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Typed transcript cover with numbered lines: United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, Criminal Case No. 79-00042-MA, Mazzone, D.J., United States of America v. Howard Winter, et al., Excerpt, Opening Statement by Mr. Gregorie and Testimony of Anthony Ciulla, Fourth Day of Jury Trial, May 8, 1979, with a handwritten filing note — Open the full imageJPG, 620 × 800 px, 0.0 MB

Transcript excerpt: opening statement and testimony of Anthony Ciulla, fourth day of trial, May 8, 1979 (United States v. Winter)

The cover of a digitized trial transcript in United States v. Howard Winter et al.: the Government's opening statement and the testimony of Anthony Ciulla on the fourth day of the jury trial, May 8, 1979.

Date: 1979-05-08
Kind: case-file
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
NAID: 192803662
Docket: Criminal Case No. 79-00042-MA, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts
Rights: A transcript filed in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, held by the National Archives at Boston (Record Group 21). A federal court record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105; the catalog marks this item's use "Unrestricted." The parent series is marked "Restricted - Possibly" because it also holds newspaper clippings; no clipping is used here. The stored image is a page of the transcript.

A digitized transcript of 164 images in the case file of United States v. Howard T. Winter et al. The cover, shown above, reads “Criminal Case No. 79-00042-MA,” “Mazzone, D. J.,” “United States of America v. Howard Winter, et al.,” “Excerpt: Opening Statement by Mr. Gregorie and Testimony of Anthony Ciulla,” “Fourth Day of Jury Trial,” “Courtroom No. 3, Post Office & Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts, May 8, 1979.” A handwritten note at the foot reads “Filed in court 5/9/79.”

The First Circuit describes Ciulla as the Government’s principal witness. Only the cover of this transcript has been read for this archive. The opening statement and the testimony inside are not summarized or quoted here, and nothing in them is taken as established.

itemUnited States v. Howard T. Winter et al., criminal case file 79-CR-00042-MA (D. Mass.)National Archives description of the District of Massachusetts case file in the horse-race fixing prosecution: a 52-count indictment against 21 defendants, with trial transcripts and papers on the First Circuit appeal.itemUnited States v. Martorano, 663 F.2d 1113 (1st Cir. 1981): new-trial motions in the race-fixing caseFirst Circuit opinion of October 30, 1981 affirming the denial of new-trial motions by Howard T. Winter, James Martorano and four codefendants, based on FBI reports and grand jury testimony of the Government's chief witness, Anthony Ciulla, that had not been disclosed before trial.

itemTranscript: fifth day of trial, May 9, 1979 (United States v. Winter)The cover of the digitized transcript of the fifth day of the jury trial in United States v. Howard T. Winter et al., Courtroom No. 4, Boston, May 9, 1979.

itemTranscript: thirtieth day of trial, June 21, 1979 (United States v. Winter)The cover of the digitized transcript of the thirtieth day of the jury trial in United States v. Howard T. Winter et al., Courtroom No. 3, Boston, June 21, 1979.

itemTranscript: Judge Mazzone's charge to the jury, July 6, 1979 (United States v. Winter)The cover of the digitized transcript of the judge's charge to the jury in United States v. Howard T. Winter et al., Courtroom No. 3, Post Office & Courthouse, Boston, July 6, 1979.

itemTranscript: the verdict, 4:30 p.m., July 11, 1979 (United States v. Winter)The digitized transcript of the taking of the jury's verdict in United States v. Howard T. Winter et al. The page shown records the foreman's answers on count one for six defendants and the first answer on count two, "Guilty" for Howard Winter.itemUnited States v. Winter, 663 F.2d 1120 (1st Cir. 1981)First Circuit opinion of October 30, 1981 on a 42-count RICO prosecution of a horse-race-fixing enterprise that bribed jockeys at East Coast tracks from 1973 to 1975. Four convictions were affirmed and two reversed.