Record

Case file

1957/1976

FBI Records: The Vault

FBI Vault file on Anthony Giacalone

The FBI Vault's four-part release of the Detroit anti-racketeering file on Anthony Joseph Giacalone (Detroit file 92-228, Bureau file 92-3077), running from the opening report of January 1958 to interviews after James R. Hoffa's disappearance in July 1975.

Date
1957/1976
Kind
case-file
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Detroit file 92-228; Bureau file 92-3077
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Newspaper clippings in the file are third-party material and are not reproduced here.

The Vault lists four parts under “Anthony Giacalone.” Part 01 opens with the Detroit office’s anti-racketeering case, begun in December 1957 under Detroit file 92-228; later memoranda print the Bureau file number 92-3077. Part 02 is dominated by 1960 to 1962 reports and teletypes, Part 03 runs from 1963 to 1968, and Part 04 (Final) covers 1971 to 1976, including an Atlanta homebuilding inquiry, a 1970s federal tax prosecution, and, from about page 75, Miami and Detroit interviews after James R. Hoffa disappeared in July 1975.

This archive read the parts through the viewer’s OCR text layer. The text tool stopped at 400 pages, so Parts 01 to 03 may run longer than the copy read. Three documents have their own pages here: the opening Detroit report of 18 January 1958, a Detroit teletype of 19 July 1962, and a page of a later Detroit report summarizing a newspaper account of the Detroit police commissioner’s testimony of 10 October 1963.

The file contains many redactions under FOIA exemptions (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(D), and many newspaper clippings, including Detroit Free Press pages on the tax trial in Part 04. Those clippings are not cleared and are not quoted. The outcome of the tax case is known in the file only from those clippings and from OCR that was not checked against the scan, so it is not stated here.

itemFBI Detroit report on Anthony Joseph Giacalone, anti-racketeering (18 January 1958)The opening report of the Detroit office's file 92-228 gives Giacalone's Detroit police number and birth date, records one conviction (bribery of a police officer, 1955), and characterizes him as active in Pete Corrado gambling interests and a 'comer' in the Detroit underworld.itemFBI Detroit teletype: Giacalone seen at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens (19 July 1962)An urgent teletype from the Detroit office reports that Anthony Joseph Giacalone was observed 'yesterday' at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, with a redacted person and 'William Quote Black Bill Unquote Tocco, local hoodlums'.itemFBI Detroit report page summarizing Commissioner George Edwards's McClellan testimony (October 1963)A page of a Detroit report in the Giacalone file summarizes a Detroit Free Press article of 11 October 1963: Police Commissioner George Edwards had told the McClellan subcommittee that the Detroit area was controlled by a five-man 'council' whose members were called 'dons'.itemUnited States v. Joseph Giacalone, 541 F.2d 508 (6th Cir. 1976)Sixth Circuit opinion of August 18, 1976 reversing an order that had returned a car seized under a search warrant in the FBI's investigation of James R. Hoffa's disappearance. The opinion prints the agent's affidavit: Hoffa said he was going to the Machus Red Fox restaurant to meet Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano on 30 July 1975.itemFBI history: the Detroit DivisionThe FBI's own history of its Detroit field office mentions the Prohibition-era 'Purple Gang', the 1966 Canadian arrests of Anthony Joseph Giacalone and Dominic Peter Corrado, the 1975 gambling sentences of Anthony Giardano, Anthony Zerilli and Michael Pollizzi, and the 1996 GAMTAX indictment of 17 members of 'the Detroit mob'.