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Page 2 of the superseding indictment in United States v. Gallo, Count 1, alleging an enterprise known as the Cleveland Organized Crime Family
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United States v. Gallo et al., criminal case CR82-119, N.D. Ohio (case file, National Archives)

The National Archives file unit for the Cleveland federal case against Joseph Charles Gallo, Frederick and Hartmut Graewe, Angelo A. Lonardo, Kevin Joseph McTaggart and Thomas James Sinito: a superseding indictment and sixteen digitized volumes of trial transcript, 1982-1983.

Date
1982/1983
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
315949004
Docket
Criminal Case CR82-119
Rights
A record of the United States District Court, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105, held by the National Archives in the series Criminal Case Files, U.S. District Court for the Eastern (Cleveland) Division of the Northern District of Ohio (NAID 1105351). The National Archives catalog marks access and use "Unrestricted."

The National Archives catalog describes file unit 315949004 as “United States of America vs. Joseph Charles Gallo, Frederick Graewe, Harmut Graewe, Angelo A. Lonardo, Kevin Joseph McTaggart, and Thomas James Sinito,” criminal case CR82-119, with coverage dates 1982 to 1983. It belongs to the series of criminal case files of the Eastern (Cleveland) Division of the Northern District of Ohio (NAID 1105351). The catalog spells “Harmut”; the indictment and the Sixth Circuit print “Hartmut.”

The file unit has seventeen digitized items: the superseding indictment filed October 27, 1982 (NAID 315949009) and sixteen volumes of trial transcript running from November 5, 1982 to January 18, 1983, beginning with Volume 1 (NAID 315949012). The page shown above is the second page of the indictment, the opening of Count 1.

The convictions from this trial were affirmed in United States v. Gallo (6th Cir. 1985). The testimony in the transcript volumes, about 6,400 page images, has not been read for this archive and is not quoted here.

itemSuperseding indictment, United States v. Gallo et al., CR82-119, N.D. Ohio (filed 27 October 1982)The 84-page superseding indictment in the Cleveland case before Judge John M. Manos, charging RICO conspiracy, Travel Act, narcotics and continuing-criminal-enterprise counts; Count 1 alleges an enterprise 'controlled by the Cleveland Organized Crime Family'.itemTranscript of trial proceedings, Volume 1, United States v. Gallo et al., CR82-119 (November 1982)Volume 1 (pages 1-242) of the sixteen-volume transcript of the Cleveland jury trial of Gallo, the Graewes, Lonardo and McTaggart before Judge John M. Manos, which began on 5 November 1982.itemUnited States v. Gallo, 763 F.2d 1504 (6th Cir. 1985)Sixth Circuit opinion of May 29, 1985 on the Cleveland RICO, continuing-criminal-enterprise and Travel Act convictions of Joseph Gallo, Frederick and Hartmut Graewe, Kevin McTaggart and Angelo Lonardo. It affirmed all but one count and describes Lonardo as 'one of the leading directors and investors' in the enterprise.itemJustice Department report: Cleveland strike force sentencings of 7 April 1983An Organized Crime and Racketeering Section report of 18 April 1983 that Judge John M. Manos sentenced five Cleveland defendants after a twelve-week jury trial, among them Angelo 'Big Ange' Lonardo, 'underboss of the Cleveland LCN', to life without parole plus 103 years.