Originator: FBI
From: SAC, PG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 1956-09-28 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10224-10031

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 63-50-10, 11

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

SAC, PG

DIRECTOR, FBI

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Flecords Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:NW

65994 Date: 11-02-2021

DATE:

09/28/1956

PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS :

SMO, ASSOC, REL, B/F INT, GAMBLING ACT, TELCAL, POLIT

ACT,

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

05/02/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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STA:

GIR

Cince Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

:Director, FBl

DATE: March 29, 1957

Estonom

SAC, Pittsburgh (94-172 Sub M)

SUBJECT:

SAMUEL MANNARIO, WaS.

GIIF (TOP HOODLUM PROGRAM)

Re SAC Letter 53-58 dated 8/25/53, and Pittsburgh letter to the Bureau dated

9/28/56.

On November 21, 1956, PG 545-0, who in the past has supplied reliable

information, advised SA JOHN S. PORTELLA that about one month ago he was

talking with "Hog" WILSON, Merwin, Pennsylvania, regarding an option on

640 acres of land, and after talking to WILSON he learned that • S. MRAN,

a real estate agent in New Kensington, was also interested in the land.

Informant said he had heard that both

the Aluninum Company of America and

Westinghouse had this land site in mind for a research center and informant

could not understand MRAN's interest in the property.

Informant said he

went to MORAN and talked to him about the property and MORAN denied that

he was interested in it in any sense. Informant said that on the same date

he went to SAM MANNARIN 's office at the Nu-Ken Iron and Steel Company and

saw on SAMes desk a note from MORAN, who wanted SAM to call him back imme-

diately about the WILSON property.

Informant said he never connected MORAN

with the MANNARINOs until this incident. Informant said that since this

incident he has talked to MANNARINO, who has indicated that he does now

have an interest in the WILSON property. Informant described WILSON as an

old millionaire farmer who owns thousands of acres in the New Kensington

area and who also owns a large part of the Kiski Bank. Informant advised

that SAM MANNARINO is very interested in buying up large tracts of land for

cash. Informant said that MANNARINO recently purchased 300 acres at $100

an acre near Weinels Crossing and MANNARINO has told informant that he has

the inside track on the proposed New Kensington Airport site. SAM MANNARINO

also told informant that he has been getting most of his cash fron his

brother KELLY MANNARINO and informant has no idea where KELLY is getting it.

Lar at to the 1o

Informant stated that gambling in New Kensington and surrounding area is

completely dominated by KELLY MANNARINO, brother of SAM, and this control

could account for KELLYis possession of large amounts of cash.

Informant suggested that the MANNARINOS! contact in the New Kensington

Telephone Company may be the sister of GENEVIEVE MORENO, who has a sister:

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memor. ndum • UNITED STA

8 GOVERNMENT

TO

: DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

9/28/56

BROM : SAC, PIIISBURGH (94-172 Sub M.)

UBJECT:

SAMUEL MANNARINO, WaS.

GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE FILE

(TOP HOODLUM PROGRAM)

SAME MANNARINA

Re SAC letter 53-58 dated 8/25/53 and Pittsburgh letter

to the Bureau dated 3/29/56.

On 3/4/56, PCI LUCILLE KELLEY, who has furnished reliable

information in the past, advised SA JOHN R. ACKERLY that

she had been in the company of NEALMAGEL who maintains

an apartment in the Bigelow Apartments and is an officer

of the Brush Manufacturing Company, Inc., 1420 Fifth

Avenue, Arnold, Pa.

KELLEY advised that while she was

with HAGEL the previous weekend, he was bragging about

his close association with the

MANNARINOS of New Kensington

Pa., and of their interests which they maintained in the

Brush Manufacturing Company

and what a lucrative business

it was.

KELLEY further advised that HAGEL maintained

apartment number 472 in the Bigelow and she received the

impression from HAGEL that this apartment was often

frequented by the New Kensington crowd, including the

MANNARINOS.

On 4/16/56, PG 545-0, who has furnished reliable infor-

mation in the past, advised SA JOHN S. PORTELLA that

PHIL BETTOR of New Kensington, Pa brother of former

Chief of Police of New Kensington, JOHN BellOR, 1s a

bookkeeper and handles the books for the racket element

of New Kensington and, in particular, for SAM MANNARINO

of New Kensington. Infornant further stated that BETTOR

boasts of keping a dual set of books, one being a true

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set, which is for the MANNARINO's use,

and the other,

a false set, which is maintained for

the scrutiny of

the

Internal Revenue Service and other governmental agencies.

PG 545-0 advised that he had seen these books once,

several jears ago, and at that time they were being

delivered to the home of PHIL BETTOR.

PG 545-0 further

advised that SAM MANNARINO remains concerned about

having ready cash available and has made remarks that

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PG 94-172 Sub M

We wishes he had

saved his money like his brother, GABRIEL

LANNARINO, aka. "KELLY!"

The informant stated that it is

his guess

that SAM MANNERINO is handling most of the

legitimate enterprises for the MANNARINOS while GABRIEL

controls: the gambling and other illicit enterprises.

It is to be noted that the above information referring

to the true and false set of books has been made available

to the Internal Revenue Service by appropriate letter by

the Pittsburgh Office.

On 5/11/56, PG 545-C advised SA PORTELLA that SAM MANNARINO

had been recently making trips to Chicago for an unknown

purpose. Informant claimed that MANNARINO, for the past

two months, has been paying him $200 a week for his work

in locating property which MANNARIN has been purchasing•

Practically all of the property purchased by MANNARINO

is done so in the name of a relative or an employee of

the Nu-Ken Iron and Steel Company of New Kensington.

He

stated that from MANNERINO he has learned that the

MANNARINOS continue to maintain an interest in the

Ou do Fad by thater salthough the records show that

PA

On 5/10/56, MIKE ZERVIS, New Kensington, Pa., who has

furnished reliable information in the past, advised

SA PORIELLA that the bookmaking operations, recently

disturbed by the Federal Internal Revenue Service, have

moved to the Laetus Club, located on Fifth Avenue near

the Kenmawr Hotel and that the operation is strictly

MANNARINO controlled. ZERVIS stated that telephone bets

are channeled to the

following numbers: Edison 9-9209 and

Edison 5-7871.

He stated that a young New Kensington man

named DE PHILLIPS, nicknamed "ATI," handles the telephone

business for the MANNARINOS. ZERVIS further stated that

the MANNERINOS control the numbers racket in New Kensington. i

ZERVIS further advised that FRINKID PHILLIPS, father of

young FRANKIE PHILLIPS, is hated by SAM MANNARINO but

respected by GABRIEL MANNARINO because GABRIEL realizes

that FRINKIE PHILLIPS remains very close to BILLYNOWE

ind Judge BAUER, both of New kensington, who have a

solitical control of all rackets and gambling i

Westmoreland County. According to ZERVIS, GABRIEL

MANNARINO continues to operate his gambling establishments

and rackets and, therefore, must show FRINKIE PHILLIPS

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PG 94-172 Sub M

some consideration in order not to incur the wrath of BILL'

NOWE.

On 6/13/56, PG 509-C, who has furnished reliable information

in'the past, contacted SA PORTELLA by long distance telephone

from Miami Beach, Florica.

He advised that he had met

SAM MANNARINO at

the Commodore Hotel,

that City, and that

it appeared to him that MANNARINO was mentally

1l1 and was

possibly losing his mind.. PG 509-0 stated that MANNARINO

went to Florida ostensibly to have his teeth fixed but

that his behavior while in Florida indicated to him that

ié may be mentally sick. He further

Seen MANNARINO in the company of TOE EROLA, Former used

car dealer from Pittsburgh.

MANNARINO, according to the

informant, was possibly living somewhere on Sea Isle on

21st Street, off Collins Avenue in Miami Beach.

• On 6/6/56, GABRIEL "KELLY" MANNARINO advised SA PORTELLA

that he had spent the previous three months in Miami Beach,

Florida at his residence located on Surfside near 89th

Street and

that he owned a house at this address. He

advised that his brother, SAM, was in Florida at

that

time, had been there a month and that he was there to have

his teeth fixed and to have a cyst removed from his chest.

KELLY MANNARINO advised at this time that he and his

brother, SAM, own the /Outdoor Family Theater located off

Leechburg Road, Westmoroland County. Pa., and that they

are in the outdoor theater speaker manufacturing business.

He stated that their speaker sells for less than the RCA

speaker by about $2 and that they sell this speaker all

over the United States using no particular brand name and

that they generally put the name of the purchaser or

customer on the

speaker if desired. In addition to this

business, MANNARINO stated, they own the wu-Ken Iron and

Steel Company and theitu-Ken Novelty Company, both

New Kensington, Parmand that both of these businesses are

doing very well.

MANNARINO further stated that their

gambling and numbers set

up are thriving.

On 8/1/56, SAM MANNARINO advised SA PORTELLA that he was

shipping slot machines from several spots in Pennsylvania

to Havana, Cuba, where he had approval of the government

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