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Document date: 5/4/61
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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/12/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-90104-10295

HQ

92-2940-133

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act

of 1992 144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 56792 Date: 04-11-2018

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 05/04/1961

'PAGES:

82

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3; 4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

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PG T-T IS DAVID A. SMITH, Treasurer, City of Pittsburgh, Pa.,

who was contacted by SA RICHARD GORDoN DOUcE on 12/1/60.

PG T-8 1s the confidential report of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc.,

dated 4/19/59 and furnished by the Pittsburgh office of that

organization on 3/14/61.

PG T-9 1s CHARLES METCALE, VIce-President, Western Pennsylvania.

National Bank, McKeesport,

Pa., who was contacted by SAA

ALLISON on 4/27 and 5/1/61.

PG T-10 1S HAROLD W. LAUVER,, ImmigratIon and Naturalization

Service Investigator, Pittsburgh, Pa., who requested that

his identity be concealed and whe

was contacted by SA

WILLIAM R. WALL on 12/12,13, 16 and 19/57•

PG I-II is JAMES CUNNINGHAM, Dun and Bradstreet representative,

Johnstown, Pa., who requested that his identity not be

revealed and who was contacted on 4/27/61 by SA J. EDWARD

KERN.

PG T-12 1s E. L. EDWARDS, Vice-President, United States

National Bank, Johnstown, Pa., who was contacted by

SA KERN on 4/27/01.

PG T13 1s JOHN E. GERLICH, Assistant Vice-President, Brookline

Savings and Trust Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. who was

contacted on

4/17/01 by SAA ALLISON.

PG T34 1S J. DOUGLAS DOLE, Executive Vice-President and

Secretary, South Pittsburgh Savings and Loan Association,

Pittsburgh, Pa., who was contaeted by SAA ALLISON on 4/17/61.

PC T-15 15 CHESTER STUPAK, a former potential criminal

Informant of the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted by

SA JOHN S. PORTELLA on 12/13/54 and 10/21/55.

PG T-16 is CHARLES H. THOMAS, owner and operator of the

Thomas Service Station at Ingomar, Pa., who requested that

his identity remain confidential when

contacted by SA VOGE

on 3/22/61.

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On February 27, 1958, Reverend ANDREW E. DLUGOS,

Pastor,

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Slovak Church, First Avenue,

Jessup, Pa, advised SA JAMES E. CARROLL from official

church records that MARY CELIK was born at Jessup, Pa.,

on

April 2, 1910, and was baptized on April 3,

1910.

Her

parents were listed as JOHN CMELIK and MAGDALINE GABRIS.

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at

Pittsburgh, Pa., as reviewed on December 12, 1957, Indicate

that IA ROCCA adopted a child named HOWARD LESLIE HOFFMAN

at Greensburg, Pa., through the Westmoreland County

orphans court.

The father of this child was identified

as TONY TERRIGIO and it was noted

that the child was born

at Greensburg, Pa., on October 1, 1943. Upon adoption,

the child was

named JOHN.

Lieutenant Colonel GILBERT PHILIPPS, Admissions Officer,

Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pa., has advised that

JOHN LA ROCCA is presently attending Valley Forge

Military Academy, where tuition, room and board, amounts

to approximately $2,225 each school year. He further

advised that the only. close associate of LA ROCCA at

the academy 1s. DOMENICK VINCENT RIPEPI,

SOn Of ANTONIO

RIPEPI, a close associate of the elder LA ROCCA at PIttsburgh,

PHILIPPS advised that cadets are not required to account

for money furnished to them by their parents or guardians

and that this would apply also to the money these cadets

spend at the post exchange or while away from the academy.

They are not required to furnish memoranda and their mode

of travel from the school to their homes during vacation

periods.

It should be noted that LA ROCCA Is presently

scheduled to graduate from Valley Forge Military Academy

on June 3, 1961, and according to his

father intends

to pursue a course in law.

V.: Origin of the Interest of LA ROCCA in

Racketeering and Steps Leading to Current

Position and Activities in Racketeering

Matters

The most complete understanding of the origin and background

of the interest of LA ROCCA In racketeering and the steps

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leading up. to his current position and activities in

racketeering matters, can be obtained from information relating

to the early, actlvities of lA ROCCA, furnished to the Pittsburgh

office of the FBI as follows:

On February 27, 1958, GEORGE MESSER advised that he had been

In the numbers

writing activity since about 1928 and Is still

He said that most of Pittsburgh's

"big racket men" once depended on him solely for

protection purposes since he knew local and state policé

figures and recalled that JOHN LA ROCCA was. one of these

racketeers. MESSER stated that LA ROCCA became acquainted.

with him In about 1941 or 1942 when LA ROCCA was handling all

the numbers activity. In the East Llberty section of Pittsburgh

and had set himself up as a "little god."

When LA ROCCA

became dissatisfied with his financial gains, he left Pittsburgh

on a trip to chicago to see friends about paste reel machines

with which he felt he could make more money MESSER said

a paste reel was similar to a

'"one-armed bandit"

with the

exception that a small paper-wrapped mint was dispensed after

the coin was placed in the slot and the play was registered.

The Chicago manufacturer of this machine circumvented the

"strictly for gambling purposes" phraseology in the law in

this manner.

While LA ROCCA was in Chicago, MESSER said he moved into

the East Libërty Section and took' over the entire numbers

operation.. He. turned in his numbers returns to one GEORGE

CHRISTY (now deceased) in Pittsburgh..

When IA ROCCA returned

to-Pittsburgh he became angry with MESSER and his move

and had someone drive a car over MESSER one night as he

was crossing a street.

MESSER said when he was; discharged

from the hospital he found out that his automobile had numerous

bullet holes in it. MESSER said that because he thought

he would make money in the East Liberty Section, he stayed

in the business of writing numbers and actually forced LA ROCCA

out of the numbers business.

MESSER advised that in about 1943, he and LA ROCCA became

friendly and LA ROCCA Invited him

: to share equally in the

ownership of the Coin Machine Distributing Company which later

set up offices at 5746 Baum Boulevard, in Pittsburgh. MESSER

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recalled that, LA ROCCA was completely bankrupt at that time

because of numbers setbacks but managed to raise enough money

to put up his share.

MESSER said he personally traveled to.

Chicago to arrange for the purchase of machines to be distributed

by this company

and had a verbal agreement with ART ROONEY

who allowed him to

place these machines throughout the East

Ilberty, Homewood, and Garfleld Sections of Pittsburgh where

ROONEY was not operating. According to MESSER, ROONEY, WhO Is

the present owner of the

PIttsburgh Steelers, professional

football'

club, was the only man who could get paste reels

before LA ROCCA tried, and controlled the entire Pittsburgh

vicinity In this regard. MESSER said that the Government

placed a $100 tax stamp on each mächine and the city of

Pittsburgh put a $50 tax stamp on each machine.

He said that

other owners of the company, in addition to himself and LA

ROCCA, were FRANK ANATO, BARNEY MC GINLEY, SAMUEL MANNARINO,

and F. W. ZOGG, the latter from Chicago.

MESSER advised

that the company was doing well financially

before Allegheny County authorities raided establishments

where the machines had been placed and forced It out of

business.

He "recalled that, although each of the six afore-

mentioned individuals owned

an

equal share In the company,

SAM MANNARINO and LA ROCCA seemed to run everything and held

meetings at which important

subjects

were discussed In Italian,

which he did not understand.

He advised that he realized

that LA ROCCA was only using him for his proven protection

methods and MESSER did not mind as long as he got his cut

iy using, him

of the profits. He recalled that during 1946 or 1947, MIKE

GENOVESE came on the scene. He stated that this individual

had been a pickup man for LA ROCCA in the East Liberty-Homewood

Section of Pittsburgh and was a tough kid

to MESSER,

was almost besting to go to jallo according

He said

LA ROCCA turned GENOVESE over to him and asked MESSER to "keer

him clean" because he had him in mind for future plans.

He recalled that FRANK VALENTI

who was present at the

Apalachin conference of hoodlums, and ANTONIO RIPEPI, a

Pittsburgh hoodlum, visited the offices of the Coin Machine

Distributing Company regularly and always took orders from

MANNARINO and LA ROCCA:

He said RIPEPI was a more important

racket man than VALENTI but that LA ROCCA seemed to be the

key man in the Pittsburgh area.: He said he would place

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NAME

DONALD P. TURNER

2130 W. Pike St.

Houston, Pa.

FRANK J. CIROCCO

1212 Arch St.

Pittsburgh 12, Pa.

JACOB S. GEORGE

5403 Butler St.

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

JOSEPH E. BRYAN

439 Kathleen St,

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

LOUIS R. SAALINGER

709 Maytide St.

Pittsburgh 10, Pa.

STEPHEN JENCA

5206 Natrona Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

ROY L. VEY

1153 Cornell St.

Pittsburgh 12, Pa.

ORLANDO M. PRINCIPE

4204 Main St.

Pittsburgh 24, Pa.

JOHN IRWIN

2503 5th Ave.

Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

SOCIAL

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

234-56-8841

331.32

184-14-4258

.1,539.97

190-24-7201

3,132.38

177-18-9068

1,306.18

164-28-1015

1,285.13

167-10-4008

989.00

188-18-9241

5,300.00

194-28-0383

896.27

185-12-4668

1,531.72

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NAME

SOCIAL

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

LEONARD A. YAGATICH

1424 Fallowfield Ave.

Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

203-22-3715

2,566.79

ROBERT. THACKER

226 Sylvania St.

Pittsburgh, Pa.

178-26-6365

2,155.73

AUGUST BULLION

5223 Berlin Way

PIttsburgh 1, Pa.

278-28-3867

483.45

CARMELO TRAPANI

4776 Sciota St.

Pittsburgh 24, Pa.

165-26-2632

1,369.30

OLIVER E. SHERWOOD

1509 Celtic St..

Pittsburgh 10, Pa.

187-30-5880

39.60

LEROY W. WILLIAMS

543 Rosedale St.

Pittsburgh: 21, Pa.

160-22-9414

608.51

FRANCIS J• ROGALSKI

461 Robinson Court

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

173-16-5201

255.54

PG T-8, who has expressed an unwillingness to appear before

any future Federal or state proceedings, advised that his

records indicate that JOHNS. LA ROCCA 1s the President of

the North Star Cement Block Co., Inc., at 12. McCandless

Ave., Rear, Pittsburgh 1, Pa., He said his records further.

indicate that ALMO PRUNER 1s the Vice President, ALDO A

and Roh z

PRUNER is the Secretary and ROY L. VEY. is, the Treasurer.

He stated that his records further indicate the following:

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Son

Date of birth

Adopted

Brother

Date of birth

Place of birth

Residence

Employed

Brother

Place of Birth

Place of Birth

Residence

Employed

Naturalized

Brother

Address

Owner

Sister

Marital Status

Children

Residence

Sister

Sister

Father

Mother

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JOHN LA ROCCA

October 1, 1943

IN HOWARD LESLIE HOFFMAN

February 25; 1944, at Greensburg,

through westmoreland Orphans

Court

ANTHONY LA ROCCA

May 14, 1912

Whiskey Run, Indians County

6323 Glenvlew Place,

Pittsburgh

Barber, 8003 Meknight Road,

Pittsburgh

JOSEPH LA ROCCA

August 4, 1893

Villa Rosa,

Caltanesetta,

•Sicily Italy

835 Farragut Street,

Pittsburgh

Barber, Penn and Shady

Avenues,

Pittsburgh

court or Common Pleas

Indiana County, March 5, 1924

JOHN J. IA ROCCA

118-20 Walnut Street,

Johnstown, Pa.

Keystone Vending Co.,

Johnstown, Pa.

LEONA ROSE

Widow

3

With daughter,

NIS. ANGELO

RICCI, Broadhead Road,

Glenwillara, Pa.

Mrs. ROSE CONTI

380 Rose Avenue, Buffalo,

New York

Mrs. ANGELINE ZITTO,

baltimore, Maryland

INALLO, deceased, died

1937, Philadelphia

ROSARIA, deceased, 1942,

Pittsburgh

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B. ASSOCIATES

Among the more prominent currently close associates of LA ROCCA

are the foliowing individuals:

Samue-

annarino, aka.

This individual 1s an extremely close associate of LA ROCCA

who presently nestes at a lane New Kensington

He and his brother, GABRIEL,

-and Westmoreland County areas as far as the rackets are

•concerned and are closelyallied with the GENOVESE-LA ROCCA

organization in the Pittsburgh area. MANNARINO Is a former

business associate of LA ROCCA who, according to PG I-3,

who has requested that his identitv remain confidentiai,

JFK Law 11(a)

He is presently a subject in a case entitled, "BERNARD

J. EZHAYA, ET AL, ITSP-NT," which involves the theft of

$2,250,000 in bearer bonds and an unknown amount of registered

bonds, jewelry, and cash from the Brockville Trust and

Savings company, Brockville, Ontario, Canada, on May 3 - 4, 1958•

The trial in this matter is

presetly being conducted at

chicago, Illinois.

MANNARINO was interviewed by Bureau

Agents of the Pittsburgh office upon his arrest on

Jüly 2, 1959, at which time he declined to make any statement

,and would only engage in general conversation..

It can be

said that MANNARINO 1s both a business and social acquaintance

Of LA ROCCA

NY, Gabrie

1 Mannarino, aka...

This individual, known to his close associates as

W'KELLY,"

resides at 540 Charles Street, New Kensington Pa.

and is

the younger brother of SAMUEL MANNARINO.

He is'a

social associate ,

.:OI LA ROCCA and is a business' associate

also,

as far as criminal activity is concerned. He was present

at the Apalachin conference of hoodlums during December.

1957, and on June 11, 1959, appeared with LA ROCCA before.

the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities In

the Labor or. Management Field of the United States, where

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During past interviews with Bureau Agents of the Pittsburgh

Office he has been completely uncooperative and has instructed

his fellow officlals at North Star to act in a similar

It is not known whether he actually owns any part

of

the LA ROCCA holdings.

Rankier

This individual presently (resides at-153-Cornell-Street,

and is considered the general Plart Manager

of the North Star Cement Block Company at 12 McCandless

Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. PG I-3 has advised

JEK Law 11(a)

Aldo

and Almo

Pruner

These Individuals are aficials at the North Star Cement Block

Company and list their address as| 653 Bower Hill Road, Bridgeville

Pa. PG T-3 has advised

Salvatore, Marino, aka: Fa

This

individuals

San Jose,

california, and is a partner

in the california Cheese

-Company with his son, ANGELO MARINO.

The company is located

at 295 West San Carlos Street, San Jose. A social associate

Of LA ROCCA, MARINO was interviewed by Bureau Agents of the

San Francisco Office during 1959 at which time he stated

that LA ROCCA visited him in 1954 and traveled to Los Angeles,

California, with him. He recalled that they were taken in for

questioning by the Los Angeles Police Department while in

the company of. one FRANK DE SIMONE, an acquaintance, and

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C. LECITINATE ENTERPRISES

1.

"North Star Cement Block Company

12 McCandless Ave•s Pittsburgh, Pa:

Records of the prothonotary's Office, Allegheny County, Pa.,

City-County Building, Pittsburgh, were checked on December

19,

1957, and the following Information concerning the North

Star Cement Block Co., Is recorded in Prothonotary's Record,

Volume 120, Page 139, Certificate No. 38421, which may be

obtained by subpoena directed to DAVID D. ROBERTS,

Prothonotary, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh.

The type of business is indicated as manufacture and sale

equipment, machinery and supplies

aS NICHOLAS DI PASQUALE,

175 Georgetown St., West View,

Pa.; THEODORE P. RUPEPI, 217 Andrew St., Pittsburgh;

URSULA RIPEPI,

, 4720 Brownsville Road, Pittsburgh, and JOHN S.

LA ROCCA, R. Po De 7, Pittsburgh 29,

ra.

These records indicate that the Certificate was filed on

MaY 28, 1951, by NICHOLAS DI PASQUALE and that & Certificate

of withdrawal of NICHOLAS DI PASQUALE was filed February 10,

1952, and was dated as of November 30, 1951.

PG T=5,

who has requested that his identity be concealed.

advised

JFK Law 11(a)

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at

Pittsburgh, were examined on December 16, 1957; and

disclosed that at a hearing on August 3, 1954,

LA ROCCA

testified that he owned a forty-seven and one-half percent

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intérest in the North Star Cement Block Co., that forty-

seven and one half percent of the company was owned by

TONY RIPEPI and that the remaining five percent was

owned by THEODORE REPAPI,

a nephew of ToNy.

PG T-6

who has requested

that his identity be concealed

on April 25, 1961, advised

JFK Law 11(a)

This source also advised that on income tax returns

filed for the years 1951 through 1960, LA ROCCA claimed

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956

195%

1958

1959

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The source advised

JFK Law 11(a)

PG I- 7, who has requested that his identity be concealed

and expressed an unwillingness to appear before any

future Federal or State proceeding, advised that the

following individuals are employed by SEBASTIAN JOHN LA

ROCCA at the North Star Cement Block Co., 12 McCandless

'Ave., Pittsburgh,' Pa.:

SOCIAL

NAME

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

ANTHONY SCIORILLI

112 North Matilda St

Pittsburgh

24, Pa.

190-10-3019

FRED S. WOodFOrK

614 Vanilla Way

Pittsburgh 6, Pa.

206-03-5406

HERMAN A. SMITH

254 Meyran Ave.

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

167-01-2425

CLEMENT H. REDSHAW

105 Manville Dr.

Pittsburgh 37, Pa.

199-10-9861

FRANKLIN K. BULLION

5270 Butler St.

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

410-36-3604

ROBERT E. CAVALLUCCIA

255 Service Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

200-20-4682

ALBERT J. MASLEN

183 Burrows St.

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

200-07-0420

$7,123.65

3,823.34

6,259.01

5,035.45

4,514.88

5,058.62

4, 668.36

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Is held by JOHN J. LA ROCCA.

PG I-6, who requested that his

on Apri] 25, 1961, advised that

JEK Law 11(a)

identity be concealed.

This source advised that on his 1960 income tax return

JOHN S LA ROCCA,

This source further advised that the 1960 income tax

teturn for keystone Salesnee

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JEK Law 11(a)

PG T-11, who has requested that his identity be concealed,

on April 27, 1961, advised that Keystone Sales, Inc.

604 Franklin St. Johnstown, Pats

250 shares having a par value of $100 per share and

authorized capital stock of $25,000. This source advised

362, Tons 03ủe ủe 000.

was incorporated with

that little information is avariable

concerning the

structure or activities of Keystone Sales..

Ind., and

that 1t is estimated that the corporation

May, 1960,

had $5,000 cash on hand and $85,000 in equipment and

supplies.

The President of the corporation was reported

to De JOSEPH REGINO and the

Vice-President was reported

to be MILDRED REGINO, the wife of JOSEPH..

The Secretary

of the corporation was reported to be JANET LEBER. The

Treasurer was indicated as JOHN I. LA ROCCA.

PG T- 12, who has requested that his identity be concealed,

advised on April 27, 1961, that Keystone Sales, Ine•, a

cigarette vending machine company, located at 604 Franklin

St., Ibhnstown, maintains a checking account at the U.S:

National Bank, In Johnstown, and that approximately $25,000

is deposited to the account monthly. The persons

authorized to sign checks of the corporation are indicated

on bank records as JOSEPH REGINO, JOHN J. LA ROCCA and

RAYMOND C. MIRTO.

Records concerning the account or accounts of Keystone .

Sales, Inc., may bet obtained through a subpoena directed

to E. Lo EDWARDS, Vice-President, U. S. National Bank,

Franklin St., Johnstown, Pa.

Records of Keystone sales, Inc..

may be obtained through

subpoena directed to JOSEPH REGINO, President of the

corporation.

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3. Rental Properties

PG T-3, who has requested that his identity not be

revealed

on February 10, 1961, advised

PG T-6, who has requested that his identity not be revealed,

advised on April 14, 1961, that JOHN S. LA ROCCA ON hiS

income tax returns for the period from 1953 through 1960

Year

1953

1954

1955

1956

1957

1958

1959

PG T- 9, who

has requested that his identity not be revealed,

advised

that JOHN

S. LA ROCCA maintains a real estate account

at the Washington Trust Office of the Western Pennsylvania

National Bank and that

the balance in this account as of April 18,

1961, was $15,636.82.

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Information from records of the Washington Trust Office of

the Western Pennsylvania National Bank may be obtained.

through a subpoena directed to STANLEY F. DRUTIS, Vice

President, Western Pennsylvania National Bank and

Manager

of the Washington Trust Office, 821 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh,

Pa.

4.

Former Legitimate Enterprises

PG I- 6, who has requested that his identity not be

revealed,

advised on April 14, 1961, that SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA

reported

during the

years indicated:

Years

Name of Company

1941-1944

1945-1946

1947

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1948-1950

1951

1952

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1953

1954-1956

1957-1959

1960

Name of Company

Information doncerning Income reported by In ROCCA on income

tax returns may be obtained by a

subpoena directed to the

District Director of Internal Revenue at PIttsburgh, Pa.

5. Alleged Sources of Income

PG T-6, who has requested that his identity not be revealed.

advised on April 14, 1961, that.

JEK Law 11(a)

This source advised that

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PG T 6, who requested that his identify not be

revealed

advised on April 25. 1961.

2

On December 5, 1960, MISs ALYCE TAFELSKI, Receptionist,

Credit Bureau,

Inc. Pittsburgh, Pa., advised that her

records indicate s1x

judgments filed in Allegheny

county by the Washington Trust Company and subsequently

assigned to the Western Pennsylvania National Bank

which related to JOHN S. LAROCCA and MARY S. LAROCCA

which she listed as follows:

1. April Term, 1955

"January Term, 1956

3. January

Term, 1956

4.

January Term, 1957

5. April Term, 1957

6. July Term, 1957

$ 6,600

16,500

6,600

49,500

5,175

23, 000

JEK Law 11(a)

Brookline savings and Trust Company

820 Brookline Boulevard

Pittsburgh: 26, Pa.

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G. STATEMENT OF ASSETS

The following Information concerning assets and liabilities

SEBASTIAN

_JOHN LA ROCCA has been obtained from various sources

and all sources have been previously identified or information

set forth as to persons to be subpoenaed to produce records or

presented in summary form and inasmuch as values presented

are

and in some cases include estimates, these values are subject

to revision as more specific and accurate information 1s

developed:

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ASSETS

Cash in Bank

Stock Holdings

Real Estate

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ASSETS (CONT'd)

Receivables

Miscellaneous.

TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES

Loans Payable

NET WORTH

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET WORTH

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checked for a record under the North Star Cement Block

Manufacturing Co.,

the Coin Machine Distributing Company, Inc.?

3ulk Beverages, Inc., Coin

Machine Distributing Company, and

Beer Dispensing company.

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FALSELY CLAIMING CITIZENSHIP

Investigation has been conducted and is contiming to locate

any application submitted by LA ROCCA on which he may have

indicated his eitizenship.

Records of the Small Business Administration at Pittsburgh,

Pa., have been checked and no record of

any

kind

was found for

LA ROCCA. Investigation 1s being conducted

In

an effort to

determine 1f he has registered a firearm in

the State of

Pennsylvania since the application for such registration provides

for indication of citizenship or naturalization. Consideration

1s also being given to locating a citizenskip designation on

an application submitted by LA ROCCA to National or Federally

Insured banks

or lending institutions.

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INCOME TAX MATTERS

According to pG I- 6, who has recuested that his Identity

remain confidential.

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PG T- 13, who has requested that his identity be concealed,

advised on April 14,

1961, that records of the Brookline Savings

and trust Company, 820

Brookline Blvd.,

pittsburgh, Pa.,

disclosed accounts for the Beer Dispensing Co., 1305 Penn

Ave., Pittsburgh 22, Pa., and Bulk Beverages,

Inc., 500 North

Craig St., Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

Beer Dispensing Company

Reserve account and a Beer Dispensing Company Earned Reserve

account were opened in 1951, and closed on July 13, 1959, by

the issuances of Brookline check, No. 3665, in the amount of

$277.50, payable to Beer Dispensing Company®

This check

was endorsed, Pay to the Order of

"JOHN S. LAROCCA, Beer

Dispensing Company." The check also bore the stamp of the

Western Pennsylvania National Bank. The officers of Beer

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The records indicate that the monthly payment was $189.50g

although payments of $190 or more were made subsequent to

June of 1956.

Payments of $5,190 were made on February 26,

1957, and April 29, 1957•

Records of the South Pittsburgh Savings and Loan Association

should not be made public in the absence of a subpoena directed

tO J. DOUGLAS DOLE, Executive Vice-President and Treasurer,

South Pittsburgh Savings and Loan Association, 1712 East Carson

St., Pittsburgh.

5. Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property

PG T- 6, who has requested that his identity not be revealed.

advised on April 28, 1961,

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'Information Relating to Alleged Arrest of Adopted Son of

LA ROCCA for Violation of Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.

PG I- 16, who requested that his identity remain confidential

and who

has stated that he will not appear before any future

Federal or State proceedings, advised that during one vacation

weekend enjoyed in Pittsburgh by the adopted son of lA RoCCA,

who is attending Valley Forge Military Academy at wayne, Pa.,

he was arrested by the Pennsylvania state Police for either

A Pelle wayner

disorderly conduct or violation of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle

Code. He stated

that he believes a trooper working out of the

Warrendale, Pa.»

barracks made the arrest arter he observed young

LA ROCCA driving along a highway near his home and throwing empty

beer bottles out of the window while attaining high speed. He

said he understood LA ROCCA became incensed when he

not

change the charges and when a local Justice

of the Peace

gave Joung LA ROCCA "the full treatment."

Corporal ANTHONY KALEITA, Pennsylvania State PolICe Barracks,

Warrendale, Pa., advised

on April 14,

1961,. that a revlew of

records from January 1, 1961, to that time

his

failed to reflect

any record of an Individual named LA ROCCA for any violation

whatsoever. He suggested that this individual may have been

arrested by another law enforcement agency and that the local

Justices of the Peace in the Ingomar, Pa., Veinity be

contacted in this regard.

Information Relating to Recent Travel of LA ROCCA.

PG T-6 has advised

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PLTTSBURCH

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

Will follow and report activities of JOHN LA ROCCA and his

associates in accordance with Bureau instructions.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Information contained in this report concerning possible

Antitrust violations has been previously submitted by

closing report dated 4/26/61 entitled,

"Western Pennsylvania

Cement Block Association, Pittsburgh, Pa.,"

Pittsburgh file 60-474.

Information contained in this report regarding information of

possible value to the Internal Revenue Service has been

furnished to the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue

Service at Pittsburgh, Pa.

INFORMANt'S

PG T-1 1s Legat, Rome, Italy, who obtained Information fron

DE. COSTANTINO FONTANA, Central Bureau, Italian Criminal

Police, Rome, Italy, on 4/18/58÷

PG I-? 1S GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a potential criminal Informant

of the Pittsburgh office who was contacted by SA ROBERT A.

VOEGE on 2/27/58.

PG T-3 18 GEORGE STRAKA, an Internal Revenue Agent attached

to the Fraud (Racket) Section, Room 827 Fulton Building,

Pittsburgh, Pa., who was contacted by SA VEGE on 3/6/61

and who has requested that his identity be concealed.

2/19/8, 3/1/58 -h 3/11/58 Contacted by SA YORGE on

PG T-5 1S ROBERT F. MEHRLING, an employee of the Internal

Revenue service, Pittsburgh,, Pa.,

who was contacted by

SA GENE H. STUDEBAKER On 12/10/570

PG T-O 1s ROBERT MADDEN, Special Agent, Intelligence Unit.

Internal Revenue service, Plttsburgh, Pa.,

who was contacted

DY SAA FRANK E. ALLISON on 4/0, 14 and 25/01.

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DETAILS:

A.

PERSONAL HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

I. Birth Data

PG T-1, who requested that his Identity remain confidential,

and who stated

that he will not testify at any future

Rederal or state proceedings, advised that SEBASTIAN LA ROCCA, .

the son of ICNAZIO and ROSARIA SCANCARELLO,

was born at

VIlla Rosa, Italy, on December 19, 1901, and that he departed

from Villa

Rosa prior to 1927, the year In which the registration,

of the inhabitants of that community was begun.

II. Education

PG T-l advised that it was not possible to áscertain whether

or not LA ROCCA réceived any formal schooling during the time

that he was in Italy. On February 13, 1958, FLOYD Q. SMITH,

Supervising Principal, and THOMAS J. ADDLEMAN,

High Schoo1

Principal, both of shannock valley Joint school District,

which includes Yatesboro, Pa., where LA ROCCA formerly resided;

advised that the old Yatesboro School had been, abandoned and.

that records of attendance were not available for students

who attended from thirty to forty years ago. Both advised

that, although they had been residents of the Rural Valley-

Yatesboro area for forty or more years, they could not recall

any family named LA ROCCA.

HI. Residence

LA ROCCA presently resides

at 900 West Ingomar Road, Ingomar,

Pa. Although the front of his residence faces Ingomar Road,

his driveway and the most easily accessible portion of his

residence faces Brant Avenue and this address is sometimes

utilized by him.

Mrs. CHRISTOPHER MAGEE STEEL, 5652 Stanton Avenue, Pittsburgh,

Pa., has advised that she first, became acquainted with LA ROCCA

when she and her husband sold their home at Ingomar, Pa., to

him.. She furnished details of the sale and advised

that she

did

not realize that she was selling directly to a racketeer

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The sounce advised

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PG T-T, who has requested that his identity be concealed

and expressed an unwillingness

to appear before any

future Federal or State proceeding, advised that the

following Individuals are employed by SEBASTIAN JOHN LA

ROCCA at the North Star Cement Block Co., 12 MeCandless

Ave., Pittsburgh,' Pa.:

SOCIAL

NAME

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

ANTHONY SCIORILLI

112 North Matilda Sto

Pittsburgh

24, Pa.

190-10-3019

$7,123.65

FRED S. WOODFORK

614 Vanilla Way

Pittsburgh 6, Pa.

206-03-5406

3,823.34

HERMAN A. SMITH

254 Meyran Ave.

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

167-01-2425

6,259.01

CLEMENT H. REDSHAW

105 Manville Dr.

Pittsburgh 37, Pa.

199-10-9861

5,035.45

Cer.

FRANKLIN K. BULLION

5270 Butler St.

Pittsburgh I, fa.

410-36-3604

4,514.88

ROBERT E. CAVALLUCCIA

255 Service Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

200-20-4682

5,058.62

ALBERT J. MASLEN

183 Burrows St.

PIttsburgh 13, Pa.

200-07-0420

4,668.36

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