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Printed page 195 of the 1963 hearings, Part 1 (NCJRS PDF page 210): Duffy identifies a photostatic copy of a police entry, printed as Exhibit No. 10, on the killing of Joseph Aiello on October 23, 1930.
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Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 193–195: how the war was paid for, and Exhibit No. 10, a Chicago police entry on the killing of Joseph Aiello, October 23, 1930

Valachi testified that Tom Gagliano spent $140,000 on the war and that $5,000 a week came from Buffalo and $5,000 a week from Joe Aiello in Chicago. Exhibit No. 10, a photostat of a Chicago police entry, records that Aiello was killed by machine-gun fire in front of 205 N. Kolmar Ave. on October 23, 1930.

Date
1963-10-01
Kind
hearing
Source
National Criminal Justice Reference Service, scan of the printed hearings (NCJ 119303)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The NCJRS cover sheet records reproduction permission as "Public Domain / U.S. Senate."

Printed pages 193 to 195 of Part 1 (NCJRS PDF pages 208 to 210), October 1, 1963. Senator Henry M. Jackson asked whether the organization had money to help its members. Valachi answered that “Tom Gagliano invested $140,000 out of his pocket,” that “There was $5,000 a week coming in from Buffalo which was Steve Magaddino,” and that “there was $5,000 a week coming from Chicago, Joe Aiello. I learned this from being in the house with Maranzano.” He said the money from Chicago “was cut off” when Aiello was killed, and that the men doing the fighting got “$25 a week … between four of us” (printed page 194). Asked what racket the Chicago money came from, he said: “I don’t know, Senator. … I didn’t even know Joe Aiello.”

Staff counsel LaVern Duffy then identified “a photostatic copy of a police entry on the books to show the murder of Aiello on October 23, 1930.” The chairman had it printed as Exhibit No. 10:

October 23, 1930. Aiello, Joseph: Age 39, Italy, married, gang leader and partner of “Bugs Moran” was riddled with machinegun bullets in front of 205 N. Kolmar Ave., when he left the home of Pasquale Prestigiocomo, alias Presto to enter a cab. The fire was opened up on him from a “machinegun nest” in a flat across the street, 202 Kolmar Ave., and when he attempted to escape to the rear of the Presto home was felled from fire from a second nest from a window at 4518 West End Ave.

The entry adds that Presto was booked on 10-28-30 as an accessory, “but on 1-29-31 the case was nolle prossed” before the inquest closed. “Kolmar” and “Prestigiocomo” are read from the page image; the text layer has “Kalmar.” The entry is a Chicago police book entry, which calls Aiello a “gang leader”; the rest of the passage is Valachi’s testimony. Valachi later named Aiello as the one man his side lost and said, “They told me Al Capone got him. I only can tell you what they told me at the time” (pp. 214–218).

Valachi’s statement about the Buffalo money on printed page 193 is also quoted on the Stefano Magaddino page, filed with the Buffalo family; this record does not repeat it as a separate fact. These are a witness’s sworn answers and a police entry, not findings.

Page images: printed p. 195 (stored above) and p. 193.

itemExhibit No. 64: "Buffalo, N.Y. Organization"Buffalo police fold-out chart entered on October 16, 1963, with a boss of "Entire Western N.Y. Area," an underboss, lieutenants and section leaders.itemExhibit No. 39: "Chicago-Italian Organization, Overall Chicago Area Bosses and Lieutenants"Chicago Police Department fold-out chart presented on October 11, 1963, with photographs, grouped as overall bosses and lieutenants and then by district.itemHearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 214–218: the "score" of the war, Maranzano's meeting on Washington Avenue ("the boss of all bosses, which is myself"), and the banquetValachi testified that the score was "we lost 1 and they lost from 40 to 60," described a meeting of 400 to 500 people in a hall on Washington Avenue in the Bronx where Maranzano declared himself "the boss of all bosses," named the bosses he recalled being designated there, and described a five-night banquet he understood raised $115,000. Testimony, not findings.itemHearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 188–192: the "contract" on Joseph Catania ("Joe Baker") and the police record of his killing on February 3, 1931Valachi testified that Maranzano would not make peace until Joe Baker was killed, and described the watch from an apartment in the Bronx. Sgt. Ralph Salerno read the police record: Joseph Catania, alias Joe Baker, 29, shot six times 15 feet west of 647 Crescent Avenue on February 3, 1931, died in Fordham Hospital.itemTestimony of Joseph Valachi, October 1, 1963: the initiation ceremonyValachi described the ceremony at which he said he was made a member, with Salvatore Maranzano speaking. The same day, staff presented Exhibit 8, the Masseria-Maranzano war chart.