FBI Vault, Nicodemo Scarfo, Part 02 (Final): Newark RICO case file, 1981 to 1982

Second and final part of the FBI's released Scarfo file, 323 pages: a December 1981 Justice Department memorandum on closed-circuit television authority, Newark airtels, and 1982 surveillance logs of Atlantic City and shore towns. Read from the viewer's OCR.

Date: 1981/1982
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under the Freedom of Information Act. A federal work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Redactions are as released by the FBI. Newspaper clippings filed inside FBI files are third-party material and are not covered by this basis.

The Vault viewer shows 323 pages. They include a Justice Department memorandum of December 3, 1981 on closed-circuit television authority in the RICO case; Newark airtels and teletypes; and many FD-302 surveillance logs of 1982 covering locations in Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate and Longport. Several late pages summarize source information about Salvatore (Sal) Testa, whom one Newark serial describes as the son of the late Phillip Testa.

A Newark report describes a boxing event at an Atlantic City casino on February 21, 1982 at which Scarfo was observed with others. The casino’s name is garbled in the OCR; it may read Claridge, but this archive has not checked the page image and does not name the casino.

Every detail is read from the viewer’s OCR, which is poor; the page images could not be downloaded. Surveillance logs record what agents saw and are not charges.

itemFBI Vault, Nicodemo Scarfo, Part 01: Newark RICO case file, 1981 to 1985First part of the FBI's released Scarfo file, 252 pages, mostly 1981: a memorandum recommending a new RICO case, Newark teletypes on his firearms conviction, Atlantic City surveillance reports, and 1985 intercept logs. Read from the viewer's OCR.itemUnited States v. Pungitore, 910 F.2d 1084 (3d Cir. 1990)Third Circuit opinion of August 1, 1990 affirming the RICO convictions of Nicodemo Scarfo and thirteen co-defendants from the 1988 Philadelphia trial, with the court's account of the family's succession from Angelo Bruno to Philip Testa to Scarfo.