Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, LA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 04/19/1968
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/20/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10290-10408

HQ

92-6054-2314

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, LA

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE : 04/19/1968

' PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

LCN, ILLEGAL, GAMBLING, PANGUINGUE AKA PAN,

ASSOC, B/F INT

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/13/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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LA COSA NOSTRA. ARS CONSPIRACY: 00 NEW YORK.

RE LA TEL TO BUREAU MARCH IWENTY NINE LAST.

PANGUINGUE AKA PAN.

PAN IS A FAST MOVING CARD GAME PRIMARILY PLAYED

BY WOMEN WHICH HAS A LARGE APPEAL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN AITEMPTS TO

OPEN AND OPERATE PAN CARD PAROLORS BUT ACTION BY LOCAL

AUTHORITIES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE BY AND LARGE PREVENTED

A LONG TERM OPERATION. BASED ON CURRENT LEGISLATION THE

GAME OF PAN IS NOT A VIOLATION OF STATE LAW, BUT LOCAL

AUTHORITIES HAVE MADE RECENT ARRESTS AND HAVE PASSED A COUNTY

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ORDINANCE OUTLAWING PAN AS ILLEGAL. OPERATIVES OF PAN HAVE

APPEALED THIS ORDINANCE ON GROUNDS THAT IT IS UNCONSIITUTIONAL

TO OUTLAW PAN AND PERMIT OTHER GAMES SUCH AS GIN RUMMY,

BRIDGE AND POKER

TO OPERATE. A SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE IS

CURRENTLY REVIEWING THIS APPEAL.

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THE TWO PAN CLUBS IN LA .

ARE NAMED THE ALMONT AND CELEBRITY. THE CELEBRITY CLUB :

IS OPERATED BY JACK

. CALLIE WHO IS A FRONI MAN FOR LA FOUR

SEVEN ONE ONE C-TE. INVESTORS IN THIS CLUB INCLUDE LA LCN

FAMILY AND GEORGE GORDON.

THAT ALMONT CLUB FOR YEARS WAS FRONTED BY MANUEL

RICKIE JACOBS, A LA GAMBLER. HE IS CURRENTLY NOT ON THE

LICENSE BECAUSE OF FEDERAL INDICTMENT IN THE BEVERLY HILLS

FRIARS CLUB CASE, BUT IS THE FRIMARY BEHIND THE SCENES

OPERATOR. INVESTORS IN THIS CLUB INCLUDE LA FOUR SEVEN ONE

ONE C-TE, NEW YORK GAMBLER CHARLES MEYERSON, NEW YORK LON

MEMBER CARMINE TRAMUNTI. REPRESENTING LUCHESE FAMILY, LAS

VEGAS HOODLUM IRVING NIGGY DEVINE, MIAMI GAMBLER GEORGE

GORDON AND NEW YORK RESTAURATEUR WILLIE ROSEN.

LA FOUR SEVEN ONE ONE C-TE REPORTED PREVOUSLY

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THAT HE HAD MET WITH TRAMUNTI AND BEEN CONSIGNED TO INSURE

PROFITS MADE BY NEW YORK INVESTMENT SAFELY CARRIED NEW

YORK AREA• RECENTLY THIS INFORMANT ADVISED THAT WILLIE ROSEN

OWNER OF GAISBY RESTAURANT, NEW YORK, AND CLOSE ASSOCIATE

FRANK SINATRA, HAS BEEN HELD PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE TO

TRANSPORI THE MONEY TO THE NEW YORK LON FAMILY.

ON APRIL EIGHTEEN LAST LA FIVE ZERO FOUR ZERO PC

ADVISED HE WAS RECENTLY CONTACIED BY NIGGY DEVINE AND

INSTRUCTED TO CALL WILLIE ROSEN WHO AT THAT TIME WAS

RESIDING IN LA WITH HELEN GRECO ENTERTAINER AND FORMER WIFE

OF SPIKE JONES, DECEASED. HELEN GRECO PREVIOUSLY WAS

DATED BY LCN MEMBER JOHN ROSELLI WHO RESIDES LA. INFORMANT

DID CONTACI ROSEN WHO TOLD INFORMANT THAT HE HAD RECENTLY

MET WITH RICKIE JACOBS AT THE ALMONT CLUB AND HAD AN

ARGUMENT WITH HIM DEMANDING WHY INVESTORS NEW YORK HAD NOT

RECEIVED RETURN ON THEIR MONEY. JACOBS CLAIMED NO RETURN.

SENT BECAUSE OF EXTENSIVE EXPENSES INCURRED IN REOPENING

AND CURRENT OPERATION OF ALMONT CLUB. ROSEN TOLD INFORMANT

THAT HE MAY HAVE TO GO BACK TO JACOBS TO DEMAND THIS MONEY

AND DESIRES INFORMANT TO ACCOMPANY HIM ON NEXT CONTACT.

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LA 92-1112

LA FOUR SEVEN ONE ONE C-TE DETERMINED RICKIE

JACOBS IN PAST HAS PERSONALLY POCKETED DEBTS OWED TO CLUB

AND NOT ADVISED OWNERS. BOTH INFORMANIS INDICATE RICKIE

JACOBS MAY BE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH INVESTORS INCLUDING

TRAMUNTI•

THIS MATTER BEING CLOSELY FOLLOWED AND BUREAU AND

OTHER OFFICES WILL BE KEPT ADVISED. IN ORDER TO PROTECT LA

INFORMANTS THIS MATTER NO DISSEMINATION SHOULD BE MADE OF

ABOVE •

NEW YORK FORWARD TO LA PHOTO AND RUNDOWN ON

ROSEN INCLUDING HIS KNOWN HOODLUM

ASSOCIATES.

END

LRC R RELAY

FBI WASH DC

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