Senate narcotics hearings, 25 September 1963: Inspector Shanley's example of $200,000 sewn into a coat and carried to Cuba (p. 75)

Describing a 'money mover,' New York police inspector John J. Shanley told the Senate subcommittee that a man going to Cuba carried $200,000 sewn into the lining of his coat and delivered it 'to somebody in Cuba that we feel was very high in the syndicate.' He said it was about five years earlier and that the police did not know who received it.

Date

1963-09-25

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.

Printed page 75 of Part 1 of “Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics” (NCJRS PDF page 80), from the session of 25 September 1963. Deputy Chief Inspector John J. Shanley of the New York City Police Department was explaining how leaders “insulate” themselves when subcommittee counsel Jerome S. Adlerman asked for an illustration of the “money mover.”

Shanley said the money mover “had accumulated a certain amount of money in a very successful operation. What it was we didn’t know. But he had to transport this money. A man was going at that time to Cuba. He took $200,000 and sewed it in the lining of this man’s coat. The man went to Cuba. He delivered it to somebody in Cuba that we feel was very high in the syndicate. Who it was, we don’t know.” (The text layer reads “lming” for “lining.”) Asked by the chairman whether that was recent, he answered: “That was about 5 years ago.”

The witness names no one, and “about 5 years ago” from 1963 is his only date. This is a police officer’s example, offered as testimony, not a finding. On 8 October 1963 (printed page 255) Shanley also said that a man on the Genovese chart, Joe Rivers, “was also connected with Cuba when they had dice games going there.”