Originator: FBI
From: SU
To: HQ
Document date: 01/10/1955
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

FBI

124-90088-10039

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 62-75147-44-590

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Assassination Records Collection act of

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Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SU

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 01/10/1955

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

BENJAMIN BINION

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

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4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/14/1998

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ST 94-137

GIT WARNER, a-reported jewelry and fur fence

from Los Angeles, California,

has also been

observed very frequently at the Sands Hotel

and Pit Boss at the Sands Hotel Me owner

MARSHALL CAFAIANO, wa., Johnny Marshall, pre-

viously mentioned, has been observed around

the Desert Inn.

JACK and LOU DRAGNA and JOE and FRID SICA have

seen reported to bein Las vegas on numerous

occasions in the past few months.

Of the lesser lights that have been in the vicin-

ly of or have been residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the

recent past are MURRAY BOARD of the Board

Gang and JAMES

for Armed Robbery.

According to PCI FRANK ENGLISH, JETT has

also been associating with JIMMY WILLIAMS, well known to the

Las Vegas Police Department and SherifIle Office as a sticke

man and burglar.

WILLIAMS and ALFR'D LEOTROONEY, Wa.,

hooney, were arrested for the burglary of the safe at the Derby

Turf Club.

This case was continued on two occasions, and

during the time it was continued WILLIAMS and ROONEY

pulled

an

armed robbery of Roxie's, house of prostitution on the Boulder

Highway, and

obtained an

undetermined anount of money. Both

were arrested and charges filed on this armed robbery; both

were released.

Shortly after this robbery a hearing before

Justice of the Peace JOHN LYTLE was held and the burglary

charge was dismissed. Both individuals are still out on bond

on the Armed Robbery charge.

BENNY BINION, wa.

FBI Number 206216

f."

BINION is presently Incarcerated in the U.S. Peni-

tentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, having received a five-year

sentence in December of 1953 for Income Tax Evasion.

BINION

was fined at that time 1540,000.00. Just prior to his being

sentenced on this charge he was

the

principal owner of the

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SU 94-137

Ney

hotel man; gambler and breeder of thoroughbred horses.

sale price was reported to be $850,000.00. The Horseshoe Club

has been completely remodeled by BROW.

SU 283-0 auyised that he received information

*CAUDILL that a contribution had been

Texas, and that this contribution was for the express purpose

of having BINION's five-year sentence which he received in

State Court in Texas reduced so he could apply for parole from

the Federal Prison at Leavenworth the first time the Parole

Board meets and BINION has done sufficient time to be eligible

for parole.

"DOBY DOC" CAUDILL has made the

statement that

BINION should be eligible for parole in August, 1955.

PETER BRADY, WaS

Pete, Brady, Petet donch:

PETER BRADY has been mentioned on numerous occa-

sions by Lieutenant LLOYD BELi of the Clark County Sheriff's

Office, Las Vegas, Nevada, as being one of the bigger fences

for stolen merchandise in the Las Vegas area.

Net an,

BRADY formerly

was a Pit Boss in the Gambling Casino of the

Desert Inn Hotel.

His former homes were Detroit,

Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio.

At the time the new Showboat Resort Hotel was constructed on

the Boulder Highway and the gambling operations of the casino

In this hotel were taken over by the "Cleveland Mob", who are

the operators of the Desert Inn Hotel, FatE BRADY was transfer-

red from the Desert Inn to the Showboat as a Pit Boss.

It has been noted that BRADY and MARSHALI

CAPAIANO, alias Johnnyafalano, have, been associating together

around the Desert Inn Hoüel.

POI DOROTHY SCHWEITZER, who is a telephone

operator at the Desert Inn Hotel, Las

BRADY 18 callod on many occasions iron Los Angeles, California,

by women and that he has made numerous reservations for girls

at the Desert Inn and other hotels.

SCHWEITZER is of the

opinion that BRADY is having some of these girls come in over

week ends to practice prostitution. However, no further

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