Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: FARABEE, MAURICE F.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 2/12/73
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/27/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10306-10043

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 183-35-3

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: FARABEE, MAURICE F.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

02/12/1973

6

SUBJECTS:

NRO, ERRA, PASQUALE MICHAEL, ASSOC, BOOKMAKING,

MED, B/F INT

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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F17263 (Reive 1-7-72)

• FEDERA BUREAU OF INV STIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

MIAMI

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

MIAMI

PASQUALE MICHAEL

ERRA, aka

NATE

2/12/73

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

6/1/72-217173

REPORT MADE BY

SA MAURICE F. FARABEE

CHARACTER OF CASE

RICO

TYPED BY

jky

REFERENCE

Report of SA MAURICE F. FARABEE, dated 5/24/72, at Miami.

-P-

LEADS

NEWARK

CONVIC.

AT NEWARK, NEW JERSEY

Will conduct appropriate investigation and report

subject's ownerghip or influence in businesses, particularly

restaurants, in the New Jersey area. (See Newark airtel to

Miami, 12/1/72).

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FUG.

FiNES

SAVINGS

&& NONE

ACQUIT.

RECOVERIES

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR EYES INO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

YES IXINO

APPROVED

COPIES MADE V

Vul s

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

183-35÷3

REG- 70

Bureau (183-35)

1 - Departmental Attorney DOUGALD

D. MC MILLAN, Miami, Florida

2 - Newark

2 - Miami

(183-9)

11-16-73

Dissemination Record of Attached Report

16 FEB 16 1973

ST. 101

Notations

Agency

Request Recd.

Date Fwd.

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How Fwd.

By

- 0u, AAs, crimina

Division Organized Crime

Section

MOAN AN

may soul

2/24/28

re Rat

Room

(Seo 2u2119 132-117290)

37 FEB 2 8 1973

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MM 183-9

MIAMI

AT MIAMI, FLORIDA

Will continue investigating and reporting subject's

activities.

ADMINISTRATIVE

interoffice communications.

712

On 6/1/72, MM 1401-C-TE advised JACKHERMAN, a

Miami hoodlum, and subject are close friends.

As a result of

"double cross" on the part of HERMAN, several unidentified

persons came to Miami in early 1972 to cause HERMAN harm but

did not do so as a result of the intervention of the subject.

On 9/15/72, MM 1865-PCI advised the

subject is very

active in bookmaking

operations including the

Miami area but

basically his operations

are in the islands.

The source was

unable to be more

specific as

to whether this meant the Bahama

Islands or the Caribbean area. ERRA's son is also involved

in the operation.

On 1/29/73, MM 1401-C-TE advised ERRA is hospitalized

at an unknown location in Michigan and is expected to be there

for several weeks, allegedly for a blood or circulatory problem.

On 11/22/72, MM 1401-C-TE reported the subject and

FRANK CASINO, the latter being a silent partner in Reliable

Plumbing Company, had formed an acquaintance with a builder,

MIKE MYERS (phonetic) who was connected with Arlen King Cole

Apartments, and through this friendship arranged a graft deal

for Reliable Plumbing Company at the King Cole Apartment.

The source noted ERRA has many friends in the building and

construction business and recently he brought into Reliable

Plumbing Company the City of Miami Beach Chief Plumbing Inspector

named RESNICK (phonetic).

7/a.

On 11/9/72, MM 1479-PC reported VINCENT TERIACA visits

the subject at Reliable Plumbing Company. It is noted FRaNk

CASINO, mentioned above, and VINCENT TERIACA are highly placed

La Cosa Nostra (LCN) figures in the Miami, area.

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MM 183-9

On 1/8/73, the same source reported Reliable

Plumbing Company had moved from 703 71st Street, Miami Beach,

to 726 N.E. 79th Street, Miami, Florida.

It is

the source's

understanding ERRA, who

owns a

part of the business, signs

the checks for Reliable Plumbing Company.

On 11/30/72, NK 3106-C-TE furnished the following:

large restaurants

in the NeW eRNy arMa do case A, are or the principal!

hoodlums residing in the Miami, Florida area.

For the past

several years ERRA has visited with LEHMAN in the New Jersey

area to collect money from several front businesses being run

by WARREN LEHMAN.

LEHMAN is known to also visit ERRA on

occasions when ERRA is in the need for large sums of money in

his various illegal activities in the Miami, Florida area.

On 4/18/72, WARREN LEHMAN opened a restaurant called

Lee's Hawaiian Islander, 768 Stuyvesant Avenue, Lyndhurst, New

Jersey, telephone (201)

Islander Restaurant as well as another restaurant called Jade

Restaurant located on Route 17, paramus, New Jersey, are owned

by PASQUALE ERRA, although they are being operated as mentioned

above by WARREN LEHMAN.

Concerning background information on LEHMAN,

the following is note flan

On 1/22 and 23/70, special investigators of the

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division, U.S. Department of

Treasury, who were assigned to the Strike Force to the U.s.

epartment oi dustice miami

This surveillance

was conducted in conjunction with Agents of the State of Florida,

Department of Law Enforcement.

Two vehicles were observed parked

next to ROTHMAN's at the Dean Martin's Restaurant located

in North Bay Village, Florida. Vehicle #1, a 1969 Oldsmobile

bearing 1969 New Jersey license RAB 198, was registered to

New Jersey.

pounds, hazel eyes, and brown hair.

He reportedly had previously

been employed by Burdin's Drug Company, 138 Johnson Street,

Techinea

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