# FBI memorandum of 16 September 1947 on Paul De Lucia (Vault, John Roselli Part 01)

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The FBI's September 1947 personal-history memorandum on Paul De Lucia, whose aliases include Paul Villa, Paul Viola and "Paul, the Waiter." It cites immigration files for his 1920 entry and 1928 naturalization at Chicago, and relays newspaper, police and informant reports that are claims, not findings.

Scans 14 to 16 of Part 01 of the FBI Vault's John Roselli file hold a memorandum dated September 16, 1947 on "PAUL DE LUCIA, with aliases." The alias list includes "Paul Villa," "Paul Viola" and "Paul, the Waiter." The research for this archive read the pages through the viewer's OCR. Scan 14 prints residence addresses and is not reproduced; scan 15 is stored here.

Citing the files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, scan 14 says he entered the United States on August 10, 1920 under another name and was naturalized in the U.S. District Court at Chicago in September 1928. The birth date and town, the entry name and the day of naturalization are garbled in the OCR and are not recorded. The same page says he was found guilty with the other defendants in New York on December 22, 1943, that he and the others "conspired to extort large sums of money from motion picture producers," and that he was sentenced to ten years and a $10,000 fine on December 31, 1943.

Scan 15, headed "Criminal Activities Generally," opens: "Paul DeLucia is well known in underworld circles in Chicago as a racketeer and gangster, and was formerly a minor figure in the Capone Gang." It records that under the alias Paul Ricca he was indicted with others by a Cook County grand jury on October 18, 1940 on a conspiracy charge over the "taking over" of the Bartenders' Union, and "was found not guilty"; relays a Chicago Daily News article of February 14, 1939 that his "promotion to leadership in remnants of the Capone Gang had created much surprise in underworld circles"; and reports a confidential informant's statement that in September and October 1946 Anthony Joseph Accardo was contacted by De Lucia's wife while De Lucia was serving his sentence. These are the Bureau's summaries of a newspaper, police information and an informant. They are not findings, and this archive does not use them as a role.

His naturalization was later revoked; see [United States v. De Lucia (7th Cir. 1958)](/items/courtlistener-us-v-de-lucia-256-f2d-487/).

## Sources

- FBI Records: The Vault, John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli, Part 01: https://vault.fbi.gov/John%20%28Handsome%20Johnny%29%20Roselli/John%20%28Handsome%20Johnny%29%20Roselli%20Part%2001/view