Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CONROY
To: ROSEN
Document date: 6/11/59
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/21/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-90066-10002

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-302-34-13

Released under the John

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 56792 Date:

04-10-2018

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

CONROY

ROSEN

DATE: 06/11/1959

PAGES: 9

SUBJECTS:

CRIMINAL ELEMENT IN BUSINESS FIELD RACE TRACKS NY

DIVISION

SALVATORE GRANELLO

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/23/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: MEMO, INC LHM

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During the Fall of 1953,

the Algam Corporation

came under investigation by the

state appointed Moreland

Act commission, which was investigating harness racing

After numerous hearings, the Old Country Trotting

Association, Incorporated was ordered to sell its Yonkers

stock under a common ruling which banned interlocking direct-

orates in- the harness racing industry.

Other New York hoodlum interests inirace tracks was

reported on September 10, 1958;

' by PCI SEYMOUR POLLACK.

On that date POLLACK advised that SALVATORE ¡GRANELLO

and his partner and associate GEORGE LÉVINE re the present

owners of he

rente Park Race Track in Havana, Cuba.-

le informant advised that these individuals aiso operate

gambling casinos at the track site and obtain most of

their revenue from this. latter activity.

Regarding the Oriente Park Race Track, an interview

with well known hoodlum MEYER LANSKY by Bureau agents in

1939 indicated, according to LANSKY, that he and FRANK

ERICKSON, nationally known New York gambler, had in 1938

obtained a six year contract to operate the

track. LANSKY

at that time failed to indicate the exact degree of

ownership that he and ERICKSON exercised in the operation

of the track.

C. Degree of Influence

No additional information is known concerning

the amount of influence exerted by the above individuals

in the operations of

the tracks involved, other than

that set out above.

It is also noted that although NICHOLAS RATTENNI

holds a large block or voting stock in Roosevelt Raceway,

there was as of August, 1958, over six and one hali million

hares of stock outstanding in that corporation.

It would appear, however, that in sizing up the

degree of influence exerted by these individuals on the

entire industry in the New York Division that it could be

considered negligible.

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