

SA PAUL B. FRANKFURT

-Q*

COVER PAGE

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CG 92-415

On September 2, 1965, CG T-3 advised SA ROBERT L.

MALONE he received a

telephone

call at his home in Toledo,

Ohio, on August 31, 1965, from CHARLES YORK, former Mascoutah,

Illinois, banker currently connected with JOSEPH STEIN, First

National Mortgage Company, 645 North Michigan, Chicago,

Illinois.

YORK told informant he and ROBERT FERRELL, alSO

connected with First National Mortgage Company, that

they would

fly to Toledo to discuss a business proposition.

On September

1965, YORK and FERRELL arrived in Toledo and both told informant

they represented some people who have a lot of money to

invest and that their principals are putting some of their

money

into the construction of a condominium high-rise apartment

building they plan to build on Sheridan Road near Loyola

University, Chicago, Illinois.

They asked informant if he

would be willing to

participate in this project to the extent

of doing the preliminary engineering work and to help

secure a contractor to build the condominium. They asked him

to come to Chicago with them in order to meet their principals,

which he agreed to do.

On the same date informant flew into

Chicago with YORK and FERRELL. They took him to the Sahara

North Motel and while en route they told him their principals

were highly placed members of the Chicago crime "syndicate"

and he was going to be introduced to "TEETS" BATTAGLIA's right

hand man, an individual

more powerful. in the "outfit" than

FELIX ALDERISIO. Upon arrival at the Sahara North informant

was introduced

to one JOE ZAY (PH) and a TONY ROCCO. ZAY told

informant he and three unnamed associates

planned to finance

the erection of the aforementioned condominium as well as a

building complex and shopping center to be built at a

proposed interchange where Milwaukee Avenue meets the Tri-

State Todlway.

interchange

ZAY asked informant to do the preliminary

engineering and to get RAY HARRINGTON, Shamrock Construction

Company, Gary, Indiana, to agree to construct these projects.

Informant told ZAY about the problems he had had in the past

with people Like GUIDO FIDANZI, HARVEY POWERS, GUS RUBINO,

and others.

Lay told informant not to worry about these

people as he would get them off informant's back.

Informant

agreed to meet with ZAY again on September 3, 1965.

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CG 92-415

On September 6, 1965, informant advised as follows:

On Friday,

September 3, 1965, he took UAL flight

number 727 from Toledo, Ohio,

to Chicago, arriving O'Hare

Field 7:12 PM,

CDT.

He was met by CHARLES YORK at 7:45

PM and driven in his 1961 four door Pontiac to the Sahara

North Motel, where

they were met by Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT

FERRELL. At about 8:20 PM they were joined by a man intro-

duced as JOEY FERRARO (PH), said to be the manager of the

Sahara North and a partner

Of JOE ZAY for 30 years.

At about 8:25 PM the above were joined by ZAY

his associate, LOU VERIVE (PH) • At this time ZAY told

informant that his three associates in the building projects

above are JOEY FERRARO, TONY RICCO, and LOU VERIVE.

In about an hour ZAY, who has been identified as

JOE ROCCO, invited informant to meet with him privately in

Room number 217, where it was evident to informant by the

clothing, photographs,

informants o

and other personal effects there,

ROCCO permanently resides or frequently stays.

At this

meeting ROCCO quizzed informant intently as to his past

associations with GUIDO FIDANZI, HARVEY POWER, BOB FERRELL

and YORK.

He further wanted to know about the progress made

to date on the Denver Towerland project.

ROCCO then told

informant that informant would be his partner if he made

money on the Denver project first. He further advised that

this would afford informant protection from then on from

anyone "especially from nobodies like GUIDO."

He further

confided that he and his associates had an "in" "with the

George W. Fuller Company, a very large New York construction

firm and he was going to participate in a $300,000 commission

to be paid by George

W. Fuller. Company for having received

the general contract to build the Denver Towerland project.

Informant

told ROCCO this was

strange inasmuch as ROBERT

OSTRANDER, who works with

JOE STEIN at the First National

Mortgage Company, had previously told informant that the

$300,000 commission was to be paid to his office.

ROCCO

became upset when he learned this, went downstairs to the

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off iti!

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CG 92-415

coffee shop, got FERRELL and YORK,

and confronted them with

OSTRANDER's claim concerning the $300,000. FERRELL, and YORK

explained to ROCCO the circumstances under which the commission

was to be paid.

OSTRANDER originally introduced YORK to one

BUCKLEY,

who is in the insurance business in Chicago and

whose son is the God-son of the chairman of the board of

George W. Fuller Company.

BUCKLEY prevailed upon his son's

Godfather to agree to construct the Denver project and to

pay the commission. YORK felt the commission shoud be split

three ways.

no on 00k and

BUCKLEY was to receive $100,000, OSTRANDER to

receive $100,000; and the remaining $100,000

to be split

three wyas between YORK, FERRELL,

and ROCCO. When ROCCO

heard this he became incensed and said OSTRANDER would not

receive one cent of the commission because he had failed

to pay informant his heretofore agreed to engineering fees.

He said he would talk "to the man" (ALDERISIO) in STEIN'S

office and take them all out of it.. ROCCO's cut of the

commission then became $100,000 and informant became a

12200,000

"partner" with ROCCO.

On September 6, 1965, JOE STEIN and OSTRANDER insisted

that informant meet with them and he did so, at the Water Tower

STEIN asked informant what ROCCO had said about the

$300,000 commission.

STEIN became very upset and called ROCCO

on the telephone in

front of the informant.

STEIN told

ROCCO he and "PHILLY" (ALDERISIO)

were coming right out

seechimid STEIN departed presumably to see ROCCO with

ALDERISIO at the Sahara North.

On September 8, 1965, OSTRANDER told informant,

ALDERISIO and STEIN did go to see ROCCO on September 9,

1965, and when they returned from this meeting ALDERISIO

said

STEIN's office was not going to participate in the

$300,000 commission.

In addition to the foregoing, ROCCO on his first

meeting

with informant said he "would get a hold of JIMMY

CA TUARA

and have him handle that SOB GUIDO FIDANZI once and

for all."!

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