Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, BU
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/21/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

5/20/201

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10290-10460

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-6054-2470

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: SAC, BU

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 12/21/1968

'PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

LCN, MEMBERS A/O ASSOC, GAMBLING, PDT, ARREST

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/27/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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DATE: (72v. 3227977

I T. Kenneny Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107-1

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Date:

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AIR MAIL

(Priority)

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-6054)

BROM: SAC, BUFFALO (92-337)

LA

AR

COSA NOSTRA - BUFFALO DIVISION

92-7594)

is the major sports bookmaker in

Family."

"MAGADDINC

He presently is serving a suspended two and one-

hali to live year sentence on a deadly weapons charge. He

reportedly is the

"brains" behind

"The Arm's" sports

betting network in Western New York.

Based on the above information of informant,

which was disseminated to Captain KENNETH P. KENNEDY (NA),

Gambling Squad, Buffalo Police Department, local search

warrant was obtained 12/20/60, for 160 Sixteenth Street,

Buffalo, New York, (his aged mother's residence which he

was using as a cover. The warrant was executed 7:00 PM

last evening and TODARO arrested operating a telephone at

that location.

Betting sheets, including latest line on

all major basketball games throughout country seized.

Police Department members took numerous bets from TODARO's

telephone indicating large betting volume. TODARO

managed to destroy some records on flash paper before being

seized but Captain KENNEDY stated from information available

nightly action runs into thousands of dollars.

Bureau (AM)-

Buffalo

RE657 92-6054-24

24.16

- 92-570,

RICHIE TODARO)

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- 137-100A

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