Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
Document date: 12/4/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/24/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10202-10129

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-9-9-1136

Released under the John

. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 45760 Date:

41-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

SAC, CG

DATE: 12/04/1962

PAGES:

58

SUBJECTS :

THP, CORRUPTION, POLICE/POLITICIANS, CG, IL, BKG

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 10(a)2; 11(a) ; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 01/19/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: INC A/T

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Just prior to D'Arco's departure from the

Legislature, he and three other "blocksters" were subpoenaed

to appear before the Kefauver Senate Committee to testify

in its investigation of a reputed deal to deliver votes

in

Chicago to Democrats so that the four above-mentioned

hoodlums could obtain Federal paroles.

FRANK

Shortly after becoming Alderman of the first

Ward, D'Arco formed a general insurance agency incorporated

vás Anco, Inc.

He was named president and Benjamin

""Buddy"

Jacobson,

Chicago, Twas named secretary.

his company continues to function

to date in Room 2305

at 100 North LaSalle in Chicago, with D'Arco and Jacobson

as otticers and with Paul Moss as general manager. This

company services numerous business concerns and individuals,

mainly those with offices or interests in the First Ward.

In

appeared before the Federal Grand

Jury.

and reportedly

Federal Judge William J. Campbell

termed him a

_JEK Law 10(a)2

Inter

sel

JEK Law 11(a)

D'Arco is served by Pat

Marcy, (or Pat Marci),

true

name believed to bo, Marciano, his

administrative assistant and

secretary, and by Benjamin 'Buddy" Jacobson, Executive Secretary

of the First Ward Regular Democratic Organization.

as broucht into the first ward headquarters by d'Arco i

the early 1950's whereas Jacobson has served in the 20th

being a self-styled

by numerous precinct captains, including his brother-in-law,

Louis

Briatta, "the gambling boss, of the First Ward, " and

a top

lieutenant of hoodlums Gus alex and Frank

Ferraro

who control organized crime in the

First Ward.

REVIEWED BY FEVJFK TASK FORCE

ON

25/98 co

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

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On February 6, 1958, the same source advised

that he was specifically referred to Pat Marcy, John

D'Arco's Secretary, in order to receive permission to put

a 26 game into an

establishment in which the source had an

interest, 26 game being a small gambling-type card game

which is

illegal according to the City ordinances of Chicago.

The culmination of Marcy's efforts was the arrangement whereby

Maxwell Police District Plainclothesman known as

"Smokey"

was paid $50 per month in order to overlook the 26 game..

The same source advised that Alderman D'Arco on other

occasions had referred him to Pat Marcy in order to eliminate

competition from Maxwell Street sidewalk consessions, which

were in effect individuals without licenses who sold their

wares in the street.

Marcy settled the dispute, for which

he demanded several

hundred dollars per year so long as the

settlement was binding. The unique method of payment to

Marcy came about when the source was assessed several hundred

dollars for tickets

, to the Democratic organization's picnic,

usually held in the summertime.

Tickets were 50 cents per

and Marcy simply collected enough tickets to cover the

several hundred dollars, which was in fact payment to Marcy

for settling the above-mentioned dispute.

On August 24, 1962, source advised that an individual

closely associated with Pat Marcy had informed him that

Marcy had given orders for all of the "strip joints" in

the

down with the exception of

three. Marcy mentioned that Eddie Foys was one of the three

was to remain open. Marcy in his conversation indicated

but did not specifically say that Gus Alex had given the

order for the strip joints to temporarily go down. Marcy

explained that "they" have about 10 to 12 million dollars

invested in the Sahara Motel

and that "they" are trying to

get as much convention trade to the Sahara as possible.

"They"

figure that if they temporarily cut down some of the strip

joints which attract conventioneers to the Loop area of

Chicago

and to Loop hotels,

many of the conventioneers flying

to Chicago and landing at O'Hare Field will go to the Sahara

Motel nearby to conduct their convention business. Marcy

indicated that plans are to keep the Loop areaaof Chicago

as far as "outfit" controlled strip joints as quiet as

possible temporarily in order to build up business at the

Sahara Motel.

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