FBI Milwaukee report of 1974 to 1975 on a source's statement about Frank Balistrieri and the Stardust and Fremont loan

Part 01 of the FBI Vault’s “Frank Balistrieri” file (Bureau file 92-3116, Milwaukee file 94-316 as printed in the OCR) holds Milwaukee and headquarters records, mostly from 1958 to 1961, with a section from 1974 and 1975. This page was filed from the OCR text of the Vault viewer. The page image of scan 36, the cover page of the Milwaukee report dated February 18, 1975, is now stored here; what follows is as far as the OCR can be read, is heavily redacted, and has not been compared with the other scans.

In the 1974 to 1975 section, a Milwaukee report with a period ending in early 1975 states, in its administrative notes, that on September 30, 1974 a source stated that Balistrieri “has been a frequent visitor to the Las Vegas area over the past several months,” and “apparently travels” there “to oversee a teamster loan” made to the buyers of “the Stardust and Fremont Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada.” Names are redacted. The following page says information had been received from Las Vegas that Steve John DiSalvo, “Milwaukee LCN ‘Capo,’” had been in Las Vegas representing Balistrieri’s interest. A page of leads directs the Las Vegas Division to attempt to obtain details of the purchase of the Stardust and Fremont. An earlier page of the same section refers to a source’s account of a meeting with the “Milwaukee LCN boss,” a phrase of the Bureau’s recording of an informant’s statement.

These are source statements and leads in an FBI report. They are not findings. The Eighth Circuit’s account of the Government’s theory about the Stardust and Fremont loan is on the page for United States v. Cerone.