Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: EVANS, C. A.
To: PARSONS
Document date: 03/15/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/7/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10290-10262

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-3171-162

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

EVANS, C. A.

TO:

PARSONS

TITLE:

DATE :

• PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/15/1961

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[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

01/16/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Note):

DATE: 11-14-2017

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GOVE

ENMENT

Memorandum

Tolson.

Parsons

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TO

Mr. Parsons

DATE:

3/15/61

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FROM

C. A.

Evan

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W.C. Sullivan

Tele. Room

Ingram -

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SUBJECT:

SAMUEL M.

GIANCANA

ANTI-RACKETEERING

SYNOPSIS

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 5-23-84 BY SeeSo/CAL

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Current inquiry discloses Giancana attempted to employ

two Chicago jewel thieves as muscle men and paid killers.

Giancana

pressured his way into partnership at gambling club Wagon Wheel which

now has gambling take averaging $1,000 per day. 4

Giancana Attempts to Hire Muscle Men and Killers

A Chicago informant has advised that Giancana offered Chicago

jewel thieves Steve Tomares and James D'Antonio employment in his

organization. They were to be paid $150 per week and were to be placed

on a "stand-by basis." Their duties would be to take care of any

job requiring strong-arm tactics or killing in connection with

activities of the Giancana group.

The informant advised Tomares and

D'Antonio turned the proposition

down because "they might have to kill

their friends."

Former Employee Advises Giancana Muscled

Into Gambling at the Wagon Wheel

Henry Hodl, former employee of Giancana lieutenant Rocco

for approximately ten years.

He infomed that the Wagon Wheel was run

a gambling operation for years by Nick D'Amico.

D'Amico yielded to

pressure; by Giancana and took him in as a "partner" at the Wagon Wheel

The Wagon Wheel is now operating as a horse book and racing

wire service, affording poker and dice games at the same location.

average take

for the horse racing operations runs to approximately

1$1,000 per day. U

The Riviera mentioned above is run by Salvatore Mercurio,

according to Hodl.

This club has a horse book operation and is the

scene of operations for strip girls and prostitutes.

Each evening the

money

fyom operations at the Wagon Wheel is collected and turned over

to a

Gilancana associate, 'Rocco Potenzo,

1 - Mr.

Rosen

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17 MAR 28 1961

JGL: swb/rap

(7) 20.

66 APR 3 19617

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Memorandum to MI. Parsons

RE:

Samuel M. Giancana

Hodl also advised that when he became licensee for the

Airliner Lounge, Rosemont, Illinois,

he was introduced to the village

president, D. E. Stevens, by Giancana's brother Charles. Charles

instructed Stevens to "treat Hodl right." Hodl has had no trouble with

Stevens and has not been told to limit or close down his bookmaking

activities.

by Bureau Agents he made a statement that he had instructed Hodl to

close down bookmaking operations. y

011 Company Leases Property in Which Giancana May have Interest

Recent investigation has indicated that Giancana has an

interest in the Villa Moderne Motel, Northbrook, Illinois. Mark

Friedman, vice president of the Jupiter - Midwest Oil Company, advised

March 14, 1961, that the company in January, 1961, leased the property

occupied by the Villa Moderne Motel, Northbrook, Illinois. Friedman

was questioned concerning the possible interest

of Glancana in the

Villa Moderne and he denied any such connection. When questioned

further concerning the history of the leasing transaction in connection

with Villa Moderne, Friedman terminated the interview and asked

interviewing Agents to meet him in the office of his lawyer if any

further information was desired. U

ACTION

The Chicago Office is continuing intensive investigation

to develop fully the identities of enterprises in which Giancana has

a financial interest.

Additional information is being sought to

develop fully the picture as to the various gambling enterprises

he operates particularly as to the size of these operations and the

identities of associates who are conducting them.

All offices having leads in this matter have been

instructed to afford inquiries top priority in an effort to develop

a prosecutable violation on Giancana at the earliest possible time. U

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