# Bureau of Investigation, October 1930: identification data and the indictment of Frank R. Nitto (Vault Nitti Part 01)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-nitti-p01-identification-data-1930/

The Chicago office's letter of October 3, 1930 lists two Chicago arrests that ended in discharge, a $1,000 reward, and the March 14, 1930 indictment on five counts for 1925-1927. A memorandum of October 17 says the 1927 police fingerprints had been destroyed, so an identification order was held in abeyance.

The Chicago office's letter of October 3, 1930 (pp. 45-46), written so that an identification order could be issued, gives the subject as "Frank R. Nitto, alias Frank Nitti, alias Frank Novelli." It records two Chicago arrests, in April 1925 for disorderly conduct (discharged April 20, 1925) and in November 1927 for carrying a concealed weapon (discharged), notes a $1,000 reward offered by the Citizens' Committee for Prevention and Punishment of Crime of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and states that "Frank Nitto is a member of the Al Capone Gang of Chicago."

A typed summary of the indictment of March 14, 1930 (p. 41) sets out five counts for 1925 to 1927. The first charges that he attempted to evade an income tax of $97,699.25 for 1925, on a gross income the summary gives as $426,261.99. Counts 2 and 4 charge failure to file returns for 1926 and 1927, and counts 3 and 5 attempts to evade taxes of $33,552.29 and $27,571.67 for those years. A Bureau memorandum of October 17, 1930 (p. 64) says the Chicago police fingerprints taken in November 1927 had been destroyed, and that without fingerprints the identification order was being held in abeyance.

The "Al Capone Gang" remark is the Chicago office's wording, not a court finding. The [file page](/items/fbi-vault-frank-nitti/) shows page 45 of the same letter; this page adds the indictment summary and the October 17 memorandum, which settles the letter's year as 1930. The same pages hold 1930 Chicago newspaper clippings, which are not relied on. Page 44 prints addresses, which are not repeated. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer's OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault, Frank Nitti Part 01 (Final), pp. 40-41, 44-46, 54-60, 64: https://vault.fbi.gov/frank-nitti/Frank%20Nitti%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view