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Viewer page 8 of Part 02 of the FBI Vault's John Roselli file: the cover page of a report made at Chicago on 10-11-47 for the period 10/9-10/47, file 58-194, title Louis Campagna with aliases, et al, character Bribery, Parole Matters, whose synopsis begins 'Eighteen persons listed on insurance records as contributing cash collateral for bonds of subjects'
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FBI Chicago report, October 9-11, 1947: who put up bond collateral for the paroled men (Vault Roselli Part 02)

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.

Date
1947-10-09/1947-10-11
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault, John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli Part 02, pp. 7-10, 16-20, 24, 56
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Chicago file 58-194
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.

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).

itemFBI memoranda, September 1947: Congressman Busbey's parole-bribery allegation and a profile of John Roselli (Vault Roselli Part 01)FBI memoranda to the Attorney General report Congressman Fred Busbey's allegation that a quarter of a million dollars was rumored to have been paid for the 1947 paroles of Campagna, D'Andrea, Gioe, Ricca and Roselli. The memoranda do not find it true.itemFBI Chicago reports, October 9-11, 1947: interviews on the parole allegations, including Governor Dwight Green (Vault Roselli Part 05)FBI agents interviewed Illinois Governor Dwight Green about an anonymous allegation concerning the paroles, and others; on October 11 Jack Sussman told agents he was responsible for $50,000 of the bond money, half of it, he said, given him by Paul Ricca.itemFBI Atlanta report (file Atlanta 58-62), autumn 1947: Warden Sanford on the prisoners and their 1945 transfer to Leavenworth (Vault, John Roselli Part 02)The Atlanta office's report for the 1947 parole inquiry. Warden Sanford said he made no parole recommendations, recalled an inmate informant's report that three of the men "had stated they had $10,000 to arrange their transfer", and said the transfer to Leavenworth was "done by bus on July 28, 1945."