Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 09/14/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/12/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90103-10093

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-9-34-367

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 09/14/1959

'PAGES:

345

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 |44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:Nw

58262 Date: 09-22-2022

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According to T-30 who advised on February 10,

1959, that he had just returned to Cuba from Miami, had

ascertained while in Miami that a number of well respected

banking individuals in Miami, Including two members of the

nore Interested na

dollar.

Informant stated that MEYER LANSKY was attempting

to dispose of a substantial amount of Cuban currency.

A week later, the informant advised that the

gambling element in Havana had received indications that

LANSKY would not be allowed to return to Havana by the

CASTRO Government.

1959, that he had heard fort after the as gation of ALBERT

ANASTASIA, a meeting of local Mafia members was called to

discuss the allotment and control of gambling rights in the

South Florida-Cuba area.

The informant stated this meeting

took place somewhere on the Florida Keys about ten days

to two weeks before the meeting at Apalachin, New York, on

November 14, 1957.

Informant continued by stating that after an

agreement had been

reached at the Florida meeting, the

meeting in Apalachin was held with the principal item on

the agenda being consideration of the agreement reached at

the local meeting

on the Florida Keys. Informant noted

that JOSEPH SILESI, New York top hoodlum, and SANTO

TRAFFICANTE, Miami top hoodlum, were present at the

meeting in Apalachin, New York. Informant further noted that

the group at Apalachin had to consider Cuban gambling and

narcotics jointly: because the casinos, while potentially

lucrative

as fronts for narcotic

• In themselve®transactions of large size.

additionaly far more important

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HARRY BARNETT

1950 Davidson Avenue

Bronx, New York

SALVATORE BADALAMENTI

755 Anderson Avenue

ClIffside, New

Jersey

SAUL GOLD

228 West 47th Street

New York City

In July, 195%,

T- 12 advised that HARRY

BARNETT was related to A. CHAIT of the Champion

Trucking Company. He advised that BARNETT is merely

a figurehead in

the company, and that ABRAHAM CHAIT

controls the whole operation and reaps the profits

from the company.

JOSEPH BERGER

It has previously been reported that

advised that as of

I- 51 advised that

T-

51

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"T- 51

I-51

JFK LaW

10 (a) 2

T-51

SAM BERGER

It has previously been reported that on

February 12, 1957, SAM BERGER had resigned voluntarily

from his position as manager of Local 102 of the

and had been

associated with

the local in excess of

25 years,

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Prostitution

Prostitution flourishes in New York despite

periodic drives. by vice officers to stamp it out.

rostitutes working in New York may be classified as street

walkers, call girls, house girls and bar hustlers.

Street walkers operate daily between 9:00 p.m.

and 4:00 a.m., on Manhattan's west side, particularly between

42nd and 59th

streets.

These girls are predominantly colored

prostitutes who, for financial reasons, prefer white men but

are not permitted to mingle in bars catering to a white

clientele.

A white street walker, who lives among Negroes and

is source of this office, is well acquainted with a number of

street walkers and their pimps.

Through her efforts many of

the street walkers and their pimps have been identified and,

where there were indications of interstate transportation,

appropriate investigation has been conducted. It is not

unusual on any evening to observe colored pimps drive their

girls to the area around Central Park South and Seventh Avenue,

where the prostitutes alight from the late model Cadillacs

to begin their evening's work.

The average price is around

$35.00 - $50.00 and the john is expected to provide a rcom..

Unless the prostitute mistakenly approaches a vice patrolman

and accompanies him to a room, an arrest of a street walker

is difficult since most of them are adept at spotting a

surveilling officer.

Dotted throughout New York are a number of

houses of prostitution which consist of a one or two-bedroom

apartment with a madam and one or two girls. On the west side

of New York this type of operation abounds in the Seventies

and Eighties,

where the average price is $10.00 - $15.00.

On

che east side this same type of operation exists, also in the

Seventies and Eighties, but the surroundings are

• better and

the fees are usually between $25.00 - $50.00.

Sources of this office, who operate in this

category, have advised that there are

no organized vice rings

supplying girls to these houses and that each house is strictly

an individual operation. This is supported by the fact that

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NEW YORK CITY FUR MARKET

The New York City Fur Market is concentrated

in mid Manhattan in about 12 square blocks from West

27th Street to West 3lst Street, between Broadway

and 8th Avenue. Virtually every buildingin this

area is completely devoted to the housing of some

phase of the fur industry. According to reliable

sources bout 90% of all fur garment manufacturing

in the United States is confined to the New York market.

Further New York City is considered the fur marketing

center of the world. Raw and dressed fur skins of all descriptions

are imported to New

York City from all parts of the world

and sold at auction by two principal auction houses,

The New York Fur Auction Company and The Hudson Bay

Company.

Subsequent to purchase by manufacturers,

skins are made into/variety of garments and sold

largely through jobbers to retail outlets.

Most

mnaufacturers also are jobbers.

In this regard it is to

be noted that almost all retailers of fur garments depend

on an army of Resident Buyers who act as Brokers

between manufacturers, jobbers and retailers.

who has more than 20

that there are about 2,000 manufacturers

in the New

York Market representing about 90 per cent of all

manufacturers in the United States with' principal

competition in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

These New York manufacturers constitute the nucleus

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INFORMANIS

T-1

T-2

T' -3

T-4

T-5

T-S

T-7

T-8

T-9

T-I0

T-11

T-12

T-13.

Former NYND 69,

ALBERT CUPELLI

JOSEPH AMAIO, Supervisor,

FBN, NYC

PCI ANTHONY CIBORSKI, NY

Waterfront Commission

NY 136000 ..

NY 1833

NY 99-C

NY 2151-C

NY 169-C

Lt. JOHN THOMPSON, CIS,

NYCPD

Former NY 1894-0

Former PCI ALEX FUDEMAN

Former NY 842-0 now

MM 656-C

PCI MICHAEL ROMANELLI

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INFORMANIS (CONT'D)

I-14

T-15

I-16

T- 17

T-18

T-19

T-20

T-21

T-22

T-23

T-24

T-26

T-27

T-28

T-29

T- 30

PCI ROCCO COVUCCI

PCI WILLIAM CASSILLO

NY 204-0

NY 889-C

PCI PASQUALE COSSENTINO

PCI RALPH POLIZZIO

POI FRANK GALLUCCIO

PCI JOSEPH PENTANGELO

Former iy 1839-0

NY 2522

NY 2412-0

NY 2666-C

PCI ATEO MOLASCHI

NY 913-0

PCI WILLIAM V. COGAN

PCI JAMES ANTHIONY MADDEN

PCI GUIDO DE PHILLIPS,

Havana, Cuba

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INFORMANTS (CONT'D)

T-31

T-32

T-33

T-34

T-35

T-36

T- 37

T- 38

T- 39

T-40

I-41

I-42

I-43

T-44

T-45

PCI DOMINICK SPOLIDORO

PCI FRED CINCOTTI

NY 202-C

Confidential records of

FBN observed by SA JAMES

P. FLYNN.

NY 2427-0

PCI LORRAINE DEVINE

LA 3961-C

PCI GLORIA BAILEY

PCI FRANK POLUMBO

It. M. B. PHILLIPS, LOS

Angeles P.D.

Capt. JAMES HAMILTON,

Los Angeles P.D.

NY 2512-C

Former NY 1001-C (Deceased)

Former NY 864-C

MM 509-C

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INFORMANTS (CONT'D)

T-46

I-47

I-48

T-49

I-50

T-51

I-52

T-53

T-54.

T-55

I-56

NZ 1716-6

VINCENT CIAR

JAMES C. HILL, D & B,

Tampa, Fla.

LA 4098-0

Records, New York County

Clerk's Office, NYC

Tesinony of JOSEPH BERGER-

Special Federal Grand Jury,

SDNX

ALBERT SILVERMAN, Miami

Beach, Fla.

JOHN O'MARA, NYC Anti-Crime

Commission

CSNY-1

JAMES TROMBETTA, PCI

Legal Attache, Ottawa,

Canada

r-57

T-58

Forner NY 31-6

HODIFS HAMILION, Dallas,

Texas

T-59

EDWARD WEINSTEIN, Assistant

Manager, TRADE BANK & TRUST

CO.. NYC

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INFORMANIS (CONT'D)

I-60

T-61

I-62

I-63

I-64

I-65

I-66

I-67

;

T-68

I- 69

T-70

T-71

I-72

I-73

I-74

JOSEPH GUCOLANO, PCI

R. ELLIS. Narcotics

Squad,

NYCPD

GERALD KATCHER, PCI

FRANK NOLAN, Deceased

Former SA

MINNIE MATHESON (By request)

GATITANO MARETATO, PCI

M'S WEIIBRONNER, PCI

POT: ARTHUR NEWMAN, Havana,

Cula.

EUGENE NIANNINI (deceased)

NY 1532-C

NY 1011-C

NY 2180C

It., SAi FIOLA, Commanding

Officers

Vice

Squad, Nassau

County D.A. is Office

Former Ny 1584-0

PCI. JOHN FELLS

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INFORMANTS (CONT'D)

T-75

I-76

T-77

T-78

T-79

T-80

T-81

I-82

T-83

T-84

T-85

I-86

I-87

T-88

T-89

JACK HERBERT REINER -

con man and subject of.

Bureau case

II 189-C

Former NY 1918-C

NY 184-0

NY 2555-C

NY 10600

NY 977-C

NY 1535-0

PCI HARRY FINKEL

PCI WARREN RELFEA

PCI BERNARD HUGHES

NY 939-C

Capt. FRANK VESCIO, 2nd

Precint, Yonkers P.D.

PCI JOSEPH SCHUNBERGER

NY 817-C

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INFORMANTS (CONT'D)

T-90

T-91

I-92.

T- 93

T-94

T-95

I-96

PCI ELICK PICKNEY

PCI PERCELI GRANVILLE

PCI JOHN ANDREW WHITE

NY 2099-C

NY 2251-C

NY 1768-C

NY 2553-C

4,

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