Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CG
To: HQ
Document date: 09/25/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90058-10246

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 91-18345-45

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

CG

TO :

HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 09/25/1964

PAGES:

25

SUBJECTS:

GUY MENDOLIA, JR.

RICHARD CAIN

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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Bureau fugitive based upon a warrant issued that

date charging MENDOLIA with violation of Title

18, Section

or

about January

Bakersfield, California, to the State of Illinois

to avoid prosecution for the crime of burglary.

MENDOLIA remained a fugitive until June 30,

1964,

when he was arrested by Bureau Agents at Chicago,

Illinois.

Following the arrest of MENDOLIA on

June 30, 1964, at Chicago, MENDOLIA refused to

discuss any of his activities or associates,

Extensive investigation to place the

weapons recovered at the scene of the abandonment

of the getaway car in this matter, the residence

of FRANK DELEGGE has met with negative results.

This investigation was conducted in an effort to

trace the weapons from the point of manufacture

into one of the subject's possessions, The re-

sults of this investigation conducted

by other

divisions is not being set forth in the details

of this report but is maintained in

the Chicago

file.

On January 7, 1964, CG 5913-C, advised

SA WILLIAM A. MEINCKE that he was with MIKE LA JOY

on January 7, 1964. The informant advised that LA

JOY refuses to talk about the Franklin Park Bank

robbery other than the fact that he is in deep

trouble and is "sweating it out". The informant

advises that LA JOY refuses to comment regarding

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the robbery.

The informant also advised that in?the

afternoon of January 7, 1964, he and LA JOY

went to the restaurant operated by FRANK DELEGGE

in the vicinity of 16th and Cicero, Cicero,

Illinois.

Upon entering the restaurant DELEGGE

told them to get out, that the FBI had just left

and he did not want anyone associated with the

bank robbery in the restaurant. The informant

advised that DELEGGE was all excited about the

FBI visit and that he kept mentioning that he

was "sweating it out".

On January 7, 1964; CG 6232-C, advis-

ed SA WILLIAM A. MEINCKE. that he had been in

contact with the father of MIKE LA JOY. LA JOY'S

father advised the informant that it is costing

the informant t

him a great deal of money regarding his son's

implication in the bank robbery, that he expects

MIKE will have to do some time

in connection with

the robbery. The informant could gain no further

information regarding the details of the robbery

from LA JOY's father.

On January 9, 1964, PCI ARTHUR PASCUCCI,

inmate, Illinois State Penitentiary, Stateville,

Illinois, advised the following concerning the

robbery of the Franklin Park Bank on September 23;

1963:

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GUY MENDOLIA is a close friend of FRANK

DELEGGE and PAT SCHANG and was brought in

on

the robbery.

PASCUCCI did not know about the tele-

phone "school bomb" alarm but stated the freight

train was supposed to be longer than it was. The

short train caused a chase since the robbers

figured the police could not cross the tracks to

the bank from the station and sufficient time to

catch them, before they made the getaway.

JOE D'ARGENTO, GUY MENDOLIA, GERRY

TOMA SZEK and MIKE LA JOY went into the bank,

GUY MENDOLIA stood by the door, he wore a rain-.

coat.

PAT SCHANG drove the getaway car. MIKE

LA JOY was behind the counter with GERRY TOMAS-

behind the ve

ZEK and LA JOY probably put money in his pockets

beside

the loot he put in the box.

During the chase JOE D'ARGENTO fired

the shots with a carbine through the rear win-

dow at the pursuing police cars.. He broke the

window first. D'ARGENTO also fell out of the car

breking off the right door as it braked rapidly

at the garage of DELEGGE's residence.

GUY MENDOLIA and TOMASZEK ran immediately

through a nearby yard, where they got rid of some

of their clothing and

guns. MENDOLIA carried a box

with part of the loot and took it to a residence

of some friend nearby. This could have been FRANK

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MENDOLIA left town soon after the robbery,

he refused any share of the loot.

Arrangements for the splitting of the loot

were possibly made in a restaurant at the northwest

corner of Milwaukee, Lincoln and Fullerton. PASCUCCI

was present when D'ARGENTO, TOMASZEK and LA JOY met

at this spot, the day after LA JOY and D'ARGENTO

were released on bond. (Subjects were arrested

September 27, 1963, TOMASZEK made bond September 27,

1963, SCHANG

surrendered October 2, 1963, D'ARGENTO,

LA JOY and SCHANG were released on bond October 3,

19630)

EMIL CROVEDI may have been the person who

obtained D'ARGENTO, SCHANG and TOMASZEK's share of

the loot from LA JOY and delivered it to them, about

two weeks after the robbery.

After the subjectss were released on bond

there was a great amount of bitterness and accusations

as to who was the Government ppigeon.

Because several thought LA JOY was weak

and due to his heavy debts and problems because of

his gambling habits, LA JOY was looked at with

suspicion.

LA JOY is the nephew of FRANK DE LEGGE and

of WILLIE

"POTATOES" DADDANO, well known Chicago

syndicate hoodlum. Because of this relationship,

CROVEDI fronted for the remaining subjects and re-

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quested JOE ROSSI, a known Cicero, Illinois hoodlum,

to take CROVEDI to DADDANO to discuss the possibility

Of LA JOY Or FRANK DELEGGE having admitted to the

FBI the robbery of the Franklin Park Bank and the

identity of the remaining subjects.

Also under suspicion since he was in on the

job was GUY MENDOLIA, because he had not been arrest-

ed as were the others.

Eventually all the subjects were forced to

take a lie detector test, given by someone hired by

DADDANO and possibly given at DADDANO's house or some

unknown place on the west side of Chicago.

All cleared as being an informant, MENDOLIA

left town shortly after, refused any part of the loot

and eventually the subjects dismissed the idea that

a. "beefer" caused the Government to solve the robbery.

On January 16, 1964, PCI ARTHUR PASCUCCI

advised as follows:

Concerning the Franklin Park Bank robbery

September 23, 1963, the garages used by the subjects

to keep the work cars used in the robbery, belong to

or were used by EMIL CROVEDI and GUY MENDOLIA.

The train was definitely a short train on

the day of the robbery, this was the train that prevent-

ed the police cars from arriving at the bank while

the robbery was in progress. PASCUCCI did not know

if it was a scheduled freight or not, but it regul-

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arly went through at the same time and was always

a long train. The robbers

felt that they would have

plenty of time to get away but he did not know how

the robbery was planned to coincide with the train

going through Franklin Park.

After the subjects were out on bond and

while they were trying to find out who the pigeon

was, GERRY TOMASZEK, JOE D'ARENTO and PASCUCCI

MIKE LA JOY and

JOHNNY "THE BUG" VARELLI at

Sansonetti's, Mannheim and Grand to discuss the

matter. PASCUCCI was not allowed to hear the con-

versation nor was he told of the decisions made.

JOHN VARELLI was supposed to try to determine the

pigeon in the matter. PASCUCCI recalled that EMIL

CROVEDI had acted definitely as a go-betwen in

taking the money from LA JOY to PAT SCHANG.

He said MENDOLIA went out of town right

away, later called back for PAT SCRANG to bring the

second work car and getaway car out of town to

MENDOLIA, He only knew MENDOLIA was somewhere out

west, possibly Phoenix, Arizona or Los Angeles,

California.

On April T, 1964, CG 6747-C, advised

SA LEONARD A. WOLF the following::

The informant advised that over the week

end he had met a woman named DORIS NESSI, whose

husband JAMES NESSI,

is. to be released from the

Federal Penitentiary at Sandstone, Minnesota on

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