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Printed page 12198 of McClellan Committee hearings Part 32: staff-list entries under M, including Maggadino, Mannarino and Montana.
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McClellan Committee staff list: "Individuals at Apalachin and Names of Some of Their Contacts and Associates" (1958)

An alphabetical staff memorandum printed in Part 32 (pp. 12194-12201) giving a residence and a summary of arrests, businesses and associations for each Apalachin attendee and some contacts. The chairman admitted it "for guidance and information only" and said "It is not evidence."

Date
1958-06-30/1958-07-03
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The page image stored here was rendered from the Internet Archive's PDF of the Boston Public Library copy; quotations follow the Archive's OCR, checked against the page image.

At the start of the Part 32 hearings Robert F. Kennedy asked to place in the record “a mimeographed memorandum on the individuals that we will be discussing.” The chairman agreed: “It may be placed in the record just for guidance and information only, and it will not be accepted as proof.” He added: “It is not evidence, and it is simply a memorandum prepared by the staff for information of the committee.” The list follows at printed pages 12194 to 12201. The stored image is printed page 12198.

Entries are the staff’s summaries, in the staff’s spellings. The Buffalo-area entries include: “Maggadino, Antonio (Niagara Falls): At Apalachin meeting. Vice president of Maggadino Funeral Home,” followed by a record “(all in Italy)”; “Maggadino, Peter (Buffalo): President, Maggadino Memorial Chapel, Inc.”; “Maggadino, Steve (Lewiston, N. Y.): His son, Peter, married to niece of John Montana. His daughter is married to Charles Montana, nephew of John. Another daughter married to LaDuca. A principal in Power City Distributing Co. Brother of Anthony, who attended Apalachin meeting”; “Montana, John Charles (Buffalo): At Apalachin meeting. President of several companies and director, chairman, etc., of various civic associations”; and “La Duca, James Vincent (Lewiston, N. Y.): At Apalachin meeting. Was secretary-treasurer of Local 66, Hotel, Restaurant Employees, Buffalo. Associate of Steve and Anthony Maggadino, Roy Carlisi, and John Montana.” Roy Carlisi, Dominick D’Agostino of Niagara Falls, Samuel Lagattuta and Sam Pieri have entries of their own.

Pittsburgh-area entries include “Mannarino, Gabriel (New Kensington, Pa.): At Apalachin meeting. Former owner, with brothers, of Sans Soucie, Habana,” with a list of arrests and “Owner of Nu-Ken Novelty Co (slot and cigarette machines, jukeboxes)”; and Michael James Genovese of Gibsonia, Pa., “Partner in L & G Amusement Co., Pennsylvania, coin machines, with John LaRocca in 1956.” The host’s entry reads: “Barbara, Joseph Marin, Sr. (Apalachin, N. Y.): Host at Apalachin meeting. President of Canada Dry Bottling Co. of Endicott, N. Y.”

The list gives each person’s city of residence. That is the reason this archive files it: the Second Circuit’s Bufalino opinion lists those stopped at the roadblock without saying where they came from. The list assigns no family and no rank. Its arrest summaries are the staff’s, and an arrest is not a conviction.

itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 32: "Mafia" (30 June-3 July 1958)Printed hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Part 32, headed "Mafia." The chairman's opening statement starts with the gathering at Joseph Barbara's home at Apalachin; the first witness is Sgt. Edgar D. Crosswell.itemTestimony of committee investigators Sherman Willse and George H. Martin on the Apalachin attendees (Part 32, p. 12260)McClellan Committee investigators described their chart of the Apalachin attendees' activities (Exhibit 5), named five men added to the original list of 58, among them "John LaRocca, Pittsburgh," and said LaRocca was in business in Pittsburgh with Gabriel Mannarino and Michael James Genovese.itemTestimony of John C. Montana before the McClellan Committee, 1958 (Part 32)The president of Buffalo's Van Dyke Taxicab Co. testified under oath about his birth, his businesses and his trip of November 14, 1957, saying he drove with Anthony Maggadino, "an uncle through marriage to my nephew," and stopped at Joseph Barbara's for help with his car.itemTestimony of James V. La Duca before the McClellan Committee, 1958 (Part 32)James V. La Duca of Lewiston, N.Y., declined on Fifth Amendment grounds to answer whether he attended the Apalachin meeting, while Robert F. Kennedy read the staff's information on his work for John C. Montana's taxi company, the Maggadino Funeral Home and Local 66 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees.