# FBI Chicago report, October 9-11, 1947: who put up bond collateral for the paroled men (Vault Roselli Part 02)

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The Chicago report on the 1947 paroles says eighteen people interviewed admitted contributing a total of $235,000 in cash, listed on insurance records as collateral for the subjects' bonds, mostly out of friendship, and all denied any pressure.

A report of the Chicago office (file 58-194) on the investigation of the paroles of Louis Campagna and the others, covering October 9 to 11, 1947.

Its synopsis (p. 8) says that eighteen persons were interviewed who admitted contributing a total of $235,000 in cash, listed on insurance records as collateral for the subjects' bonds, mostly because of friendship with the subjects or at the request of mutual friends, and that all denied that any pressure or coercion was brought to bear. Other pages cover the subjects' disciplinary records at the Atlanta penitentiary, a $10,000 bond posted in 1943 for Charles Gioe, and the choice of Harry Ash as Gioe's proposed parole adviser.

The synopsis also names individual contributors, among them a man it calls a local gambler; those private persons are not named here. The report records what the contributors said; it makes no finding about the source of the money. 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, John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli Part 02, pp. 7-10, 16-20, 24, 56: https://vault.fbi.gov/John%20%28Handsome%20Johnny%29%20Roselli/John%20%28Handsome%20Johnny%29%20Roselli%20Part%2002/view