# Mob Files

> Mob Files is a public-domain archive of American organized crime. Each finished page is one record — an FBI file, a hearing, a court opinion, a photograph — with the source URL and the rights. Stub hubs are not finished history.

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## Records

- [Mob Files](https://mobfiles.org/): A public-domain archive of American organized crime: one record per page, each with its citation, source, and rights.
- [ATF historical article: the Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1934-1951](https://mobfiles.org/items/atf-alcohol-tax-unit-1934-1951/): ATF's history of its post-Repeal predecessor says "Machine guns continued to be the weapon of choice for these criminals" and that the Alcohol Tax Unit enforced the 1934 and 1938 firearms acts, "marking the first enforcement responsibilities for firearms."
- [ATF biography of Eliot Ness, Prohibition agent](https://mobfiles.org/items/atf-eliot-ness-page/): ATF's biography of Eliot Ness as a "legacy ATF agent": federal service from 1926, a Bureau of Prohibition special agent in charge in Chicago in 1930, and Prohibition-era cooperation among the Prohibition Unit, the Coast Guard and Customs.
- [ATF history timeline: the Prohibition entries, 1919-1933](https://mobfiles.org/items/atf-history-timeline/): The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' timeline of its legacy agencies. Its Prohibition entries cover the Volstead Act, the Prohibition Unit, the 1927 reorganization into the Bureau of Prohibition, the 1930 transfer to Justice, and the 1933 return to Treasury.
- [ATF history timeline: the National Firearms Act, June 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/atf-timeline-nfa-1934/): ATF's timeline entry for June 1934 says the National Firearms Act "is a direct response to gang violence" and imposed requirements on "machine guns, silencers and sawed-off shotguns." An agency retrospective, not a 1934 record.
- [Alcatraz (Federal Bureau of Prisons history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/bop-alcatraz-history/): The Bureau of Prisons' history page on Alcatraz names Al Capone among the well-known criminals who did time there, and says most of its prisoners were not well-known gangsters.
- [Federal Bureau of Prisons: Historical Information (agency overview)](https://mobfiles.org/items/bop-history-federal-prison-system/): The Bureau of Prisons' historical overview: the Three Prisons Act of 1891, the Act of 14 May 1930 that created the Bureau, 14 facilities by the end of 1930, and USP Lewisburg opening in 1932 as the first penitentiary the Bureau built.
- [Federal Bureau of Prisons: Historical Information, Timeline](https://mobfiles.org/items/bop-history-timeline/): The Bureau of Prisons' timeline entries for the Three Prisons Act (1891), the Bureau's founding and first Director (1930), USP Lewisburg (1932), USP Alcatraz as the first maximum security prison (1934) and James V. Bennett (1937).
- [Testimony of Buffalo Police Lt. Michael Amico on Stefano Magaddino and John C. Montana, October 16, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/buffalo-amico-testimony-1963-10-16/): The head of Buffalo's Criminal Intelligence Bureau introduced the "Magaddino Empire of Organized Crime" chart (Exhibit 65), read a statement calling Stefano Magaddino the "titular head" of syndicated crime in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls and Toronto areas, and said police had found no arrest of John C. Montana before Apalachin.
- [Statement of Buffalo Police Commissioner William H. Schneider, October 16, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/buffalo-schneider-statement-1963-10-16/): Buffalo's police commissioner told the Senate subcommittee that the "so-called syndicate" was not responsible for all crime in Buffalo, that police had not been able to secure evidence of a criminal conspiracy that could be presented in court, and that the Buffalo chart, Exhibit 64, was accurate to the best of the department's knowledge.
- [Statement of Deputy Superintendent Joseph Morris, Chicago Police Department, October 11, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/chicago-morris-statement-1963-10-11/): A Chicago police history of the syndicate placed in the 1963 hearing record. It states that Paul Ricca led after Frank Nitti's 1943 suicide, and that Tony Accardo "became the syndicate boss in 1943."
- [Church Committee report, p. 308: Senator Baker's additional views on the underworld and Havana gambling](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-baker-views-havana-gambling-1975/): In his additional views Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. writes that the evidence 'strongly suggests' the underworld wanted Castro gone because his actions barred its control of the Havana gambling enterprises. It is a Senator's reading, not the committee's finding.
- [Church Committee, Final Report, Book I (S. Rept. 94-755, 1976): the Bureau of Narcotics in the CIA's drug testing](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-book-1-bureau-of-narcotics/): Passages of the Church Committee's Book I stating that undercover officers of the Bureau of Narcotics, acting for the CIA, gave LSD to unwitting subjects, some of them "informers or members of suspect criminal elements," and that "There is some question as to the Commissioner of Narcotics' knowledge about the project."
- [Church Committee report, p. 97: a Miami meeting in the week of 25 September 1960](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-miami-meeting-1960/): The report says that, per the Inspector General, the CIA's Support Chief, Maheu and Rosselli met in Miami with Giancana and Trafficante in the week of 25 September 1960; the committee says it cannot place the events precisely.
- [Church Committee report (S. Rep. 94-465, 1975), pp. 74-75: a 'gambling syndicate operating in Cuba' and the casinos' closing, reopening and final closing](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-pp74-75-gambling-syndicate-cuba-1975/): The committee records that in August 1960 the CIA sought underworld figures 'with gambling syndicate contacts' to kill Castro, and states in a footnote that the casinos Castro closed 'were reopened for use by foreign tourists in late February 1959, and remained open until late September 1961.'
- [Church Committee report, pp. 129-130: "a close friend of President Kennedy"](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-presidents-friend-1975/): The Church Committee's 1975 interim report says a close friend of President Kennedy, who had frequent contact with him from late 1960 to mid-1962, was also a close friend of John Rosselli and Sam Giancana, and that Hoover sent memoranda about it in February 1962. The report does not name the friend.
- [Church Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, S. Rep. No. 94-465 (1975)](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-s-rep-94-465/): Interim report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, November 20, 1975. It identifies the man called "Sam Gold" in the CIA's Castro operation as Sam Giancana and records his murder on June 20, 1975.
- [Church Committee report, pp. 77 and 80-82: Trafficante, Miami and Cuba](https://mobfiles.org/items/church-committee-trafficante-miami-cuba-1975/): Passages of Senate Report 94-465 that identify Santos Trafficante as 'the Cosa Nostra chieftain in Cuba' and record Rosselli's account of a Miami meeting at the Fountainebleau Hotel, which Maheu denied.
- [Congressional Record, House, 10 November 1941: Representative Bennett lists Browne and Bioff as "convicted this month"](https://mobfiles.org/items/congressional-record-1941-11-10-bennett-browne-bioff-convicted/): A House floor speech for a union-reporting bill, used here for one point only: on 10 November 1941 a member of Congress stated that George E. Browne and Bioff "were convicted this month." No court record of the 1941 verdict was opened.
- [Congressional Record, House, 28 November 1947: Representative Hoffman, "The Parole of Four Capone Gangsters"](https://mobfiles.org/items/congressional-record-1947-11-28-hoffman-capone-paroles/): The chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments reports on his subcommittee's inquiry into the August 1947 paroles: hearings in Chicago on 25 and 26 September 1947 (508 pages of transcript) and in Washington on 7 October, paroles granted "just 37 days" after eligibility, a tax compromise, and the Atlanta warden's 1945 letter against the transfer.
- [Congressional Record, Senate, 18 August 1949: Representative Busbey's additional views to House Report No. 2441 on the "Capone gang paroles"](https://mobfiles.org/items/congressional-record-1949-08-18-busbey-additional-views/): During debate on Tom C. Clark's nomination to the Supreme Court, Senator Ferguson had printed Representative Fred E. Busbey's additional views from the Seventeenth Intermediate Report of the House Expenditures Committee. Busbey lists what the subcommittee examined, including the dismissal of a mail-fraud indictment and the reduction of tax liens on two of the men.
- [Aiuppa v. United States, 393 F.2d 597 (10th Cir. 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-aiuppa-v-us-393-f2d-597/): Tenth Circuit opinion of April 25, 1968 affirming Joseph Aiuppa's jury conviction for unlawful possession and transportation of migratory birds.
- [Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165 (1969)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-alderman-v-us-394-us-165/): Supreme Court decision of March 10, 1969 on government electronic surveillance, granting rehearing in the Denver threats case after the petitioners learned that Felix Alderisio's Chicago place of business had been monitored.
- [Bailey v. United States, 74 F.2d 451 (10th Cir. 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-bailey-v-us-74-f2d-451/): The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Harvey J. Bailey's conviction and life sentence for conspiracy under the federal kidnaping act of 22 June 1932 in the Urschel case.
- [Balistrieri v. United States, 394 U.S. 985 (1969) (certiorari denied; Fortas, J., dissenting)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-balistrieri-v-us-394-us-985/): The Supreme Court's order of April 21, 1969 denying review of Frank Peter Balistrieri's tax conviction, with a dissent by Justice Fortas, joined by Justice Douglas, listing the eavesdropping and searches the petitioner claimed and the government did not deny.
- [Balistrieri v. United States, 395 U.S. 710 (1969) (per curiam)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-balistrieri-v-us-395-us-710/): The Supreme Court's per curiam of June 16, 1969 granting rehearing, vacating its earlier denial of certiorari and the Seventh Circuit's judgment in Frank Peter Balistrieri's tax case, and remanding in light of Alderman v. United States and Giordano v. United States.
- [Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41 (1967)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-berger-v-new-york-388-us-41/): Supreme Court decision of June 12, 1967 holding New York's permissive eavesdrop statute "too broad in its sweep" and so in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, reversing a conviction for conspiracy to bribe the Chairman of the State Liquor Authority.
- [Calicchio v. United States, 189 F. 305 (2d Cir. 1911)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-calicchio-v-us-189-f-305/): Second Circuit opinion of 19 June 1911 affirming the 1910 counterfeiting convictions of Giuseppe Calicchio, Giuseppe Morello, Ignatzio Lupo and five others. It holds a question about Morello's 1903 arrest in the 'Barrel Murder' improper but cured, and says: 'The arrest of Morelio for the murder proved nothing.'
- [Capone v. Aderhold, Warden, 2 F. Supp. 280 (N.D. Ga. 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-capone-v-aderhold-2-f-supp-280/): The federal court at Atlanta dismisses Capone's habeas corpus petition, which argued that his felony sentences were void under the three-year statute of limitations. Decided 25 January 1933.
- [Capone v. United States, 56 F.2d 927 (7th Cir. 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-capone-v-us-56-f2d-927/): The Seventh Circuit affirms Alphonse Capone's 1931 conviction on three felony counts of attempted income-tax evasion and two misdemeanor counts of failing to file returns. Decided 27 February 1932.
- [Cerasani v. Sony Corp., 991 F. Supp. 343 (S.D.N.Y. 1998)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-cerasani-v-sony-991-f-supp-343/): Judge Denny Chin dismisses a libel suit over the 1997 film "Donnie Brasco." In doing so the court sets out the federal record of the 1982 trial, stating that "In 1976, FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone assumed the identity of Donnie Brasco ... and infiltrated the Bonanno Crime Family."
- [Colbeck v. United States, 10 F.2d 401 (7th Cir. 1925): the Staunton mail-robbery appeal](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-colbeck-v-us-10-f2d-401/): Seventh Circuit opinion of 8 December 1925 affirming the convictions and 25-year sentences of William P. Colbeck and eight codefendants for robbing persons in charge of the mails. It upholds the use of a convict's testimony and the instructions on alibi and reasonable doubt.
- [Compagna v. Hiatt, 100 F. Supp. 74 (N.D. Ga. 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-compagna-v-hiatt-100-f-supp-74/): On remand, Judge Underwood held on 18 September 1951 that the revocations of Campagna's and Gioe's paroles were "arbitrary and total nullities" and discharged both "as reinstated parolees." The findings describe the 13 August 1947 release from Leavenworth and the flight from Kansas City to Chicago.
- [Compagna v. Hiatt, 340 U.S. 880 (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-compagna-v-hiatt-340-us-880/): The Supreme Court's per curiam of 13 November 1950: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court. Mr. Justice Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of this case."
- [Compagna v. Hiatt, 82 F. Supp. 295 (N.D. Ga. 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-compagna-v-hiatt-82-f-supp-295/): Judge Underwood's findings of 4 December 1948 on the habeas petitions of Louis Campagna (spelled Compagna) and Charles Gioe at the Atlanta penitentiary: sentenced 31 December 1943, paroled 13 August 1947, retaken 23 July 1948. The court held the warrants void; reconsideration was denied 20 December 1948.
- [Compagna v. United States, 324 U.S. 867 (1945): certiorari denied](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-compagna-v-us-324-us-867/): The Supreme Court's order of 2 April 1945 denying the petitions for certiorari in the motion-picture extortion case. "Reported below: 146 F. 2d 524."
- [Costello v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 376 U.S. 120 (1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-costello-v-ins-376-us-120/): Supreme Court decision of February 17, 1964 holding that Frank Costello could not be deported under the two-crimes provision for convictions entered while he was a naturalized citizen.
- [Costello v. United States, 350 U.S. 359 (1956)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-costello-v-us-350-us-359/): Supreme Court decision of March 5, 1956 affirming Frank Costello's income-tax conviction and holding that an indictment resting only on hearsay before the grand jury is valid.
- [Costello v. United States, 365 U.S. 265 (1961)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-costello-v-us-365-us-265/): Supreme Court decision of February 20, 1961 affirming the revocation of Frank Costello's 1925 naturalization because he had concealed that his occupation was bootlegging.
- [United States ex rel. De Lucia v. O'Donovan, 107 F. Supp. 347 (N.D. Ill. 1952)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-de-lucia-v-odonovan-107-f-supp-347/): Judge Igoe's ruling of 21 August 1952 on Paul De Lucia's second habeas petition, after a new parole-violator warrant of 22 November 1950. The court found "no substantial or legal evidence to justify the charge of parole violation" and discharged him "as a reinstated parolee."
- [United States ex rel. De Lucia v. O'Donovan, 178 F.2d 876 (7th Cir. 1949)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-de-lucia-v-odonovan-178-f2d-876/): The Seventh Circuit affirmed Paul De Lucia's discharge on 8 December 1949. It dates the congressional hearings on the paroles from 25 September 1947 to 7 June 1948, and holds it "arbitrary and capricious" to issue a parole warrant without any information of a violation.
- [United States ex rel. De Lucia v. O'Donovan, 82 F. Supp. 435 (N.D. Ill. 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-de-lucia-v-odonovan-82-f-supp-435/): Judge Igoe's ruling of 10 November 1948 in Paul De Lucia's habeas corpus case, overruling the government's demurrer. It records the four parolees' petition of 16 June 1948, the congressional inquiry into their paroles, and the parole-violator warrant of 15 June 1948.
- [De Veau v. Braisted, 363 U.S. 144 (1960)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-de-veau-v-braisted-363-us-144/): The Supreme Court upheld § 8 of the New York Waterfront Commission Act of 1953, which barred a waterfront union from collecting dues while an officer convicted of a felony remained in office.
- [United States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the penalty verdict, judgment and mandate](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-docket-basciano-05-cr-60-judgment-2011/): On June 1, 2011 the penalty-phase jury in Vincent Basciano's capital case returned "A SENTENCE OF LIFEIMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE" (as the docket runs the words together). Judgment followed in July 2011; the Second Circuit's mandate of April 22, 2016 affirms it.
- [United States v. Basciano, No. 1:05-cr-00060 (E.D.N.Y.), docket entries for the 2011 trial](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-docket-basciano-05-cr-60-trial-2011/): Minute entries for Vincent Basciano's 2011 capital trial. Joseph Massino was called as a witness on five days in April 2011, and on May 16, 2011 the "Jury renders a guilty verdict on all three counts."
- [United States v. Massino, No. 1:03-cr-00929 (E.D.N.Y.), judgment as to Joseph Massino (July 7, 2005)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-docket-massino-03-cr-929-judgment-2005/): Docket of the second Bonanno racketeering case before Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis. The judgment ordered on July 7, 2005 imposes life imprisonment on Joseph Massino in his first case and a consecutive life term on "Count Nine (9) of the superseding indictment CR 03-929 (S-3)."
- [Donahue v. United States, 634 F.3d 615 (1st Cir. 2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-donahue-v-us-634-f3d-615/): First Circuit opinion of February 10, 2011 reversing Federal Tort Claims Act judgments for the families of two men killed on Bulger's orders, on the ground that the suits were untimely, while calling the FBI's conduct reprehensible.
- [Flamingo Resort, Inc. v. United States, 485 F. Supp. 926 (D. Nev. 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-flamingo-resort-v-us-485-f-supp-926/): District of Nevada opinion of February 26, 1980 in a tax refund suit by Flamingo Resort, Inc., the owner and operator of the Flamingo in 1967, describing the casino's practice of credit play. It concerns tax accounting, not organized crime.
- [Galatas v. United States, 80 F.2d 15 (8th Cir. 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-galatas-v-us-80-f2d-15/): The Eighth Circuit's affirmance of the conspiracy convictions of Richard Tallman Galatas, Herbert Farmer, Louis Stacci and Frank B. Mulloy, arising from the plan to free Frank Nash. It sets out Nash's escape, his capture at Hot Springs, and the walk through Union Station.
- [Genovese v. United States, 378 F.2d 748 (2d Cir. 1967)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-genovese-v-us-378-f2d-748/): Second Circuit opinion of May 26, 1967 affirming the denial of Vito Genovese's 1965 motion to vacate his narcotics-conspiracy conviction. It sets out the history of the case: indictment in July 1958, conviction by a jury in April 1959.
- [Giancana v. Johnson, 335 F.2d 366 (7th Cir. 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-giancana-v-johnson-335-f2d-366/): Seventh Circuit opinion of June 30, 1964 vacating an injunction that had restricted FBI surveillance of Sam Giancana, for want of district-court jurisdiction.
- [Gordon v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1993-10 (U.S. Tax Court 1993)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-gordon-v-commissioner-t-c-memo-1993-10/): Tax Court memorandum opinion of January 11, 1993 about a finder's fee in Argent Corporation's acquisition of Recrion Corporation, with the court's findings that Recrion owned the Stardust and Fremont hotel-casinos and that Argent succeeded to them.
- [Grosso v. United States, 390 U.S. 62 (1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-grosso-v-us-390-us-62/): Supreme Court decision of January 29, 1968, companion to Marchetti, holding that a claim of the Fifth Amendment privilege precludes a criminal conviction for failing to pay the federal excise tax on wagers.
- [Guzik v. United States, 54 F.2d 618 (7th Cir. 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-guzik-v-us-54-f2d-618/): Seventh Circuit opinion of December 10, 1931 affirming Guzik's conviction for willfully attempting to evade income tax for 1927 through 1929.
- [Hamilton v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 34 F. Supp. 928 (N.D. Ohio 1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hamilton-v-western-union-34-f-supp-928/): District court decision of 9 May 1940 dissolving an injunction that had kept Western Union's leased wires running to a Youngstown race-news distributor; the affidavits it recites describe the end of the Annenberg wire organizations in Chicago.
- [Hiatt v. Compagna, 178 F.2d 42 (5th Cir. 1949)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hiatt-v-compagna-178-f2d-42/): The Fifth Circuit reversed the Atlanta court on 10 November 1949 and remanded Campagna and Gioe to the warden's custody. It records that after the 1947 paroles "Unfavorable newspaper publicity followed" and a congressional investigation; Judge Waller dissented.
- [H.J. Inc. v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., 492 U.S. 229 (1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hj-inc-v-northwestern-bell-492-us-229/): Supreme Court decision of June 26, 1989 holding that a RICO "pattern" requires related predicate acts that amount to or pose a threat of continued criminal activity, and that the pattern element is not limited to organized crime.
- [Hoffa v. Saxbe, 378 F. Supp. 1221 (D.D.C. 1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hoffa-v-saxbe-378-f-supp-1221/): The district court rejected James R. Hoffa's suit against the condition in his 1971 commutation, which barred him from managing a labor organization until 6 March 1980. The opinion recites his entry into Lewisburg penitentiary on 7 March 1967 and his release on 23 December 1971.
- [Hoffa v. United States, 385 U.S. 293 (1966)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hoffa-v-united-states-385-us-293/): The Supreme Court upheld the 1964 jury-tampering convictions of James Hoffa and three others, holding that the Government's use of Edward Partin, who reported Hoffa's statements during the 1962 Nashville trial, did not violate the Fourth, Fifth or Sixth Amendments.
- [Hornstein v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 292 N.Y. 468 (1944)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-hornstein-v-paramount-292-ny-468/): The New York Court of Appeals affirmed judgment for Paramount's officers and directors in a stockholders' suit over money paid "to labor union officials," holding that payments "coerced by threats" of a strike were not a crime under the Penal Law. Counsel's points name the payees as Bioff and Browne.
- [In re Basciano, 542 F.3d 950 (2d Cir. 2008)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-in-re-basciano-542-f3d-950/): The Second Circuit denies Vincent Basciano's petition to have Judge Garaufis recused from his capital case. Its background states that Basciano was indicted on August 14, 2003, was found guilty after trials in 2006 and 2007, and "On March 31, 2008, he was sentenced to life imprisonment."
- [In re D.I. Operating Co., 240 F. Supp. 672 (D. Nev. 1965)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-in-re-di-operating-240-f-supp-672/): District of Nevada opinion of March 18, 1965 holding the company that operated the Desert Inn casino, and its secretary Allard Roen, in civil contempt for not producing casino credit records under a 1961 Internal Revenue summons.
- [In re Grand Jury Investigation of Sam Giancana, 352 F.2d 921 (7th Cir. 1965)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-in-re-giancana-352-f2d-921/): Seventh Circuit opinion of October 8, 1965 affirming the June 1965 orders that held Sam Giancana in contempt for refusing to answer grand jury questions after an order to testify.
- [In re President's Commission on Organized Crime Subpoena of Nicodemo Scarfo, 783 F.2d 370 (3d Cir. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-in-re-pcoc-subpoena-scarfo-783-f2d-370/): Third Circuit opinion of February 14, 1986 reinstating the President's Commission on Organized Crime's 1985 subpoena to Nicodemo Scarfo and holding that federal judges' service on the Commission did not violate the separation of powers.
- [Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-katz-v-us-389-us-347/): Supreme Court decision of December 18, 1967 holding that FBI recording of a gambler's calls from a public telephone booth was a search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and that the trespass doctrine of Olmstead was no longer controlling.
- [Kelly v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co., 325 F.2d 148 (7th Cir. 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-kelly-v-illinois-bell-325-f2d-148/): Seventh Circuit decision of 6 December 1963 affirming an injunction that kept Illinois Bell and Western Union from cutting off the Illinois Sports News under the Wire Act's section 1084(d), on stipulated facts that its wires carried racing news for publications sold to the public.
- [Kelly v. United States, 76 F.2d 847 (10th Cir. 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-kelly-v-us-76-f2d-847/): The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of Kathryn Thorne Kelly's conviction and life sentence for conspiracy to kidnap and hold Charles F. Urschel for ransom. It rejects her claim that she acted under her husband's coercion.
- [Kolod v. United States, 371 F.2d 983 (10th Cir. 1967)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-kolod-v-us-371-f2d-983/): Tenth Circuit opinion of February 3, 1967 affirming the convictions of Ruby Kolod, Willie Israel Alderman, and Felix Alderisio for conspiring to transmit threats in interstate commerce.
- [Laska v. United States, 82 F.2d 672 (10th Cir. 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-laska-v-us-82-f2d-672/): The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the conviction of Denver attorney Ben B. Laska for joining the Urschel conspiracy by helping conceal and pass ransom money. Its summary of the kidnaping is the clearest the court gave.
- [Lewis v. United States, 348 U.S. 419 (1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-lewis-v-us-348-us-419/): Supreme Court decision of 14 March 1955 holding that United States v. Kahriger controlled a challenge to the federal wagering occupational tax brought in the District of Columbia.
- [Limone v. United States, 497 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D. Mass. 2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-limone-v-us-497-f-supp-2d-143/): Judge Gertner's findings of July 26, 2007, after a bench trial, that the 1968 convictions for the 1965 Deegan murder rested on Joseph Barboza's perjured testimony and that the FBI was liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
- [Limone v. United States, 579 F.3d 79 (1st Cir. 2009)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-limone-v-us-579-f3d-79/): First Circuit opinion of August 27, 2009 affirming Federal Tort Claims Act liability and damages of over $100 million in the suits arising from the 1968 Deegan murder convictions.
- [Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 54 v. Danziger, 709 F.2d 815 (3d Cir. 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-local-54-v-danziger-709-f2d-815/): Third Circuit opinion of June 6, 1983 on Local 54's challenge to the New Jersey Casino Control Act provisions on union officials, which describes the union's size in the Atlantic City casino hotels.
- [Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 54 v. Read, 832 F.2d 263 (3d Cir. 1987)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-local-54-v-read-832-f2d-263/): Third Circuit opinion of November 2, 1987 upholding New Jersey Casino Control Act provisions; it recounts the Commission's 1982 order removing two union officials for their association with Nicodemo Scarfo.
- [Lupo v. Zerbst, Warden, 92 F.2d 362 (5th Cir. 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-lupo-v-zerbst-92-f2d-362/): Fifth Circuit opinion of 19 October 1937 affirming the denial of Ignazio Lupo's habeas corpus petition after the President revoked his conditional commutation in 1936 and he was returned to the Atlanta penitentiary.
- [Makley v. State, 197 N.E. 339, 49 Ohio App. 359 (Ohio Ct. App. 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-makley-v-state-197-ne-339/): Ohio Court of Appeals opinion affirming Charles Makley's conviction for killing Allen County Sheriff Jess L. Sarber at the Lima jail on 12 October 1933, when Dillinger was freed.
- [Marcello v. Bonds, 349 U.S. 302 (1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-marcello-v-bonds-349-us-302/): Justice Clark's opinion upholding the order to deport Carlos Marcello, 'a native of Tunis, Africa,' under the 1952 immigration act on the basis of his 1938 Marihuana Tax Act conviction, and rejecting his Administrative Procedure Act claim. Justices Black and Douglas dissented.
- [Marcello v. Kennedy, 312 F.2d 874 (D.C. Cir. 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-marcello-v-kennedy-312-f2d-874/): The D.C. Circuit's opinion on Marcello's suit over his removal to Guatemala on 4 April 1961; it recites that he had re-entered the United States by June 1961 when a criminal prosecution had begun, and directs dismissal of the complaint.
- [Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39 (1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-marchetti-v-us-390-us-39/): Supreme Court decision of January 29, 1968 holding that a proper claim of the Fifth Amendment privilege is a complete defense to prosecution for failing to register and pay the federal occupational tax on wagering.
- [Marshall v. Sawyer, 365 F.2d 105 (9th Cir. 1966)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-marshall-v-sawyer-365-f2d-105/): Ninth Circuit opinion of August 10, 1966 affirming judgment against John Marshall, who sued Nevada officials and the Desert Inn's operator after being excluded from casinos as one of eleven men in the 1960 "black book," with a footnote giving his birth name as Marchello Caifano.
- [Martin v. United States, 389 F.2d 895 (5th Cir. 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-martin-v-us-389-f2d-895/): Fifth Circuit decision of 25 January 1968 upholding the Wire Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1084, as applied to wagers telephoned from Houston to Las Vegas.
- [McBride v. Western Union Tel. Co., 171 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-mcbride-v-western-union-171-f2d-1/): Ninth Circuit decision of 1 December 1948 holding that Western Union was justified, under its tariff, in refusing to restore race-track news service to the operator of Continental Press after California officers notified it that the drops were used for bookmaking.
- [McBride v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 78 F. Supp. 446 (S.D. Cal. 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-mcbride-v-western-union-78-f-supp-446/): District court opinion of 28 June 1948 in a suit by Edward J. McBride, "doing business as Continental Press Service," to restore Western Union's Morse wire after the company cut it off on notice from California officers; the court restored its temporary order pending appeal.
- [McDonald v. United States, 89 F.2d 128 (8th Cir. 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-mcdonald-v-us-89-f2d-128/): The Eighth Circuit's affirmance of the conviction of Cassius McDonald for conspiracy in the Bremer kidnaping, based on his exchange of some $92,000 of marked ransom money at Miami and Havana in September 1934. Sentence fifteen years.
- [McIntyre v. United States, 367 F.3d 38 (1st Cir. 2004)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-mcintyre-v-us-367-f3d-38/): First Circuit opinion of May 10, 2004 in two Federal Tort Claims Act suits against the United States arising from the FBI's handling of informants Bulger and Flemmi. It turned on when the claims accrued.
- [Methvin v. State, 60 P.2d 1062, 60 Okla. Crim. 1 (Okla. Crim. App. 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-methvin-v-state-60-p2d-1062/): Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals opinion in Henry Methvin's appeal from his conviction for the 6 April 1934 killing of Cal Campbell at Commerce, Ottawa County, "while acting conjointly with Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker." Conviction affirmed; death sentence modified to life.
- [Nardone v. United States, 302 U.S. 379 (1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-nardone-v-us-302-us-379/): Supreme Court decision of December 20, 1937 holding that section 605 of the Communications Act of 1934 barred federal agents from testifying to the contents of telephone messages they had intercepted by wiretap, and reversing an alcohol-smuggling conviction.
- [Nitto v. Commissioner, 13 T.C. 858 (1949)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-nitto-v-commissioner-13-tc-858/): The Tax Court held on 30 November 1949 that the government had "established convincingly" Frank Nitto's "association with Bioff and Browne in their scheme of procuring substantial sums of money from various members of the motion picture industry," that he failed to report his share, and that fraud penalties applied.
- [Orena v. United States, 956 F. Supp. 1071 (E.D.N.Y. 1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-orena-v-us-956-f-supp-1071/): Judge Weinstein denied motions to vacate Colombo family convictions over the government's nondisclosure of Gregory Scarpa Sr.'s role as an FBI informant. The opinion finds he began giving the Bureau information in 1980, was classified "Top Echelon," and was closed on March 3, 1992 and reopened on April 8, 1992. It also summarizes Salvatore Gravano's trial testimony.
- [Palmer v. State, 81 S.W.2d 76, 128 Tex. Crim. 293 (Tex. Crim. App. 1934; on the merits 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-palmer-v-state-81-sw2d-76/): Texas Court of Criminal Appeals opinion in Joe Palmer's appeal from his conviction for killing a guard during the 16 January 1934 break from the Eastham State Farm. The testimony it recites says Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker and others brought weapons to the farm.
- [Patriarca v. United States, 402 F.2d 314 (1st Cir. 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-patriarca-v-us-402-f2d-314/): First Circuit opinion of October 14, 1968 affirming Raymond Patriarca's conviction for conspiring to travel and use the telephone in interstate commerce with intent to commit murder to further an unlawful gambling enterprise. It does not mention Las Vegas.
- [Pendergast v. United States, 317 U.S. 412 (1943)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-pendergast-v-united-states-317-us-412/): The Supreme Court reverses the contempt convictions of Pendergast, O'Malley and McCormack on limitations grounds; its statement of facts describes Pendergast as 'a "political boss"' and the $750,000 'fee' agreed to influence the settlement of the 1930 insurance rate suits.
- [People v. Becker, 210 N.Y. 274 (1914): conviction for the Rosenthal murder reversed](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-becker-210-ny-274/): New York Court of Appeals opinion of 24 February 1914 reversing police lieutenant Charles Becker's conviction for the 1912 killing of the gambler Herman Rosenthal and ordering a new trial. Filed as context for New York in 1912, not as a Black Hand record.
- [People v. Buchalter, 289 N.Y. 181 (1942)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-buchalter-289-ny-181/): The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the murder convictions of Louis Buchalter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone. In passing, the opinion refers to "one Abe Reles (now dead)."
- [People v. Goldstein, 285 N.Y. 376 (1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-goldstein-285-ny-376/): The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the murder convictions of Martin Goldstein and Harry Strauss. It called the testimony of Abraham Reles, "concededly an accomplice," an important factor in the People's case and reviewed the charge on corroboration of accomplice testimony.
- [People v. Hines, 284 N.Y. 93 (1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-hines-284-ny-93/): New York Court of Appeals opinion of 8 October 1940 affirming James J. Hines's conviction for conspiracy to conduct the lotteries known as the "numbers game" and "policy." It states that in 1931 "the notorious Dutch Schultz" and associates formed a combination to control policy enterprises. It does not mention Harlem or any Black policy operator.
- [People v. Lucas, 106 Misc. 2d 672 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-lucas-106-misc-2d-672/): New York Supreme Court decision of 4 December 1980 on a motion by Frank Lucas, indicted for the 1974 killing of George Ford, to dismiss on the ground that the prosecution used testimony derived from his immunized cooperation. The motion as to two witnesses' testimony was denied. The court's statement of facts summarizes his federal narcotics cases.
- [People v. Luciano, 277 N.Y. 348 (1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-luciano-277-ny-348/): New York Court of Appeals decision of April 12, 1938 affirming the 1936 compulsory-prostitution convictions of Charles Luciano and five co-defendants. A state prosecution, not a federal case.
- [People v. Neumann, 148 Ill. App. 3d 362 (1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-people-v-neumann-148-ill-app-3d-362/): The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a murder conviction for a 1979 Chicago robbery-killing. It records that Frank Cullotta, imprisoned in Nevada, made an agreement with the FBI in April 1982 for witness protection and limits on his sentences, and later testified for the State under a grant of immunity.
- [Piquett v. United States, 81 F.2d 75 (7th Cir. 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-piquett-v-us-81-f2d-75/): The Seventh Circuit's opinion on the appeal of Louis Piquett, Dillinger's attorney, from his conviction for conspiring to harbor Homer Van Meter. The court notes he had earlier been tried and acquitted on the charge concerning Dillinger. Judgment affirmed.
- [Capone v. United States, 51 F.2d 609 (7th Cir. 1931): the appeal of Ralph J. Capone](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-ralph-capone-v-us-51-f2d-609/): The Seventh Circuit's July 1931 decision in the income-tax appeal of Ralph J. Capone. It reverses one count and affirms the rest. It is not a ruling in Alphonse Capone's case.
- [Ratner v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 6 F.R.D. 618 (S.D.N.Y. 1942)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-ratner-v-paramount-6-frd-618/): A federal stockholders' suit to make Paramount's officers and directors account for "corporate funds allegedly paid by them to one Willie Bioff, to induce him not to cause a strike" was dismissed on 7 August 1942, the state-court judgment in the Hornstein actions being res judicata.
- [Rewis v. United States, 401 U.S. 808 (1971)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-rewis-v-us-401-us-808/): Supreme Court decision of 5 April 1971 holding that the Travel Act did not reach the operators of a numbers game in Yulee, Florida merely because some of their customers crossed from Georgia to bet.
- [Rosenthal v. State of Nevada, 514 F. Supp. 907 (D. Nev. 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-rosenthal-v-nevada-514-f-supp-907/): District of Nevada order of May 6, 1981 dismissing Frank Rosenthal's civil-rights suit against Nevada gaming regulators, with the court's account of his position at the Argent Corporation, his licensing denials and his work at the Stardust.
- [Russel v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, 66 Cal. App. 2d 691 (1944)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-russel-v-iatse-66-cal-app-2d-691/): A California Court of Appeal opinion on a tax consultant's fee claim against the stagehands' union. It records that in July 1938 "George E. Browne, international president of appellant Alliance, accompanied by his personal representative, William Bioff" engaged him because the Treasury was investigating local unions.
- [Russello v. United States, 464 U.S. 16 (1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-russello-v-us-464-us-16/): Supreme Court decision of November 1, 1983 holding that the "interests" subject to forfeiture under the 1970 text of RICO's section 1963(a)(1) include profits and proceeds of racketeering, not only interests in an enterprise.
- [Sacco v. Pataki, 114 F. Supp. 2d 264 (S.D.N.Y. 2000): hiring at the Javits Center](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-sacco-v-pataki-114-f-supp-2d-264/): The court granted summary judgment against former Javits Convention Center workers who said state officials' public statements about corruption at the center deprived them of a liberty interest. The opinion records that the state operating corporation took over hiring on 30 June 1995.
- [Sagansky v. United States, 358 F.2d 195 (1st Cir. 1966)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-sagansky-v-us-358-f2d-195/): First Circuit decision of 25 March 1966 holding that a bookmaker who takes a bet over an interstate telephone call can "use" a wire facility under the Wire Act, but ordering new trials on the entrapment instructions.
- [Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-salinas-v-us-522-us-52/): Supreme Court decision of December 2, 1997 holding that a defendant may be convicted of RICO conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. 1962(d) without himself committing or agreeing to commit the two predicate acts a substantive violation requires.
- [Sawyer v. United States, 89 F.2d 139 (8th Cir. 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-sawyer-v-us-89-f2d-139/): Companion case to McDonald: the Eighth Circuit's affirmance of the conviction of Harry Sawyer, charged as one of the original conspirators in the kidnaping, transport and detention of Edward George Bremer.
- [Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex Co., 473 U.S. 479 (1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-sedima-v-imrex-473-us-479/): Supreme Court decision of July 1, 1985 holding that a private civil RICO plaintiff need not show a prior criminal conviction or a separate "racketeering injury"; "RICO is to be read broadly."
- [Shannon v. Artuz, 984 F. Supp. 807 (S.D.N.Y. 1997): habeas petition from a state murder conviction](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-shannon-v-artuz-984-f-supp-807/): Judge Whitman Knapp's opinion of November 24, 1997 denying Kenneth Shannon's federal habeas petition against his 1989 state conviction for helping Billie Bokun in the 1985 shooting of Michael Holly.
- [Shannon v. United States, 76 F.2d 490 (10th Cir. 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-shannon-v-us-76-f2d-490/): The Tenth Circuit's affirmance of the convictions of R. G. Shannon and Ora L. Shannon in the Urschel kidnaping. It recites how Urschel was held at the Shannon property and rejects the defense of coercion.
- [Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Nineteen Hundred One Collins Corp., 83 So. 2d 865 (Fla. 1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-southern-bell-v-1901-collins-83-so2d-865/): Florida Supreme Court decision of 2 November 1955 upholding the state's "anti-bookie law" on telephone and wire service, and its hotel-licence companion statute, in a case over the telephones of the Shore Club Hotel, Miami Beach.
- [Stardust, Inc. v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 225 F.2d 255 (9th Cir. 1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-stardust-v-sec-225-f2d-255/): Ninth Circuit opinion of July 29, 1955 on a petition by Stardust, Inc. and Anthony Cornero Stralla to set aside an SEC order investigating stock sales from June 1954. The opinion does not place the company in Las Vegas.
- [State ex rel. Napolitano v. Gravano, 204 Ariz. 106 (Ct. App. 2002)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-state-v-gravano-204-ariz-106/): The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld forfeiture of Salvatore Gravano's royalties from the book "Underboss." The opinion records his 1991 federal RICO plea, his cooperation, his five-year sentence and placement in the federal witness protection program, and his February 24, 2000 arrest in Maricopa County.
- [State v. Richetti, 119 S.W.2d 330, 342 Mo. 1015 (Mo. 1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-state-v-richetti-119-sw2d-330/): Missouri Supreme Court opinion affirming Adam Richetti's conviction and death sentence for killing Kansas City police officer Frank Hermanson in what the court calls the "Union Station Massacre" of 17 June 1933.
- [Taglianetti v. United States, 394 U.S. 316 (1969)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-taglianetti-v-us-394-us-316/): Supreme Court per curiam decision of March 24, 1969 holding that a defendant overheard by unlawful FBI surveillance in Providence was entitled to his own recorded conversations and nothing more.
- [Telephone News System, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co., 220 F. Supp. 621 (N.D. Ill. 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-telephone-news-system-220-f-supp-621/): Three-judge district court decision of 14 August 1963 rejecting constitutional challenges to the Wire Act's cut-off provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1084(d), as applied to a Chicago telephone service that played recorded horse-racing information to callers.
- [Telephone News System, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co., 376 U.S. 782 (1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-telephone-news-system-376-us-782/): One-line per curiam order of 6 April 1964 affirming the three-judge court's decision that upheld the Wire Act's cut-off provision as applied to a Chicago racing-information telephone service.
- [Time, Inc. v. McLaney, 406 F.2d 565 (5th Cir. 1969): Life's 1967 article on 'Havana gamblers' in the Bahamas, and the press reports the reporter relied on](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-time-v-mclaney-406-f2d-565/): The Fifth Circuit directed summary judgment for the publisher of Life in a libel suit by Mike McLaney, holding that the record showed no actual malice. The opinion quotes 1958-59 newspaper reports on Meyer Lansky and Havana gambling as material the reporter had before him; those quotations are not findings of the court.
- [Tropicales, S. A. v. Drinkhouse, 15 Misc. 2d 425, 183 N.Y.S.2d 679 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1959): a Havana casino's check enforced in New York](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-tropicales-v-drinkhouse-15-misc-2d-425/): A New York trial judge allowed a casino licensed by the Government of Cuba to collect a $12,000 check written for gambling credit in Havana in February 1956, holding that because the transaction took place in Cuba, 'The laws of Cuba prevail and not the laws of New York.'
- [United States ex rel. Buchalter v. Lowenthal, 108 F.2d 863 (2d Cir. 1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-ex-rel-buchalter-v-lowenthal-108-f2d-863/): Per curiam Second Circuit opinion of January 1940 denying Louis Buchalter a stay: after his federal guilty plea and fourteen-year sentence, the Attorney General consented to his trial in the New York Court of General Sessions, and the court called his appeal "wholly without merit."
- [United States v. Accardo, 298 F.2d 133 (7th Cir. 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-accardo-298-f2d-133/): Seventh Circuit opinion of January 5, 1962 reversing Anthony Joseph Accardo's 1960 conviction for false statements on income tax returns and remanding for a new trial.
- [United States v. Agueci, 310 F.2d 817 (2d Cir. 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-agueci-310-f2d-817/): Second Circuit opinion of November 8, 1962 affirming the narcotics convictions of ten defendants, Joseph Valachi among them, on a 1961 indictment charging a conspiracy to bring heroin from Italy hidden in trunks and valises collected at Pier 84 in Manhattan.
- [United States v. Alderisio, 424 F.2d 20 (10th Cir. 1970)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-alderisio-424-f2d-20/): Tenth Circuit opinion of March 31, 1970 on remand from Alderman v. United States, otherwise affirming Felix Antonio Alderisio's 1965 Denver conviction.
- [United States v. Alfano, 838 F.2d 158 (6th Cir. 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-alfano-838-f2d-158/): Sixth Circuit opinion of January 29, 1988 reversing an order that suppressed wiretap evidence in a Detroit-area prosecution, part of an investigation of alleged heroin and cocaine importation from Italy. It describes Gaetano Badalamenti as a man "whom evidence shows to be the leader of an international drug smuggling conspiracy."
- [United States v. Alo, 439 F.2d 751 (2d Cir. 1971)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-alo-439-f2d-751/): Second Circuit opinion of February 19, 1971 affirming Vincent Alo's conviction for obstructing an SEC investigation of the ownership of Tel-A-Sign, Inc. stock. It says nothing about Las Vegas.
- [United States v. Ambrose, 668 F.3d 943 (7th Cir. 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ambrose-668-f3d-943/): Seventh Circuit opinion of February 16, 2012 in the case of a Deputy U.S. Marshal convicted of disclosing witness-security information about a cooperating witness in the Family Secrets investigation.
- [United States v. Amuso, 21 F.3d 1251 (2d Cir. 1994)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-amuso-21-f3d-1251/): Second Circuit opinion of April 20, 1994 affirming Vittorio Amuso's racketeering and murder-related convictions. It states the indictment's allegation that he was boss of the "Luchese" family and summarizes the testimony of two former captains.
- [United States v. Angiulo, 847 F.2d 956 (1st Cir. 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-angiulo-847-f2d-956/): First Circuit opinion of May 24, 1988 affirming the convictions of Jason Angiulo, John Cincotti and William Kazonis in a trial built on the FBI's 1981 surveillance at 98 Prince Street and 51 North Margin Street in Boston.
- [United States v. Angiulo, 897 F.2d 1169 (1st Cir. 1990)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-angiulo-897-f2d-1169/): First Circuit opinion of March 5, 1990 affirming the RICO convictions of Gennaro, Donato and Francesco Angiulo and Samuel Granito after an eight-month trial, with an account of the Patriarca Family's Boston operations taken from the 1981 surveillance.
- [United States v. Aviles, 274 F.2d 179 (2d Cir. 1960)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-aviles-274-f2d-179/): Second Circuit opinion of January 12, 1960 affirming most of the 1959 narcotics-conspiracy convictions of Vito Genovese, Vincent Gigante and others. It finds Genovese one of the conspiracy's "principal directing heads."
- [United States v. Balistrieri, 403 F.2d 472 (7th Cir. 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-balistrieri-403-f2d-472/): Seventh Circuit opinion of November 7, 1968 affirming Frank Peter Balistrieri's conviction for income-tax evasion for 1959 and 1960, after the government disclosed admittedly illegal FBI eavesdropping and the trial court found its evidence free of taint.
- [United States v. Balistrieri, 606 F.2d 216 (7th Cir. 1979)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-balistrieri-606-f2d-216/): Seventh Circuit opinion of October 2, 1979 on Frank Peter Balistrieri's coram nobis motion to vacate his 1967 tax conviction, based on newly disclosed FBI surveillance of a Milwaukee restaurant in 1964. The court held that both civil and criminal rules may guide such motions and affirmed.
- [United States v. Balistrieri, 778 F.2d 1226 (7th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-balistrieri-778-f2d-1226/): Seventh Circuit opinion of November 20, 1985 affirming the extortion convictions of Frank, John and Joseph Balistrieri from an FBI sting in Milwaukee, in which an agent ran the Best Vending Company and was introduced to Frank Balistrieri through Benjamin Ruggiero, whom FBI agent Joseph Pistone ("Donnie Brasco") knew in New York.
- [United States v. Balistrieri, 779 F.2d 1191 (7th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-balistrieri-779-f2d-1191/): Seventh Circuit opinion of November 12, 1985 affirming Frank Balistrieri's Milwaukee sports-gambling convictions, with the court's account of his attempts to disqualify the trial judge. It records no Las Vegas events.
- [United States v. Barnes, 604 F.2d 121 (2d Cir. 1979)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-barnes-604-f2d-121/): Second Circuit opinion of 23 April 1979 affirming the 1978 narcotics convictions of Leroy Barnes, "a/k/a 'Nicky'," and ten co-defendants, including Barnes's conviction for a continuing criminal enterprise. Its statement of facts describes a DEA investigation begun in November 1976 into "drug traffic in Harlem and the South Bronx."
- [United States v. Basciano, 599 F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 2010)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-basciano-599-f3d-184/): Second Circuit opinion of March 23, 2010 on Vincent Basciano's double-jeopardy challenge to successive Bonanno family prosecutions. It calls Joseph Massino "the then-incarcerated official boss" and refers to Basciano's January 2004 assumption of the role of acting boss.
- [United States v. Basciano, 763 F. Supp. 2d 303 (E.D.N.Y. 2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-basciano-763-f-supp-2d-303/): Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis rules on Vincent Basciano's pretrial motions in the capital case over the killing of Randolph Pizzolo. The opinion quotes the court's earlier finding that "Joseph Massino, the then-head of the Bonanno crime family, agreed to become a government informant and taped conversations in prison that he had with Basciano."
- [United States v. Battaglia, 394 F.2d 304 (7th Cir. 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-battaglia-394-f2d-304/): Seventh Circuit opinion of January 9, 1968 affirming Hobbs Act extortion-conspiracy convictions of Salvatore Battaglia and Dave Evans, with a dissent by Judge Swygert.
- [United States v. Bellomo, 176 F.3d 580 (2d Cir. 1999)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bellomo-176-f3d-580/): Second Circuit opinion of April 30, 1999 on the appeals of James Ida and Nicholas Frustaci from a Southern District of New York RICO trial charging the Genovese Family as the enterprise. It places one of the bookmaking operations at 171 Mulberry Street.
- [United States v. Bentvena, 319 F.2d 916 (2d Cir. 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bentvena-319-f2d-916/): Second Circuit opinion of June 13, 1963 on the retrial of a 1960 indictment charging a conspiracy to bring narcotics from Canada to New York. In its summary of the government's evidence, Carmine Galante is the operation's "chief executive"; his conviction is affirmed.
- [United States v. Bioff, 40 F. Supp. 497 (S.D.N.Y. 1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bioff-40-f-supp-497/): District Judge Rifkind's ruling of 5 September 1941 overruling George E. Browne's demurrer and plea in abatement against the Anti-Racketeering Act indictment in the Bioff case.
- [United States v. Bokun, 73 F.3d 8 (2d Cir. 1995): the sentence of a Westies defendant](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bokun-73-f3d-8/): Second Circuit opinion of December 27, 1995 reversing a reduction of William Bokun's sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and reinstating his thirty-five-year term. Its background summarizes the Westies prosecution and the sentences imposed in 1988.
- [United States v. Bonanno, 180 F. Supp. 71 (S.D.N.Y. 1960)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bonanno-180-f-supp-71/): Judge Irving R. Kaufman's opinion of January 12, 1960 explaining his denial of the Apalachin defendants' motions to suppress evidence from the roadblock of November 14, 1957, with his account of the stops near Joseph Barbara's estate and the questioning at the Vestal station.
- [United States v. Bonanno Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, 683 F. Supp. 1411 (E.D.N.Y. 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bonanno-family-683-f-supp-1411/): Ruling of March 24, 1988 on motions to dismiss the government's civil RICO suit against the Bonanno family, its alleged officers and Teamsters Local 814. It summarizes what the amended complaint alleged about each defendant's position.
- [United States v. Bonanno Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, 879 F.2d 20 (2d Cir. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bonanno-family-879-f2d-20/): Second Circuit opinion of June 23, 1989 holding that the United States may not sue for treble damages under civil RICO, in the government's suit against the Bonanno family.
- [United States v. Brooklier, 685 F.2d 1208 (9th Cir. 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-brooklier-685-f2d-1208/): The Ninth Circuit affirmed RICO convictions of Los Angeles defendants. It describes Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, "an FBI informant," testifying to the internal organization of La Cosa Nostra, holds his accomplice testimony sufficient on the Sturman extortion charge, and upholds admission of his plea agreement.
- [United States v. Buchalter, 88 F.2d 625 (2d Cir. 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-buchalter-88-f2d-625/): Second Circuit opinion of March 8, 1937 on the appeal of Louis Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro from their Sherman Act convictions in the rabbit-skin (Protective Fur Dressers) case: reversed as to Buchalter for want of substantial evidence, affirmed as to Shapiro.
- [United States v. Bufalino, 285 F.2d 408 (2d Cir. 1960)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bufalino-285-f2d-408/): Second Circuit opinion reversing the convictions of Russell Bufalino and nineteen others for obstructing justice and perjury after the 14 November 1957 gathering at Apalachin, New York. The court says the government offered no evidence of the meeting's purpose.
- [United States v. Bulger, 816 F.3d 137 (1st Cir. 2016)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-bulger-816-f3d-137/): First Circuit opinion of March 4, 2016 affirming James J. Bulger's racketeering conviction and life sentences after a three-month trial, and rejecting his claim that a prosecutor had given him immunity.
- [United States v. Burke, 700 F.2d 70 (2d Cir. 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-burke-700-f2d-70/): The Second Circuit affirmed convictions in the Boston College point-shaving case. The court says the government's case "consisted principally of the testimony of Henry Hill" and three other witnesses, that Hill had been "thoroughly impeached," and that a redacted version of his immunity agreement was read to the jury.
- [United States v. Calabrese, 490 F.3d 575 (7th Cir. 2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-calabrese-490-f3d-575/): Seventh Circuit opinion of June 12, 2007 affirming the denial of double-jeopardy motions by Frank J. Calabrese, Sr. and James Marcello to dismiss the 2005 indictment that named the Chicago Outfit as the RICO enterprise.
- [United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338 (1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-calandra-414-us-338/): Supreme Court decision of January 8, 1974 holding that a grand jury witness may not refuse to answer questions on the ground that they rest on evidence from an unlawful search. The case began with a December 1970 federal search of John Calandra's Royal Machine & Tool Co. in Cleveland.
- [United States v. Capone, 93 F.2d 840 (7th Cir. 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-capone-93-f2d-840/): The Seventh Circuit dismisses Capone's appeal from the refusal to vacate his 1931 county-jail sentences on counts 13 and 18. Decided 20 December 1937.
- [United States v. District Council of New York City and Vicinity of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 778 F. Supp. 738 (S.D.N.Y. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-carpenters-district-council-778-f-supp-738/): Judge Charles S. Haight, Jr. denied motions to dismiss the Government's civil RICO suit against the New York carpenters' District Council, which alleged control of the Council by members of the Genovese family through bribery and extortion.
- [United States v. Casamento, 887 F.2d 1141 (2d Cir. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-casamento-887-f2d-1141/): Second Circuit opinion of October 11, 1989 on the appeals of fifteen defendants convicted in what the court calls "The Pizza Connection Case": Indictment SS 84 Cr. 236, thirty-five defendants, tried from September 30, 1985 to March 2, 1987.
- [United States v. Castellano, 610 F. Supp. 1359 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-castellano-610-f-supp-1359/): Judge Sofaer's pretrial ruling of June 6, 1985 in the 78-count indictment of Paul Castellano and others, which charged a "crew" engaged in car theft, murder and other crimes as a RICO enterprise.
- [United States v. Cerone, 452 F.2d 274 (7th Cir. 1971)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-cerone-452-f2d-274/): Seventh Circuit opinion of September 15, 1971 affirming Travel Act gambling-conspiracy convictions of John P. (Jack) Cerone, Sr., Joseph Ferriola, and others.
- [United States v. Cerone, 830 F.2d 938 (8th Cir. 1987)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-cerone-830-f2d-938/): Eighth Circuit opinion of October 8, 1987 affirming the Kansas City convictions of Aiuppa, Cerone, Lombardo, LaPietra, and Rockman for skimming the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas.
- [United States v. Cintolo, 818 F.2d 980 (1st Cir. 1987)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-cintolo-818-f2d-980/): First Circuit opinion of May 1, 1987 affirming a Boston defense lawyer's conviction for conspiracy to obstruct justice. The case grew out of the FBI's 1981 court-authorized surveillance of an apartment at 98 Prince Street in Boston's North End.
- [United States v. Civella, 648 F.2d 1167 (8th Cir. 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-civella-648-f2d-1167/): Eighth Circuit opinion of May 13, 1981 affirming the convictions of Nicholas Civella, Peter Tamburello and John Tortora for conspiring to bribe the warden of a federal correctional center to transfer Civella's nephew.
- [United States v. Civella (Carmen J.), 666 F.2d 1122 (8th Cir. 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-civella-666-f2d-1122/): A tax appeal by Carmen J. Civella, president and principal owner of CMS, Inc., which owned a nightclub; his conviction for willful failure to file a corporate return is affirmed. The opinion records an Assistant U.S. Attorney identifying him as 'the son of Carl Civella and the cousin of Nicholas Civella.'
- [United States v. Cole, 463 F.2d 163 (2d Cir. 1972)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-cole-463-f2d-163/): Second Circuit opinion of June 6, 1972 in a tax case against an advertising agency and its officers, stating that illegal FBI eavesdropping in 1961-62 began as part of an investigation of Joseph Stacher, "believed to hold a high position in organized crime and to own undisclosed interests in Las Vegas gambling establishments."
- [United States v. Compagna, 146 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1944)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-compagna-146-f2d-524/): Second Circuit opinion of December 20, 1944 affirming the convictions of Compagna and six others for a conspiracy to extort money from motion-picture producers and exhibitors, 1935 to 1940.
- [United States v. Connolly, 341 F.3d 16 (1st Cir. 2003)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-connolly-341-f3d-16/): First Circuit opinion of August 14, 2003 affirming former FBI agent John J. Connolly, Jr.'s convictions for racketeering, obstruction and a false statement, and his 121-month sentence.
- [United States v. Connolly, 504 F.3d 206 (1st Cir. 2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-connolly-504-f3d-206/): First Circuit opinion of October 16, 2007 affirming the denial of former FBI agent John J. Connolly, Jr.'s motion for a new trial on newly discovered evidence.
- [United States v. Coonan, 826 F.2d 1180 (2d Cir. 1987): pretrial detention of James Coonan](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-coonan-826-f2d-1180/): Second Circuit opinion of August 19, 1987 affirming an order that James Coonan be held without bail before trial, on findings of a risk of flight and a risk of harm to government witnesses.
- [United States v. Coonan, 839 F.2d 886 (2d Cir. 1988): mandamus petition during the Westies trial](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-coonan-839-f2d-886/): Second Circuit opinion of February 11, 1988 giving its reasons for denying the Government's mandamus petition against Judge Knapp's proposed jury charge. It describes the indictment, filed September 17, 1987, against ten defendants alleged to be members of "the Westies."
- [United States v. Coonan, 938 F.2d 1553 (2d Cir. 1991): the appeal of Kevin Kelly](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-coonan-938-f2d-1553/): Second Circuit opinion of July 16, 1991 affirming Kevin Kelly's racketeering and related convictions. Its background recites the trial evidence about the "Westies," a group the court places in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan.
- [United States v. Corallo, 413 F.2d 1306 (2d Cir. 1969)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-corallo-413-f2d-1306/): Second Circuit opinion of July 8, 1969 affirming the convictions of Antonio Corallo and others for a conspiracy to arrange a kickback on the Jerome Park Reservoir cleaning contract awarded by New York City's Water Commissioner.
- [United States v. Corrado, 227 F.3d 528 (6th Cir. 2000)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-corrado-227-f3d-528/): Sixth Circuit opinion of August 24, 2000 in the appeals of Paul Corrado, Nove Tocco and Vito William Giacalone, three codefendants convicted of RICO conspiracy 'as alleged members of the Detroit Mafia'; it vacated two convictions pending a hearing on jury tampering and affirmed the denial of Giacalone's motion to dismiss.
- [United States v. Corrado, 227 F.3d 543 (6th Cir. 2000)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-corrado-227-f3d-543/): Sixth Circuit opinion of September 27, 2000 on the government's appeal from a forfeiture judgment of nothing against five Detroit RICO defendants; it directed forfeiture of $1,234,700 each against Jack Tocco and Vito Giacalone, jointly and severally.
- [United States v. Corrado, 304 F.3d 593 (6th Cir. 2002)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-corrado-304-f3d-593/): Sixth Circuit opinion of September 10, 2002 affirming the reinstatement of Paul and Anthony Corrado's convictions after the jury-tampering hearing, affirming Paul Corrado's sentence and vacating Anthony Corrado's.
- [United States v. Costello, 198 F.2d 200 (2d Cir. 1952)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-costello-198-f2d-200/): Second Circuit opinion of July 3, 1952 on Frank Costello's conviction for contempt of the Senate crime committee. It reversed several counts and affirmed the counts based on his leaving the March 1951 hearings.
- [United States v. Costello, 221 F.2d 668 (2d Cir. 1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-costello-221-f2d-668/): Second Circuit opinion of April 5, 1955 affirming Frank Costello's conviction for attempting to evade income taxes for 1947, 1948 and 1949, proved on a net-worth theory.
- [United States v. De Lucia, 256 F.2d 487 (7th Cir. 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-de-lucia-256-f2d-487/): Seventh Circuit opinion of June 18, 1958 affirming the decree that revoked Paul De Lucia's 1928 naturalization.
- [United States v. DeLuca, 137 F.3d 24 (1st Cir. 1998)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-deluca-137-f3d-24/): First Circuit opinion of February 27, 1998 affirming the convictions of Robert P. DeLuca, Sr. and Gerard T. Ouimette for extortionate collection of credit in Rhode Island in 1994 and 1995. Its main issue was spectator screening at the trial.
- [United States v. DeLuna, 763 F.2d 897 (8th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-deluna-763-f2d-897/): Eighth Circuit opinion of May 10, 1985 affirming the Western District of Missouri convictions of Carl DeLuna, Carl Civella, and three others for skimming money from the Tropicana Hotel and Country Club in Las Vegas and carrying it to Kansas City.
- [United States v. DiSalvo, 34 F.3d 1204 (3d Cir. 1994)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-disalvo-34-f3d-1204/): Third Circuit opinion of August 31, 1994 on the RICO and extortionate-collection convictions of Anthony DiSalvo and the lawyer Robert F. Simone, with an account of the Scarfo organization drawn from recorded conversations.
- [United States v. Dorfman, 470 F.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1972)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-dorfman-470-f2d-246/): Second Circuit opinion of November 29, 1972 affirming Allen Dorfman's conviction for conspiring to accept a bribe to influence a pension plan, over a 1967 Central States Pension Fund loan to Neisco.
- [United States v. Dorfman, 690 F.2d 1217 (7th Cir. 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-dorfman-690-f2d-1217/): Seventh Circuit opinion of September 2, 1982 on appeals over wiretap evidence in the prosecution of Allen Dorfman and others for conspiring to bribe a United States senator, describing a fourteen-month FBI interception that produced more than 2,000 reels of recordings.
- [United States v. Eufrasio, 935 F.2d 553 (3d Cir. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-eufrasio-935-f2d-553/): Third Circuit opinion of May 15, 1991 affirming the RICO, attempted-extortion and gambling convictions of three men tried before an anonymous jury, and describing the Scarfo "Family" as a Philadelphia and New Jersey subdivision of La Cosa Nostra.
- [United States v. Ferrara, 771 F. Supp. 1266 (D. Mass. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ferrara-771-f-supp-1266/): District court memorandum of April 15, 1991 refusing to suppress the FBI's recording of the October 29, 1989 induction ceremony at 34 Guild Street, Medford, Massachusetts, which the court calls apparently the first such interception anywhere.
- [United States v. Five Gambling Devices, 346 U.S. 441 (1953)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-five-gambling-devices-346-us-441/): Supreme Court decision of 7 December 1953 affirming the dismissal of two dealer indictments and a forfeiture libel under the gambling-device act of 2 January 1951, because the Act lacked the explicitness to sustain the Government's pleadings.
- [United States v. Flemmi, 225 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 2000)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-flemmi-225-f3d-78/): First Circuit opinion of September 11, 2000 reversing the district court's suppression order and holding that FBI agents acting on their own cannot confer use immunity on an informant.
- [United States v. Forman, 180 F.3d 766 (6th Cir. 1999)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-forman-180-f3d-766/): Sixth Circuit opinion of June 21, 1999 on Theodore Forman's interlocutory appeal from the denial of his motion to dismiss a new charge of converting government records; it recounts the 1,200-page IRS report from the Detroit investigation of Vito Giacalone, 'a reputed leader of the Detroit mafia', and affirms.
- [United States v. Forman, 71 F.3d 1214 (6th Cir. 1995)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-forman-71-f3d-1214/): Sixth Circuit opinion of December 21, 1995 reversing the criminal-contempt conviction of Theodore Forman, a Justice Department tax attorney who copied a confidential report from the investigation of Vito Giacalone. The court notes that Giacalone 'has been publicly identified as a reputed leader of the Detroit mafia'.
- [United States v. Gaggi, 632 F. Supp. 1019 (S.D.N.Y. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gaggi-632-f-supp-1019/): District Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy's March 10, 1986 opinion explaining why he denied mistrial motions after Paul Castellano, a defendant in the trial before him, was shot and killed with Thomas Bilotti outside Sparks Steak House on December 16, 1985.
- [United States v. Galante, 298 F.2d 72 (2d Cir. 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-galante-298-f2d-72/): Second Circuit opinion of January 8, 1962 on the criminal-contempt sentences imposed on Carmine Galante and Anthony Mirra for their conduct during a narcotics-conspiracy trial that ended in a mistrial. Galante's appeal was dismissed as moot.
- [United States v. Gallo, 763 F.2d 1504 (6th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gallo-763-f2d-1504/): 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.
- [United States v. Joseph Giacalone, 541 F.2d 508 (6th Cir. 1976)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-giacalone-541-f2d-508/): Sixth Circuit opinion of August 18, 1976 reversing an order that had returned a car seized under a search warrant in the FBI's investigation of James R. Hoffa's disappearance. The opinion prints the agent's affidavit: Hoffa said he was going to the Machus Red Fox restaurant to meet Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano on 30 July 1975.
- [United States v. Gigante, 166 F.3d 75 (2d Cir. 1999)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gigante-166-f3d-75/): Second Circuit opinion of January 22, 1999 affirming Vincent Gigante's convictions. It names the cooperating witnesses who testified against him.
- [United States v. Gigante, 39 F.3d 42 (2d Cir. 1994)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gigante-39-f3d-42/): Second Circuit opinion of October 24, 1994 affirming the extortion convictions and sentences of Venero Mangano, Benedetto Aloi and Dennis DeLucia in the window-replacement case.
- [United States v. Gigante, 925 F. Supp. 967 (E.D.N.Y. 1996)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gigante-925-f-supp-967/): District Judge Nickerson's findings of May 15, 1996 on whether Vincent Gigante was feigning mental illness. It names the Triangle Social Club at 225 Sullivan Street as the club Gigante returned to at night.
- [United States v. Gigante, 982 F. Supp. 140 (E.D.N.Y. 1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gigante-982-f-supp-140/): Judge Weinstein's sentencing memorandum of October 29, 1997 after Vincent Gigante's conviction. It states that the evidence showed beyond a reasonable doubt that he had been boss of the Genovese family since at least 1985.
- [United States v. Gotti, 771 F. Supp. 535 (E.D.N.Y. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-gotti-771-f-supp-535/): Judge Glasser's pretrial ruling of July 19, 1991 denying motions to suppress the recordings made under court orders at the Ravenite Social Club, 247 Mulberry Street, and related locations.
- [United States v. Hoffa, 349 F.2d 20 (6th Cir. 1965)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-hoffa-349-f2d-20/): The Sixth Circuit affirmed the Chattanooga convictions of James R. Hoffa and three others for endeavoring to influence jurors in the 1962 Test Fleet trial. Hoffa was sentenced to four years and a $5,000 fine on each of two counts, consecutively.
- [United States v. Hoffa, 367 F.2d 698 (7th Cir. 1966)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-hoffa-367-f2d-698/): The Seventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of James R. Hoffa and six others for mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the Teamsters Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 12 F.3d 360 (2d Cir. 1993): appointment to the Independent Review Board](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-12-f3d-360/): The Second Circuit affirmed the order appointing William H. Webster as the third member of the Independent Review Board created under the Teamsters Consent Decree.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 708 F. Supp. 1388 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-708-f-supp-1388/): Judge David N. Edelstein denied the union's motions to dismiss the Government's 1988 civil RICO complaint against the Teamsters, its General Executive Board, "the Commission of La Cosa Nostra" and 26 alleged members of La Cosa Nostra, and granted default judgments against some defendants.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 725 F. Supp. 162 (S.D.N.Y. 1989): Application III of the Independent Administrator](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-725-f-supp-162/): One of the first opinions implementing the 14 March 1989 Teamsters Consent Decree. The court upheld the court-appointed Independent Administrator's authority to hold disciplinary hearings on charges against two union officers.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 745 F. Supp. 908 (S.D.N.Y. 1990): Application XII (Senese, Talerico and Cozzo)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-745-f-supp-908/): The court upheld the Independent Administrator's decision of 12 July 1990 imposing lifetime suspensions from the Teamsters on three Chicago union officials, on charges that included knowingly associating with members of La Cosa Nostra.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 905 F.2d 610 (2d Cir. 1990)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-905-f2d-610/): The Second Circuit affirmed orders sustaining the Independent Administrator's disciplinary authority under the Teamsters Consent Decree, and rejected the argument that a General Executive Board resolution bound the Administrator.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 931 F.2d 177 (2d Cir. 1991): the Election Rules decision](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-931-f2d-177/): The Second Circuit largely affirmed the order approving the court-appointed Election Officer's rules for the 1991 Teamsters election under the Consent Decree, modifying the rules on aid to candidates from non-members.
- [United States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 941 F.2d 1292 (2d Cir. 1991): Senese and Talerico appeal](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ibt-941-f2d-1292/): The Second Circuit affirmed the orders upholding union disciplinary sanctions on Dominic Senese and Joseph Talerico, imposed "by reason of, among other things, their association with organized crime."
- [United States v. Indelicato, 865 F.2d 1370 (2d Cir. 1989) (en banc)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-indelicato-865-f2d-1370/): The en banc Second Circuit holds that Anthony Indelicato's part in three murders committed in a single transaction could form a RICO pattern. Its account of the evidence begins: "In 1979, the boss of the Bonanno family was Carmine Galante."
- [United States v. Infelise, 835 F. Supp. 1466 (N.D. Ill. 1993)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-infelise-835-f-supp-1466/): District court sentencing opinion of July 15, 1993 in the Ferriola Street Crew racketeering case, discussing Rocco Infelise's role before and after Joseph Ferriola's death in 1989.
- [United States v. Kahriger, 345 U.S. 22 (1953)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-kahriger-345-us-22/): Supreme Court decision of 9 March 1953 upholding the occupational tax and registration requirement that the Revenue Act of 1951 placed on persons in the business of accepting wagers.
- [United States v. Kathryn Thorne Kelly and Ora L. Shannon, 269 F.2d 448 (10th Cir. 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-kelly-shannon-269-f2d-448/): The government's appeal from a 1958 district court order vacating the 1933 convictions and life sentences of Kathryn Thorne Kelly and her mother Ora L. Shannon, after the government declined to produce FBI files. The Tenth Circuit reversed and remanded.
- [United States v. Meyer Lansky, 496 F.2d 1063 (5th Cir. 1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-lansky-496-f2d-1063/): The Fifth Circuit reverses a criminal contempt conviction arising from a 1971 Miami federal grand jury subpoena served on Lansky in Israel in an investigation of concealed Flamingo Hotel casino income in 1960-1967.
- [United States v. Licavoli, 725 F.2d 1040 (6th Cir. 1984)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-licavoli-725-f2d-1040/): Sixth Circuit opinion of January 9, 1984 affirming the RICO convictions of James T. Licavoli and five others. Its statement of the facts the evidence established, viewed in the government's favor, describes the 1976-1977 effort to kill Danny Greene and the car bomb of 6 October 1977.
- [United States v. Licavoli, Cisternino and Carabbia, 799 F.2d 752 (6th Cir. 1986): order after James Licavoli's death](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-licavoli-799-f2d-752/): Unpublished Sixth Circuit order of July 31, 1986. Because James T. Licavoli died while his appeal was pending, the court vacates its earlier dismissal of his appeal and remands for the indictment against him to be dismissed.
- [United States v. Local 359, United Seafood Workers, 55 F.3d 64 (2d Cir. 1995): the Fulton Fish Market Administrator](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-local-359-55-f3d-64/): Appeals arising from the 1988 Fulton Fish Market consent judgment. The Second Circuit affirmed the extensions of the court-appointed Administrator's term and fines he imposed on owners of unloading crews.
- [United States v. Local 359, United Seafood Workers, 705 F. Supp. 894 (S.D.N.Y. 1989): the Fulton Fish Market](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-local-359-705-f-supp-894/): Findings after trial in the Government's 1987 civil RICO suit over the Fulton Fish Market. The court recorded the 1988 default judgment against the defendant named in the caption as the "Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra," and dismissed the claims against the union and its two remaining officers.
- [United States v. Local 560, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 780 F.2d 267 (3d Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-local-560-780-f2d-267/): The Third Circuit affirmed the civil RICO judgment that found Teamsters Local 560 a "captive labor organization," removed its executive board and imposed a trusteeship until free elections could be held.
- [United States v. Locascio, 6 F.3d 924 (2d Cir. 1993)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-locascio-6-f3d-924/): Second Circuit opinion of October 8, 1993 affirming the Eastern District of New York convictions of John Gotti and Frank Locascio. It says the main evidence was conversations recorded at 247 Mulberry Street, in and above the Ravenite Social Club.
- [United States v. Magaddino, 496 F.2d 455 (2d Cir. 1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-magaddino-496-f2d-455/): Second Circuit opinion of May 2, 1974 affirming the dismissal of a 1968 Western District of New York gambling indictment against Stefano Magaddino and others, after the government conceded illegal FBI bugging in the Buffalo area from 1961 to 1965 and declined to disclose an informant.
- [United States v. Marcello, 508 F. Supp. 586 (E.D. La. 1981) (Brilab pretrial rulings)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-marcello-508-f-supp-586/): Pretrial rulings in the Brilab prosecution of Carlos Marcello, Charles E. Roemer II, I. Irving Davidson, Vincent Marinello and Aubrey Young: motions to dismiss deferred until trial, other substantive motions denied, and rulings on suppression of recorded conversations and on disclosure of an informer.
- [United States v. Marcello, 537 F. Supp. 1364 (E.D. La. 1982) (Brilab post-trial opinion)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-marcello-537-f-supp-1364/): Judge Sear's opinion denying post-trial motions after an eighteen-week trial in which Carlos Marcello and Charles E. Roemer II were found guilty of the Count One RICO conspiracy and acquitted of the other counts, and their co-defendants were acquitted of all charges.
- [United States v. Martorano, 663 F.2d 1113 (1st Cir. 1981): new-trial motions in the race-fixing case](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-martorano-663-f2d-1113/): First 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.
- [United States v. Massino, 546 F.3d 123 (2d Cir. 2008)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-massino-546-f3d-123/): Second Circuit opinion of October 10, 2008 on the appeal of Bonanno defendant Patrick DeFilippo, filed under the Massino caption. It is not a ruling on Joseph Massino's own conviction.
- [United States v. Massino, 784 F.2d 153 (2d Cir. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-massino-784-f2d-153/): On the government's appeal, the Second Circuit reverses the suppression of 1982 wiretap tapes in the S.D.N.Y. RICO case against Joseph Massino and Salvatore Vitale, finding the government's reason for a fifteen-day sealing delay satisfactory. "They were indicted on October 4, 1984."
- [United States v. Merlino, 310 F.3d 137 (3d Cir. 2002)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-merlino-310-f3d-137/): Third Circuit opinion of November 8, 2002 holding that "Not Proven" answers on a special verdict sheet in an earlier Philadelphia RICO trial did not bar a New Jersey murder-in-aid-of-racketeering prosecution.
- [United States v. Merlino, 349 F.3d 144 (3d Cir. 2003)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-merlino-349-f3d-144/): Third Circuit opinion of November 12, 2003 on the appeals of seven defendants convicted in 2001 on an indictment naming the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family as the RICO enterprise; the jury had found the murder racketeering acts not proven.
- [United States v. Molasky, 118 F.2d 128 (7th Cir. 1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-molasky-118-f2d-128/): Seventh Circuit decision of 26 February 1941 reversing the tax-evasion convictions of William Molasky, the two James Ragens and the two Kruses in the Consensus Publishing Co. case, on an indictment of 22 August 1939 that had also named Moses L. Annenberg.
- [United States v. Napolitano, 552 F. Supp. 465 (S.D.N.Y. 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-napolitano-552-f-supp-465/): Judge Robert W. Sweet's pretrial rulings of January to July 1982 in the RICO case against Dominick Napolitano, Benjamin Ruggiero and others, charged as members or associates of "the Bonanno Family of La Cosa Nostra." The opinion records that "Ruggiero had been told that an FBI agent, Donnie Brasco, had infiltrated his activities."
- [United States v. One Ford V-8 Sedan, 7 F. Supp. 705 (W.D. Mich. 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-one-ford-v8-sedan-7-f-supp-705/): Federal forfeiture opinion over a car claimed by John Hamilton's sister at Sault Ste. Marie. It recites that Dillinger escaped from the Lake County Jail at Crown Point on 3 March 1934 in a Ford sedan stolen from the sheriff.
- [United States v. Orena, 145 F.3d 551 (2d Cir. 1998)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-orena-145-f3d-551/): The Second Circuit reversed a grant of new trials to three Colombo family defendants that had been based on undisclosed statements by Gregory Scarpa Sr. to the FBI. It recounts trial testimony that a truce broke down in November 1991 when members of the Orena faction attempted to kill Scarpa.
- [United States v. Panaro, 241 F.3d 1104 (9th Cir. 2001)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-panaro-241-f3d-1104/): Ninth Circuit opinion of February 28, 2001 affirming convictions tied to the extortion and killing of Herbert Blitzstein in Las Vegas in January 1997, with the court's summary of trial testimony about him.
- [United States v. Patriarca, 776 F. Supp. 593 (D. Mass. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-patriarca-776-f-supp-593/): District court ruling of June 21, 1991 that the Government had not shown that Raymond J. Patriarca, charged under RICO with Travel Act predicates, should stay detained before trial; release conditions were set.
- [United States v. Patriarca, 948 F.2d 789 (1st Cir. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-patriarca-948-f2d-789/): First Circuit opinion of October 28, 1991 on the bail appeal of Raymond J. Patriarca, the son, summarizing the Government's position that he assumed leadership of the Patriarca Family after the death of his father in July 1984.
- [United States v. Pendergast; United States v. O'Malley, 28 F. Supp. 601 (W.D. Mo. 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-pendergast-28-f-supp-601/): Judge Otis's memorandum on the income-tax prosecutions of Thomas J. Pendergast and Robert Emmet O'Malley, describing '1908 Main Street' as 'synonymous with power' and printing the sentences imposed on Pendergast on 22 May 1939.
- [United States v. Pendergast (contempt; motions to abate and quash), 35 F. Supp. 593 (W.D. Mo. 1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-pendergast-35-f-supp-593/): A three-judge court's ruling on motions to abate and quash an information of 13 July 1940 charging Pendergast, Robert Emmett O'Malley and A. L. McCormack with contempt arising from the insurance-rate settlement decree; the objections are overruled.
- [United States v. Pendergast (contempt judgment), 39 F. Supp. 189 (W.D. Mo. 1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-pendergast-39-f-supp-189/): The three-judge court adjudges Pendergast, O'Malley and McCormack in contempt over the insurance-rate settlement; the Supreme Court later records two years' imprisonment for Pendergast and O'Malley and two years' probation for McCormack.
- [United States v. Persico, 164 F.3d 796 (2d Cir. 1999)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-persico-164-f3d-796/): The Second Circuit affirmed convictions of Theodore Persico and others in the Colombo family war case. Under "The Scarpa disclosure," it records that after trial "the Government acknowledged that for many years Scarpa had been an informant for the FBI" and that Scarpa had lied about or misrepresented his involvement in some murders.
- [United States v. Persico, 621 F. Supp. 842 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-persico-621-f-supp-842/): Judge Keenan's pretrial ruling of October 2, 1985 in the Colombo family RICO case, denying motions for severance and transfer. It gives the Commission case's district docket as "United States v. Salerno, S 85 Cr. 139 (RO)."
- [United States v. Persico, 646 F. Supp. 752 (S.D.N.Y. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-persico-646-f-supp-752/): Judge Keenan's ruling on sufficiency challenges after the 1986 Colombo family racketeering trial. On one defendant's loansharking count, the court says the jury was justified in rejecting his argument that "Arlyne Brickman, Frank Ancona and FBI surveillance agent Ronald Andachter should not be believed."
- [United States v. Persico, 832 F.2d 705 (2d Cir. 1987)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-persico-832-f2d-705/): Second Circuit opinion of October 27, 1987 affirming the RICO convictions of Carmine Persico and other Colombo family defendants tried in the Southern District of New York. It sets out the government's description of the family's structure.
- [United States v. Polizzi, 500 F.2d 856 (9th Cir. 1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-polizzi-500-f2d-856/): Ninth Circuit opinion of April 30, 1974 (modified July 18, 1974) affirming convictions for acquiring hidden interests in Vegas Frontier, Inc., which operated the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, in 1966 and 1967.
- [United States v. Presser, 844 F.2d 1275 (6th Cir. 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-presser-844-f2d-1275/): On a Government appeal in the prosecution of Teamsters president Jackie Presser and two others, the Sixth Circuit vacated a pretrial order to disclose "any and all impeachment evidence." The opinion recites the 1986 indictment over "ghost" employees at Local 507.
- [United States v. Provenzano, 334 F.2d 678 (3d Cir. 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-provenzano-334-f2d-678/): The Third Circuit affirmed Anthony Provenzano's Hobbs Act conviction. He was indicted in 1960, as an officer of Teamsters Local 560, for extorting $17,100 from Dorn's Transportation Company between 1952 and 1959.
- [United States v. Provenzano, 620 F.2d 985 (3d Cir. 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-provenzano-620-f2d-985/): The Third Circuit affirmed the RICO and RICO-conspiracy convictions of Anthony Provenzano, Thomas Andretta and Stephen Andretta in a scheme to extort "labor peace" payments from Interocean Services, an in-house trucker for Seatrain Lines.
- [United States v. Pungitore, 910 F.2d 1084 (3d Cir. 1990)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-pungitore-910-f2d-1084/): Third Circuit opinion of August 1, 1990 affirming the RICO convictions of Nicodemo Scarfo and thirteen co-defendants from the 1988 Philadelphia trial, with the court's account of the family's succession from Angelo Bruno to Philip Testa to Scarfo.
- [United States v. Ragen, 314 U.S. 513 (1942)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ragen-314-us-513/): Supreme Court decision of 5 January 1942 reinstating the tax-evasion convictions of James Ragen, Sr. and Arnold and Lester Kruse in the Consensus Publishing Co. case, and describing Moses Annenberg as "the dominant figure" in several horse-race betting enterprises.
- [United States v. Rastelli, 870 F.2d 822 (2d Cir. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-rastelli-870-f2d-822/): Second Circuit opinion of March 16, 1989 affirming the convictions of Philip Rastelli, Joseph Massino and others for racketeering in the New York moving industry through Teamsters Local 814.
- [United States v. Riccobene, 709 F.2d 214 (3d Cir. 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-riccobene-709-f2d-214/): Third Circuit opinion of May 20, 1983 on a RICO prosecution, built largely on FBI wiretaps at three Philadelphia locations from 1972 to 1978, of an enterprise the court says Angelo Bruno headed, with Philip Testa as underboss.
- [United States v. Roemer and Marcello, 703 F.2d 805 (5th Cir. 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-roemer-703-f2d-805/): A per curiam opinion affirming the convictions of Charles E. Roemer II and Carlos Marcello for conspiring to violate the RICO statute (Brilab), adopting the trial court's reasoning, decided 11 April 1983.
- [United States v. Ruggiero, 726 F.2d 913 (2d Cir. 1984)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ruggiero-726-f2d-913/): The Second Circuit reviewed Bonanno family RICO convictions arising from FBI agent Joseph Pistone's undercover work as "Donnie Brasco." It recounts statements made to Pistone, including Dominick Napolitano's after the May 1981 murders of three captains, and upholds their admission.
- [United States v. Ruggiero, 754 F.2d 927 (11th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-ruggiero-754-f2d-927/): The Eleventh Circuit rejects Benjamin Ruggiero's and John Cerasani's double-jeopardy challenge to a 1983 Florida RICO indictment. It summarizes the 1982 New York case, in which Ruggiero was convicted of RICO conspiracy and sentenced to fifteen years, and says "Ruggiero was a member of the 'crew' captained by Napolitano."
- [United States v. Salemme, 91 F. Supp. 2d 141 (D. Mass. 1999)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salemme-91-f-supp-2d-141/): Judge Wolf's memorandum of September 15, 1999 setting out, after long hearings, the FBI's relationship with informants Stephen Flemmi and James Bulger, the 1981 bugging of 98 Prince Street and the 1989 Medford recording. Reversed in part in 2000.
- [United States v. Salemme, 978 F. Supp. 343 (D. Mass. 1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salemme-978-f-supp-343/): Judge Wolf's memorandum of May 22, 1997, unsealed in part in June 1997, granting hearings on motions to suppress three sets of electronic surveillance, including the 1989 Medford recording, and ordering discovery on whether certain men were Government informants.
- [United States v. Salerno, 108 F.3d 730 (7th Cir. 1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salerno-108-f3d-730/): Seventh Circuit opinion of March 4, 1997 affirming Robert Salerno's conviction; it describes the Ferriola Street Crew as a unit of the Chicago Outfit led by Joseph Ferriola from 1979 to 1989.
- [United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salerno-481-us-739/): Supreme Court decision of May 26, 1987 upholding pretrial detention on the ground of dangerousness under the Bail Reform Act of 1984, in the case of Anthony Salerno and Vincent Cafaro.
- [United States v. Salerno, 631 F. Supp. 1364 (S.D.N.Y. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salerno-631-f-supp-1364/): District Judge Walker's April 2, 1986 order detaining Anthony Salerno and Vincent Cafaro before trial on a Genovese Family racketeering indictment. It names the two Manhattan social clubs where the government's recordings were made, the Palma Boys Social Club and the club at 2244 First Avenue.
- [United States v. Salerno, 794 F.2d 64 (2d Cir. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salerno-794-f2d-64/): Second Circuit opinion of July 3, 1986 holding the preventive-detention provision of the Bail Reform Act unconstitutional as applied to Anthony Salerno and Vincent Cafaro. The Supreme Court reversed it the next year.
- [United States v. Salerno, 937 F.2d 797 (2d Cir. 1991)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-salerno-937-f2d-797/): Second Circuit opinion of June 28, 1991 on the 1987-88 Genovese family RICO trial, in which John Tronolone and Milton Rockman of Cleveland were co-defendants; the 'Teamster Case' ended in verdicts of not guilty for Salerno, Tronolone and Rockman.
- [United States v. Scarfo, 685 F.2d 842 (3d Cir. 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-scarfo-685-f2d-842/): Third Circuit opinion of July 22, 1982 affirming Nicodemo Scarfo's federal conviction for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, after a December 1979 search of his Atlantic City residence in a state murder investigation.
- [United States v. Scarfo, 711 F. Supp. 1315 (E.D. Pa. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-scarfo-711-f-supp-1315/): District court memorandum of April 20, 1989 on post-trial motions after the 1988 RICO trial of Nicodemo Scarfo and sixteen co-defendants, tried before an anonymous, sequestered jury in Philadelphia.
- [United States v. Scarfo, 850 F.2d 1015 (3d Cir. 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-scarfo-850-f2d-1015/): Third Circuit opinion of June 29, 1988 affirming Nicodemo Scarfo's Hobbs Act conspiracy and extortion conviction in the $1 million demand on the developer of the Penn's Landing project, and upholding the anonymous jury.
- [United States v. Schiro, 679 F.3d 521 (7th Cir. 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-schiro-679-f3d-521/): Seventh Circuit opinion of May 1, 2012 on the appeals of the five defendants convicted at the 2007 Family Secrets trial: Calabrese, Marcello, Lombardo, Schiro, and Doyle.
- [United States v. Scotto, 641 F.2d 47 (2d Cir. 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-scotto-641-f2d-47/): The Second Circuit affirmed the convictions of Anthony M. Scotto, president of ILA Local 1814 in Brooklyn, and Anthony Anastasio on forty-three counts, including RICO counts, for cash payments from waterfront businesses in 1975 to 1979.
- [United States v. Sinito, 723 F.2d 1250 (6th Cir. 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-sinito-723-f2d-1250/): Sixth Circuit opinion of December 23, 1983 rejecting Thomas Sinito's double-jeopardy challenge to the 1982 Cleveland RICO indictment, which alleged an enterprise known as the 'Cleveland Organized Crime Family'.
- [United States v. Spilotro, 680 F.2d 612 (9th Cir. 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-spilotro-680-f2d-612/): Ninth Circuit opinion of June 29, 1982 remanding for a full evidentiary hearing on a pretrial RICO restraining order over Gold Rush, Ltd., a Las Vegas jewelry store.
- [United States v. Spilotro, 786 F.2d 808 (8th Cir. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-spilotro-786-f2d-808/): Eighth Circuit opinion of February 24, 1986 on pretrial release conditions for Anthony Spilotro, Joseph Aiuppa, and John Cerone in the Kansas City casino-skimming prosecution.
- [United States v. Spilotro, 800 F.2d 959 (9th Cir. 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-spilotro-800-f2d-959/): Ninth Circuit opinion of September 26, 1986 affirming suppression of evidence seized in 1978 searches, including at the Gold Rush jewelry store, because the warrants were too general, and recounting the FBI's 1977-1978 investigation of Anthony Spilotro and others.
- [United States v. Taglianetti, 274 F. Supp. 220 (D.R.I. 1967)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-taglianetti-274-f-supp-220/): District court opinion of October 4, 1967 on the FBI's 1962 to 1965 microphone, installed by trespass, at 168 Atwells Avenue, Providence, and whether it tainted a tax-evasion conviction.
- [United States v. Thomas, 759 F.2d 659 (8th Cir. 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-thomas-759-f2d-659/): Eighth Circuit opinion of April 11, 1985 holding that the 1983 Argent Corporation indictment did not charge the same offense as the earlier Tropicana case, with the court's account of FBI surveillance aimed at hidden interests in Las Vegas casinos.
- [United States v. Tocco, 200 F.3d 401 (6th Cir. 2000)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-tocco-200-f3d-401/): Sixth Circuit opinion of January 5, 2000 affirming Jack W. Tocco's convictions on two RICO conspiracy counts and a Hobbs Act conspiracy count from the 1996 Detroit indictment, and vacating his sentence of twelve months and one day.
- [United States v. Tocco, 306 F.3d 279 (6th Cir. 2002)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-tocco-306-f3d-279/): Sixth Circuit opinion of September 6, 2002 on the cross-appeals from Jack Tocco's May 2000 resentencing to thirty-four months; the court again vacated the sentence and remanded.
- [United States v. Santo Trafficante, Jr., 328 F.2d 117 (5th Cir. 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-trafficante-328-f2d-117/): The Fifth Circuit reverses and orders the disqualification of a former IRS attorney from representing the Trafficantes in the government's 1962 suit to foreclose federal tax liens. It states that the suit was filed on 11 January 1962; the court finds no intentional wrongdoing.
- [United States v. Turkette, 452 U.S. 576 (1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-turkette-452-us-576/): Supreme Court decision of June 17, 1981 holding that the RICO term "enterprise" covers both legitimate and illegitimate enterprises, so a wholly criminal association in fact can be a RICO enterprise.
- [United States v. Wexler, 6 F. Supp. 258 (S.D.N.Y. 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-wexler-6-f-supp-258/): District Court opinion of July 17, 1933 denying a defendant named Wexler a bill of particulars before his income-tax trial, set for August 7, 1933. Thomas E. Dewey is listed of counsel for the United States.
- [United States v. Wexler, 79 F.2d 526 (2d Cir. 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-wexler-79-f2d-526/): Second Circuit opinion of November 4, 1935 affirming a defendant named Wexler's conviction on four income-tax counts for 1930 and 1931, in a case built on the sales of the Eureka Brewery at Paterson, New Jersey. The opinion gives no first name and no alias.
- [United States v. Williams, 737 F.2d 594 (7th Cir. 1984)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-williams-737-f2d-594/): Seventh Circuit opinion of June 8, 1984 affirming the convictions of Teamsters president Roy Williams, Joseph Lombardo, and others for conspiring to bribe a United States Senator.
- [United States v. Winter, 663 F.2d 1120 (1st Cir. 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-winter-663-f2d-1120/): 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.
- [United States v. Zannino, 895 F.2d 1 (1st Cir. 1990)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-zannino-895-f2d-1/): First Circuit opinion of January 10, 1990 affirming Ilario Zannino's convictions on two gambling counts and one extortionate-credit count, and his 30-year sentence, from the 1981 North End surveillance case.
- [United States v. Zizzo, 120 F.3d 1338 (7th Cir. 1997)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-zizzo-120-f3d-1338/): Seventh Circuit opinion of July 29, 1997 in the Carlisi Street Crew gambling and loansharking case; it vacates Samuel Carlisi's conviction because he died while the appeals were pending and affirms the others.
- [Volney Davis v. United States, 226 F.2d 834 (8th Cir. 1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-volney-davis-v-us-226-f2d-834/): The Eighth Circuit's opinion on Volney Davis's motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 attacking the life sentence imposed on 7 June 1935 after his guilty plea to conspiring to kidnap Edward George Bremer. The order denying relief was affirmed.
- [Westheimer v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 12 F. Supp. 20 (S.D.N.Y. 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-westheimer-v-collector-12-f-supp-20/): District Court opinion of 1935 dismissing a petition over a tax levy on a bank account: it states that an income-tax assessment of $79,000 was entered "against one Flegenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz," and that the Collector levied on an account in another person's name on December 24, 1934.
- [Reports of the Immigration Commission, volume 36: Immigration and Crime (Senate Document 750, 1911)](https://mobfiles.org/items/dillingham-1911-immigration-and-crime/): The Dillingham Commission's 1911 statistical study of immigration and crime. It reports that blackmail and extortion, though few in number, form a larger share of the recorded crimes of Italians than of any other group in four of its five sets of data, and that most gainful offences were committed more by Americans than by immigrants. Its nationality categories are the commission's, flagged.
- [Justice Department report: Cleveland strike force sentencings of 7 April 1983](https://mobfiles.org/items/doj-cleveland-strike-force-sentencing-report-1983/): An 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.
- [Justice Department release: 91 La Cosa Nostra defendants charged in four districts (January 20, 2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/doj-opa-2011-01-20-lcn-indictments/): Office of Public Affairs release announcing indictments in four federal districts against members and associates of seven La Cosa Nostra families, including all five New York families. The charges are allegations.
- [Admitted New England La Cosa Nostra Leader Sentenced to 108 Months in Federal Prison (Justice Department, 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/doj-opa-lato-sentenced-2012-06-13/): Press release of June 13, 2012: Edward Lato of Providence, described as an admitted capo regime in the New England La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced to 108 months for racketeering extortion conspiracies.
- [Former New England Organized Crime Leader and Associate Sentenced for Racketeering and Extortion Activities (Justice Department, 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/doj-opa-manocchio-sentenced-2012-05-11/): Press release of May 11, 2012: Luigi Manocchio, described as an admitted former boss and underboss of the New England La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced to 66 months for a racketeering and extortion conspiracy against Rhode Island businesses.
- [Justice Department summary of 'additional successes against organized crime', with the Cleveland convictions (June 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/doj-organized-crime-successes-cleveland-1983/): A Justice Department summary sent under a cover note of 8 June 1983 lists the April 1983 Cleveland sentencings and says that James 'Jack White' Licavoli, 'the alleged Godfather of the Cleveland LCN', 'was convicted in the summer of 1982 for a 1977 car bomb murder'.
- [FBI history essay, "The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-and-the-american-gangster/): FBI history essay on the Bureau's reform under J. Edgar Hoover and the rise of organized gangs under Prohibition, including the FBI's estimate of 1,300 gangs in Chicago by the mid-1920s.
- [John Dillinger's death mask (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-dillinger-death-mask/): Plaster death mask of John Dillinger held by the FBI. The FBI says Harold May of the Reliance Dental Manufacturing Co. made it at the Cook County Morgue about twelve hours after Dillinger's death on 22 July 1934. A copy of the FBI's photograph is stored here.
- [Fingerprint kit, 1930s (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-fingerprint-kit-1930s/): FBI photograph of a leather fingerprint kit the Bureau dates to the 1930s, with a magnifier, brushes, vials of powder and chemicals, a probe, a pad of paper and a drop-down metal plate for spreading ink.
- [Pretty Boy Floyd's death mask (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-floyd-death-mask/): Mask of Charles Arthur Floyd's face made after his death on 22 October 1934, held by the FBI, with the Bureau's short account of the Kansas City shooting and of Floyd's death in Ohio. A copy of the FBI's photograph is stored here.
- [Notebook of Russell Gibson, Barker-Karpis gang, with a bullet hole (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-gibson-notebook/): FBI photograph of a notebook that belonged to Russell Gibson, recovered after he was fatally wounded confronting agents in Chicago on 8 January 1935. The FBI says it "bears a distinctive bullet hole."
- ["How to Take Fingerprints," Bureau of Investigation booklet, 1932 (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-how-to-take-fingerprints-1932/): FBI photograph of the 1932 Government Printing Office booklet "How to Take Fingerprints," issued by the Bureau of Investigation for local peace officers. Hoover's foreword calls it "the fourth issue of this pamphlet."
- [Body armor recovered after the Barrington, Illinois, shootout of 27 November 1934 (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-nelson-body-armor/): FBI photograph of body armor the Bureau says was recovered on 27 November 1934 after a shootout in Barrington, Illinois, in which Special Agent Herman Edward Hollis and Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson) were killed.
- [Brick from the Palace Chop House, Newark, New Jersey, 23 October 1935 (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-palace-chop-house-brick/): FBI photograph of a brick salvaged from the Palace Chop House in Newark, where Arthur Flegenheimer, known as Dutch Schultz, and four associates were shot on the night of 23 October 1935.
- [Duty weapon of Special Agent Edwin C. Shanahan, killed 11 October 1925 (FBI artifact)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-artifact-shanahan-duty-weapon/): FBI photograph of the revolver of Special Agent Edwin C. Shanahan, framed with a plaque, which the FBI says is displayed at its Chicago Field Office. Shanahan was the first special agent killed in the line of duty.
- [Barker hideout in Florida, with an inset of weapons recovered by agents (FBI, January 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-barker-weapons-cache-1935/): Composite image on the FBI's Barker/Karpis case page: the Florida house where the FBI says Fred and Kate Barker were killed on 16 January 1935, with an inset of weapons recovered afterward. The weapons are not itemized. No copy is stored here.
- [Clyde Barrow with William D. Jones (photograph published by the FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-barrow-jones-photograph/): Snapshot of two men in suits against a rock face, captioned on the FBI's Bonnie and Clyde page "Clyde Barrow (left) with William D. Jones, one of the Barrow gang." A copy is stored here.
- [Basil Banghart, Alcatraz booking photograph (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-basil-banghart-alcatraz/): Alcatraz booking photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart, published by the FBI, which describes him as a member of the Roger Touhy gang. A copy is stored here.
- [Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow posed with a shotgun (photograph published by the FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-bonnie-clyde-posed-photograph/): Snapshot published by the FBI under the title "Bonnie and Clyde Horse Around With a Gun": a woman holds a shotgun toward a man in a hat. The FBI identifies them as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. A copy is stored here.
- [Bonnie Parker beside a car with a 1933 Texas plate (photograph published by the FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-bonnie-parker-photograph/): Snapshot of Bonnie Parker standing against the front of a car with a 1933 Texas license plate, published on the FBI's Bonnie and Clyde page with the caption "Bonnie Parker was listed as 5'5" and 100 pounds." A copy is stored here.
- [FBI history article, "The Bureau and the Great Experiment" (24 January 2020)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-bureau-and-great-experiment/): FBI history article on the Bureau of Investigation's role in Prohibition: support for the Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue, a 1922 Savannah conspiracy case, and a 1927 move of enforcement to the Department of Justice, as the article states it.
- [Al Capone arrest record dated 4 May 1932 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-arrest-record-1932/): Arrest record published by the FBI as "Al Capone Arrest Record, 1932" and captioned as dated May 4, 1932, the day the Alcatraz warden's notebook gives as the start of his tax sentence.
- [Al Capone's fingerprint card (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-fingerprint-card/): Fingerprint card published by the FBI as "Al Capone's Fingerprint Card." The FBI gives no date for the card.
- [Al Capone mug shot, 1934 (side)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-mug-shot-1934-side/): Profile identification photograph published by the FBI as "Al Capone Mug Shot 1934 (Side)" and captioned as taken at Alcatraz circa 1934. A copy is stored here.
- [Al Capone mug shot captioned 16 May 1929 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-mugshot-1929/): Police identification photograph of Al Capone in a fedora with a numbered placard, published by the FBI and captioned "Mug shot of Al Capone on May 16, 1929." The date conflicts with other federal captions.
- [Al Capone mug shot, 1934 (front)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-mugshot-1934/): Front identification photograph published by the FBI as Al Capone's 1934 mug shot. A copy is stored with this archive.
- [Al Capone mug shot, 1939 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-capone-mugshot-1939/): Photograph published by the FBI as "Al Capone Mug Shot 1939." The year comes only from the entry title; the FBI does not say which institution took it.
- [FBI Detroit marks the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance (31 July 2025)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-detroit-hoffa-50th-anniversary-2025/): FBI Detroit press release of 31 July 2025: "The Hoffa investigation remains active." It names no suspect.
- [Arthur "Doc" Barker at Alcatraz: identification photograph (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-doc-barker-alcatraz-photo/): Head-and-shoulders identification photograph of Arthur "Doc" Barker holding a U.S. Penitentiary placard, published by the FBI with the caption that it shows him at Alcatraz. A copy is stored here.
- [Gaetano Badalamenti arrest photograph, 1984 (U.S. Marshals, via FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-gaetano-badalamenti-usms-1984/): 1984 U.S. Marshals Service arrest photograph of Gaetano Badalamenti, a defendant in the Pizza Connection case, as published by the FBI. A copy is stored here.
- [Al Capone (FBI history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-al-capone/): The FBI's history essay on Capone. It states that he was released on November 16, 1939, and that he lived on Palm Island until his death due to a stroke and pneumonia on January 25, 1947.
- [And Justice for All, 1954-1971 (FBI history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-and-justice-for-all/): A chapter of the FBI's institutional history. It says that in 1963, "thanks in part to the FBI," Valachi became the first major Mafia turncoat to testify in public before a Senate subcommittee.
- [Barker/Karpis Gang: FBI history page](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-barker-karpis-gang/): The FBI's history essay on the Barker/Karpis gang: the 1933 Hamm kidnaping and the silver nitrate fingerprint method, the January 1934 Bremer kidnaping, the 16 January 1935 shooting at the Lake Weir cottage in Florida, and the 1 May 1936 arrest of Alvin Karpis in New Orleans.
- [Bonnie and Clyde: FBI history page](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-bonnie-and-clyde/): The FBI's history essay on Clyde Champion Barrow and Bonnie Parker: the stolen-car evidence that gave the Bureau jurisdiction, the 20 May 1933 federal warrant, the January 1934 Eastham prison farm break, and the ambush near Sailes, Louisiana on 23 May 1934.
- [FBI history: the Cleveland Division](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-cleveland-division/): The FBI's own history of its Cleveland field office mentions the 'Top Hoodlum' program and describes 'Operation Busmark', which it credits with the convictions of Angelo Lonardo, Joseph Gallo, Frederick Graewe and Kevin MacTaggart and with Lonardo's later cooperation.
- [FBI history, "Crime and Corruption Across America, 1972-1988"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-crime-and-corruption-1972-1988/): The FBI's institutional history of 1972 to 1988 names "the courageous work of undercover agents like Joe Pistone—who almost became a 'made' Mafia member while gathering invaluable intelligence as 'Donnie Brasco' for nearly six years."
- [FBI history: the Detroit Division](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-detroit-division/): The FBI's own history of its Detroit field office mentions the Prohibition-era 'Purple Gang', the 1966 Canadian arrests of Anthony Joseph Giacalone and Dominic Peter Corrado, the 1975 gambling sentences of Anthony Giardano, Anthony Zerilli and Michael Pollizzi, and the 1996 GAMTAX indictment of 17 members of 'the Detroit mob'.
- [FBI history: weapons found at the Lincoln Court Apartments, St. Paul (Dillinger case, March 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-dillinger-lincoln-court-weapons/): The FBI's Dillinger history states what agents found at the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul: a Thompson submachine gun with the stock removed, two automatic rifles, a .38 caliber Colt automatic with twenty-shot magazine clips, and two bulletproof vests.
- [Fur Dressers Case (FBI history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-fur-dressers-case/): The FBI's own account of its 1932 to 1939 antitrust investigation of the Protective Fur Dressers Corporation and the Fur Dressers Factor Corporation, in which Louis Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro were named defendants, through Buchalter's surrender on August 24, 1939.
- [FBI history: "Joe Pistone, Undercover Agent"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-joe-pistone-undercover-agent/): FBI history page on Special Agent Joseph Pistone's undercover work as "Donnie Brasco" from 1976. It says the Bonanno crew learned on July 26, 1981 that Brasco was an FBI agent and that the operation "ultimately led to more than 100 federal convictions."
- [FBI history: "John Gotti"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-john-gotti/): FBI history page on John Gotti: the December 16, 1985 killing of Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti, Gotti's 1990 arrest, his April 2, 1992 conviction on 13 counts, and his death in prison in June 2002.
- [Kansas City Massacre and "Pretty Boy" Floyd (FBI history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-kansas-city-massacre/): The FBI's history essay on the June 17, 1933 shooting in front of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, in which four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash were killed. It places the car directly in front of the station's east entrance.
- [La Cosa Nostra (FBI history page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-la-cosa-nostra/): The FBI's history essay on the Genovese family. It says that Valachi survived three attempts on his life in prison and testified before the Senate subcommittee on September 27, 1963.
- [Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson): FBI history page](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-lester-gillis/): The FBI's history essay on Lester M. Gillis, known as George "Baby Face" Nelson: the killing of Special Agent W. Carter Baum near Little Bohemia Lodge in April 1934, the November 1934 gun battle at Barrington, Illinois, and the prosecution of John Paul Chase.
- [George "Machine Gun" Kelly: FBI history page](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-machine-gun-kelly/): The FBI's history essay on the 22 July 1933 kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma City, the ransom of $200,000, the identification of the Shannon farm near Paradise, Texas, the arrest of George and Kathryn Kelly at Memphis, and the prosecutions that followed.
- [FBI New York field office history: Massino as a cooperator](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-new-york-massino/): The FBI's history of its New York field office says that since 9/11 the office has convicted the leadership of all five families "twice over," and that "Bonanno family boss Joe Massino became the highest-ranking mobster ever to become an FBI cooperator."
- [FBI history: "Pizza Connection"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-pizza-connection/): The FBI's history page on the Pizza Connection case: the April 8, 1984 arrests in Madrid, the next day's arrests by six FBI offices, and a trial that ended in a verdict on March 2, 1987. An agency essay, not a court record.
- [FBI Tampa field office history: Operation COLDWATER](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-history-tampa-coldwater/): The FBI's history of its Tampa division says that in the late 1970s it began an undercover operation called COLDWATER, in which "New York FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone participated," and set up an undercover social club called King's Court.
- [Identification Order No. 1194: Charles Arthur Floyd (22 June 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-io-1194-floyd-1933/): Bureau of Investigation wanted notice for Charles Arthur Floyd, aliases Frank Mitchell and "Pretty Boy Smith," issued five days after the Kansas City Union Station shooting. Fingerprints, photographs, description and criminal record. A copy is stored here.
- [Identification Order No. 1203: George R. Kelly, "Kidnaping" (14 August 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-io-1203-kelly-1933/): Division of Investigation wanted notice for George R. Kelly, aliases George Kelly and R. G. Shannon, wanted for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma City on 22 July 1933. A copy is stored here.
- [Identification Order No. 1217: John Dillinger (12 March 1934), stamped "Cancelled"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-io-1217-dillinger-1934/): Division of Investigation wanted notice for John Dillinger, alias Frank Sullivan, under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, issued nine days after the Crown Point jail escape. The FBI's copy is stamped CANCELLED. A copy is stored here.
- [Identification Order No. 1223: Lester M. Gillis, "Murder" (25 April 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-io-1223-gillis-1934/): Division of Investigation wanted notice for Lester M. Gillis, with the aliases George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, wanted for the murder of Special Agent W. Carter Baum near Rhinelander, Wisconsin. A copy is stored here.
- [Identification Order No. 1227: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow (21 May 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-io-1227-parker-barrow-1934/): Division of Investigation wanted notice for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Champion Barrow under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, dated two days before both were killed near Sailes, Louisiana. A copy is stored here.
- [Jacob Shapiro mug shot (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-jacob-shapiro-mugshot/): Mug shot of Jacob Shapiro published on the FBI's Fur Dressers Case page, captioned with his May 5, 1944 sentence of 15 years to life. The FBI serves the image; no copy is stored here.
- [Joe Pistone, undercover agent (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-joe-pistone-undercover-agent/): FBI photograph of Special Agent Joe Pistone, captioned "Undercover agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco." Published on the FBI's history page on his undercover work.
- [Criminal profile graphic: John Gotti (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-john-gotti-criminal-profile/): FBI "criminal profile" graphic for John Gotti, with a photograph and a short FBI-written summary of his case. A copy is stored here.
- [John Gotti on a New York street, 1980s (FBI surveillance photograph)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-john-gotti-surveillance-1980s/): FBI surveillance photograph of John Gotti walking down a street in New York City in the 1980s. A copy is stored here.
- [The FBI's blackboard plan for the arrest of Alvin Karpis, New Orleans (1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-karpis-arrest-plan-1936/): Photograph of a chalkboard sketch of the New Orleans block where Alvin Karpis was arrested on 1 May 1936, with Canal Street, Jefferson Davis Parkway, the apartment buildings and agents' positions. A copy is stored here.
- [George Kelly, Leavenworth prisoner No. 29362: profile and front photographs (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-kelly-leavenworth-mug-shot/): Profile and front identification photographs of George Kelly holding placard No. 29362, the U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth number recorded for his 1928 commitment. Published by the FBI. A copy is stored here.
- [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter mug shots (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-lepke-buchalter-mug-shots/): Mug shots of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter published on the FBI's Fur Dressers Case page, captioned with his 1939 surrender and his execution on March 4, 1944. The FBI serves the image; no copy is stored here.
- [Joe Pistone with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, 1970s (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-pistone-sonny-black-1970s/): FBI photograph of Special Agent Joe Pistone seated with Dominick Napolitano during the 1970s undercover investigation. An unidentified woman is also in the frame. A copy is stored here.
- [Roger Touhy mug shot and criminal record (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-roger-touhy-mug-shot-record/): Mug shot of Roger Touhy with part of his criminal record, published by the FBI on its Touhy history page. The FBI serves the image; no copy is stored here.
- [FBI story, "Using Intel to Stop the Mob, Part 3" (March 13, 2008)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-story-2008-03-13-pistone/): The FBI's dated 2008 story on Joe Pistone. It says that on July 26, 1981 Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano and his associates learned that "Donnie Brasco" was an FBI agent, and that the operation "ultimately led to more than 100 federal convictions."
- [FBI story: "The Chicago Mafia: Down but Not Out" (2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-story-chicago-mafia-2011/): FBI news story of June 27, 2011 on the Chicago Outfit after the Family Secrets case, opening with the indictment of a former prison chaplain who carried messages for Frank Calabrese, Sr.
- [FBI story: "Family Secrets: Of the Murderous Kind" (2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-story-family-secrets-2007/): FBI news story of October 1, 2007 on Operation Family Secrets, the Chicago Outfit case in which five defendants were found guilty on September 10, 2007.
- [Anthony Dominic Liberatore, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #362 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-topten-362-anthony-liberatore/): Photograph from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted historical pictures. The caption says he was arrested in Eastlake, Ohio, on April 1, 1979, in a house "considered 'safe' by organized crime in the area."
- [Carmine John Persico, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #390 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-topten-390-carmine-persico/): Photograph from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted historical pictures, captioned: "Due to an FBI investigation, Persico was arrested in Wantagh, New York, by FBI agents on February 15, 1985."
- [James "Whitey" Bulger, Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #458 (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-topten-458-james-bulger/): Paired photographs from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted historical pictures: one labelled "Photograph Taken in 1994" and a retouched copy, over the name James J. Bulger.
- [Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak, and Basil Banghart (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-touhy-darlak-banghart-1942/): FBI image of Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak and Basil Banghart, captioned with their capture on December 29, 1942. A copy is stored here.
- [FBI Vault file on Alphonse Capone](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-al-capone/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Alphonse Gabriel Capone, in 36 parts, with the Bureau's own summary of the investigation.
- [FBI Vault: Albert Anastasia, Part 01 (file 62-98011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-albert-anastasia-p01/): A 21-page part of 1951–1953 serials, including a memorandum stating that Anastasia was born in Calabria, Italy, and had been reported as a racketeer on the New York waterfront. Nothing in it concerns his 1957 killing.
- [Memorandum Eddy to Evans, 12 June 1962: Frank Lee Morris, John William Anglin and Clarence Anglin, escaped federal prisoners (FBI Vault)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-alcatraz-escape-p02-morris-anglin-memo-1962/): An FBI memorandum of 12 June 1962 recording that at 7:28 p.m. no trace of Morris and the Anglin brothers had been found at the prison, on the island, on the mainland or in the water; an addendum says the Coast Guard found a paddle in the bay.
- [FBI Vault file on Anthony Accardo](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-anthony-accardo/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Anthony Accardo, in two parts, including a 1946 informant report, a 1959 Chicago memorandum relaying a source's account of the Chicago syndicate's hierarchy, and early-1970s teletypes on its leadership.
- [FBI Vault file on Anthony Giacalone](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-anthony-giacalone/): The FBI Vault's four-part release of the Detroit anti-racketeering file on Anthony Joseph Giacalone (Detroit file 92-228, Bureau file 92-3077), running from the opening report of January 1958 to interviews after James R. Hoffa's disappearance in July 1975.
- [FBI Vault: Anthony Salerno, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-anthony-salerno-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's Anthony Salerno file, covering 1956–1966 according to the Vault. The viewer's text layer for this part is almost empty, so nothing is taken from it here.
- [FBI Vault file on Anthony Spilotro](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-anthony-spilotro/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Anthony Spilotro, in two parts, including a 1993 Chicago airtel on the June 1986 murders of Anthony and Michael Spilotro.
- [FBI Director's airtel of July 1961 listing hoodlums selected under the Criminal Intelligence Program](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-balistrieri-p01-criminal-intelligence-program-airtel-1961/): An FBI Director's airtel of July 1961, filed in the Vault's Balistrieri file, selecting ten more "hoodlums" for "concentrated all-out investigative attention," listed by city: among them Raymond L. S. Patriarca at Boston, Morris Barney Dalitz at Las Vegas, Meyer Lansky at Miami and Gerardo V. Catena at Newark.
- [FBI Milwaukee report of 1974 to 1975 on a source's statement about Frank Balistrieri and the Stardust and Fremont loan](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-balistrieri-p01-las-vegas-source-report-1974/): FBI Milwaukee reports of 1974 and 1975, filed in the Vault's Balistrieri file, recording a source's statement of September 30, 1974 that Frank Balistrieri was a frequent visitor to Las Vegas, apparently to oversee a Teamsters loan made to the Stardust and Fremont hotels.
- [FBI Milwaukee report of June 20, 1958 on Frank Peter Balistrieri](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-balistrieri-p01-milwaukee-report-1958/): A Milwaukee field-office report filed in the Vault's Balistrieri file. Its synopsis says he "continues to operate the Roosevelt Hotel" and other Milwaukee night spots, and that an informant called him the "top man" in the city's "Italian-American element."
- [FBI Milwaukee airtel of January 6, 1965 on Frank Peter Balistrieri's tax indictment](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-balistrieri-p02-tax-indictment-airtel-1965/): An airtel from the Milwaukee Special Agent in Charge to the FBI Director reporting that Frank Peter Balistrieri, "boss of the Milwaukee family of La Cosa Nostra" in the Bureau's words, was indicted that day by a federal grand jury on tax charges.
- [Letter from SAC F. J. Blake, Dallas, to the Director, 29 August 1933: Browning automatic rifles recovered from the Barrow gang](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-barrow-bar-armories-letter-1933-08-29/): Dallas Special Agent in Charge F. J. Blake reports that four Browning automatic rifles recovered from members of the Barrow gang had in part been traced to Government armories, and suggests the Division ask the War Department to protect armories.
- [Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to SAC Dallas, 8 September 1933: no Division recommendation to the War Department on armory thefts](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-barrow-hoover-reply-1933-09-08/): Director Hoover answers the Dallas letter of 29 August, restating its suggestion that, since the Barrow brothers were armed with Browning automatic rifles stolen from National Guard units, the War Department be asked to protect armories, and says it would be inappropriate for the Division itself to make that recommendation.
- [Bureau report on the raid near Dexter, Iowa, 24 July 1933 (Vault, Bonnie and Clyde Part 02, pages 59 to 62)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-barrow-p02-dexter-raid-report-1933/): Kansas City office report in the FBI Vault's Bonnie and Clyde file: the gang's camp in woods near Dexter, Iowa, the attack "shortly after daybreak on Monday July 24, 1933," "Marvin Barrow died from his wound," and Blanche Barrow's account of the Joplin shooting. A copy of report page 9 is stored here.
- [Bureau of Investigation report, 1 September 1933: Ordnance Division traces Colt .45 pistols and Browning automatic rifles taken from the Barrow gang](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-barrow-weapon-trace-1933-09-01/): Form No. 1 report by Dwight Brantley, Washington, D.C., listing by serial number the Colt .45 pistols and Browning automatic rifles the War Department says were stolen from Illinois and Oklahoma National Guard units.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer p. 361 (October 6, 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-p361-ruggiero-arrest-report-1981/): An FBI accomplishment report of October 6, 1981 (GENUS-SHORTCAKE, RICO-MURDER) recording the arrest of Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero on August 29, 1981 on an S.D.N.Y. complaint. It says the warrant for Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano was still outstanding and that Napolitano was "missing and believed dead."
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 11-15 (July-August 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp11-15-body-recorder-1980/): Brooklyn-Queens teletypes on the undercover agent's body recorder. Page 12 says the agent would meet "Domonick 'Sonny Black' Napolitiano acting boss Bonanno (LCN) family"; page 15, in a later teletype, calls him "acting underboss." The two pages disagree, and both are shown here.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 133-136 (May-June 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp133-136-killings-1981/): New York teletypes of May and June 1981. The first reports a source's information that Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone and Dominic Trinchera were killed on or about May 5, 1981, and that Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato was hiding with a contract on his life. The second records the surveillance of Ruggiero's flight to Montreal.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 148-154 (June 1981): the GENUS cases](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp148-154-genus-1981/): A two-section New York teletype of June 1981: "The GENUS code name encompasses several major cases targeted against various factions of the Bonanno LCN family." It lists the undercover operation, the Catalano investigation and the file opened on the May 1981 murders.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 288-293 (1984-1986): James Episcopia](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp288-293-episcopia-reports/): FBI reports on James Episcopia, a defendant in the 1982 case. They record his conviction on December 12, 1983 for methaqualone conspiracy and distribution, a sentence in November 1984, and a five-year sentence imposed by Judge Robert W. Sweet on November 17, 1986.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 325-327 (August 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp325-327-ruggiero-interview-1981/): A New York teletype reporting the FBI's interview of Benjamin Ruggiero on August 4, 1981. It says he "confirmed his association with UCA for the past six or seven years" and declined to call the FBI.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 401-531 (1974-1976): Napolitano and a stolen trailer](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp401-531-napolitano-1974-1976/): An earlier FBI file at the end of the Brasco release, on the March 1974 theft of a trailer of Lord & Taylor merchandise from Carlstadt, New Jersey. It records that Dominick Napolitano pleaded guilty in the E.D.N.Y. on April 19, 1976 and was sentenced on June 18, 1976 to three years, consecutive to a four-year New York State term.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01, viewer pp. 97-98 (June 1, 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-brasco-p01-pp97-98-power-struggle-1981/): A Brooklyn-Queens teletype of June 1, 1981: "the Bonanno LCN family is presently undergoing a power struggle that has resulted in the deaths of three family capos," Sonny Red Indelicato, Phillip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera. It says Benjamin Ruggiero would travel to Canada.
- ["The Kidnaping of Edward George Bremer, St. Paul, Minnesota": FBI investigation summary, I.C. #7-576 (19 November 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bremer-investigation-summary-1936/): A 126-page Bureau narrative of the Bremer kidnaping case: Kate Barker's background, the death of Herman Barker in 1927, the 16 January 1935 shooting at the Lake Weir cottage, and Karpis's arrest at Apartment 1, 3343 Canal Street, New Orleans on 1 May 1936. A copy of page 1 is stored here.
- [FBI summary of the Bremer kidnaping (19 November 1936), page 1: the Bureau's account of Arizona "Kate" Barker](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bremer-summary-p01-kate-barker-1936/): The opening page of the FBI's 1936 narrative history of the Karpis-Barker gang. It identifies the mother of the Barker brothers as "Arizona Barker, commonly known as Kate Barker," born near Ash Grove, Missouri, and married there in 1892 to George E. Barker.
- [FBI summary of the Bremer kidnaping, page 10: the Bureau's history of Edna Murray](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bremer-summary-p10-edna-murray-1936/): The page of the FBI's 1936 Karpis-Barker narrative that begins its history of Edna Murray, whom it says was born at Marion, Kansas, on May 26, 1898 and was an early associate of Volney Davis.
- [FBI summary of the Bremer kidnaping, page 16: Dolores Delaney with Alvin Karpis](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bremer-summary-p16-dolores-delaney-1936/): The page of the FBI's 1936 Karpis-Barker narrative recording that about December 2, 1933 the gang left Reno, naming "Alvin Karpis and his moll, Dolores Delaney, sister-in-law of Pat Riley, a Dillinger mobster," who went on to Chicago.
- [FBI summary of the Bremer kidnaping, report page 39: the 16 January 1935 raid at Lake Weir, Florida](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bremer-summary-p40-lake-weir-raid-1935/): The Bureau's 1936 account of the raid on a cottage at Lake Weir, Florida, at about 5:30 a.m. on 16 January 1935, in which Fred Barker and Kate Barker were killed. It says "Kate Barker battled until death" and lists the weapons and money found in the house.
- [FBI Vault, Angelo Annaloro (Angelo Bruno), Part 01: Philadelphia teletypes on the March 1980 killing](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bruno-p01-philadelphia-teletypes-1980/): Part 01 of the FBI's five-part file titled "Angelo Annaloro (Angelo Bruno)": Philadelphia teletypes from March 22, 1980 captioned "GANGMURS ANGELO BRUNO" on the shooting of March 21, 1980, and later reports. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI Vault file on Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (32 parts)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bugsy-siegel/): Finding aid to the FBI Vault's 32-part file on Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel: the 1946 Flamingo inquiry, the Bureau's crime survey, and the 1947 killing, with each part's address and a one-line description.
- [FBI Vault, James (Whitey) Bulger, Part 01: Boston reports, 1974 to 1978](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bulger-p01-boston-reports-1974-1978/): First part of the FBI's released Bulger file: Boston airtels and reports of 1974 and 1975 on an extortionate-credit inquiry naming Bulger among suspected loansharks, and 1976 to 1978 reports on a race-fixing investigation. Read in part from the OCR.
- [FBI Vault, James (Whitey) Bulger, Part 02: Boston Division reports, 1974 to 1975](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bulger-p02-boston-reports-1975/): The second part of the FBI's Bulger file: Boston field office reports, transmittals of recorded telephone calls and arrest papers, most captioned with the federal extortionate-credit and racketeering statutes. Most names are redacted, and only the Vault OCR has been read.
- [FBI Vault, James (Whitey) Bulger, Part 05: Boston memorandum of June 23, 1995 on the January 1995 indictment](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-bulger-p05-boston-memo-1995-06-23/): Part 05 of the FBI's Bulger file is mostly withheld. Its readable pages include a June 23, 1995 Boston communication summarizing the indictment's allegation that the "Winter Hill Gang" and the "PATRIARCA LCN Family" conspired to control organized crime in Boston.
- [Chicago report on tribute collected from juice-grape buyers (22 September 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p01-grape-tribute-report-1930/): A Bureau of Investigation report from Chicago records complaints that racketeers taxed every railcar of juice grapes sold at Chicago tracks: in 1929 for a gangster said to represent the Aiello-Moran gang, and in 1930, according to a witness, for a collector appointed by 'the Al Capone gang'.
- [Senate committee letter asking the Bureau for its record on Al Capone (20 June 1928)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p01-record-request-1928/): The earliest dated item in the FBI's Capone file: a letter on United States Senate Committee on Commerce letterhead asking J. Edgar Hoover for a résumé of any record on 'Al Capone — recently known as the Chicago Gangster', then living at Miami or Miami Beach.
- [Birmingham letter opening the Atlanta contraband inquiry (16 June 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p04-atlanta-letters-transmittal-1933/): The first serial of Bufile 62-28933: the Bureau's Birmingham office forwards copies of a letter said to have been written by Capone in the Atlanta penitentiary and asks for instructions, opening the 1933–36 contraband inquiry.
- [Birmingham report on the manuscript 'The Biography of Al Capone's Life in the Atlanta Penitentiary' (March 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p05-biography-manuscript-examination-1936/): After about three months' work at the Atlanta penitentiary, a Bureau agent reviewed a typed manuscript about Capone's prison life and found its specific accusations few and indefinite; the Birmingham office saw nothing in it to advance the contraband case.
- [Press clippings on the August 1934 transfer from Atlanta to Alcatraz, filed in the FBI Capone file](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p06-alcatraz-transfer-clippings-1934/): Part 06 of the Vault file is a run of wire-service and newspaper clippings, mostly of 20–24 August 1934, on the guarded rail transfer of Capone and other Atlanta prisoners to Alcatraz. They are listed here as a pointer and are not reproduced.
- [Chicago Crime Commission request for Bureau records on twenty-eight Chicago gangsters (1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p07-crime-commission-public-enemies-1930/): Letters from the Chicago Crime Commission, filed in the FBI's Capone file under Bufile 32-15941, sending the Bureau a list of twenty-eight Chicago gangsters headed by Al Capone, and the Commission's replies after the Bureau said it needed fingerprints or police numbers.
- [Chicago memorandum listing members of former and present Chicago gangs (July 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p09-chicago-gang-roster-1936/): A Chicago FBI memorandum for the file records a list of members of Chicago gangs by territory, 'Capone Gang (South Side)' first, obtained on 22 July 1936 from the Cook County coroner's firearms expert, with the dead marked by an asterisk.
- [FBI Laboratory memorandum matching the Capone 'Biography' typescript to the 'F. Barrett' letters (1 June 1936)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p16-laboratory-typewriter-memo-1936/): The FBI Laboratory finds that the 244-page typed 'Biography of Al Capone's Life in Atlanta Penitentiary' and two 1935 letters signed 'F. Barrett' offering it to a magazine were typed on the same Royal typewriter with Elite type.
- [FBI report on the 23 June 1936 assault on Capone at Alcatraz (serial 62-39128-45)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p17-lucas-stabbing-report-1936/): A San Francisco FBI report states that inmate James C. Lucas stabbed Capone in the back with a blade of barber shears at Alcatraz on 23 June 1936, that the wound was superficial, and that the U.S. Attorney declined prosecution as a prison administrative matter.
- [Los Angeles letter of 26 October 1939 on an agent's interview of Capone at Terminal Island](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p18-terminal-island-interview-1939/): The FBI's Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge reports an hour-long interview of Capone at Terminal Island on 25 October 1939. The agent wrote that Capone was in high spirits but kept losing the thread, which he took as a sign that Capone's mind did not function normally.
- [San Francisco letter: reports that Capone is paralyzed are false; transfer to Terminal Island (17 January 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p18-terminal-island-transfer-letter-1939/): The FBI's San Francisco office reports from a confidential source that newspaper stories of Capone being paralyzed were false, and that on his transfer from Alcatraz to Terminal Island he was in very good spirits.
- [Chicago letter on possible consequences of Capone's release (6 December 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p19-chicago-release-assessment-1939/): Asked to watch for any attempt on the lives of Al or Ralph Capone, the FBI's Chicago office relays a reporter's view that the syndicate had moved from gunmen to 'muscle' methods and that no concerted comeback was likely without Capone's own leadership.
- [FBI record of a call reporting Capone's release at Lewisburg (16 November 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p19-lewisburg-release-call-1939/): A telephone-call record in the Director's office: a United Press reporter says the Justice Department has just announced that Capone was released that morning at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to his relatives.
- [Hoover reply stating that Capone died on 25 January 1947 at Palm Island, Miami (15 January 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p21-palm-island-reply-1964/): A Bureau form reply to a Memphis writer gives Capone's tax sentence of 24 October 1931, a release from Terminal Island dated 19 January 1939, and his death on 25 January 1947 at Palm Island, Miami. A file note gives the sources for the death.
- [FBI reply on the 'Capone Gang' with a list of alleged members furnished in 1936 (26 August 1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p22-capone-gang-reply-1983/): The FBI's Office of Congressional and Public Affairs answers a Pennsylvania legislative research analyst with summaries, photographs and a list of alleged members of the 'Capone gang' 'per information furnished in 1936', noting that the gang's activities were mostly outside federal jurisdiction.
- [Clyde Tolson's reply to James A. Farley about Capone's car and President Roosevelt (25 July 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p22-tolson-farley-letter-1968/): FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson tells James A. Farley that the FBI has no information on whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt used Al Capone's car, since Capone's tax conviction was outside its jurisdiction, and suggests the Secret Service.
- [Jacksonville report on Dr. Phillips's affidavit and Capone's whereabouts (23 March 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p23-phillips-affidavit-report-1929/): A Bureau of Investigation report from Jacksonville quotes the Miami doctor's affidavit that Capone had been confined to bed with broncho-pneumonia, and reports witnesses who placed him at the Hialeah race track in the same weeks.
- [Director's memorandum to Mrs. Willebrandt opening the Capone contempt inquiry (21 March 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p23-willebrandt-contempt-memo-1929/): The Bureau of Investigation's Director tells Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt that he has ordered a discreet, quick inquiry into whether Al Capone and Dr. Kenneth Phillips could be held in contempt over a Miami doctor's affidavit.
- [Chicago letter reporting the 27 March 1929 contempt citation and $5,000 bond](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p24-contempt-citation-bond-letter-1929/): The Bureau's Chicago Special Agent in Charge reports that on 27 March 1929 a contempt citation was had against Capone before a federal judge in Chicago, and that Capone was arraigned the same day and gave a $5,000 bond.
- [Typed copies of the Miami affidavits in the Capone contempt inquiry (March 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p24-miami-affidavits-1929/): A numbered set of Dade County affidavits gathered for the 1929 contempt inquiry, including Dr. Samuel D. Light's statement that he treated Capone in early January 1929 and a statement that Capone was questioned for two hours on 14 February 1929.
- [FBI Vault, Al Capone, Part 24: Chicago letter of March 1930 on Capone's release at Philadelphia](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p24-philadelphia-release-letter-1930/): A Bureau of Investigation Chicago letter to the Director, captioned for Capone's contempt case, reporting that he was released from jail at Philadelphia on March 17, 1930 after serving a sentence for carrying concealed weapons. Read from the OCR.
- [Bureau of Prisons Director Bates sends a clipping on Capone to the Bureau (28 February 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p26-bates-clipping-memo-1931/): A one-paragraph memorandum from Sanford Bates, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, passing on a newspaper clipping about Capone and asking whether a small local paper meant it as a joke.
- [Chicago letter: Capone sentenced to six months for contempt (27 February 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p26-contempt-sentence-letter-1931/): The Bureau's Chicago office reports to the Director that Judge James H. Wilkerson sentenced Capone to six months in the Cook County jail for contempt of court on 27 February 1931, and that Chicago police had arrested him on a vagrancy charge two days earlier.
- [Transcript of Judge Wilkerson's finding in United States v. Capone, contempt (27 February 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p26-wilkerson-contempt-finding-1931/): The court reporter's transcript of Judge James H. Wilkerson's oral opinion finding Capone in contempt over the 1929 doctor's affidavit, with the sentence of six months in the Cook County jail and the colloquy on appeal and bond.
- [Chicago letters on Florida witnesses in the contempt case, written during the tax trial (October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p28-florida-witnesses-letters-1931/): Two letters from the Bureau's Chicago Special Agent in Charge, of 6 and 19 October 1931, checking whether the U.S. Attorney had used Florida witnesses the Bureau never interviewed; they were written while Capone was on trial for income-tax offenses.
- [Chicago report on alleged privileges for Capone in the Cook County Jail (17 December 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p29-cook-county-jail-report-1931/): A Bureau of Investigation report on an anonymous charge that Capone was running his business from the Cook County Jail while held for the U.S. Marshal after his tax conviction; jail officials denied it and the U.S. Attorney judged further inquiry unwarranted.
- [Warden Aderhold's letter on a newspaper reproduction of Capone's fingerprints (January 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p30-aderhold-fingerprint-letter-1933/): The warden of the Atlanta penitentiary tells the Bureau of Prisons that a New York Journal reproduction of Capone's photographs and fingerprints did not come from the prison's copy, and that Capone had asked him for protection against the use of his prison record.
- [Birmingham letter on the postponed Capone habeas corpus hearing (21 October 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p30-habeas-corpus-letter-1932/): The Bureau's Birmingham Special Agent in Charge reports that the hearing on Capone's petition for a writ of habeas corpus at Atlanta was postponed to 11 November 1932 and that the U.S. Attorney at Chicago asked for no Bureau action.
- [Letter to Hoover on a rumored Capone escape from Alcatraz, and Hoover's reply (September–October 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p31-alcatraz-escape-rumor-letter-1935/): A Knoxville correspondent, prompted by a 'Dick Tracy' newspaper cartoon, wrote that some people in his town thought Capone might be staging a prison break from Alcatraz; Hoover thanked him for his interest.
- [Director's memorandum on Capone's transfer to Alcatraz (21 August 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p31-alcatraz-transfer-memo-1934/): Hoover records calls with a Justice Department official and Inspector Clegg in San Francisco after the Attorney General was quoted as saying Capone was not being sent to Alcatraz; the memorandum states that Capone was on the prison train due the next morning.
- [Tamm memorandum on Drew Pearson's inquiry about Capone's anticipated death (25 January 1947)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p31-pearson-inquiry-memo-1947/): Edward A. Tamm tells Hoover that columnist Drew Pearson telephoned for 'color' about the anticipated death of Al Capone, and that he gave Pearson the Bureau's write-up of the 1929–31 contempt case.
- [FBI Vault, Al Capone, Part 31: memorandum of January 6, 1933 on the Philadelphia arrest and commitment dates](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-capone-p31-philadelphia-dates-memo-1933/): Bureau memorandum of January 6, 1933, written while compiling an "Interesting Case" write-up on Capone, noting that the Identification Division recorded him received at the Philadelphia County Prison, Holmesburg, in May 1929 and that the Philadelphia office checked conflicting dates.
- [FBI Vault: Carlo Gambino, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-carlo-gambino-p01/): Part 01 of 14 of the FBI's Carlo Gambino file: serials from 1958 and about 1970, many partly withheld. The OCR is poor, and nothing is taken from it here.
- [FBI Vault: Carlos Marcello, Part 01 of 03 (1955 to 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-carlos-marcello-part-01/): The first part of the FBI's released file on Carlos Marcello: a 1955 headquarters memo on Marcello v. Bonds, 1956-57 hoodlum-coverage memoranda from New Orleans, April-June 1961 memoranda on his removal to Guatemala and surrender in New Orleans, and 1989 reports from Rochester, Minnesota on his release.
- [FBI Vault: Carlos Marcello, Part 02 of 03 (1966 to 1978)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-carlos-marcello-part-02/): The second part of the FBI's released Marcello file (326 viewer pages): a New Orleans airtel of 3 October 1966 before a 7 October 1966 hearing, a report of 10 January 1967 captioned 'Assaulting a Federal Officer,' and later racketeering-investigation material including subpoenaed bank records.
- [FBI Vault: Carmine Galante, Part 01 (file 92-3025)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-carmine-galante-p01/): Top Hoodlum Program serials from 1956–1958, including a New York memorandum of January 24, 1958 giving Galante's birth name and a birth date of February 21, 1910.
- [FBI Vault: Carmine John Persico, Jr., Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-carmine-persico-p01/): Serials from the 1970s to 1985, including FBI teletypes reporting what sources said about Persico, and a 1985 teletype listing the defendants in the February 25, 1985 Commission indictment with the titles the Bureau gave them.
- [FBI Vault: Charles (Lucky) Luciano / Salvatore Lucania, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-charles-luciano-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's Luciano file: 1935 memoranda, a wartime report with his 1936 state sentence, and a 1946 group on his parole on condition of deportation, his move to Ellis Island, and his departure from Bush Terminal, Brooklyn.
- [FBI Vault: Charles (Lucky) Luciano / Salvatore Lucania, Part 03 (Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-charles-luciano-p03/): Final part of the FBI's Luciano file, 100 pages: a second copy of the August 1935 memorandum and the February and March 1946 correspondence on his deportation, opening with Fiorello La Guardia's letter of February 14, 1946 to the Attorney General and the Bureau's inquiry into the Ellis Island visit.
- [FBI Vault: Christopher Furnari (Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-christopher-furnari-final/): Mainly 1984 New York Division serials on the STAR investigations of La Cosa Nostra control of construction, including a January 3, 1984 memorandum that names "GENOVESE family boss SALERNO" and describes an investigation of "the 'commission' as a criminal enterprise."
- [FBI Las Vegas surveillance logs on the Upper Crust Pizzaria and My Place (June to July 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-cullotta-p01-surveillance-logs-1980/): FBI Las Vegas FD-302 surveillance logs of June and July 1980 on the My Place lounge and the Upper Crust Pizzaria at Pioneer Plaza, filed in a case captioned as a RICO murder matter, with entries recording Frank Cullotta and Anthony Spilotro.
- [FBI Vault file on Daniel J. Greene, president of ILA Local 1317, Cleveland (1964-1966)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-daniel-greene/): The FBI Vault's 74-page file on Daniel J. Greene, president of Local 1317 of the International Longshoremen's Association in Cleveland: a 1964 union-funds inquiry, his indictment on 13 November 1964, and a July 1966 memorandum on his sentence.
- [Bureau account of the agents' positions at the Biograph Theatre, 22 July 1934 (Vault, Dillinger Part 01, page 29)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-dillinger-p01-biograph-positions-1934/): Page 2 of a typed Bureau account in the FBI Vault's Dillinger file: Purvis and Brown near "the Biograph Theatre, 2433 Lincoln Avenue, Chicago," Dillinger seen entering at 8:50 p.m., and where each agent was posted. A copy is stored here.
- [John Dillinger, Part 02 (FBI Vault): Bureau memoranda of 1934 and the memorandum of 10 August 1935 on the shooting](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-dillinger-p02-shooting-memorandum-1935/): Second part of the FBI Vault's Dillinger file, 44 viewer pages of Bureau memoranda from July and August 1934, ending with a memorandum dated 10 August 1935 on the facts of the 22 July 1934 shooting.
- [Memorandum for file by Special Agent C. B. Winstead, 25 July 1934: the weapons at the Biograph Theatre](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-dillinger-winstead-memo-1934-07-25/): Two-page memorandum by Special Agent C. B. Winstead on the events outside the Biograph Theatre, Chicago, on 22 July 1934. It records the weapons involved: the "Division .45 Automatic" Winstead carried and a ".380 calibre Colt Automatic" that Winstead says Purvis told him he had taken.
- [Memorandum for the Director (Tamm), 13 January 1939: five prisoners missing from Alcatraz are located on the island (FBI Vault)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-doc-barker-p03-alcatraz-escape-memo-1939/): An FBI memorandum of 8:00 a.m. on 13 January 1939 reporting a call from Mr. Pieper that five prisoners missing from Alcatraz were found on the beach; a 9:15 addendum names Arthur Barker among them and says he and one other were wounded.
- [FBI Vault, Operation Donnie Brasco, Part 01 (1980-1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-donnie-brasco-p01-1980/): Part 01 of the FBI Vault's "Operation Donnie Brasco" file: heavily redacted teletypes among the Brooklyn, Tampa, Milwaukee and headquarters offices. A teletype says the investigation "was instituted in March, 1980, based on information furnished by the Milwaukee Division" and the Tampa Division.
- [FBI Vault: Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz), Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-dutch-schultz-p01/): First of five parts of the FBI's file 23-2130 on Arthur Flegenheimer. The scans are poor; the clearest page is a July 1935 letter to J. Edgar Hoover about the jury at Flegenheimer's trial "now being held at Malone, N.Y." That page is stored here.
- [Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd Summary (FBI Vault, Part 01, Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-floyd-summary/): A 17-page FBI summary file on Charles Arthur Floyd: a cover, a letter to the Director setting out his criminal record from a 1925 highway-robbery arrest, and a later "case write-up" on the Kansas City Massacre. A copy of the cover is stored here.
- [FBI Vault file on Frank Nitti](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-frank-nitti/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Frank Nitti, one part of 121 scanned pages, including a Bureau of Investigation Chicago letter that lists him as Frank R. Nitto and reports his March 14, 1930 tax indictment.
- [FBI memorandum of 29 November 1957: INS refers to Carlo Gambino as a participant in the Apalachin gathering](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gambino-pt03-scan04-ins-deportation-memo-1957/): One-page FBI memorandum reporting that the Immigration and Naturalization Service referred to Carlo Gambino as one of those who took part in the recent Apalachin gathering and planned to arrest him on a deportation warrant on 2 December 1957.
- [FBI New York report page (NY 92-657) quoting the New York Daily Mirror of 15 November 1957 on Apalachin](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gambino-pt03-scan39-ny-report-daily-mirror-1957/): Page of an FBI New York field-office report on Carlo Gambino. It relays a 15 November 1957 New York Daily Mirror article saying 62 men were "grabbed" at Apalachin on 14 November and that Gambino was present. The report's date is not on the page.
- [FBI teletype page: request to interview Carlo Gambino in Miami about the Apalachin meeting](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gambino-pt03-scan70-miami-interview-request/): Second page of an FBI message from the New York office asking Bureau permission for the Miami office to interview Gambino, at an Assistant U.S. Attorney's request, about his attendance at the Apalachin meeting. Undated on this page.
- [FBI New York report (NY 92-657): John T. Cusack's 9 January 1958 testimony on the Apalachin meeting](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gambino-pt04-scan49-cusack-testimony-1958/): Report pages quoting testimony of John T. Cusack, District Supervisor of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, before a New York State legislative committee at Albany on 9 January 1958 that the Bureau became interested in Apalachin because at least three major narcotics violators were reported present.
- [FBI Newark report, 12 December 1958: Genovese "was in attendance at the Apalachin, New York, meeting"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-genovese-pt01-scan238-newark-report-1958-12-12/): First page of an FBI Newark field-office report (investigative period 29 September to 3 December 1958) in the Genovese anti-racketeering case. Its administrative note says Genovese was in attendance at the Apalachin meeting.
- [FBI letter, Director to SAC Newark, January 1958: Genovese's presence at Apalachin and the anti-racketeering investigation](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-genovese-pt01-scan24-director-to-sac-newark-1958/): FBI Director's letter to the Newark office about its anti-racketeering investigation of Vito Genovese. It says his presence at Apalachin "undoubtedly contributed immeasurably to the publicity this meeting received" and lists investigative steps.
- [FBI airtel, 16 June 1959: Genovese before the New York State Commission of Investigation on the Apalachin meeting](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-genovese-pt01-scan293-airtel-nys-commission-1959-06-16/): FBI airtel summarizing Genovese's 16 June 1959 appearance under subpoena before the New York State Commission of Investigation, which granted him immunity and questioned him about Apalachin, with the FBI's account of how he said he came to go.
- [FBI Detroit report on Anthony Joseph Giacalone, anti-racketeering (18 January 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-giacalone-p01-detroit-report-1958/): The opening report of the Detroit office's file 92-228 gives Giacalone's Detroit police number and birth date, records one conviction (bribery of a police officer, 1955), and characterizes him as active in Pete Corrado gambling interests and a 'comer' in the Detroit underworld.
- [FBI Detroit teletype: Giacalone seen at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens (19 July 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-giacalone-p02-hillcrest-teletype-1962/): An urgent teletype from the Detroit office reports that Anthony Joseph Giacalone was observed 'yesterday' at the Hillcrest Country Club, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, with a redacted person and 'William Quote Black Bill Unquote Tocco, local hoodlums'.
- [FBI Detroit report page summarizing Commissioner George Edwards's McClellan testimony (October 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-giacalone-p03-edwards-testimony-summary-1963/): A page of a Detroit report in the Giacalone file summarizes a Detroit Free Press article of 11 October 1963: Police Commissioner George Edwards had told the McClellan subcommittee that the Detroit area was controlled by a five-man 'council' whose members were called 'dons'.
- [Lester Joseph Gillis (Baby Face Nelson), Part 01 (FBI Vault)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gillis-part-01/): First of three parts of the FBI Vault's file on Lester Gillis. Page 1 is a 23 August 1934 memorandum from J. Edgar Hoover transmitting a bank robbery modus operandi report on the Peoples Savings Bank, Grand Haven, Michigan. A copy of that page is stored here.
- [FBI Records: The Vault, "Gregory Scarpa, Sr. Part 01" (Top Echelon informant memoranda, 1961-1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-gregory-scarpa-sr-part-01/): New York Division memoranda to the FBI Director under the heading "Top Echelon Criminal Informant Program." A memorandum of March 20, 1962 gives "Date designated informant 3/20/62" and describes Gregory Scarpa as a member of the Joseph Profaci group in Brooklyn.
- [FBI memorandum to Mr. Rosen, August 1954, citing the "Louis Campagna, et al; Bribery, Parole Matter" case, Bufile 58-2000 (Vault, Jake Guzik)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-guzik-1954-memo-campagna-bribery-case/): A headquarters memorandum on Jake Guzik quotes the Chicago office's June 1954 intelligence report on what was learned "During the investigation of Chicago file 58-194 entitled, 'Louis Campagna, was., et al; Bribery, Parole Matter, Falsely Claiming Citizenship, Perjury,' Bufile 58-2000." It shows the parole case still open in 1953–54.
- [FBI Records: The Vault, "Henry Hill Part 01" (1970 Tampa extortion case)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-henry-hill-part-01/): The released FBI file on Henry Hill. Most of the pages read are 1970 teletypes, memoranda and FD-302s in an interstate racketeering and extortionate-credit case in which a federal grand jury at Tampa indicted Hill on November 18, 1970; he was arraigned in the Eastern District of New York the next day.
- [Herman Barker (Death of), FBI file 26-9961, Part 01 (Final) (FBI Vault)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-herman-barker-part-01/): The FBI Vault's file titled "Herman Barker (Death of)," file 26-9961, section 1, serials 1 to 120: Bureau correspondence of 1926 and 1927, much of it from the Oklahoma City office. A copy of the cover sheet is stored here.
- [FBI Vault: Jimmy Hoffa, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-hoffa-part-01/): The first of the FBI Vault parts on the Hoffa disappearance: 168 pages, largely newspaper clippings gathered after 30 July 1975, with the FBI's press release of 3 August 1975 announcing that it was taking jurisdiction under the federal extortion statutes.
- [FBI Vault: Jimmy Hoffa, Part 02](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-hoffa-part-02/): The second Vault part on the Hoffa disappearance, 183 pages: Detroit agents' transcriptions of broadcast interviews about the case from November 1976, then teletypes and press clippings on the investigation into the 1980s.
- [FBI Vault file on Jake Guzik](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-jake-guzik/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Jake Guzik, 114 scanned pages, including a 1944 teletype, a memorandum on his aliases and career, and a 1956 report relaying newspaper accounts of his death.
- [FBI Vault file on James Licavoli](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-james-licavoli/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau's file on James Licavoli, also called Jack White, beginning with June 1959 Detroit and Cleveland airtels and 1961 Cleveland anti-racketeering reports. Only the first 400 pages of Part 01 have been read.
- [FBI Vault: John Joseph Gotti, Jr, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-john-gotti-p01/): The earliest serials in the FBI's Gotti file: a 1964 report on a Selective Service Act delinquency, stating that he was born in the Bronx, and his identification record.
- [FBI Vault file on John Scalish](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-john-scalish/): The FBI Vault's release of the Cleveland office file 92-167 on John T. Scalish, opened after the Bureau was told he had been at the November 1957 Apalachin meeting. Its background section collects informant reports from 1944 to 1957 about Scalish, the Desert Inn and the Cleveland 'syndicate'.
- [FBI Vault file on John Torrio](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-john-torrio/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on John Torrio, one part of 236 scanned pages, including a 1946 extortion case in which he was the victim and a 1947 background memorandum.
- [FBI Vault: Joseph Adonis, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-joseph-adonis-p01/): First of seven parts of the FBI's Joseph Adonis file: April to June 1943 New York reports and Army letters on an alleged kickback racket among workers at the Brooklyn Army Base, with a New York report captioned "Joseph Adonis, with aliases Joe Adonis and Joseph Doto." Poor scans, read by OCR.
- [FBI Vault: Joseph Adonis, Part 02](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-joseph-adonis-p02/): Second part of the FBI's Joseph Adonis file: a New York report of November 2, 1944 on a kickback, fraud and bribery case at the U.S. Army Base, 58th Street and First Avenue, Brooklyn, naming "Joseph Adonis, with aliases: Joe Adonis, Joseph Doto" among its subjects, and later items to 1964.
- [FBI Vault: Joseph Bonanno, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-joseph-bonanno-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's Joseph Bonanno file, largely 1979 Phoenix Division material on a RICO investigation and an application for electronic surveillance in Arizona. The deleted-page sheet lists 111 pages withheld.
- [FBI Vault: Joseph Colombo, Part 01 (Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-joseph-colombo-p01/): Mostly 1970–71 serials: applications for electronic surveillance describing a Brooklyn numbers operation "under control of La Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Colombo," the April 2, 1971 arrest of Colombo on federal gambling charges, and memoranda on the Italian-American Civil Rights League.
- [FBI Vault: "Joseph Valachi Part 01"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-joseph-valachi-part-01/): A 108-page FBI release from the New York field office file on Valachi, from a 1959 memo opening a "top hoodlum" case to 1962 papers on the Atlanta killing and his interviews.
- [Kansas City Massacre, FBI file 62-28915 (FBI Vault, 93 parts)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kansas-city-massacre-file/): The FBI Vault's file on the 17 June 1933 shooting at Union Station, Kansas City, file 62-28915, released in 93 parts. Section 1's cover names the subject as Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Kansas City Massacre. A copy of that cover is stored here.
- [FBI Vault: Kansas City Massacre, file 62-28915, Part 01 (Section 1), June 1933](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kansas-city-massacre-part-01/): The first section of the FBI's Kansas City Massacre file (97 viewer pages): telegrams, letters and memoranda of 17-19 June 1933, including a memorandum of Agent in Charge Vetterli's telephone report of the Union Station shooting.
- [FBI Vault: Kansas City Massacre, Part 02 (June 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kansas-city-massacre-part-02/): The second part (130 viewer pages) of the FBI's Kansas City Massacre file: a 20 June 1933 memorandum on identification orders that names Pretty Boy Floyd among the subjects, a 22 June memorandum on latent fingerprints resembling those of Frank Nash, and condolence correspondence.
- [Letter from Acting SAC M. C. Spear, Kansas City, 27 June 1933, asking for a slug and shell for ballistic comparison](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kcm-ballistics-request-1933-06-27/): Kansas City asks Oklahoma City for a slug and shell reportedly fired from the gun of "Pretty Boy" Floyd in a bank robbery, "so that they might be compared by the ballistic expert, here, with shells and slugs on hand here."
- [Letter from R. H. Colvin, Oklahoma City, to J. Edgar Hoover, 25 June 1933, asking for a submachine gun, rifles and pistols](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kcm-colvin-arms-request-1933-06-25/): Eight days after the Kansas City Union Station shootings, the Oklahoma City agent in charge writes that agents have "only the small light pistols furnished by the Bureau" and asks for a Thompson submachine gun, rifles, .45 Colt automatics and ammunition.
- [Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to R. H. Colvin, 27 June 1933: steps being taken to equip field offices with firearms](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kcm-hoover-reply-1933-06-27/): The Director replies to the Oklahoma City request of 25 June: "steps are being taken to properly equip all field offices with appropriate fire arms." The letter also declines a proposed private reward fund.
- [Machine Gun Kelly, Part 01 (FBI Vault): the first Urschel kidnaping papers, July 1933](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-kelly-part-01-1933/): First part of the FBI Vault's Machine Gun Kelly file, 7-115: memoranda for the Director and the Attorney General of 24 to 29 July 1933 on the Urschel kidnaping. A copy of the release cover is stored here.
- [FBI 'Top Hoodlum Coverage' summary on Meyer Lansky: Havana gambling and the Tropicana Night Club (14 September 1955)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p01-1955-09-14-havana-tropicana/): An FBI intelligence summary says information from the Bureau representative in Cuba was that Meyer and Jake Lansky were trying to set up a gambling operation in Havana, and that agents saw Meyer Lansky with Dino Cellini, credit manager at the Tropicana Night Club's gambling concession. Part is redacted.
- [FBI Miami report on Meyer Lansky: Hollywood, Florida winters and the 1950 Broward County indictment (19 July 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p01-1957-07-19-miami-report/): An FBI Miami field-office report says Lansky usually wintered in rented homes at Hollywood, Florida, visited Havana often, and was one of twenty-two indicted by a Broward County grand jury on 24 August 1950 'due to his connection with' three gambling clubs.
- [Justice Department release on the petition to cancel Meyer Lansky's naturalization (19 December 1952)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p01-denaturalization-release-1952-12-19/): A Justice Department press release of December 19, 1952, filed in the FBI Vault's Lansky file, announcing a petition to cancel Meyer Lansky's naturalization and stating that he allegedly has gambling interests in Hollywood, Miami, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Las Vegas.
- [FBI memorandum, F. L. Price to Mr. Rosen, 3 February 1958, and New York report on Meyer Lansky: 'now spending most of time in Havana, Cuba, where he has interests in gambling enterprises'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p03-1958-02-havana-gambling/): A headquarters memorandum on the Lansky Anti-Racketeering case states that he is 'now spending most of time in Havana, Cuba, where he has interests in gambling enterprises' of variable extent, and that he has been connected with race track and gambling casino operations in Havana 'since at least 1938.' A New York report lists his Havana hangouts.
- [FBI Legal Attache, Havana, letter and New York report, February-April 1958: the Cuban government 'by order of President Fulgencio Batista' bars Meyer Lansky's return](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p04-1958-02-batista-bars-lansky/): The Legal Attache in Havana reported that Havana newspapers of 22 February 1958 'published the fact that the Cuban Government by order of President Fulgencio Batista had officially prohibited the return to Cuba of MEYER LANSKY effective February 21, 1958,' and that the Minister of the Interior confirmed it.
- [FBI Miami airtel to the Director on Meyer Lansky, February 1961: 'prior to the revolution in Cuba, LANSKY was active in legalized gambling in Cuba'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p06-1961-02-miami-airtel-cuba/): Reviewing all Lansky material in its files, the Miami office reported that past investigation 'has never established concrete evidence' that he directly violated a federal statute within the FBI's primary jurisdiction, and that 'prior to the revolution in Cuba, LANSKY was active in legalized gambling in Cuba,' returning to the United States after Castro took power.
- [FBI Miami report on the 1971 Flamingo skimming indictment of Meyer Lansky and others (1973)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lansky-p22-flamingo-skim-indictment-1973/): Pages of an FBI Miami report of 1973 stating that Meyer Lansky, Morris Lansburgh and Sam Cohen were indicted by a Miami federal grand jury on March 25, 1971 on a charge of conspiracy to skim profits from the Flamingo Hotel Casino in Las Vegas during 1960 to 1967.
- [FBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-buchalter-p01/): First of four parts of the FBI's Buchalter file: a New York field report of August 1935 on the fur dressers antitrust case, a 1937 letter from the United States Attorney, the November 1937 report that names Shapiro and Buchalter as fugitives, and 1955 and 1956 Bureau summaries.
- [FBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 02](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-buchalter-p02/): Second part of the FBI's Buchalter file, 1937 to 1939: a New York report on his background and finances, 1939 report pages, the Bureau memorandum of July 5, 1939 on the fugitive hunt, and a Los Angeles report on a search made in August 1939.
- [FBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 03](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-buchalter-p03/): Third part of the FBI's Buchalter file: the Bureau's narrative "The Furdress Case" ending with his surrender on August 24, 1939, Los Angeles report pages from 1939, a 1956 memorandum, a 1966 Portland memorandum, and pasted newspaper clippings. Page 16 is stored here.
- [FBI Vault: Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Part 04 (Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-buchalter-p04/): Final part of the FBI's Buchalter file, Sub A Section 13: mostly newspaper clippings from August 1939 that the Bureau collected on the New York racketeering grand jury, the combined reward and the search, with later clippings on Shapiro.
- [FBI memorandum on the Buchalter and Shapiro fugitive investigation (July 5, 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-p02-developments-memo-1939-07-05/): A Bureau memorandum of July 5, 1939, in Part 02 of the Buchalter file, setting out the 1936 sentences in the fur dressers case, Buchalter's failure to appear on July 6, 1937, and the rewards offered for him from 1937 to 1939.
- ["The Furdress Case": the FBI's narrative of the Shapiro and Buchalter surrenders (1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-lepke-p03-furdress-summary-1939/): An undated Bureau narrative, file 60-1501-4266, in Part 03 of the Buchalter file: Shapiro's surrender on April 14, 1938, the 1939 negotiations through Walter Winchell, and Buchalter's surrender to the Director at 10:17 on August 24, 1939. The first page is stored here.
- [Legal Attache, Havana, to the Director, 11 October 1946: Treasury report that Luciano had left Italy, and a negative check in Cuba](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1946-10-11-legat-havana-first-report/): The FBI's Legal Attache at the embassy in Havana reports that the Treasury representative, Joseph A. Fortier, had word that Luciano 'has reportedly disappeared from Italy and is believed to have secured passage to Mexico on a freighter,' and that Fortier's check for him in Cuba was negative. It is the earliest Cuba document in the file.
- [FBI memorandum, A. Rosen to E. A. Tamm, 10 February 1947: Luciano found in Havana, 'allegedly backing gambling at the local race track and National Casino'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-02-10-rosen-memo-luciano-in-havana/): A headquarters memorandum reports that Luciano has been identified in Havana, where 'he is allegedly backing gambling at the local race track and National Casino,' that he 'reportedly secured a Cuban visa through Dr. Indalecio Pertierra, Cuban Congressman,' and that the Cuban Secret Police were questioning him that day.
- [FBI report of Special Agent Leo J. Fox, Havana, 12 February 1947: Luciano's entry into Cuba, the Pertierra visa, and the gambling at the Gran Casino Nacional and Oriental Park](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-02-12-fox-report-havana/): The Havana office's first full report states that Luciano arrived at Camaguey by airplane on 29 October 1946 as Salvatore Lucania, that his visa was backed by a Cuban senator's letter, that Congressman Indalecio Pertierra 'reportedly controls the gambling at the Jockey Club at Oriental Park and at the Gran Casino Nacional,' and that Luciano frequented both.
- [FBI memorandum, A. Rosen to E. A. Tamm, 14 February 1947: who helped Luciano enter Cuba, and his reported gambling associates in Havana](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-02-14-rosen-memo-capestany-lansky/): Summarizing the Legal Attache's radiograms, headquarters records that Luciano had help from Congressman Pertierra and Senator Manuel Capestany, that he 'is managing gambling concessions at the Jockey Club and National Casino for Pertierra,' and that he was associated with Charles Simms, Conrad Immerman, Victor Vesta and Meyer Lansky.
- [Legal Attache James P. McMahon, Havana, to the Director, 25 February 1947, with a headquarters memorandum of 3 March: how FBI agents identified Luciano at Oriental Park](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-02-25-legat-letter-how-identified/): Written 'In view of the widespread publicity,' the Legal Attache's letter says informants reported Luciano at the Oriental Park race track in late January 1947, 'using an assumed name,' and that on 8 February a contact pointed him out to McMahon, who recognized him from Bureau photographs; Agent Leo J. Fox arrived with two Cuban Secret Police officers and confirmed the identification.
- [FBI radiogram from Havana, 25 February 1947: the Narcotics Bureau's decision 'cutting off Cuban supply of narcotics until subject expelled,' and Luciano's arrest](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-02-25-radiogram-narcotics-bureau/): A decoded radiogram reports that the United States Narcotic Bureau's decision 'cutting off Cuban supply of narcotics until subject expelled from Cuba rated headlines practically all local newspapers,' that Luciano was arrested and confined at the Cuban immigration center, and that 'THIS OFFICE HAS NO CONCRETE INFORMATION THAT SUBJECT ENGAGING IN ILLEGAL NARCOTIC TRAFFIC HERE.'
- [FBI memorandum, J. Ryan to Mr. Rosen, 18 March 1947: Luciano, interviewed at the Cuban Immigration Center, names 'Major Gurfeil' and Commander Haffenden](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-03-18-tiscornia-interview-gurfein-haffenden/): Headquarters records that the Treasury representative in Havana interviewed Luciano at the Cuban Immigration Center, where Luciano said a former prosecutor helped arrange his parole; on reinterview the representative recalled the name as 'Major Gurfeil,' believed to be Murray I. Gurfein, and said Luciano named Commander Haffenden of Naval Intelligence.
- [FBI report of Special Agent Leo J. Fox, Havana, 22 March 1947: Luciano's arrest and deportation, and the visits by Lansky, Siegel and Costello](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1947-03-22-fox-report-arrest-deportation/): The closing report on Luciano in Cuba: arrested in Havana on 22 February 1947 and deported to Italy on 20 March 1947; 'No evidence developed indicating LUCIANO engaged in narcotic trafficking or other illegal activities in Cuba'; and 'LUCIANO admitted that MEYER LANSKY, BENJAMIN SIEGEL and FRANK COSTELLO had visited him in Cuba,' with Lansky's three Hotel Nacional registrations.
- [Legal Attache, Havana, to the Director, 20 November 1952: no trace of Luciano in Havana; Lansky's reported share of the Montmartre and bid for Oriental Park](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1952-11-20-legat-montmartre-lansky/): Answering a report that Luciano had flown from Havana to Philadelphia, the Havana office found nothing in airline lists. It relayed informants' reports that Meyer Lansky had bought a share of the Montmartre night club from Pertierra and was trying to secure the Oriental Park concession, with 'his brother JAKE LANSKY' in Havana 'looking after his interests.'
- [Legal Attache, Havana, to the Director, 19 January 1953: no sign of Luciano in Havana; the Sans Souci's gambling concession 'held by American gambling interests'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-1953-01-19-legat-sans-souci/): The Havana office reports a Christmas card from Luciano postmarked Naples and an INS inquiry that found no indication he had been in Havana recently. The INS officer had spoken with a man employed at the Sans Souci night club, 'the gambling concession for which is held by American gambling interests.'
- [FBI New York teletypes on Luciano's custody and departure (February 25 to 27, 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-departure-teletypes-1946/): Urgent teletypes from the FBI's New York office to the Director, February 1946: Luciano's 1936 conviction, Governor Dewey's grant of parole on January 3, 1946 on condition of release to immigration custody, his removal to Ellis Island, and the immigration service's account of his boarding the SS Laura Keene on February 8, 1946.
- [FBI memorandum on "Charles Luciana, with aliases" (August 28, 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-luciano-p01-memorandum-1935-08-28/): A copy of a Bureau memorandum of August 28, 1935, at the start of the FBI's Luciano file: what the Bureau's files held on him, a reporter's July 1935 account of contacts in which Luciano was said to offer help finding the fugitive Karpis, and his arrest record from 1921 to 1931.
- [FBI Vault: "Mafia" monograph, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-mafia-monograph-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's internal monograph on the Mafia, opening with the Sicilian background of the word and the organization. The text layer is heavily garbled and the date comes from the Vault listing.
- [FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 01: visits to Sicily "viewed with interest" before the Apalachin meeting](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-mafia-monograph-pt01-scan22-bonanno-galante-sicily/): Summary page of an FBI monograph on the Mafia saying that the visits of Giuseppe Bonanno and Carmine Galante to Palermo shortly before the 14 November 1957 Apalachin gathering "are viewed with interest." The monograph is undated in the pages examined.
- [FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 03: "The largest meeting of Mafiosi known to date," Apalachin, "at least 61"](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-mafia-monograph-pt03-scan16-largest-meeting/): Summary page of an FBI monograph on the Mafia stating that the largest meeting known to date occurred at Apalachin in November 1957 with "at least 61" in attendance, and that the first important conference was in Cleveland in 1928. The monograph is undated in the pages examined.
- [FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 04: the 1928 Cleveland meeting and the 1957 Apalachin meeting compared](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-mafia-monograph-pt04-scan34-cleveland-1928-parallels/): Page of an FBI monograph whose first legible line names Joseph Magliocco among those present at the 1957 Apalachin meeting (the sentence begins on the preceding page) and which begins a list of "parallels" with the 1928 Cleveland meeting. The monograph is undated in the pages examined.
- [FBI "Mafia" monograph, Part 04: reported earlier meetings and the October 1956 traffic stop near Barbara's home](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-mafia-monograph-pt04-scan38-earlier-meetings-1956-stop/): Page of an FBI monograph listing reported closed meetings in the 1950s and stating that in October 1956 a New York State trooper stopped a car with New Jersey plates for speeding near Joseph Barbara's home, the driver being identified as Carmine Galante.
- [FBI Vault: Meyer Lansky, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-meyer-lansky-p01/): Serials from the early 1950s, including a Justice Department release of December 19, 1952 announcing that Attorney General McGranery had directed a petition to cancel Lansky's naturalization.
- [FBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 01: Bureau of Investigation memorandum of July 19, 1932](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-moran-p01-antioch-memorandum-1932/): The first part of the FBI's Moran file. Its legible core is a two-page memorandum reporting that on June 12, 1932 two men approached agents near Antioch, Illinois, one of them drawing a gun, and that agents later identified the two from Chicago police photographs as George "Bugs" Moran and a second man whose name is redacted.
- [FBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 02: memorandum for the Attorney General, January 8, 1946](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-moran-p02-attorney-general-memorandum-1946/): A two-page memorandum over J. Edgar Hoover's name telling the Attorney General that a resident of Owensboro, Kentucky named as the leader of a group of bank burglars had been "definitely identified as George "Bugs" Moran," and asking authority for a technical surveillance of his residence.
- [FBI Vault, George (Bugs) Moran, Part 03 (Final): teletype, routing slips and newspaper clippings, 1950s](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-moran-p03-clippings-1956/): The last part of the FBI's Moran file: a largely illegible teletype, Bureau routing slips, and clipped newspaper articles from the 1950s. The clippings are not quoted or reproduced here.
- [FBI Vault file on Murray Humphreys](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-murray-humphreys/): The FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Murray Humphreys, in 25 parts. Part 01 opens with a Bureau summary of his record and activities.
- [FBI Vault: Paul Castellano, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-paul-castellano-p01/): Serials mainly from 1956–1962, with later items: a 1962 report relaying an informant who named Carlo Gambino a "boss" and Castellano a "caporegima," and a 1985 teletype on Thomas Eboli's position and his killing in 1972.
- [FBI Vault: Charles Arthur (Pretty Boy) Floyd, Part 01 (Final)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-pretty-boy-floyd-part-01/): The Vault's single part for Floyd (17 viewer pages): a placard-style page with his photograph and a caption, a criminal-record summary, and a 29 May 1940 memorandum transmitting an 'Interesting Case Write-Up concerning the Kansas City Massacre Case.'
- [Detroit Bureau of Investigation letter on the deaths of Abe Axler and Eddie Fletcher (28 November 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang-p01-axler-fletcher-letter-1933/): Special Agent in Charge Wm. Larson at Detroit sends the Director Detroit Times clippings on 'the murder of two alleged members of the Detroit Purple Gang, Abe Axler and Eddie Fletcher', with their Detroit police numbers.
- [Miami office memorandum 'Detroit Purple Gang' (April 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang-p01-miami-memo-1948/): An FBI office memorandum from the Special Agent in Charge at Miami to the Identification Division lists seven men, with aliases and police numbers, said 'according to information received by the Miami Office' to be 'presently members of the notorious DETROIT PURPLE GANG'.
- [Detroit Bureau of Investigation letter sending Purple Gang photographs to New York (25 March 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang-p02-detroit-photographs-letter-1932/): A three-page Bureau of Investigation letter from Detroit, written during the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry, lists thirteen Detroit police photographs and states that all the men pictured except Joe Tocco 'are known to be ring leaders of the Purple Gang'.
- [New York Bureau of Investigation letter on the Purple Gang pictures in the Lindbergh inquiry (1 June 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang-p02-new-york-lindbergh-letter-1932/): Letter of E. J. Connelley, Special Agent in Charge at New York, enclosing for the Director 'a collective picture of the various members of the so-called Purple Gang in Detroit' and suggesting the pictures go to the New Jersey State Police.
- [Detroit Special Agent in Charge's letter on organized crime conditions in Detroit (17 June 1939)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang-p03-detroit-conditions-letter-1939/): John S. Bugas, Special Agent in Charge at Detroit, answers a Bureau request for current organized crime conditions. Under 'Gangs in Detroit' he calls Abe Bernstein 'the original head of the Purple Gang' and names his brothers Joe, Izzie and Raymond.
- [FBI Vault file on the Purple Gang (aka Sugar House Gang)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-purple-gang/): The FBI Vault's four-part release of Bureau file 62-HQ-29632 on the Detroit Purple Gang: 1932 to 1959 letters and memoranda from the Detroit, New York and Miami offices, mixed with newspaper clippings the Bureau pasted into the file.
- [FBI memorandum of 16 September 1947 on Louis Campagna (Vault, John Roselli Part 01)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p01-campagna-history-1947/): One of the personal-history memoranda the FBI prepared in September 1947, after the paroles. It lists Campagna's aliases and says he and others were found guilty in New York on 22 December 1943 of violating the Anti-Racketeering Statute, and were sentenced on 31 December 1943.
- [FBI memorandum of September 1947 on Phillip D'Andrea (Vault, John Roselli Part 01)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p01-dandrea-history-1947/): The FBI's September 1947 personal-history memorandum on Phillip D'Andrea, prepared with the others on the paroled men. Its last page records his 1931 arrest by the U.S. Marshal at Chicago for contempt of court, "during the trial of Al Capone with a revolver concealed on his person."
- [FBI memorandum of 16 September 1947 on Paul De Lucia (Vault, John Roselli Part 01)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p01-delucia-history-1947/): The FBI's September 1947 personal-history memorandum on Paul De Lucia, whose aliases include Paul Villa, Paul Viola and "Paul, the Waiter." It cites immigration files for his 1920 entry and 1928 naturalization at Chicago, and relays newspaper, police and informant reports that are claims, not findings.
- [FBI memorandum of 16 September 1947 on Charles Gioe (Vault, John Roselli Part 01)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p01-gioe-history-1947/): The FBI's September 1947 personal-history memorandum on Charles Gioe. It says he "was found guilty on jury trial for violation of the anti-racketeering statute" in New York "on December 23, 1943," a day later than the date in the companion memoranda, and was sentenced on 31 December 1943.
- [FBI Atlanta report (file Atlanta 58-62), autumn 1947: Warden Sanford on the prisoners and their 1945 transfer to Leavenworth (Vault, John Roselli Part 02)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p02-atlanta-warden-report-1947/): The Atlanta office's report for the 1947 parole inquiry. Warden Sanford said he made no parole recommendations, recalled an inmate informant's report that three of the men "had stated they had $10,000 to arrange their transfer", and said the transfer to Leavenworth was "done by bus on July 28, 1945."
- [FBI Chicago reports (file 58-194), September 1947: interviews of truck-company salesmen who wrote letters for D'Andrea's parole (Vault, John Roselli Part 03)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p03-dandrea-parole-letters-1947/): The four-page Part 03 holds Chicago interview reports of about 26 September 1947. Sales officials of the Mack Truck Company and the International Harvester Company said they had written letters urging Phillip D'Andrea's parole after dealings over trucks, and said no money, threats or pressure were used.
- [FBI Kansas City report (file KC 58-75), 1947: how the 13 August 1947 Leavenworth releases were arranged (Vault, John Roselli Part 06)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-roselli-p06-kc-leavenworth-release-1947/): A Kansas City report on Leavenworth parole procedure, written for the 1947 parole inquiry. It records that, with three releases to be approved by the Chicago probation office, the warden had the Chicago probation officer telephoned "in order to try to meet the release date of August 13, 1947."
- [FBI Las Vegas airtel on Frank Rosenthal's position at the Argent Corporation (27 January 1975)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-rosenthal-p01-argent-airtel-1975-01-27/): An FBI Las Vegas airtel of January 27, 1975 stating that Frank Rosenthal was made Executive Consultant to the Chairman of the Board of the Argent Corporation on October 22, 1974 and oversaw the casino operations of the Hacienda, Stardust and Fremont hotels.
- [FBI Las Vegas teletype on the explosion of Frank Rosenthal's car (14 October 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-rosenthal-p02-attempted-murder-teletype-1982-10-14/): An FBI Las Vegas teletype of October 14, 1982 on the attempted murder of Frank Rosenthal on October 4, 1982, describing a bomb that exploded in his car and calling him a close associate of Anthony Spilotro.
- [FBI Vault, Francis Salemme, Part 01: Boston surveillance reports, 1989 to 1994](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-salemme-p01-boston-reports-1989-1994/): First part of the FBI's released file on Francis P. Salemme: 100 pages of Boston Division FD-302 reports, most of them 1989 physical surveillance, with later reports that appear to date from 1993 and 1994. Heavily redacted; read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI Vault, Francis Salemme, Part 02 (Final): surveillance reports, February to August 1989](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-salemme-p02-surveillance-1989/): Second and final part of the FBI's released Salemme file: 96 pages, nearly all FD-302 physical-surveillance reports of 1989 from a Boston file. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI Vault: Salvatore Maranzano (Final), with a 1931 Bureau of Investigation report](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-salvatore-maranzano-final/): An 18-page FBI file whose main serial is a Bureau of Investigation report made at New York on 10/9/31 about immigration papers found in the office suite at 230 Park Avenue where Maranzano was killed.
- [FBI Vault, Nicodemo Scarfo, Part 01: Newark RICO case file, 1981 to 1985](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-scarfo-p01-newark-rico-file-1981/): First part of the FBI's released Scarfo file, 252 pages, mostly 1981: a memorandum recommending a new RICO case, Newark teletypes on his firearms conviction, Atlantic City surveillance reports, and 1985 intercept logs. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI Vault, Nicodemo Scarfo, Part 02 (Final): Newark RICO case file, 1981 to 1982](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-scarfo-p02-newark-rico-file-1982/): Second and final part of the FBI's released Scarfo file, 323 pages: a December 1981 Justice Department memorandum on closed-circuit television authority, Newark airtels, and 1982 surveillance logs of Atlantic City and shore towns. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI memorandum for the Director: "Dutch Schultz inquiries" (November 14, 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-schultz-p03-inquiries-memo-1935-11-14/): A one-page memorandum of November 14, 1935, signed by E. A. Tamm, telling the New York office that inquiries into leads in the Schultz matter "should be held in abeyance" until a named agent could take charge. The page is stored here.
- [FBI memorandum for the Director: "Dutch" Schultz (October 25, 1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-schultz-p03-whitley-memo-1935-10-25/): A one-page memorandum of October 25, 1935, signed by E. A. Tamm, recording the New York Special Agent in Charge's theory about the shooting of Dutch Schultz. It is the Bureau's record of an opinion, and it names no suspect. The page is stored here.
- [FBI memorandum: information on "the murder of Dutch Schultz in Newark" (April 25, 1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-schultz-p05-not-investigating-memo-1940-04-25/): A heavily redacted memorandum of April 25, 1940 from G. F. Bickley to E. A. Tamm recording a caller's information about the Newark killing of Dutch Schultz, and stating that "primarily the Bureau was not investigating this case." The page is stored here.
- [FBI memorandum on a "stop order" against Siegel over the Flamingo Hotel (8 August 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p01-flamingo-stop-order-1946/): An FBI office memorandum of August 8, 1946 recording the Los Angeles Division's report that the Civilian Production Administration had issued a "stop order" against Benjamin Siegel and his associates over construction of the Flamingo Hotel at Las Vegas.
- [FBI memorandum on the Civilian Production Administration hearing over the Flamingo Hotel (20 August 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p02-cpa-hearing-memo-1946-08-20/): An FBI office memorandum of August 20, 1946 reporting that a hearing was held at San Francisco on August 13 on the Civilian Production Administration "stop order" over construction of the Flamingo Hotel, and that the hearing officer decided in favor of the respondents.
- [FBI memorandum on pulling the technical surveillances at Las Vegas (23 August 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p02-technicals-pulled-1946-08-23/): An FBI office memorandum of August 23, 1946 recording that all "technicals" in the Siegel case at Las Vegas were pulled on the evening of August 22 after trouble on the long-distance line at the Las Vegas Club.
- [FBI Los Angeles report with informant accounts of Siegel, Sedway and Greenbaum (1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p03-los-angeles-report-1946/): Pages of an FBI Los Angeles report (file L.A. 62-2837) recording informant statements about Benjamin Siegel and the Las Vegas race-wire service in 1946. The statements are informant allegations recorded by the Bureau, not findings.
- [FBI memorandum on a Justice Department request about the Flamingo Hotel (15 October 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p10-justice-department-request-1946-10-15/): An FBI office memorandum of October 15, 1946 recording a call from the Justice Department's Criminal Division: Civilian Production Administration officials were weighing civil or criminal action against the Flamingo Hotel and asked for any information the FBI held.
- [FBI memorandum recommending reinstallation of a technical surveillance on Siegel and Virginia Hill (18 November 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p13-hill-technical-memo-1946-11-18/): An FBI office memorandum from A. Rosen to E. A. Tamm reporting that Benjamin Siegel and Virginia Hill were establishing permanent residence at the Last Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, and recommending that "the technical on Siegel and Virginia Hill be reinstalled."
- [FBI summary memorandum finding no evidence of violations within the Bureau's jurisdiction (14 January 1947)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p15-summary-memo-1947-01-14/): An FBI office memorandum of January 14, 1947 stating that the Siegel investigation had failed to disclose violations of federal laws within the Bureau's primary jurisdiction and recommending that the investigation be discontinued, with a concurrence of January 16 from Edw. A. Tamm.
- [FBI memorandum summarizing the articles of incorporation of the Nevada Project Corporation (9 August 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p18-nevada-project-corporation-articles-1946/): An FBI office memorandum of August 9, 1946 summarizing a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of the Nevada Project Corporation, "owners of the Flamingo Hotel," filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on July 26, 1946.
- [FBI Los Angeles surveillance memo on Siegel and Virginia Hill, 10-11 September 1946 (12 September 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p19-hill-surveillance-memo-1946-09-12/): A Los Angeles field-office memo to the Special Agent in Charge logging a physical surveillance of Benjamin Siegel, Virginia Hill and others on September 10 and 11, 1946, around Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Drive.
- [FBI memorandum on Virginia Hill's age and background after Siegel's death (23 June 1947)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p28-hill-background-memo-1947-06-23/): A one-page FBI memorandum to Mr. Rosen written three days after Benjamin Siegel was shot. It says Virginia Hill "is 29 years of age," cites an affidavit filed with the New York State Liquor Authority in which she gave her birth as Bessemer, Alabama, August 25, 1917, and calls her Siegel's "paramour."
- [FBI Los Angeles letter to the Director on the killing of Benjamin Siegel (1 July 1947)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-siegel-p30-los-angeles-letter-killing-1947-07-01/): A Los Angeles Division airmail letter of July 1, 1947 to the FBI Director summarizing what the office had learned about the shooting of Benjamin Siegel on June 20, 1947 at 810 North Linden Drive, Beverly Hills, with the press theories of motive.
- [FBI Los Angeles reports of 1963 on Joseph Stacher and the Sands Hotel](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-stacher-p01-los-angeles-reports-1963/): FBI Los Angeles reports of 1963 on Joseph Stacher (Los Angeles file 92-386), including the Las Vegas Office's statement that the owner of record of 6.87 percent of the Sands Hotel "now appears to be a front for Joseph Stacher and the Gerardo Catena group."
- [FBI Vault: Thomas Lucchese, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-thomas-lucchese-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's Lucchese file, 1946–1962. The deleted-page sheet lists 240 pages withheld. The readable serials concern 1940s and 1950s investigations; nothing is taken from them here.
- [FBI Vault, Joseph Todaro, Part 01: Buffalo RICO file 183A-763 (1981-1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-todaro-p01-buffalo-rico-file-1981/): Part 01 of the FBI Vault's "Joseph Todaro" file: a Buffalo field-office RICO investigation file with surveillance logs of Joseph Todaro, Sr., from September and October 1981 and a January 1982 memorandum on "OC figures" in the vending-machine business.
- [FBI Miami memorandum on Santos Trafficante, Jr.: Top Hoodlum Coverage (30 September 1953)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1953-09-30-top-hoodlum-memo/): A Miami office memorandum to the Director transmits a background memorandum on Santos Trafficante, Jr., with birth data for him and his father and informant and newspaper allegations that the family headed an 'Italian Syndicate' in Tampa.
- [FBI Miami memorandum on Santo Trafficante, Jr., 30 September 1955: frequent trips to Havana, the Sans Souci and the Sevilla Biltmore](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1955-09-30-havana-sevilla-biltmore/): A semi-annual 'Top Hoodlum' memorandum states that 'In recent months SANTO TRAFFICANTE, JR. has been making frequent trips to Havana, Cuba, where he is closely associated with NORMAN ROTHMAN,' and that in Cuba he 'hangs out around the Sans Souci Night Club outside of Havana, and at the Sevilla Biltmore Hotel.'
- [FBI Miami memorandum on Santo Trafficante, Jr., 28 September 1956: 'Subject still active in gambling casino at the Sans Souci Hotel outside of Havana, Cuba'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1956-09-28-sans-souci-casino/): The next semi-annual memorandum reports under criminal activities that the subject is 'still active in gambling casino at the Sans Souci Hotel outside of Havana, Cuba,' and that a Miami informant said the same on 3 August 1956.
- [FBI Miami memorandum on Santo Trafficante, Jr.: the federal gambling-tax case and Havana's Sans Souci casino (29 March 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1957-03-29-havana-sans-souci/): A supplementary FBI memorandum on Miami-division 'top hoodlums' reports the Trafficante brothers' gambling-tax charge and new trials, and that the Legal Attache at Havana advised on 20 December 1956 that the Sans Souci Night Club and casino was operated by Trafficante.
- [FBI summary on Santo Trafficante, Jr., and the Miami airtel of 29 July 1957 giving its sources: 'owns and operates the Sans Souci Night Club and Casino in Havana'](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1957-07-summary-sans-souci-owner/): A mid-1957 Top Hoodlum summary states that in December 1956 'information was developed that subject' owns and operates the Sans Souci Night Club and Casino in Havana; Miami's reply to headquarters names the sources for that line as information of 3 August 1956 and the Legal Attache in Havana on 20 December 1956.
- [FBI Miami file 92-88, November 1967: a source's report on Trafficante and the Tropicana Casino in Havana](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1967-11-tropicana-source-report/): A paragraph in the Miami field-office file relays a November 1967 Newark Office communication in which a confidential source says Trafficante had 'a large interest in the Tropicana Casino' in Havana and was considered one of the 'big bosses' there. The source is redacted.
- [FBI memorandum, J. H. Gale to Mr. DeLoach: Santo Trafficante, Jr., called 'boss' of La Cosa Nostra in Florida (21 March 1968)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p01-1968-03-21-gale-deloach/): A headquarters memorandum on a source's information about political arrangements said to have been offered for permission to operate gambling in Florida counties describes Santo Trafficante, Jr. as 'boss' of La Cosa Nostra in Florida and records that a Departmental Attorney was seeking a federal grand jury.
- [FBI Correlation Summary on Santo Trafficante, Jr. (searched 4 March 1971): the January 1959 exodus, the Sans Souci's closing, and detention at Tiscornia](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p04-correlation-summary-1959-detention/): The 1959 entries of the same digest: the Legal Attache reported on 15 January 1959 'an exodus of gamblers and top hoodlums from Havana,' with Trafficante among those who stayed to see if they could 'deal' with the new government; on 21 May that the Sans Souci had closed 'because of financial problems'; and later that Trafficante was confined at the immigration detention house 'Tiscornia.'
- [FBI Correlation Summary on Santo Trafficante, Jr. (main file 92-2781, searched 4 March 1971): Havana entries for 1955-1958](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trafficante-p04-correlation-summary-havana-1955-1958/): A 1971 headquarters digest of Bureau references, marked 'NOT SUITABLE FOR DISSEMINATION,' records Legal Attache and informant reports placing Trafficante at the Sevilla Biltmore, the Sans Souci, the Hotel Nacional, the Capri and the Havana-Riviera, nearly all with 'reportedly,' 'allegedly' or 'appeared.'
- [FBI Vault, Dominick Trinchera file, viewer p. 123 (March 9, 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trinchera-p123-closing-1982/): A Newark memorandum recommending that the Trinchera file be closed: "NY investigation reveals subject Trinchera was murdered along with Alphonse 'Sonny Red' Indelicato and Phil 'Lucky' Giacone on 5/5/81." It doubts the two missing bodies will ever be recovered.
- [FBI Vault, Dominick Trinchera file, viewer p. 126 (June 26, 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trinchera-p126-surveillance-1980/): An FBI report of a surveillance on June 26, 1980 at Grand and Elizabeth Streets, Manhattan. Agents saw Joseph "J.B." Indelicato talking with Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera; the two then entered "Indelicato's Social Club on Elizabeth Street between Grand and Hester (exact address unknown)."
- [FBI Vault, Dominick Trinchera file, viewer pp. 102-103 (February 27, 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trinchera-pp102-103-meeting-1981/): A Brooklyn-Queens memorandum headed "Bonanno LCN Family" reporting a confidential source's account of a meeting on February 23, 1981. It lists those present with an FBI label for each, among them Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera as "Capo."
- [FBI Vault, Dominick Trinchera file, viewer pp. 3-6 (February 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-trinchera-pp3-6-preliminary-investigation-1981/): A Newark memorandum of February 11, 1981 authorizing a preliminary racketeering-enterprise investigation of Dominick Trinchera, citing "Trinchera's position as Capo, Bonanno Family," and a background memorandum in which New York sources report he "has been made the Bronx, NY Bonanno Family Captain."
- [FBI Vault: Vito Genovese, Part 01](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-vault-vito-genovese-p01/): Part 01 of the FBI's Genovese file, mostly 1957–1959 serials from the Top Hoodlum period. The deleted-page sheet lists 119 pages withheld. The OCR is fragmentary.
- [FBI wanted poster for Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter, 8 November 1937](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-wanted-flyer-buchalter-shapiro-1937/): FBI wanted poster for Jacob Shapiro and Louis Buchalter dated November 8, 1937, carrying their photographs. A copy is stored here.
- [James "Whitey" Bulger (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-whitey-bulger/): FBI image of James "Whitey" Bulger from the FBI's Boston field-office history, captioned with his arrest on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. A copy is stored here.
- [FBI, "Italian Organized Crime – Overview" (archived www2.fbi.gov page)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-www2-italian-organized-crime-overview/): An older FBI web overview, still served on the www2.fbi.gov archive host. It says the murder of "faction leader Joseph Masseria brought an end to the gang warfare," that Maranzano, "the first leader of La Cosa Nostra, was murdered within six months," and that Luciano "set up the 'Commission.'" An agency narrative, not a record of the events.
- [Roosevelt's message to Congress on the Volstead Act (13 March 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fdr-122178466-message-volstead-act-1933/): Franklin D. Roosevelt Library one-page confidential message to Congress recommending immediate modification of the Volstead Act to legalize beer and other beverages of a permissible alcoholic content and to raise revenue through taxes.
- [Proclamation No. 2065, repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (draft text, 5 December 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/fdr-122179508-proclamation-2065-repeal/): Franklin D. Roosevelt Library typescript draft of Proclamation 2065 (Speech File 668), headed "Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment", reciting the joint resolution proposing the amendment and its Section 1.
- [Mr. Blaine to Governor Nicholls, telegram, 21 October 1890 (FRUS 1891, Document 602)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d602-blaine-nicholls-1890-10-21/): Secretary of State Blaine relays to the Louisiana governor the Italian minister's report that the New Orleans mayor had caused the arrest of innocent persons and issued proclamations tending to excite the Italian colony, and that the great body of Italians wanted the law to 'punish the murderers of the chief of police.'
- [List of those who were registered as voters, Supervisor of Registration, Parish of Orleans, 15-16 December 1890 (FRUS 1891, Document 613)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d613-registered-voters-1890-12-15/): A certified abstract of voter-registration records for ten of the Italians charged in the Hennessy case, plus a separate certificate for Salvador Coscenso, sent to Washington by the U.S. Attorney. It gives each man's registration number, precinct and, where stated, naturalization or declaration of intention.
- [List of those whose status is unknown, U.S. Attorney William Grant, New Orleans, 17 December 1890 (FRUS 1891, Document 614)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d614-status-unknown-1890-12-17/): U.S. Attorney William Grant's list of nine Italian-born men 'in custody, charged with the murder of Chief D. C. Hennessy' who do not appear from any record to have been naturalized, with their ages; the companion to the registered-voters list.
- [Consul Corte to Baron Fava, telegram, New Orleans, 14 March 1891 (FRUS 1891, Document 615)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d615-corte-fava-1891-03-14/): A short telegram, in translation, from the Italian consul at New Orleans to the Italian minister at Washington on the day of the killings: a mob led by members of the 'committee of fifty' took the jail and killed eleven prisoners, three of them Italians and the others naturalized.
- [Mr. Blaine to Governor Nicholls, telegram, 15 March 1891 (FRUS 1891, Document 619)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d619-blaine-nicholls-1891-03-15/): Secretary of State Blaine's telegram to the Louisiana governor the day after the killings: three or more of the victims were subjects of the King of Italy, the treaty guarantees their protection, and the President regrets that a question for the courts was transferred 'to the passionate judgment of a mob.'
- [Governor Nicholls to Mr. Blaine, telegram, New Orleans, 16 March 1891 (FRUS 1891, Document 623)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d623-nicholls-blaine-1891-03-16/): Governor Nicholls's reply to Blaine's telegram of 15 March: everything is now quiet, he anticipates no further trouble, and 'the recent action was directed against particular individuals; their race or nationality was not a factor in the disturbance.'
- [Correspondence in relation to the killing of prisoners in New Orleans, 14 March 1891 (FRUS 1891, Documents 602-662)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-italy-new-orleans-correspondence-index/): The chapter heading and document list for the State Department's printed correspondence with Italy about the Hennessy case and the 14 March 1891 killings, from Secretary of State Blaine's telegram of 21 October 1890 through the March 1891 exchanges.
- [President Harrison's annual message, 9 December 1891 (paragraphs on the March 1891 New Orleans killings)](https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-president-message-1891-12-09/): The President's message to Congress, printed at the head of the 1891 Foreign Relations volume, calls the March lynching at New Orleans of eleven men of Italian nativity 'a most deplorable and discreditable incident' and says the federal government had no power under existing law to intervene.
- [Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1236](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-controlled-substances-act-1970/): The Act of October 27, 1970 whose Title II is the Controlled Substances Act. Section 408 defines a "continuing criminal enterprise": a series of felony violations undertaken with five or more others whom the offender organizes, supervises or manages, and from which he obtains substantial income.
- [Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (Prohibition), as printed in H. Doc. 110-50](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-h-doc-110-50-eighteenth-amendment/): The text of the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, with the House Document's note that ratification was completed on January 16, 1919. It was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment.
- [Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution (repeal of Prohibition), as printed in H. Doc. 110-50](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-h-doc-110-50-twenty-first-amendment/): The text of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth and barred importing liquor into a State in violation of its laws, with the House Document's note that it was declared ratified on December 5, 1933.
- [H. Rept. 81-3111, Transportation of Gambling Devices: conference report on S. 3357 (19 September 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-h-rept-81-3111-gambling-devices-1950/): The House-Senate conference report on the bill that became the Johnson Act of 2 January 1951: the Senate accepted all eight House amendments, among them a narrower definition of "gambling device" and a way for a State to exempt itself.
- [Narcotic Control Act of 1956, Public Law 728, ch. 629, 70 Stat. 567, approved 18 July 1956](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-narcotic-control-act-1956/): The statute that set mandatory prison terms for narcotics sales and conspiracies, from five to twenty years for a first sale offense, and gave Bureau of Narcotics agents added enforcement authority.
- [National Firearms Act, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 (Public, No. 474, 73d Congress), approved 26 June 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-national-firearms-act-1934/): The statute "to provide for the taxation of manufacturers, importers, and dealers in certain firearms and machine guns." It defines "firearm" and "machine gun," sets occupational taxes of $500, $200 and $300, and a transfer tax of $200 for each firearm.
- [Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1968, 82 Stat. 1367](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-reorganization-plan-1-1968-bndd/): The President's plan, effective April 8, 1968, that moved the functions of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics to the Attorney General, created the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the Department of Justice, and abolished the Bureau of Narcotics and the office of Commissioner of Narcotics.
- [Act of 18 June 1934, ch. 595, 48 Stat. 1008: Division of Investigation agents empowered to make arrests and carry firearms](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-stat-48-1008-division-arrest-powers-1934/): The June 1934 act empowering the Director, agents and inspectors of the Division of Investigation to serve warrants, make seizures, make arrests without warrant for federal felonies in stated circumstances, and "carry firearms."
- [Act of 18 May 1934, ch. 299, 48 Stat. 780: punishment for killing or assaulting federal officers](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-stat-48-780-killing-federal-officers-1934/): The first of the May 1934 federal crime laws: "An Act to provide punishment for killing or assaulting Federal officers." The National Archives ties John Paul Chase's conviction for the killing at Barrington to this act.
- [48 Stat. 781: Acts of 18 May 1934 on extortion threats (ch. 300) and amending the federal kidnaping act (ch. 301)](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-stat-48-781-kidnaping-extortion-1934/): Statutes at Large page 781: the end of chapter 299, chapter 300 making it a federal crime to send ransom or extortion threats in interstate commerce, and the start of chapter 301 amending the Act of 22 June 1932 on interstate kidnaping.
- [Act of 18 May 1934, ch. 304, 48 Stat. 783: the federal bank robbery act](https://mobfiles.org/items/govinfo-stat-48-783-bank-robbery-1934/): The May 1934 act making robbery of a national bank or a Federal Reserve member bank a federal crime, with higher penalties for assault, use of a dangerous weapon, and killing or kidnaping in the course of the robbery.
- [Investigation of Racketeering in the Detroit Area: House joint subcommittee report (1954)](https://mobfiles.org/items/house-1954-detroit-racketeering-report/): Report of two House special subcommittees on their June 1953 hearings in Detroit. It found that Teamsters Local 985 used picketing and threats to build a monopoly in jukebox and vending locations, and that James R. Hoffa refused three questions.
- [DEA/FBI Reorganization: Hearing before the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, 30 March 1982](https://mobfiles.org/items/house-1982-dea-fbi-reorganization-hearing/): House hearing on the 1982 decision giving the FBI concurrent jurisdiction over drug offenses. The FBI Director and the DEA's Acting Administrator testify that the FBI will focus on drug cases involving "traditional organized crime."
- [Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI's Use of Murderers as Informants, H. Rept. 108-414, vol. 1 (2004)](https://mobfiles.org/items/hrpt-108-414-everything-secret-degenerates-2004/): Report of the House Committee on Government Reform on the FBI's use of Joseph Barboza, the Flemmi brothers and James Bulger as informants in Boston, with a long chronology. It quotes a 1967 Justice Department memorandum on the microphone at Raymond Patriarca's Providence office.
- [House Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), pp. 151-152: Lewis McWillie and the Tropicana casino in Havana](https://mobfiles.org/items/hsca-1979-mcwillie-havana-tropicana/): The committee reports that Jack Ruby's friend Lewis McWillie worked in Havana casinos from 1958 to 1960, names the Tropicana as 'the casino for which he worked,' and says his files indicate ties to Meyer Lansky and Santos Trafficante.
- [House Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), p. 114: organized crime and 'the old Havana territory'](https://mobfiles.org/items/hsca-1979-old-havana-territory-p114/): The committee found that organized crime 'probably was active in attempts to assassinate Castro, independent of any activity it engaged in with the CIA,' and that by 1962-63 Soviet influence 'had rendered the prospect of regaining the old Havana territory less likely.'
- [House Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), pp. 172-175: the committee's findings on Santos Trafficante](https://mobfiles.org/items/hsca-1979-trafficante-finding/): The committee calls Santos Trafficante 'the La Cosa Nostra leader in Florida' and finds he had 'the motive, means, and opportunity' to assassinate President Kennedy, but concludes it is unlikely he plotted to do so.
- [House Select Committee on Assassinations report (1979), pp. 153-154: Trafficante detained at Trescornia, Cuba, June to August 1959](https://mobfiles.org/items/hsca-1979-trafficante-trescornia-1959/): The committee states that Trafficante and others controlling gambling interests in Cuba were detained on 6 June 1959 and held at Trescornia; Cuban documents show his release on 18 August 1959. He said in testimony he did not remember Jack Ruby visiting him there.
- [Revenue agents' report in re Alphonse Capone, 7244 Prairie Avenue (8 July 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-file-1-revenue-agents-report-1931/): Confidential report of Internal Revenue Agents Hodgins, Westrich and Clagett to the Agent in Charge at Chicago, setting out the basis for the tax determined against Capone, with income and tax worksheets.
- [Special Agent Frank J. Wilson's summary report on Alphonse Capone, SI-7085-F (21 December 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-file-2-wilson-report-1933/): Sixty-page report by Special Agent Frank J. Wilson to the Chief of the Intelligence Unit on case SI-7085-F, the evasion of income taxes by Alphonse Capone for 1924–1929, from referral to sentence.
- [Letter from Special Agent Frank J. Wilson to Chief Irey (27 March 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-file-3-wilson-letter-1931-03-27/): Status letter from Special Agent Frank J. Wilson at Chicago to the Chief of the Intelligence Unit reporting that 'the Capone investigation is going steadily ahead.'
- [Letter from Special Agent Frank J. Wilson to the Chief, Intelligence Unit (8 April 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-file-4-wilson-letter-1931-04-08/): One-page report from Special Agent Frank J. Wilson on the agents' new Chicago office and a conference with the First Assistant U.S. Attorney about a possible conspiracy indictment.
- [Intelligence Unit narrative, 1919–1936: excerpt on Al Capone](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-file-5-intelligence-unit-narrative/): Seven-page excerpt from the Bureau of Internal Revenue Intelligence Unit's narrative history of 1919 to 1936, covering the Capone income-tax case and its aftermath.
- [IRS: Historical Documents relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-capone-historical-documents/): The Internal Revenue Service's Freedom of Information Act page publishing five documents from the Intelligence Unit's investigation of Alphonse Capone, released because he never filed a tax return.
- [IRS Congressional Update: 100th anniversary of IRS Criminal Investigation (2019)](https://mobfiles.org/items/irs-congressional-update-ci-100th-anniversary/): A short IRS item saying the Intelligence Unit was created in 1919 to combat corruption in the U.S. tax system, that Elmer Irey chaired it from 1919 to 1946, and that tax violations brought down figures including Al Capone.
- [Senate Report 121: proceedings against Pete Licavoli (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-121-pete-licavoli/): Senate Report No. 121, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Pete Licavoli, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 79 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 122: proceedings against Russell Trilck (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-122-trilck/): Senate Report No. 122, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Russell Trilck, who failed to appear. The report accompanies S. Res. 80.
- [Senate Report 123: proceedings against John J. Fogarty (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-123-fogarty/): Senate Report No. 123, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against John J. Fogarty, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 81 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 125: proceedings against Anthony Marcello (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-125-anthony-marcello/): Senate Report No. 125, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Anthony Marcello, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 83 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 126: proceedings against Mike Rubino (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-126-rubino/): Senate Report No. 126, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Mike Rubino, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 84 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 127: proceedings against Joseph A. Porretto (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-127-porretto/): Senate Report No. 127, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph A. Porretto, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 85 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 198: proceedings against Jacob Guzik (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-198-guzik/): Senate Report No. 198, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Jacob Guzik, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 109 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 200: proceedings against Frank Erickson (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-200-erickson/): Senate Report No. 200, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Frank Erickson, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 111 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 201: proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-201-doto-adonis-2/): Senate Report No. 201, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 112 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 202: proceedings against Stanley Cohen (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-202-stanley-cohen/): Senate Report No. 202, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Stanley Cohen, who refused to answer questions and to produce books and records. The report accompanies S. Res. 113 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 203: proceedings against John Doyle (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-203-doyle/): Senate Report No. 203, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against John Doyle, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 114 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 204: proceedings against George L. Bowers (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-204-bowers/): Senate Report No. 204, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against George L. Bowers, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 115 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 205: proceedings against William G. O'Brien (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-205-obrien/): Senate Report No. 205, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against William G. O'Brien, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 116 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 206: proceedings against Ralph J. O'Hara (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-206-ohara/): Senate Report No. 206, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Ralph J. O'Hara, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 117 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 207: proceedings against John Croft (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-207-croft/): Senate Report No. 207, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against John Croft, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 118 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 208: proceedings against Morris Kleinman (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-208-kleinman/): Senate Report No. 208, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Morris Kleinman, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 119 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 209: proceedings against Louis Rothkopf (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-209-rothkopf/): Senate Report No. 209, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Louis Rothkopf, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 120 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 25: proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-25-doto-adonis/): Senate Report No. 25, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 43 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 26: proceedings against Anthony J. Accardo (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-26-accardo/): Senate Report No. 26, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Anthony J. Accardo, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 44 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 27: proceedings against James Lynch (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-27-lynch/): Senate Report No. 27, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against James Lynch, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 45 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 28: proceedings against Arthur Longano (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-28-longano/): Senate Report No. 28, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Arthur Longano, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 46 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 29: proceedings against Salvatore Moretti (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-29-salvatore-moretti/): Senate Report No. 29, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Salvatore Moretti, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 47 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 30: proceedings against Walter M. Pechart (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-30-pechart/): Senate Report No. 30, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Walter M. Pechart, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 48 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 31: proceedings against Pat Manno (alias Patrick J. Manning) (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-31-manno/): Senate Report No. 31, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Pat Manno (alias Patrick J. Manning), who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 49 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 32: proceedings against Jack Dragna (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-32-dragna/): Senate Report No. 32, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Jack Dragna, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 50 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 472: proceedings against George S. May (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-472-may/): Senate Report No. 472, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against George S. May, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 159 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 473: proceedings against Rocco Fischetti (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-473-rocco-fischetti/): Senate Report No. 473, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Rocco Fischetti, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 160 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 474: proceedings against Murray L. Humphreys (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-474-humphreys/): Senate Report No. 474, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Murray L. Humphreys, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 161 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 562: proceedings against Martin Accardo (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-562-martin-accardo/): Senate Report No. 562, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Martin Accardo, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 180 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 563: proceedings against Julius Fink (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-563-fink/): Senate Report No. 563, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Julius Fink, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 181 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 564: proceedings against Abraham Minker (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-564-abraham-minker/): Senate Report No. 564, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Abraham Minker, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 182 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 565: proceedings against Isadore Minker (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-565-isadore-minker/): Senate Report No. 565, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Isadore Minker, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 183 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 566: proceedings against Alex Fudeman (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-566-fudeman/): Senate Report No. 566, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Alex Fudeman, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 184 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 777: proceedings against Herman Orman (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-777-orman/): Senate Report No. 777, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Herman Orman, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 211 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 778: proceedings against Patrick Joseph Size (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-778-size/): Senate Report No. 778, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Patrick Joseph Size, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 212 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 779: proceedings against Joseph C. Baldassari (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-779-baldassari/): Senate Report No. 779, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph C. Baldassari, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 213 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 780: proceedings against Joseph Scalleat (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-780-scalleat/): Senate Report No. 780, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Scalleat, who refused to answer questions and to produce records. The report accompanies S. Res. 214 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 84: proceedings against Joseph Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O'Brien (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-84-aiuppa/): Senate Report No. 84, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O'Brien, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 66 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 85: proceedings against Joseph DeCarlo alias "The Wolf" alias DiCarlo (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-85-dicarlo/): Senate Report No. 85, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph DeCarlo alias "The Wolf" alias DiCarlo, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 67 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 86: proceedings against James Licavoli alias Jack White (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-86-james-licavoli/): Senate Report No. 86, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against James Licavoli alias Jack White, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 68 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 87: proceedings against Peter Tremont (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-87-tremont/): Senate Report No. 87, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Peter Tremont, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 69 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 88: proceedings against David N. Kessel (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-contempt-s-rept-82-88-kessel/): Senate Report No. 88, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against David N. Kessel, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 70 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- [Senate Report 199: proceedings against Frank Costello (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-costello-contempt-1951/): Senate Report No. 199, 82d Congress, ordering printed the Special Committee's contempt proceedings against Frank Costello after the 1951 New York hearings.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings: index to Parts 1–12 (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-hearings-index-parts-1-12-1951/): Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service name and subject index to Parts 1 through 12 of the printed Kefauver Committee hearings.
- [Senate Report 124: proceedings against Phil Kastel (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-kastel-contempt-1951/): Senate Report No. 124, 82d Congress, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Phil Kastel after its New Orleans hearings of January 25 and 26, 1951. The subpoena called for the records of the Beverly Club in Jefferson Parish, where it was served.
- [Senate Report 120: proceedings against Carlos Marcello (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-marcello-contempt-1951/): Senate Report No. 120, 82d Congress, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Carlos Marcello, who refused to answer questions at its New Orleans hearing of January 25, 1951. The hearing transcript excerpt is printed as Annex I.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Abe Allenberg, Miami Beach, identifying a photograph of Meyer Lansky (27 May 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-allenberg-testimony-1950-05-27/): A Miami Beach hotel operator is shown a photograph and answers 'That is Meyer Lansky' (Exhibit No. 51); he says he understood Lansky's interest was in the Colonial Inn or gambling places in Broward County. Pp. 97-98 of a testimony running pp. 89-125.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Walter Clark, sheriff of Broward County, on the Lansky clubs (27 May and 15 July 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-clark-testimony-1950-07-15/): Senator Kefauver asks the Broward County sheriff about Jake Lansky and the Colonial Inn and Greenacres; Clark says Lansky did not get in touch with him and that he did not know of Lansky's record or partners. Pp. 128-132 and 452-455.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Ben and Seymour Eisen, Hollywood, Florida, and Exhibits 7 and 8 (26 May 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-eisen-testimony-1950-05-26/): Two accountants who worked on the books of the Club Boheme and the Greenacres Casino in Broward County produce tax returns and ledgers; counsel reads the partners' names from a 1948 return and a folder of Jake Lansky's returns is received as Exhibit 8. Pp. 4-26.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Richard Ervin, Attorney General of Florida, on the 1949 wire-service law (Miami, 13 July 1950), pp. 177-189](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-ervin-testimony-1950-07-13/): Florida's Attorney General described the 1949 law "that banned wire service to bookmakers," the cancellation of 140 Western Union drops in south Florida, and the bookmakers' switch to long-distance telephone.
- [Kefauver Part 1, Exhibit 108: "Gambling, Broward County" chart](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-exhibit-108-broward-county-gambling-chart/): A chart furnished by Daniel P. Sullivan of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami and received on July 13, 1950, linking the Colonial Inn, Club Greenacres and Club Boheme to named men and to Dade and Palm Beach county clubs and hotels.
- [Kefauver Part 1, Exhibit 109: "Wire Service" sketch map](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-exhibit-109-wire-service-map/): A sketch map furnished by Daniel P. Sullivan on July 13, 1950, placing "The Farm," the Gulfstream race track, the Colonial Inn, Club Greenacres and Club Boheme along U.S. Highway 1, with wire and "voice broadcast" lines into Dade County.
- [Kefauver Part 1, Exhibit 110: "Hotel Operation" chart (Wofford, Grand and Sands hotels)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-exhibit-110-hotel-operation-chart/): A chart furnished by Daniel P. Sullivan on July 13, 1950, listing names under the Wofford, Grand and Sands hotels in Miami Beach as operators, "associates & clientele," Erickson agents and "gambling games."
- [Kefauver Part 1, Exhibit 121: Miami Beach city license of the S. & G. Investment Co., 1947-1948](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-exhibit-121-sg-city-license-1947/): A photostat of a 1947-48 City of Miami Beach license issued to the S. & G. Investment Co. for "investments," put in the record by City Councilman Melvin J. Richard on July 13, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 1, Exhibit 124: S. & G. Investment license application card, 1947-48](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-exhibit-124-sg-license-application-card/): A photostat of the card attached to the S. & G. Investment Co.'s 1947-48 Miami Beach license application, put in the record by Councilman Melvin J. Richard on July 13, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Harry Russell, Miami Beach, on Chicago acquaintances and a question about Al Capone's home (22 September 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-russell-testimony-1950-09-22/): Counsel asks a Miami Beach resident whether he was ever in the homes of Tony Accardo, Charles Fischetti, Al Polizzi, Jack Guzik or 'Al Capone's home in Miami Beach'; he invokes the Fifth Amendment on most and says he did not know or meet Capone. Printed p. 681.
- [Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Daniel P. Sullivan, Crime Commission of Greater Miami, on Broward County gambling (13 July 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1-sullivan-testimony-1950-07-13/): The operating director of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami presents charts on gambling in Dade and Broward counties and Miami Beach hotels, placing the Colonial Inn, Club Greenacres and Club Boheme and naming the 'S. & G. Syndicate' as a bookmaking group. Pp. 152-174.
- [Kefauver Part 10: testimony of William J. Moore, Nevada Tax Commission, on the race wire in Las Vegas (15 November 1950), pp. 2-12](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p10-moore-race-wire-testimony-1950-11-15/): A member of the Nevada Tax Commission described the hearings behind Nevada's 1949 race-wire law, answered "I think so; yes" when asked whether the service came from Continental Press, and said Connie Hurley had been "the owner of the service" in Las Vegas.
- [Kefauver Part 10: testimony of Mrs. Lucille W. Randolph, city clerk of Gardena, California (27 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p10-randolph-testimony-1951-02-27/): Gardena's city clerk, appointed in 1942, produced under subpoena the city's ordinances, resolutions, minute books and license registers on licensed draw-poker clubs, and a sealed confidential file kept under city ordinance No. 241. Pp. 749-750, 759-762.
- [Kefauver Part 11: Owney Madden in the testimony of Harry Stromberg and Frank Wiener (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p11-stromberg-wiener-on-madden-1950/): Pennsylvania hearings in which Harry Stromberg, indexed as alias Nig Rosen, said he saw Owney Madden at Hot Springs ("He lives there") but "never went to see" him, and a former state athletic commissioner said men including Madden pressed him to reinstate a boxer he had suspended about 1929 or 1930.
- [Kefauver Part 14: testimony of Mrs. Lois Higgins, director, Crime Prevention Bureau, Chicago (26 June 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p14-higgins-testimony-1951-06-26/): A Chicago policewoman of almost 14 years and director of the city's Crime Prevention Bureau presented figures on narcotics arrests in Chicago (738 in 1948, 2,230 in 1949, 4,437 in 1950) and described a specialized narcotics court created in April 1951. From p. 281.
- [Kefauver Part 18, Exhibit B: photographs of a horse bookie parlor, 3203 Boardwalk, Atlantic City](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p18-exhibit-b-atlantic-city-photographs/): Two photographs, an interior with bicycles and a shop front on the Atlantic City boardwalk, printed in the appendix of Part 18 and described in the contents as "Photographs of horse bookie parlor, 3203 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N. J."
- [Kefauver Part 19: Western Union racing-wire drops in Reading and the "Treasury balance" wire (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p19-reading-western-union-1951/): At the committee's 1951 Pennsylvania hearings a Western Union letter identifying "two racing-wire drops or tickers in Reading" was read into the record, and Western Union's Washington superintendent described the daily wire of the Treasury balance to subscribers in eastern cities.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of M. C. Beasley, Tampa chief of police (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-beasley-testimony-1950-12-29/): Counsel questions the police chief about police files on unsolved Tampa killings of 1936-1939 and on the attempts on the life of Charles Wall; pp. 80-89, with the main passages at pp. 84-85. Exhibit 7 holds the records he brought.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: Sheriff Hugh Culbreath, questioning on the Tampa syndicate and his written answer on Dugan (17 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-culbreath-testimony-1951-02-17/): Counsel puts a list of names to the Hillsborough County sheriff as a Tampa syndicate; he answers that he knows of them, took no contributions from them, and that they do not come into his office. His written answer denies the reprimand Dugan described. Pp. 376-377, 382.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Jesse Henry Dugan, Jr., former Hillsborough County deputy sheriff (30 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-dugan-testimony-1950-12-30/): A former deputy who resigned in 1948 says, secondhand, that a fellow deputy was reprimanded by the sheriff for arresting a Trafficante. He answers 'Nothing' when asked what he knows of the Mafia. Pp. 253-259.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A, Exhibit 2: chart, "Organized Gambling in Tampa"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-exhibit-2-organized-gambling-in-tampa-chart/): A staff chart printed at page 482 of Part 1-A, headed "Organized Gambling in Tampa", listing killings and attempted killings in Tampa from 1931 to 1950 with the arrest or conviction noted against each; received in evidence at the Tampa hearing on December 29, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A, Exhibit 3: chart, "Enforcement of Gambling Laws, City and County"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-exhibit-3-enforcement-of-gambling-laws-chart/): A staff bar chart printed at page 483 of Part 1-A, "Enforcement of Gambling Laws, City and County, Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 1950": 96 arrests, 45 forfeited bonds, 43 discharged, 6 fined, 2 pending, none jailed.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A, Exhibit 4: map, "Interstate Links of Mafia Crime with Tampa"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-exhibit-4-interstate-links-map/): A staff map printed at page 483 of Part 1-A, "Interstate Links of Mafia Crime with Tampa", drawing lines labelled narcotics, gambling, gunmen and murder between Tampa and Los Angeles, Kansas City, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, New Orleans, Miami and Havana.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of J. Rex Farrior, Hillsborough County state's attorney, on Charles Wall (22 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-farrior-on-wall-1951-02-22/): Committee counsel asks the state's attorney about the unsolved shootings at Charles Wall; Farrior says officers found no clue and gives his own characterization of Wall as 'self-confessed and public recorded head and brains of the underworld.' Pp. 413-415.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: Senator Hunt's opening statement at Tampa (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-hunt-opening-tampa-1950-12-29/): The opening statement of the one-member subcommittee at Tampa, pp. 49-51, giving the committee's reasons for coming to the city, including a reference to the telephone numbers of Santo Trafficante, Sr. found among Jack Dragna's effects.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Tony Licata, Tampa (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-licata-testimony-1950-12-29/): A Tampa restaurant owner describes becoming a partner in a bolita operation in 1947. Counsel goes through a list of bolita bankers (Exhibit 11); asked about the two Trafficantes, Licata answers 'I don't know, father and son, I guess.' Pp. 150-164.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Lt. Charles A. Marvin, former Tampa police officer (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-marvin-testimony-1950-12-29/): A former Tampa patrolman repeats street talk that Santo Trafficante, Jr. would head the gambling syndicate and that Santo Trafficante, Sr. had 'supposedly or allegedly' been head of the Mafia in Tampa for twenty years. By his own account the statements are rumor. Pp. 137-150.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Oscar Perez, Miami (30 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-perez-testimony-1950-12-30/): Jimmy Velasco's former chauffeur agrees with counsel's list of sections of the Tampa syndicate, including 'The Trafficantes in another section,' and repeats what Velasco told him, adding that he cannot vouch for it. Pp. 242-253, syndicate passage at pp. 243-244.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Oswald C. Tracey on John Torrio's Florida real estate (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-tracey-torrio-testimony-1950-12-29/): A St. Petersburg broker testifies that he bought a Pass-a-Grille water lot for John Torrio in 1944 and sold it for him to Hugh L. Culbreath and wife in 1945; counsel shows a deed dated 8 October 1945 (Exhibit 8). Pp. 89-95.
- [Kefauver Part 1-A: testimony of Charles M. Wall, Tampa (29 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p1a-wall-testimony-1950-12-29/): Wall, accompanied by attorney Pat Whitaker, describes his gambling background and says he left gambling in Hillsborough County in late 1939 or 1940; counsel calls him an elder statesman of Tampa gambling. Printed pages 60-71.
- [Kefauver Part 2: Commissioner Anslinger on Ignazio Antinori's narcotics trips to Havana (28 June 1950, p. 91)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-anslinger-testimony-1950-06-28-antinori-havana/): The Commissioner of Narcotics told the committee that Ignazio Antinori of Tampa 'went to Habana, Cuba, frequently to obtain narcotics for middle western associates,' was killed in Tampa in 1940, and that the Bureau arrested his two sons and others in 1942.
- [Kefauver Part 2: testimony of Wayne Coy, FCC chairman, on Continental Press and leased wires (20 June 1950), pp. 4-31](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-coy-testimony-1950-06-20/): The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told the committee that "the principal disseminator of racing information used by illegal bookmakers is the Continental Press Service," described its leased Western Union circuits, and read the carriers' tariff clauses into the record.
- [Kefauver Part 2, Exhibit 13: Bureau of Prisons chart, "Percentage of Repeaters," fiscal year 1949](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-exhibit-13-percentage-of-repeaters-chart/): A Bureau of Prisons bar chart of the share of first offenders and repeaters among federal prisoners committed for more than a year in fiscal 1949, by offense, put in the record by Director James V. Bennett.
- [Kefauver Part 2, Exhibit 15: Bureau of Prisons graph of prisoners in state and federal prisons, 1939-1948](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-exhibit-15-prisoners-chart/): A Bureau of Prisons line graph of prisoners present at year end and prisoners received from court in state and federal prisons and reformatories, 1939 to 1948, filed by Director James V. Bennett.
- [Kefauver Part 2: Virgil W. Peterson's statements naming Owney Madden (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-peterson-on-madden-1950/): Three passages in the Chicago Crime Commission director's statement to the Kefauver Committee in which Owney Madden is named: among Frank Costello's associates of the 1920s and early 1930s, in a list of Costello's associations, and as someone Gaetano Ricci was "understood" to have telephoned in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
- [S. Rept. 81-1752 on Continental Press, as quoted in Kefauver Part 2, pp. 9-10 (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p2-s-rept-81-1752-quoted-1950-06-20/): FCC chairman Wayne Coy read pages 15 and 16 of the Senate Commerce Committee's report on S. 3358 into the Kefauver record: it calls Continental the successor to the Annenberg wire service and finds that it has "a near monopoly in the transmission of racing news."
- [Kefauver Part 4: testimony of Thomas B. Bash, former Jackson County sheriff (29 September 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-bash-testimony-1950-09-29/): The former sheriff lists the cases that confronted him, including 'the Union Station massacre,' and says juries and witnesses were intimidated; Senator Kefauver places an FBI report on Charles Gargotta (1919 to 1947; 39 charges in Missouri) in the record as Exhibit 12. Pp. 147-152.
- [Kefauver Part 4: testimony of Hampton Smith Chambers, Kansas City police commissioner, on meetings with Charles Binaggio (28 September 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-chambers-testimony-1950-09-28/): A former police commissioner describes his dismissal by the governor in May 1950 'shortly after the slaying of Binaggio and Gargotta' and two meetings with Binaggio in 1949, at one of which Binaggio raised a gambling house on Southwest Boulevard and a representative for police matters. Pp. 39-62.
- [Kefauver Part 4, Exhibit 10: committee chart "The Mafia"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-exhibit-10-the-mafia-chart/): A fan-shaped committee chart headed "The Mafia," with "Murder" and "Narcotics" segments, city names around its edge, and lists of "alleged members" and unsolved murders, received on September 28, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 4, Exhibit 11: committee chart of "legitimate" producers of raw opium and smuggling routes](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-exhibit-11-raw-opium-chart/): A committee flow chart running from Turkey, Persia and India through French and Italian ports and Cuba to boxes labelled Mafia in New York, Tampa, New Orleans, St. Louis and Kansas City and on to "addict customers," received on September 28, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 4, Exhibit 20: Kansas City Police Department list of unsolved murders, 1 January 1940 to 25 September 1950](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-exhibit-20-unsolved-murders-1950/): A printed police list (appendix pp. 417-418) of unsolved Kansas City killings, including Louis Cuccia on 30 January 1946 near 1501 Truman Road in company with Nick Civella, and Charles Binaggio and Charles Gargotta, 'found shot to death in political club at 718 Truman Road,' dated April 5, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 4, Exhibit 9: committee chart of operations in and near Kansas City](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-exhibit-9-kansas-city-chart/): A committee chart, "Kansas City Missouri Hearings - 1950," with a wheel labelled Binaggio at its centre and spokes to policy, dice, bookmakers, the wire service, night clubs and liquor businesses, received on September 28, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 4: testimony of Claude A. Follmer, narcotics agent, on an alleged Kansas City 'Mafia society' (28 September 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-follmer-testimony-1950-09-28/): A Treasury narcotics agent says at p. 91 that John Lazia 'was the leader or czar of the underworld for a number of years prior to his assassination,' and at p. 92 lists unsolved murders 'attributed to the Mafia by persons engaged in law-enforcement work.' Pp. 81-100.
- [Kefauver Part 4: testimony of Anthony Gizzo (28 September 1950), pp. 108-139: Lazia and a North Side club](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4-gizzo-testimony-1950-09-28/): In answer to counsel's questions, Gizzo says at p. 112 that the Glendale Sales Co. soda business 'was started by Lazia' and agrees Lazia was 'pretty well known as king in the gambling world here back in the 1920's and 1930's'; at p. 119 he says 'Lazia ran the club.'
- [Kefauver Part 4A, Exhibit 50: "Gangland Murders in St. Louis and East St. Louis Areas"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4a-exhibit-50-st-louis-gangland-murders-1950/): A committee exhibit (printed pp. 812-819) summarizing St. Louis gang history. It says the "Egan Rats" and the "Hoganites" fought for the rackets of north St. Louis in the early 1920s, that "the top echelon of the Egan gang" was later imprisoned for mail robbery, and that William P. (Dinty) Colbeck was shot dead in his car on 17 February 1943.
- [Kefauver Part 4-A: testimony of Henry McKissick (20 July 1950), p. 355: the Fifteenth Street Club address](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4a-mckissick-testimony-1950-07-20/): Asked for the street of the Fifteenth Street Club, McKissick answers '716 and 718 East Fifteenth Street. It is now known as Truman Road,' which connects the '718 Truman Road' political club in the police list to that address. Pp. 353-372.
- [Kefauver Part 4-A: testimony of William Molasky on the Pioneer News Service and the Annenberg shares (30 September 1950), pp. 652-672](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4a-molasky-testimony-1950-09-30/): A St. Louis witness testified that in 1932 a half-interest in a St. Louis race-news distributor was bought by "Annenberg, myself, Kruse, and Ragen," and that in 1940 Annenberg gave him his shares for $1.
- [Kefauver Part 4-A: testimony of H. E. Vermillion, Western Union, on money orders to C. J. Rich & Co. (30 September 1950), pp. 614-630](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p4a-vermillion-testimony-1950-09-30/): Western Union's St. Louis-area superintendent described how bettors in distant cities wired money to C. J. Rich & Co. in East St. Louis, whose manager collected the money orders up to three times a day.
- [Kefauver Part 5: questions about Owney Madden to Louis Campagna and Daniel Serritella (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-campagna-serritella-on-madden-1950/): Two short exchanges in the Illinois hearings. Asked whether he knew Owney Madden, Louis Campagna said "I know of him" and that he may have met him on the golf course at Hot Springs; Daniel Serritella said he did not know him.
- [Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Mrs. Charlotte Campagna, Berwyn, Illinois (17 October 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-campagna-testimony-1950-10-17/): Questioned in Chicago about who raised money to settle a federal tax claim against her husband, Louis Campagna, while he was in Leavenworth, Mrs. Campagna declined to answer, standing on her constitutional rights. Pp. 515-517.
- [Kefauver Part 5: further testimony of Mrs. Charlotte Campagna (18 October 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-campagna-testimony-1950-10-18/): Recalled the next morning, Mrs. Campagna said she had decided she did not need counsel and would cooperate, and that she did not know who had paid money toward her husband's tax settlement: "Up to this day I don't know who did it." Pp. 645-651.
- [Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Edward J. McBride, owner of Continental Press (7 October 1950), pp. 437-447](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-edward-mcbride-testimony-1950-10-07/): A 26-year-old law student testified "I own the Continental Press Service," that his uncle Tom Kelly ran it as general manager, and that he had bought it in stages from the Ragens.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 23: "Organization Chart - Chicago Police Department"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-23-chicago-police-organization-chart/): A fold-out organization chart of the Chicago Police Department, from the commissioner through staff and field services to the districts, furnished by Commissioner Prendergast on October 5, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 40: staff summary of evidence on Continental Press, with Annex A ownership dates (December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-40-continental-summary-1950-12-18/): A committee staff memorandum, printed at pp. 1386-1390 of the Part 5 appendix, on how Continental was formed after Annenberg left the wire business in 1939, its distributors, the 1946-47 contest with Trans-America, and a dated list of its changes of ownership.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 41-A: Continental Press wire service and its distributors, May 1950](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-41a-continental-press-chart/): A fold-out committee chart with Continental Press at the top and its distributors below, from Boston to Las Vegas, each with a count of subscribers, offered by chief counsel Rudolph Halley on December 18, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 42: Trans-American wire service, March 1947](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-42-trans-american-wire-chart/): A committee chart dated March 1947 with Trans-American Wire Service and Chicago at its hub and lines to Kansas City, East St. Louis, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, Columbus, Camden and California, offered on December 18, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 43: chronology of the wire service since 1945 (December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-43-wire-chronology-1950-12-18/): A committee table, printed at pp. 1391-1394 of the Part 5 appendix, tracking Continental, Trans-America, Midwest, Illinois Sports News and the Chicago scratch sheets from July 1945 to June 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 43: chronology of the wire service, July 1945 to January 1946](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-43-wire-service-chronology/): A committee chronology in four columns, wire service, date, important events and scratch sheets, tracing the contest between Continental and a "Mob" wire from July 1945 to January 1946, offered on December 18, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 49: memorandum on the wire service in Las Vegas (11 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-49-las-vegas-wire-memo-1950-12-11/): A memorandum by the committee's chief investigator summarizing 1948 Nevada Tax Commission testimony about race-book wire service at the Golden Nugget and the Frontier Club, including a Chicago meeting at which a Continental contact named Connie Hurley as its Las Vegas representative.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 62: chart of the policy wheels in Chicago, 1945-1950](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-62-policy-wheel-chart/): A circular committee chart of Chicago policy wheels, with "Policy Wheel $150,000,000 Five Year Play" at its centre and the names of wheels and operators around it, offered by associate counsel H. G. Robinson on December 19, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 63: Dallas police photograph of Pat Manno, Paul Jones and Jack Knapp](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-63-dallas-photograph/): A Dallas Department of Public Safety photograph of three men walking away from the camera, captioned as Pat Manno, alias Manning, Paul Jones and Jack Knapp leaving the residence of Sheriff Steve Guthrie, identified by Lieutenant Butler on December 19, 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 68: chart "showing leadership of Capone syndicate and muscling into S. & G. in Florida"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-68-capone-syndicate-chart/): A committee chart with Capone and Nitti crossed out above "Accardo - Ricca," and arrows through Transamerican, R & H, O'Brien, Russell and Crosby to a box marked "S & G," offered by Rudolph Halley during Anthony J. Accardo's testimony on January 5, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibit 69: photostats of two S. & G. Service checks payable to Tony Accardo](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibit-69-checks/): Photostats of two $5,000 checks from the S. & G. Service, dated February 2 and February 9, 1950, and their endorsements, put to Anthony J. Accardo on January 5, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 5, Exhibits 41, 41-A, 42 and 44: wire-service charts and the witnesses the committee could not serve (December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-exhibits-41-44-wire-charts-witnesses-1950-12-18/): Counsel offered a map of Continental's telegraph lines, charts of the Continental and Trans-America networks, and a list of wire-service witnesses the committee had been unable to serve, among them the head of a Miami wire service.
- [Kefauver Part 5: testimony of George Kelly on the Illinois Sports News scratch sheet (19 December 1950), pp. 1068-1095](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-george-kelly-testimony-1950-12-19/): The owner of a Chicago scratch sheet testified that he bought Illinois Sports News in January 1947 and had earlier worked for James Ragen, "doing business as Continental Press."
- [Kefauver Part 5: testimony of U.S. Attorney Otto Kerner, Jr., on the parole grand jury (5 October 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-kerner-testimony-1950-10-05/): In executive session at Chicago, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois described the grand jury that heard Campagna, Gioe, De Lucia and D'Andrea on "the manner of obtaining their paroles," and Accardo's visits to Leavenworth under the name Joseph Bulger. Printed pp. 182-196.
- [Kefauver Part 5: Exhibit 35, statement on slot machines and a horse book at the Seven Gables, Morris, Illinois (17 October 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-seven-gables-exhibit-35-1950-10-17/): A statement taken by an Illinois assistant attorney general after a State police raid and put to the tavern's licensee at the Chicago hearing: "We take in about $1,200 per month from seven slot machines," and the horse book "grossed in 1949 $200,000."
- [Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Thomas F. Kelly, general manager of Continental Press (18 October 1950), pp. 691-699](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-thomas-kelly-testimony-1950-10-18/): Continental's general manager told the committee how he worked for James Ragen and Moses Annenberg's news bureaus, how in 1939 Annenberg "was going to give up the news business," and how Arthur McBride took the business over with most of Annenberg's staff.
- [Kefauver Part 5: wigwag testimony and Exhibits 51-52 on relaying race results from outside Garden State Park (18 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p5-wigwag-garden-state-1950-12-18/): A track-crew employee of a Baltimore news service testified that his job was "To get the race results out of the race track" by signalling from a tavern roof across from the Camden, N.J., track; a staff report describes a surveillance there on 2 November 1950.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 37: wire chart of Continental Press service to Ohio and Kentucky distributors](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-37-wire-service-chart/): A committee wire chart printed sideways, from Continental Press through Empire Service Co. of Cleveland to distributors including Periodical Distributors of Newport, Ky., with Morse circuits, miles and drops, received on January 17, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 54: photograph of the two buildings of the Jungle Inn](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-54-jungle-inn-buildings/): A photograph, printed sideways, of the two buildings that made up the Jungle Inn, identified by Anthony A. Rutkowski of the Ohio Department of Liquor Control on January 18, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 55: "Gambling Room at Jungle Inn"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-55-jungle-inn-gambling-room/): An interior photograph of rows of long tables in a large room, captioned "Gambling Room at Jungle Inn," identified by Anthony A. Rutkowski on January 18, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 56: "Interior of Gun Turret at Jungle Inn"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-56-jungle-inn-gun-turret-interior/): A photograph of the inside of a small room with a chair, a slot in the wall and boxes on the floor, captioned "Interior of Gun Turret at Jungle Inn," identified by Anthony A. Rutkowski on January 18, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 58: "Jungle Inn Interior, Showing Gun Turret"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-58-jungle-inn-gun-turret/): A photograph of the inside of the Jungle Inn showing the gun turret from within the building, identified by Anthony A. Rutkowski on January 18, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 6, Exhibit 61: Youngstown police chart, "District Operations of the Licavoli Gang and Associates"](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p6-exhibit-61-youngstown-chart/): A chart by Edward J. Allen, chief of police of Youngstown, Ohio, dated January 1951, setting out names under a "nominal leader," a Cleveland area and four districts, received with his testimony on January 18, 1951.
- [Kefauver Part 7: testimony of Frank C. Bals on the custody and death of Abe Reles (14 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-bals-testimony-1951-02-14/): A retired New York police official who supervised the Murder, Inc. witnesses testified that Abe Reles began to talk in about 1940, that his information led to other witnesses, and gave his account of Reles's fall from a window of the Half Moon Hotel. Pp. 584-590; the Reles passage is on p. 587.
- [Kefauver Part 7: further testimony of Frank C. Bals on the police detail guarding Abe Reles (15 March 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-bals-testimony-1951-03-15/): Recalled in New York, Bals said the detail guarding Reles came directly under him, that he was not present when Reles fell, that Reles was "one of the chief witnesses" in the Murder, Inc. case, and that he refused a request for records about the death and retired. Pp. 1112-1113.
- [Kefauver Part 7: Gerald Catena on a trip to Havana with Willie Moretti and a dinner with Luciano (14 February 1951, pp. 650-652, 659)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-catena-testimony-1951-02-14-havana/): Catena testified that he went to Havana with Willie Moretti 'about 3 years ago,' had dinner with Luciano one night downstairs at the hotel he named as the 'Nationale,' that a man he called 'Vince,' Mangano, was there, and that Meyer Lansky was not.
- [Kefauver Part 7: Frank Costello on the Louisiana Mint Co. and slot machines (New York, 13 March 1951), pp. 915-927](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-costello-louisiana-mint-1951-03-13/): Asked what the Louisiana Mint Co. was, Costello answered "It was a mint machine, known as a slot machine," and agreed with counsel that Governor Huey Long had asked him to go into the slot-machine business in New Orleans.
- [Kefauver Part 7: Joe Adonis declines to answer questions about Luciano in Havana and the Jockey Club (12 December 1950, pp. 291-292, 302)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-doto-testimony-1950-12-12-havana/): Counsel asked Joseph Doto, called Joe Adonis, whether he ever saw Luciano in Havana, what they talked about, and whether he had a gambling business at the Jockey Club in Havana. He declined each time on the ground that the answer might tend to incriminate him.
- [Kefauver Part 7: testimony of Virginia Hill Hauser (15 March 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-hauser-testimony-1951-03-15/): Sworn testimony in New York of Mrs. Virginia Hill Hauser of Spokane, Washington. She gave her birth year as 1916, said Joe Epstein had held her money for years, said her spending came from gifts from Mexican friends she would not name, and said Benjamin Siegel gave her money and paid the down payment on a house in Florida. Pp. 1144-1170.
- [Kefauver Part 7: Meyer Lansky on Havana, the race track, the 'Nationale' casino and Luciano (14 February 1951, pp. 609-614)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-lansky-testimony-1951-02-14-havana/): In a New York executive session Lansky told the committee he was in business in Havana from 'the late years of 1937' with 'the race track, and a casino, Nationale,' that the operation stopped when the war broke out, and that his meetings with Luciano in Havana were 'Purely social.'
- [Kefauver Part 7: Willie Moretti on visiting Luciano in Cuba with Vincent Mangano and Gerry Catena (13 December 1950, p. 338)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-moretti-testimony-1950-12-13-cuba/): Asked where he had seen Luciano in the last five years, William Moretti answered 'Cuba,' said he went there to see him with 'Vincent Mangano and Gerry Catena' and stayed 'About 5 or 6 days,' and said he gave Luciano no money.
- [Kefauver Part 7: Henry Silver and John W. Barker on working at the Jockey Club in Havana (11 October 1950, pp. 42-43, 54-55)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p7-silver-barker-testimony-1950-10-11-jockey-club/): Two gambling-house employees from New Jersey told the committee about earlier work at the Jockey Club in Havana: Silver about 1939, after hearing 'that there were Americans running it,' and Barker around 1933, when he was in charge of the roulette wheels.
- [Kefauver Part 8: testimony of Mrs. John J. (Viola) Grosch, New Orleans (26 January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p8-grosch-testimony-1951-01-26/): The former wife of the Orleans Parish criminal sheriff testified that she bought a locked box at his direction, kept it in the attic of their house, and that when she left there was $150,000 in it. Pp. 247-258.
- [Kefauver Part 8: testimony of J. E. Regan, Western Union, on Continental Press terminals in New Orleans (25 January 1951), pp. 67-77](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-p8-regan-testimony-1951-01-25/): Western Union's New Orleans representative testified that "there are three terminal points for Continental Press in the New Orleans area," one near the Fair Grounds that worked only during the race meet, and that the Daily Sports News's leased circuits were signed for by the Fogartys.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 1: Florida (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-1-florida-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1, Florida: sessions in Miami and Washington, May to September 1950.
- [Kefauver Committee, testimony of Morris Dalitz and Samuel Tucker (28 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-10-dalitz-tucker-1951-02-28/): Testimony taken at the Federal Building, Los Angeles, on February 28, 1951 (Part 10, pp. 907-935): Morris Dalitz's account of the Desert Inn's ownership, a crime commission summary read to him, and Samuel Tucker's description of how the Cleveland group came into the project.
- [Kefauver Committee, Las Vegas session (15 November 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-10-las-vegas-session-1950-11-15/): The printed record of the Special Committee's Las Vegas session of November 15, 1950 (Part 10, pp. 1-104): testimony on the race-wire service, the Flamingo Hotel's ownership, the Desert Inn and Benjamin Siegel, by Nevada officials, Louis Wiener, Wilbur Clark and Moe Sedway.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 10: Nevada-California (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-10-nevada-california-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 10, Nevada-California: sessions in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, November 1950 to March 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 11: Pennsylvania (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-11-pennsylvania-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 11, Pennsylvania: sessions in Philadelphia and Washington, October 1950 to February 1951.
- [Testimony of Harry J. Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics, 27 March 1951 (Kefauver Committee, Part 12, pp. 662–668)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-12-anslinger-testimony-1951/): The Commissioner of Narcotics tells the Kefauver Committee that heroin traffic "is all interstate because it must originate abroad," that about 200 of a list of 800 hoodlums he gave the committee have narcotic records, and that his Bureau has 200 men.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 12: Treasury, Justice, and miscellaneous witnesses (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-12-treasury-justice-officials-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 12, Treasury, Justice, and miscellaneous witnesses: sessions in Washington, July 1950 to March 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 13: Miscellaneous witnesses (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-13-miscellaneous-witnesses-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 13, Miscellaneous witnesses: sessions in Washington, May to August 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 14: Narcotics (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-14-narcotics-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 14, Narcotics: sessions in Jessup, Lexington, and Washington, May to June 1951.
- [Testimony of Charles Siragusa, Bureau of Narcotics agent, 27 June 1951 (Kefauver Committee, Part 14, pp. 343–357)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-14-siragusa-testimony-1951/): A Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent tells the Kefauver Committee of his spring 1951 work with the Italian police on Lucky Luciano and a heroin arrest at the Rome airport, and answers "Yes, sir" when asked whether narcotics distribution and smuggling is "the principal source of income of the Mafia."
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 15: Kentucky (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-15-kentucky-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 15, Kentucky: sessions in Washington, June to July 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 16: Florida (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-16-florida-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 16, Florida: sessions in Miami, June 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 17: Maryland and District of Columbia (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-17-maryland-district-of-columbia-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 17, Maryland and District of Columbia: sessions in Washington, July to August 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 18: New York and New Jersey (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-18-new-york-new-jersey-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 18, New York and New Jersey: sessions in Atlantic City, Newark, and Washington, July to August 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 19: Pennsylvania (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-19-pennsylvania-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 19, Pennsylvania: sessions in Washington, June to August 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 1A: Florida (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-1a-florida-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1A, Florida: sessions in Washington and Tampa, November 1950 to February 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 2: Federal agencies and other witnesses (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-2-federal-agencies-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 2, Federal agencies and other witnesses: sessions in Washington, June to August 1950.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 3: Black market operations (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-3-black-market-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 3, Black market operations: sessions in Washington, August 1950.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 4: Missouri (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-4-missouri-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 4, Missouri: sessions in Washington and Kansas City, July to September 1950.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 4A: Missouri (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-4a-missouri-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 4A, Missouri: sessions in Washington, St. Louis, and Kansas City, June 1950 to February 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Lt. George Butler of the Dallas police (evening of 19 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-butler-testimony-1950-12-19/): A Dallas detective lieutenant read the committee his notes of 1946 conversations with a man who claimed to represent a syndicate. Among the man's claims was that "the Jones boys," policy operators in Chicago, had paid $200,000 for "the snatch." The line is third-hand hearsay.
- [Kefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Edward P. Jones (evening of 19 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-edward-jones-testimony-1950-12-19/): Edward P. Jones, living in Mexico City, told the committee he shared in the profits of the Maine-Idaho Club policy wheel, agreed that he had been convicted of an income-tax violation on income from the wheel, and described being kidnapped near Forty-third Street and South Parkway and held blindfolded for almost a week.
- [Kefauver Committee, Part 5, Exhibits 60 to 62: the Jones brothers' and Idaho-Maine Club's earnings and the Chicago policy-wheel chart](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-exhibits-60-62-policy-wheels-1950/): Appendix exhibits printed at pages 1407 to 1409 of Part 5: a staff table of the gross and net earnings of the Jones Bros. and the Idaho and Maine Club from 1939 to June 1950, taken from records Theodore Roe furnished; a further table; and the staff chart of Chicago policy wheels, 1945 to 1950.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 5: Illinois (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-illinois-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 5, Illinois: testimony taken from September 1950 to January 1951, including Paul DeLucia, Louis Campagna, Anthony J. Accardo, and Joseph Aiuppa.
- [Kefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Theodore Roe (18 October 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-roe-testimony-1950-10-18/): Theodore Roe told the committee in Chicago that his business was "Operating a policy wheel," that he had been a partner for about ten years with the Jones brothers, then living in Mexico, and that he had started working for them about twenty-two or twenty-three years earlier.
- [Kefauver Committee, Chicago: Theodore Roe's second testimony (evening of 19 December 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-5-roe-testimony-1950-12-19/): Recalled in December, Roe named his partners in the Maine-Idaho-Ohio policy wheel, said the earlier owners were the Jones brothers Edward, McKissick and George, and described the kidnapping of Edward Jones, which he dated to 1946, and a ransom of $100,000 paid by George Jones.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-allen-testimony-1951/): Youngstown's police chief, Edward J. Allen, described a 1945-1948 bookmaking racket in his city, linked it to Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland figures including Pete and James Licavoli, and introduced a chart he had drawn for the committee (exhibit 61).
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Anthony Milano (19 January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-anthony-milano-testimony-1951/): Anthony Milano told the committee that his brother Frank Milano was living in Mexico, that he had served about fifty-four months at Leavenworth on a counterfeiting conviction of 1911-1912, and that he ran the Brotherhood Loan Co. and the Mayfield Importing Co.; asked about the Mafia he said, 'I don't know what Mafia mean.'
- [Kefauver Committee exhibit 61: Youngstown police chief's chart of the 'Licavoli gang and associates' (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-exhibit-61-licavoli-chart-1951/): A chart drawn by Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen for the committee and printed as exhibit 61, headed 'District Operations of the Licavoli Gang and Associates (aka Purple Gang)', with Peter Licavoli as 'Nominal Leader' above a Cleveland box and four regional boxes.
- [Kefauver Committee exhibits 31 and 32: records of Louis Rothkopf and Morris Kleinman (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-exhibits-31-32-rothkopf-kleinman-1951/): Two record summaries placed in evidence during Alvin Sutton's testimony and printed on page 455: exhibit 31 for Louis Rothkopf, 'also known as Lou Rhody, John Zarumba', with a 1937 internal revenue case; exhibit 32 for Morris Kleinman, with a 1933 income tax evasion sentence.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of accountant Alvin E. Giesey (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-giesey-testimony-1951/): Cleveland accountant Alvin E. Giesey, whose firm prepared returns for Morris Kleinman, Moe Dalitz, Louis Rothkopf, Sam Tucker and others, testified about their joint holdings, including two-thirds of 10,000 shares of the Detroit Steel Corp.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of James Licavoli (19 January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-james-licavoli-testimony-1951/): James Licavoli told the committee he had been arrested 'many times', had 'copped a plea on extortion' in Toledo with a one-to-five-year term and a 1946 parole, and that Pete and Thomas Licavoli were his first cousins; he refused to answer questions about his business.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Governor Frank J. Lausche (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-lausche-testimony-1951/): Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche described the gambling clubs 'run by Cleveland men' that moved out of Cuyahoga County, among them the Mounds Club, Pettibone Club, Jungle Inn and Colony Club, and the state action he took to close them.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Max Marmorstein (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-marmorstein-testimony-1951/): Cleveland real estate operator Max Marmorstein appeared to answer testimony given at the committee's Miami hearing about his office in the Ninth-Chester Building, and said he had lent Thomas McGinty $25,000 in 1949 for a hotel McGinty said he was building in Las Vegas.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Arthur B. McBride (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-mcbride-testimony-1951/): Arthur B. McBride appeared voluntarily with Washington counsel, at the committee's request, on the books and records of the Continental Press wire service; his counsel stated that he had never been engaged in any illegal business.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Thomas J. McGinty (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-mcginty-testimony-1951/): Thomas J. McGinty told the committee he had served six months for conspiracy under the National Prohibition Act, had been a partner in the Mounds Club, and was a partner in the Desert Inn at Las Vegas with Wilbur Clark, Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman and Sam Tucker.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 6: Ohio-Kentucky (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-ohio-kentucky-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 6, Ohio-Kentucky: sessions in Cleveland and Washington, January to February 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee: testimony of Alfred Polizzi (January and February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-polizzi-testimony-1951/): Alfred Polizzi of Coral Gables, Florida, told the committee he ran a construction firm and had left Cleveland in 1945, declined to testify about earlier years, and denied the accusations that he belonged to the Mafia or the 'Mayfield Road gang'.
- [Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Public Safety Director Alvin G. Sutton (January 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-6-sutton-testimony-1951/): Cleveland's Director of Public Safety, Alvin G. Sutton, gave the committee his account of the city's Prohibition bootleggers, naming Morris Kleinman, Lou Rothkopf, Moe Dalitz, Sam Tucker and Maxie Diamond, their move into gambling in Kentucky and Las Vegas, and the later numbers rackets.
- [Kefauver Committee, New York: testimony of Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh on the 1944 'black book' (March 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-7-murtagh-testimony-1951/): John M. Murtagh, Chief Magistrate of New York City and former Commissioner of Investigation, told the committee of a raid on "a little grocery store in Harlem" where a policy operator kept books, and said his later analysis of the seized book showed payments to 111 police officers, though no officer went to jail.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 7: New York-New Jersey (1950–1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-7-new-york-new-jersey-1950/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 7, New York-New Jersey: sessions in Washington and New York, July 1950 to March 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 8: Louisiana (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-8-louisiana-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 8, Louisiana: sessions in New Orleans and Washington, January to February 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee, Detroit: testimony of Angelo Meli (9 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-9-angelo-meli-testimony-1951/): Angelo Meli told the committee he lived on rents and a farm and had been in the jukebox business until 1943; asked whether a police record read to him was correct, he answered 'It must be.'
- [Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 9: Michigan (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-9-michigan-1951/): Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 9, Michigan: sessions in Detroit and Washington, February 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee, Detroit: testimony of Peter Licavoli (8 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-9-peter-licavoli-testimony-1951/): Peter Licavoli, born in St. Louis, declined on self-incrimination grounds to state his occupation or answer about a Detroit police record read into the hearing, and identified Sam Zerilli as his brother-in-law.
- [Kefauver Committee, Detroit: Carl Renda and the 1949 dance program (8 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-9-renda-testimony-1951/): Questioned about the program of a November 1949 dance he presided over, Carl Renda told committee counsel that Tony Zerilli is related to Joe Zerilli, that he believed Jack Tocco is a son of 'Black Bill' Tocco, and that he did not know who Tony and Bill 'Giacolone' were.
- [Kefauver Committee, Detroit: testimony of William Tocco (9 February 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-part-9-william-tocco-testimony-1951/): William Tocco, with his attorney Walter Schweikart, testified at Detroit about his family, his businesses and the State Products Co., named 'Joe Zerrilli' among its partners, and answered 'Yes' when asked whether he had been a bootlegger during Prohibition.
- [Senate Report 1167: return of property held by the crime committee (1952)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-s-rept-82-1167-return-of-property/): Senate Report No. 1167, 82d Congress, 2d Session, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, recommending that documents the dissolved Kefauver Committee had borrowed or subpoenaed be returned to their owners.
- [Senate Report 83: warrants for witnesses the committee could not serve (1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/kefauver-s-rept-82-83-apprehension-warrants/): Senate Report No. 83, 82d Congress, in which the Kefauver Committee said it could not serve subpoenas on seventeen named witnesses and asked the Senate to direct the Sergeant at Arms to take them into custody.
- [Longshoremen loading cargo at the Port Authority Piers, Furman Street, Brooklyn, 1967 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-00649637-longshoremen-furman-street-1967/): World Journal Tribune photograph by Matthew Black in the NYWT&S collection of longshoremen loading cargo onto a ship at the Port Authority Piers on Furman Street, Brooklyn, 1967. A copy is stored here.
- [Longshoremen's shapeup at Pier 92, North River at 52nd Street, 1948 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-00649640-shapeup-pier-92-1948/): New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photograph by Al Ravenna: a crowd of longshoremen at Pier 92 for the shapeup. The record names no one. A copy is stored here.
- [Lincoln C. Andrews, Emery C. Ruckner and John Philip Hill outside the Capitol (1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2001706174-andrews-ruckner-hill-1932/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of three men before testifying to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee at the start of the fight to amend the Volstead law. The date, 1932, carries a question mark.
- [Entrance to the federal penitentiary, Atlanta, 1910 (Bain News Service, Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2002698072-atlanta-penitentiary-entrance-1910/): Bain News Service photograph dated 1910 of the entrance to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, a walled gatehouse with corner turrets. Reproduction number LC-USZ62-75939.
- [Harry Jacob Anslinger at his desk, 1 July 1930 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2002715900-anslinger-1930/): Half-length photograph of Harry J. Anslinger seated behind a desk, dated by the Library of Congress to 1 July 1930 from caption-card data. A copy is stored here.
- [Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, portrait (5 January 1920)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2003669765-wayne-wheeler-1920/): Library of Congress biographical-file portrait of Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, described as an attorney and general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League. A press note on the verso says he was expected to assist "Uncle Sam's agents".
- [Funeral of "Monk" Eastman: coffin passing a guard of honor, December 1920 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2004676725-monk-eastman-funeral-guard-of-honor-1920/): Underwood & Underwood photograph in the NYWT&S collection of soldiers carrying the coffin of "Monk" Eastman past an honor guard and onlookers, December 1920. A copy is stored here.
- [Funeral procession of "Monk" Eastman, December 1920 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2004676726-monk-eastman-funeral-procession-1920/): Underwood & Underwood photograph of the December 1920 funeral procession of "Monk" Eastman: soldiers carrying the coffin behind a horse-drawn hearse. The Library notes heavy retouching. A copy is stored here.
- [Four-inch cannon of the Seneca and four Coast Guardsmen (7 March 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2005686532-seneca-four-inch-cannon-1924/): Library of Congress photograph of four Coast Guardsmen beside a four-inch cannon. The Library's title calls it the cannon of the "rum runner SENECA", although other items in the series identify the Seneca as a Coast Guard cutter.
- [Coast Guard cutter Seneca with a captured rum-runner in tow (1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675957-seneca-rum-runner-in-tow-1924/): Library of Congress photograph from the stern of the Coast Guard cutter Seneca during a 1924 chase and capture of a rum-runner, showing the captured vessel in tow. One of a series of Seneca photographs.
- [Coast Guard cutter Seneca with a captured rum runner in tow, 1924 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675957-uss-seneca-rum-runner-in-tow-1924/): Library of Congress photograph from a series on the Coast Guard cutter Seneca chasing and capturing a rum runner in 1924: view from the stern with the captured boat in tow. A copy is stored here.
- [Coast Guard cutter Seneca: armed men aiming at a rum runner, 1924 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675958-uss-seneca-armed-coast-guard-men-1924/): Library of Congress photograph from the 1924 Coast Guard cutter Seneca series: armed Coast Guard men aiming at the rum runner. A copy is stored here.
- [Lt. L.W. Perkins fires at a fleeing boat from the Coast Guard cutter Seneca (1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675959-seneca-perkins-firing-1924/): Library of Congress photograph from the series on the Coast Guard cutter Seneca chasing and capturing a rum-runner in 1924. The caption card identifies Lt. L.W. Perkins firing at a fleeing boat.
- [Coast Guard cutter Seneca: cases on the deck of a captured boat, 1924 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675960-uss-seneca-cases-on-deck-1924/): Library of Congress photograph from the 1924 Coast Guard cutter Seneca series: view from the cutter of cases on the deck of the captured boat. A copy is stored here.
- [Prohibition agents examining barrels on a boat captured by the Seneca (1924 or 1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675962-seneca-agents-examine-barrels/): Library of Congress photograph from the Seneca series showing prohibition agents examining barrels on a captured boat. The title says 1924; the Library dates the print c1925.
- [Coast Guard cutter Seneca: Prohibition agents examining barrels, 1924-1925 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675962-uss-seneca-agents-examining-barrels-1925/): Library of Congress photograph from the Coast Guard cutter Seneca series: Prohibition agents examining barrels on the boat. The Library dates the item 1925. A copy is stored here.
- [Prohibition agents among cases of Scotch whiskey in a ship's hold (1924 or 1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006675963-seneca-agents-whiskey-hold/): Library of Congress photograph from the Seneca series showing prohibition agents among stacked cases of Scotch whiskey in the hold of a captured ship, according to the caption card.
- [Elizabeth Thompson of Chicago and a "Repeal the 18th Amendment" tire cover (16 December 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2006679171-crusaders-repeal-slogan-1930/): Library of Congress Underwood & Underwood photograph of Elizabeth Thompson of Chicago with a tire cover reading "Repeal the 18th Amendment". The caption calls her one of the first members of The Crusaders, an organization formed to overthrow prohibition.
- [Lt. Joseph Petrosino in police uniform (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2007686605-petrosino-portrait-1909/): Head-and-shoulders portrait of Joseph Petrosino in New York City police uniform, from the New York World-Telegram & Sun collection. The Library's record dates the item 13 March 1909, the day after he was shot in Palermo. A copy is stored here.
- [Tomasso Petto escorted by Detective Joseph Petrosino, 1903 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2007686607-tomasso-petto-petrosino-1903/): Photograph from the New York World-Telegram & Sun collection showing Detective Lt. Joseph Petrosino, Inspector Carey and Inspector McCafferty escorting Tomasso Petto, dated 1903. A copy is stored here.
- [Mabel Willebrandt, half-length portrait (1920-1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2010651718-willebrandt-portrait/): Library of Congress biographical-file photograph of Mabel Willebrandt seated in her law office, reading at a desk covered with papers and books. The Library's title is devised and the date spans 1920-1940.
- [Old Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia (Highsmith, Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2011630491-old-eastern-state-penitentiary-highsmith/): Color photograph of the gatehouse of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia by Carol M. Highsmith, dated by the Library of Congress between 1980 and 2006. A modern view of the building, not a period image.
- [Aerial view of Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, California (Highsmith, Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2011630955-highsmith-alcatraz-aerial/): Color aerial photograph of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay with the Marin shoreline behind it, dated by the Library of Congress between 1980 and 2006. Used as a view of the island only.
- [Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia (Highsmith, Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2011632222-eastern-state-penitentiary-highsmith/): Color photograph of the front of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia by Carol M. Highsmith, dated by the Library of Congress between 1980 and 2006. A modern view of the building where 1929 and 1930 newspapers place Al Capone.
- [Robert F. Kennedy testifying, 25 September 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2011648827-robert-kennedy-testifying-1963-09-25/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the witness table on the first day of the 1963 Senate hearings on crime. A copy is stored here.
- [Barrels of beer emptied into the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia (1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2012649416-schuylkill-beer-1924/): Library of Congress photograph captioned "Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill", showing barrels of beer emptied into the Schuylkill River. The man with the axe is identified only as probably the U.S. Marshal, with an alternate identification.
- [John Taliaferro Thompson, portrait, 1915 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014647521-john-t-thompson-portrait-1915/): Phillips Studio portrait photograph of John Taliaferro Thompson, whom the Library's title identifies as an Army officer, founder of the Auto-Ordnance Corporation and inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.
- [Petrosino's coffin arriving at his widow's home, 9 April 1909 (Bain News Service)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014683248-petrosino-coffin-widows-home-1909/): Bain News Service photograph captioned on the negative "Petrosino's remains arriving at his widow's home Apr. 9/09": police officers lift the coffin from a hearse in a New York street. A copy is stored here.
- [Funeral cortege of Petrosino, 9 April 1909 (Bain News Service)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014683249-petrosino-funeral-cortege-1909/): Bain News Service photograph captioned on the negative "Arrival Petrosino's remains": a horse-drawn hearse followed by a column of police officers passes a large stone building. A copy is stored here.
- [Lieut. Petrosino (Bain News Service, undated)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014683603-lieut-petrosino-bain/): Undated Bain News Service portrait captioned "Lieut. Petrosino": Joseph Petrosino seated indoors in a bowler hat and overcoat. A copy is stored here.
- [Taking Becker to Sing Sing, 30 October 1912 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014690729-charles-becker-sing-sing-1912/): Bain News Service photograph captioned "Taking Becker to Sing Sing": former police lieutenant Charles Becker, convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, on his way to prison. A copy is stored here.
- [Gunmen going to Sing Sing, 26 November 1912 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014690885-gunmen-going-to-sing-sing-1912/): Bain News Service photograph dated 26 November 1912 of the men convicted of killing Herman Rosenthal on their way to Sing Sing. The title names none of them. A copy is stored here.
- ["Lefty Louie" and "Gyp the Blood" with their captors, 1912 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014690898-lefty-louie-gyp-the-blood-1912/): Bain News Service photograph captioned "'Lefty Louie', 'Gyp the Blood', & their captors", from the Herman Rosenthal murder case. A copy is stored here.
- [Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, Whitey Lewis, 1912 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014691229-whitey-lewis-sing-sing-1912/): Bain News Service photograph captioned "Gunmen arriving at Sing Sing, Whitey Lewis": a crowd scene from the Herman Rosenthal murder case, dated November 1912. A copy is stored here.
- [Sing Sing prison, Bain News Service, about 1910 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014693738-sing-sing-bain-1910/): Bain News Service photograph of Sing Sing prison at Ossining, New York, issued between about 1910 and 1915. The record names no case. A copy is stored here.
- [Mrs Cirofici carried to the funeral car, April 1914 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014695548-cirofici-funeral-mrs-cirofici-1914/): Bain News Service photograph from the April 1914 funeral of Frank "Dago Frank" Cirofici, who was executed at Sing Sing on 13 April 1914. A copy is stored here.
- [Floral display at Dago Frank's funeral, April 1914 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014695740-dago-frank-funeral-floral-display-1914/): Bain News Service photograph of a floral display at the April 1914 funeral of Frank "Dago Frank" Cirofici, executed at Sing Sing for the Rosenthal murder. A copy is stored here.
- [Police machine gun, New York City police parade, 11 May 1918 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014706981-police-machine-gun-1918/): Bain News Service glass negative of a police officer riding a motorcycle with a mounted machine gun in a New York City police parade on 11 May 1918, a record of police armament before the Prohibition era.
- [Three men at a table of papers, identified from a Library summary as federal prohibition agents (1919-1920)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014710305-shevlin-quigley-mcguiness/): Library of Congress Bain News Service photograph of three men seated at a table of papers. The caption gives only surnames; the identifications come from the Library's summary citing Flickr Commons.
- [Portrait labeled "R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes" (about 1920-1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014712812-roy-haynes-portrait/): Library of Congress Bain News Service portrait labeled "R.S. [i.e. A.] Haynes". The Library's summary, citing Flickr Commons, identifies him as Roy Asa Haynes, in charge of Prohibition enforcement.
- [Unloading the boat M.M. Gardner (about 1920-1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2014715082-mm-gardner-unloading/): Library of Congress Bain News Service negative titled "Unloading M.M. GARDNER". The Library's summary, taken from Flickr Commons, says the boat was caught with bootleg alcohol and a large amount of gold off New York City.
- [The Tombs, New York, about 1905 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016799915-the-tombs-detroit-publishing-1905/): Detroit Publishing Company photograph of the Tombs, the Manhattan detention building, with Centre Street at right. The record names no case or person. A copy is stored here.
- [[Union Station and loading dock, Kansas City, Missouri] (Detroit Publishing Company, between 1910 and 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016818155-union-station-loading-dock/): A glass-negative photograph of Kansas City's Union Station and its loading dock, with an American Railway Express truck, made between 1910 and 1930. A period view of the building, not of the 1933 shooting.
- [[Union Station, Kansas City, Mo.] (Detroit Publishing Company, between 1910 and 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016818238-union-station-kansas-city/): A glass-negative photograph of Kansas City's Union Station made between 1910 and 1930; the catalog notes it is a photograph of a photographic print.
- [[Union Station, Kansas City, Mo.] (Detroit Publishing Company, between 1910 and 1930), second view](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016818250-union-station-kansas-city-view/): A second glass-negative view of Kansas City's Union Station made between 1910 and 1930.
- [Andrew J. Volstead of Minnesota, portrait (1921-1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016822506-volstead-portrait/): Library of Congress National Photo Company portrait labeled "Andrew J. Volstead, Minn.", the Minnesota congressman whose name is attached to the National Prohibition Act.
- ["Utilization of confiscated bootleg paraphernalia," National Photo Company (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016826333-confiscated-bootleg-paraphernalia-npc/): National Photo Company negative of a man beside jars, boxes and sacks of corn sugar in a storeroom. The title and the 1918-1928 date are unverified data from the negative. A copy is stored here.
- [Treasury Internal Revenue chemist G.F. Beyer (14 January 1920)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016827374-treasury-chemist-beyer-1920/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of G.F. Beyer, an Internal Revenue chemist at the Treasury, with caption-list notes on two enforcement cases from the same period.
- [Wreck of a Stutz car "with bootleggers" (29 July 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016838132-stutz-wreck-bootleggers-1924/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a wrecked Stutz automobile with several people standing around it. The description of the occupants as bootleggers rests on the title alone.
- [Police raid on gamblers den, E Street between 12th and 13th, Washington (31 January 1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016839227-police-raid-gamblers-den-1925/): National Photo Company glass-negative photograph of a crowd around a police patrol wagon at a raid on a gambling place on E Street, Washington, D.C., 31 January 1925.
- ["Hooch Hound" sniffs a flask on a Potomac pier (23 February 1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016846095-hooch-hound-1922/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a dog described as a "Hooch Hound", trained to detect liquor, sniffing a flask in the back pocket of a man fishing on a Potomac pier.
- [Model of a rum-runner chaser at the Navy Yard, Washington (29 December 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016849879-rum-runner-chaser-model-1924/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph, taken in what appears to be a test tank, of a small model boat that the title calls a model of a rum-runner chaser at the Navy Yard.
- [President Roosevelt signs the beer bill with members of Congress (22 March 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016870902-beer-bill-signing-1933/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his desk in the Cabinet Room signing the 1933 beer bill, with members of Congress and a committee clerk standing around him.
- [Canadian and U.S. narcotics officials meet on marihuana control, Washington, 24 March 1937 or 1938 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016873283-sharman-anslinger-gibbons/): Harris & Ewing photograph of Col. C.H.L. Sharman, Chief of Canadian Narcotic Control, Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Stephen B. Gibbons, at a meeting on cooperation in marihuana control. A copy is stored here.
- [Herbert R. O'Conor, December 1938 (Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016874640-oconor-portrait-1938/): Harris & Ewing photograph of Herbert R. O'Conor, then Governor-elect of Maryland, at the White House on December 29, 1938, eleven years before the Kefauver Committee. It does not show the hearings.
- [Senator Alexander Wiley, 1939 (Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016875548-wiley-portrait-1939/): Harris & Ewing photograph of Senator Alexander Wiley, April 29, 1939, eleven years before the Kefauver Committee. It does not show the hearings.
- [Senator Charles W. Tobey, 1939 (Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016878168-tobey-portrait-1939/): Harris & Ewing photograph of Senator Charles W. Tobey, May 25, 1939, eleven years before the Kefauver Committee. It does not show the hearings.
- [John W. McDonald, narcotic agent, August 1936 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016878362-john-w-mcdonald-narcotic-agent-1936/): Harris & Ewing photograph captioned with the name of a federal narcotic agent, John W. McDonald, standing beside a stack of trunks and suitcases. A copy is stored here.
- [Bureau of Prohibition insignia plate for stopping suspected automobiles (25 August 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016878927-bureau-prohibition-insignia-1930/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph, captioned "Stop when you see this sign", of the insignia plate the Bureau of Prohibition adopted for agents stopping suspected automobiles.
- [Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, group of four women (1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016879162-wonpr-group-1931/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph of four seated women in sashes, titled as a group of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. The record gives no names.
- [Bishop James Cannon, Jr., at the Capitol as the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement gathers (18 April 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016879570-cannon-women-drys-1932/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., at the Capitol as thousands of members of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement gathered to demand that prohibition be continued.
- [Cook County Committee at the wet and dry hearing, Capitol, 8 April (about 1926) (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016887925-cook-county-committee-wet-and-dry-hearing-1926/): Harris & Ewing photograph of ten men holding a "Cook County Committee" placard, identified in the caption as Chicago wets at the Prohibition hearing at the Capitol on 8 April. A copy is stored here.
- [Prohibition Bureau test still in the Treasury laboratory, Harris & Ewing (about 1927)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016888657-prohibition-bureau-test-still-treasury-1927/): Harris & Ewing photograph of G.F. Beyer, chief chemist of the Prohibition Unit, with a small copper still set up in the laboratory atop the Treasury building. A copy is stored here.
- [Prohibition Bureau laboratory still atop the Treasury building (1927 or 1928)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016888657-uncle-sam-distiller-1927/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph captioned "Uncle Sam has turned distiller": the Prohibition Bureau's miniature copper still in a Treasury laboratory, used to test formulae for a non-poisonous alcohol denaturant.
- [G.A. Youngquist sworn in to succeed Mabel Walker Willebrandt (22 November 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016889520-youngquist-succeeds-willebrandt-1929/): Library of Congress Harris & Ewing photograph captioned "Succeeds Miss Willebrandt": G.A. Youngquist sworn in as Assistant Attorney General, with Attorney General William D. Mitchell.
- ["German police dog used to trace bootleggers," Harris & Ewing, 1923 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016891965-german-police-dog-bootleggers-1923/): Harris & Ewing photograph of a person in an overcoat in an open field with a German police dog jumping up beside them. The title is unverified caption data. A copy is stored here.
- [Demonstrator of bullet-proof vest, 1923 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016892634-bulletproof-vest-demo-1923/): Harris & Ewing glass-negative photograph, dated [1923], of a man in a vest standing while a uniformed police officer aims a pistol at him, with other officers and civilians watching. A demonstration of body armor.
- [Whiskey cases stacked on a beach, possibly Bimini, Bahamas](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017645746-whiskey-cases-bimini/): Library of Congress panoramic photograph of hundreds of cases of whiskey stacked on a beach. The Library gives the place as "possibly Bimini, Bahamas" and the date as "probably during prohibition".
- [The Tombs and Law Courts, New York, 1909 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017649872-the-tombs-and-law-courts-1909/): Stereograph of the Tombs and the Law Courts building in New York, copyright 1908 and issued 1909. The record names no case. A copy is stored here.
- [McClellan Committee hearing room, 26 February 1957, wide view (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017657535-mcclellan-committee-hearing-room-1957-02-26-a/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of a crowded Senate hearing room, 26 February 1957, logged "McClellan Committee investigating Teamsters Union." A copy is stored here.
- [McClellan Committee hearing room, 26 February 1957, view across the table (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017657536-mcclellan-committee-hearing-room-1957-02-26-b/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler looking across a committee table toward a packed hearing room with press lights and cameras, 26 February 1957. A copy is stored here.
- [Senator John F. Kennedy at a McClellan Committee session on the Teamsters, 26 February 1957 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017657538-mcclellan-committee-kennedy-1957/): Warren K. Leffler's U.S. News & World Report photograph from a session of the committee investigating the Teamsters, dated 26 February 1957 in the log book. The Library's summary says it shows Senator John F. Kennedy as a member of the committee.
- [James R. Hoffa at the witness table of the Senate rackets committee, 20 August 1957 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017657582-hoffa-1957-08-20/): Warren K. Leffler's U.S. News & World Report photograph of James R. Hoffa testifying before the McClellan Committee, dated 20 August 1957 in the log book. A copy is stored here.
- [The .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun at Fort Knox, June 1942 (Library of Congress, Office of War Information)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017695486-thompson-fort-knox-1942/): Alfred T. Palmer photograph for the Office of War Information, June 1942, of the .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun at Fort Knox. Military context, eight years after the National Firearms Act; kept as a reference image of the weapon type.
- [Couple playing slot machine, Raceland, Louisiana (1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017737701-slot-machine-raceland-1938/): Farm Security Administration photograph by Russell Lee of two people at a slot machine in a barroom at Raceland, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, in the autumn of 1938.
- [People watching slot machine being played, Pilottown, Louisiana (1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017738152-slot-machine-pilottown-1938/): Farm Security Administration photograph by Russell Lee of onlookers around a slot machine at Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, September 1938.
- [Slot machine players, Las Vegas, Nevada (1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017779954-slot-machine-players-las-vegas-1940/): Farm Security Administration photograph by Arthur Rothstein of people at a bank of slot machines in a Las Vegas club, March 1940.
- [Girl playing slot machine in decorated barroom, Raceland, Louisiana (1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017781409-slot-machine-barroom-raceland-1938/): Farm Security Administration photograph by Russell Lee, captioned as a girl playing a slot machine in a decorated barroom at Raceland, Louisiana, September 1938.
- [Bookie figuring out bets for Kentucky Derby, Warrenton, Virginia (1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2017806772-bookie-warrenton-1941/): Farm Security Administration photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, captioned as a bookie figuring out bets for the Kentucky Derby at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia, May 1941.
- [The Tombs and the Bridge of Sighs, stereograph, 1907 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2018646900-the-tombs-stereograph-1907/): Standard Scenic Company stereograph of the Tombs and the Bridge of Sighs on Franklin Street at Centre Street, copyright 1907. The record names no case. A copy is stored here.
- [Aerial view of the New York County Courthouse and the Foley Square Courthouse, June 1954 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2020636114-foley-square-courthouses-aerial-1954/): Angelo Rizzuto photograph in the Anthony Angel Collection: an aerial view of the New York County Courthouse and the Foley Square Courthouse, June 1954. The record names no case. A copy is stored here.
- [Senate Rackets Committee hearing on jukeboxes, 10 February 1959 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2021640244-rackets-committee-jukebox-hearing-1959/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Marion S. Trikosko of senators of the Senate Rackets Committee and counsel Robert F. Kennedy at a hearing on organized crime and jukeboxes, 10 February 1959. A copy is stored here.
- ["Fulton Fish Market, Brooklyn Bridge": two men on a pier, Toni Frissell, October 1954 (frame 02790)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2021705236-fulton-fish-market-pier-frissell-1954-02790/): Toni Frissell color photograph, titled by the Library "Fulton Fish Market, Brooklyn Bridge," that shows two men seated on a pier with a suspension bridge behind them. No market activity is visible. A copy is stored here.
- ["Fulton Fish Market, Brooklyn Bridge": two men on a pier, Toni Frissell, October 1954 (frame 02794)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2021705240-fulton-fish-market-pier-frissell-1954-02794/): A second Toni Frissell color frame titled by the Library "Fulton Fish Market, Brooklyn Bridge," showing two men seated on a pier with the bridge behind them. No market activity is visible. A copy is stored here.
- [Jimmy Hoffa speaking to reporters after a congressional hearing, 1 February 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2022632583-hoffa-reporters-1963/): Marion S. Trikosko's U.S. News & World Report photograph of Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa at a bank of microphones, interviewed by reporters after testifying at a congressional hearing on 1 February 1963. A copy is stored here.
- [Joseph Valachi testifying, 27 September 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2022641592-joseph-valachi-1963-09-27/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of Joseph Valachi testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (McClellan Committee) on 27 September 1963. A copy is stored here.
- [Joseph Valachi testifying beside a chart, 1 October 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2022641593-joseph-valachi-chart-1963-10-01/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran of Joseph Valachi testifying before the Senate subcommittee on 1 October 1963 while a man points to a chart. A copy is stored here.
- [Joseph Valachi testifying, 8 October 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2022641595-joseph-valachi-1963-10-08/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Marion S. Trikosko of Joseph Valachi testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on 8 October 1963, with organizational charts hanging in the room. A copy is stored here.
- [Robert Kennedy briefing the press for the McClellan Committee, 20 January 1958 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2022887110-robert-kennedy-mcclellan-1958/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by Warren K. Leffler of Robert Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate McClellan Committee, briefing the press on graft in the Operating Engineers Union, 20 January 1958. A copy is stored here.
- [Jimmy Hoffa before the McClellan Committee, right hand raised, 24 January 1961 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2026160448-jimmy-hoffa-oath-1961/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by John T. Bledsoe of Teamster President James "Jimmy" Hoffa standing with his right hand raised before the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, 24 January 1961. A copy is stored here.
- [Jimmy Hoffa testifying before the McClellan Committee, 24 January 1961 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2026160449-jimmy-hoffa-testifying-1961/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by John T. Bledsoe of Teamster President James "Jimmy" Hoffa testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management, 24 January 1961. A copy is stored here.
- [James R. Hoffa holding a stack of papers before the Select Committee, 24 January 1961 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2026162330-jimmy-hoffa-papers-select-committee-1961/): U.S. News & World Report photograph by John T. Bledsoe of Teamsters president James R. Hoffa holding a stack of papers while appearing before the Select Committee, 24 January 1961. A copy is stored here.
- [Two men with a small still, one holding up a bottle of liquor](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-88715935-two-men-small-still/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of two men outdoors with a small still, one holding up a bottle. The record gives no caption, place or date beyond a 1921-1932 range.
- [Zion City, Illinois, destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-88715937-zion-city-beer-destroyed/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of the mayor of Zion City, Illinois, pouring out two bottles in what the title calls the destruction of 80,000 pint bottles of beer. Dated between 1921 and 1932.
- [Cases of whiskey confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-88715938-confiscated-whiskey-cases/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of stacked cases of whiskey that the title says were confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Dated by the Library between 1921 and 1932.
- [Moonshine still confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, photographed at the Treasury Department (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89706121-confiscated-still-treasury/): National Photo Company photograph of a still recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, photographed at the Treasury Department in Washington, with a man standing beside it. Prohibition-era evidence, not a weapon.
- [Moonshine still confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau, shown at the Treasury Department](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89706121-moonshine-still-treasury/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a confiscated moonshine still displayed at the Treasury Department in Washington, with a man looking at the contents of a glass.
- [Barrels of liquor in a building (Library of Congress: "confiscated(?)")](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89706122-barrels-confiscated-liquor/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of barrels of liquor in a building. The Library's title marks "confiscated" as uncertain, and the record gives no place or date beyond 1921-1932.
- [Bootleggers' wrecked car after a chase by Capitol police, Washington (21 January 1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-89709483-capitol-police-bootleggers-chase-1922/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of a wrecked automobile and bystanders after a chase through Washington streets. The title says the bootleggers "come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police".
- [Police raid a gambler's den: book makers taken from the E Street address (1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-90708939-police-raid-book-makers-1925/): A Library of Congress print of the January 1925 National Photo Company view of a police raid on E Street, Washington, captioned "Several loads of book makers were taken from the E. St. address by the police."
- [749 cases of beer destroyed in the District of Columbia (20 November 1923)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91787374-beer-destroyed-dc-1923/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of nine men smashing bottles at a dump. The caption says 749 cases of beer (18,000 bottles) received from Philadelphia were destroyed that day.
- [Modification League presents a petition of more than 5,000,000 names to Congress (15 April 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91793566-modification-league-petition-1932/): Library of Congress Underwood & Underwood photograph of members of the Congressional Districts Modification League with a petition urging modification of the National Prohibition Law, and members of Congress who received it.
- [The Largest Still in Captivity, Washington, 11 November 1922 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91796643-largest-still-1922/): National Photo Company photograph of a still and bottles of liquor, with four men named in the summary, described as the largest still ever taken in the national capital.
- ["The Largest still in captivity", Washington, D.C. (11 November 1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91796643-largest-still-capital-1922/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph captioned "The Largest still in captivity", showing four named men with the largest still taken in the national capital, as the record states.
- [Prohibition officers raiding a lunch room at 922 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington (25 April 1923)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91796661-prohibition-officers-raid-lunch-room-1923/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of prohibition officers handling barrels on the sidewalk in front of a lunch room at 922 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., dated from the printed caption strip.
- [Prohibition officers raiding a lunch room at 922 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, 25 April 1923 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-91796661-prohibition-raid-922-pennsylvania-avenue-1923/): Library of Congress print of Prohibition officers raiding the lunch room at 922 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., on 25 April 1923. The street number is in the title. A copy is stored here.
- [President Coolidge at his desk with Mabel Willebrandt and a congressman (7 June 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-93512862-coolidge-willebrandt-foster-1924/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of President Calvin Coolidge at a desk with a pen, Mabel Willebrandt and a congressman standing behind him. The record does not say what was being signed.
- [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter handcuffed to a guard, 1939 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-95511436-lepke-buchalter-van-1939/): World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Al Aumuller of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter handcuffed to a guard and getting into a van, dated 1939. A copy is stored here.
- [Lincoln C. Andrews and Roy C. Haynes outside the House of Representatives (1925-1927)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-97503745-andrews-haynes-ways-means/): Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and Commissioner of Prohibition Roy C. Haynes outside the House. The title says they testified before the Ways and Means Committee.
- [Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith sharing a toast in a New York bar (1935)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-97508491-einstein-smith-toast-1935/): Library of Congress World-Telegram staff photograph of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith sharing a toast in a New York bar, dated 1935, after repeal. The record does not describe their careers.
- [Sing Sing old cell block and guard tower, 1938 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98500204-sing-sing-old-cell-block-1938/): New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photograph by C. M. Stieglitz of Sing Sing prison, with a guard tower and the old cell block. The caption refers to Richard Whitney. A copy is stored here.
- [Meyer Lansky, 1958 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98506512-meyer-lansky-1958/): New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Al Ravenna of Meyer Lansky, half-length and facing front, dated 1958 by the Library of Congress. A copy is stored here.
- [Meyer Lansky booked for vagrancy at the 54th Street station, 1958 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98506863-meyer-lansky-booking-1958/): World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Orlando Fernandez of Meyer Lansky at the 54th Street police station in New York City, captioned as his booking for vagrancy. A copy is stored here.
- [Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee, 1951 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98506867-frank-costello-kefauver-1951/): New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Al Aumuller of Frank Costello seated behind a microphone while testifying before the Kefauver Committee. A copy is stored here.
- [Meyer Lansky led by a detective for booking, 1958 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98506876-meyer-lansky-detective-1958/): World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Orlando Fernandez of Meyer Lansky being led by a detective for booking on a vagrancy charge at the 54th Street police station. A copy is stored here.
- [Narcotics agents with over 400 lbs. of marijuana, 1963 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98513646-narcotics-agents-marijuana-1963/): New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Ed Ford of three narcotics agents named in the caption, with packages of marijuana in open suitcases. A copy is stored here.
- [Men leaving a prisoners' van at the U.S. Court House, Foley Square, 1952 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-98519356-prisoners-van-foley-square-1952/): New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photograph by Fred Palumbo of men caught in raids by federal agents leaving a prisoners' van at the Foley Square U.S. Court House. A copy is stored here.
- [Crowded New York bar before midnight, 30 June 1919](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99405168-crowded-bar-1919-06-30/): Library of Congress photograph of a crowded bar in New York City moments before midnight on 30 June 1919, when wartime prohibition took effect, according to the Library of Congress title.
- [Deputy Police Commissioner Leach watches liquor poured into a sewer, New York (about 1921)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99405169-leach-liquor-sewer-1921/): Library of Congress photograph of New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach watching agents pour liquor into a sewer after a raid. The Library's date, 1921, carries a question mark.
- [Deputy Police Commissioner Leach watching liquor poured into a sewer, about 1921 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99405169-leach-liquor-sewer-raid-1921/): New York World-Telegram and the Sun print of agents pouring liquor from a barrel into a street sewer while Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach looks on, after a Prohibition raid. A copy is stored here.
- [Vincent Gigante, 1957 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99471566-vincent-gigante-1957/): World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Phil Stanziola of Vincent Gigante, seated and facing front, filed by the newspaper's library under a "Shooting Case" heading. A copy is stored here.
- [Vito Genovese, 1959 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99471743-vito-genovese-1959/): World-Telegram & Sun staff photograph by Phil Stanziola of Vito Genovese, half-length and standing, filed by the newspaper's library under a "Crime Probe" heading. A copy is stored here.
- [Joseph Profaci at a crime commission hearing, 1959 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99471744-joseph-profaci-1959/): World-Telegram photograph by Walter Albertin titled "Joseph Profaci at Crime Comm. hearing": a head-and-shoulders portrait dated 1959. A copy is stored here.
- [Vincent Coll leaving homicide court, 1931 (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-99472893-vincent-coll-homicide-court-1931/): World-Telegram staff photograph of Vincent Coll leaving homicide court surrounded by police officers, dated 1931. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz Cell House, HABS photograph no. 21: Broadway (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-habs-ca1498-015934p-alcatraz-broadway-1986/): HABS photograph no. 21 of the Alcatraz Cell House, 1986: the aisle called "Broadway" between Cell Blocks C and B, looking south. The Library of Congress marks it with no known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government.
- [Alcatraz Cell House, HABS photograph no. 23: typical cell in Cell Block C (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-habs-ca1498-015936p-alcatraz-typical-cell-1986/): HABS photograph no. 23 of the Alcatraz Cell House, 1986: a typical cell in Cell Block C. The Library of Congress marks it with no known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government.
- [Alcatraz Cell House, HABS photograph no. 26: Cell Block D, isolation cells (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-habs-ca1498-015939p-alcatraz-d-block-isolation-1986/): HABS photograph no. 26 of the Alcatraz Cell House, 1986: the isolation cells of Cell Block D. The Library of Congress marks it with no known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government.
- [Alcatraz, Cell House, Alcatraz Island: Historic American Buildings Survey record HABS CA-1792-A (Library of Congress)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-habs-ca1498-alcatraz-cell-house-record/): The Library of Congress record for the HABS documentation of the Alcatraz Cell House: 29 photographs, 5 color transparencies, one measured drawing and 3 caption pages. It prints the island's latitude and longitude.
- [United States Post Office and Court House, Las Vegas (HABS NV-39)](https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-habs-nv-39-las-vegas-courthouse/): Historic American Buildings Survey documentation of the Las Vegas federal post office and courthouse, whose courtroom the National Register file names as the site of the Kefauver Committee's hearing of November 15, 1950.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 156–157: Valachi joins Gagliano's group and names "the Castellamarese war"](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp156-157-castellamarese-war-name/): Valachi testified that he was persuaded to join a group headed by Tom Gagliano that meant to "fight some big shots," and, asked about the war between Masseria and Maranzano, called it "what we call the Castellamarese war." Testimony, not a finding.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 163–165: the killing of Tom Reina, the "undeclared war" and Joseph Pinzolo](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp163-165-reina-undeclared-war-pinzolo/): Staff counsel LaVern Duffy named the death of Tom Reina as the first significant date of the 1930–31 war, and Valachi explained why the war was at first "undeclared" and what he was told of the killing of Joseph Pinzolo. Counsel's statements and testimony, not findings.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 166–168: "All the Castellemarese were sentenced to death"; the Morello and Pinzolo killings as Valachi told them](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp166-168-castellammarese-sentenced-morello/): Valachi testified that Masseria had condemned "all the Castellemarese" to death, that Peter Morello was killed "by the Maranzano group," and that the Maranzano and Gagliano sides then joined forces. Counsel put the dates of August 15 and September 9, 1930 from police records. Testimony, much of it hearsay.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 168–174: the watch on Steve Ferrigno's apartment at Pelham Parkway and the killing of Ferrigno and Alfred Mineo](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp168-174-ferrigno-mineo-pelham-parkway/): Valachi described renting an apartment across from Steve Ferrigno's on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, seeing Masseria at the building, and the shooting of Ferrigno and Mineo, which he said happened while he was away. He gave the place as "750 Pelham Parkway." Testimony, not a finding.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 174–179: Sgt. Ralph Salerno reads the police records of the 1930 killings of Reina, Morello, Pinzolo, Ferrigno and Mineo](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp174-179-salerno-police-records-1930/): A New York police sergeant read into the record the department's entries on five killings of 1930, with the time and street of each: Reina at 1522 Sheridan Avenue, Morello at 362 East 116th Street, Pinzolo in the Brokaw Building, and Ferrigno and Mineo on Pelham Parkway. Every case was still open in 1963.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 188–192: the "contract" on Joseph Catania ("Joe Baker") and the police record of his killing on February 3, 1931](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp188-192-joseph-catania-joe-baker/): Valachi 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.
- [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](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp193-195-war-funds-exhibit-10-aiello/): 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.
- [Hearing of October 1, 1963, pp. 198–199: Masseria's offer of peace, Maranzano's refusal, and the men Valachi said "set him up"](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-01-pp198-199-masseria-peace-offer-setup/): Valachi testified that Masseria "offered himself to be a plain soldier" and that Maranzano refused, that Maranzano's side had grown to about 600, and that Masseria's own men set him up at a Coney Island restaurant. Testimony from hearsay; Valachi was not there.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 207–209: Senator Mundt asks how long the "undeclared" and "declared" war lasted](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp207-209-declared-undeclared-war/): Questioned by Senator Karl Mundt, Valachi said the undeclared war lasted "a couple of months" and the declared war "about 8 months, 8 or 9 months," and that members spoke of having been "away 14 months." His own figures, which he said he never checked.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 210–213: Valachi's account of the killing of Joseph Masseria, and the police record of April 15, 1931 at 2715 West 15th Street, Coney Island](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp210-213-masseria-killing-coney-island/): Valachi testified from hearsay that Masseria's own men took him to a Coney Island restaurant and killed him. Sgt. Ralph Salerno read the police record: at 3:30 p.m. on April 15, 1931, "Giuseppi Massaria, alias Joe the Boss," was shot in the back and head in a restaurant at 2715 West 15th Street by unknown persons who escaped.
- [Hearing 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 banquet](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp214-218-score-washington-avenue-meeting-banquet/): Valachi 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.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 220–224: "We have to go to the mattress again," Maranzano's list, and the "Park Avenue Murder" headline](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp220-224-mattress-park-avenue-murder/): Valachi testified that shortly before his death Maranzano told him "We have to go to the mattress again," gave him a list of names, and was to meet Genovese and Luciano at his office the next afternoon; Valachi was told by phone not to come, and learned of the killing from a newspaper headline, "Park Avenue Murder." Uncorroborated testimony.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 227–233: Valachi's account of the killing of Salvatore Maranzano, and the police records of September 10, 1931 (Maranzano at 230 Park Avenue; James Le Pore at 2400 Arthur Avenue)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp227-233-maranzano-killing-salerno-record/): Sgt. Ralph Salerno read the police record: at 3:50 p.m. on September 10, 1931, Salvatore Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death in the office of the Eagle Building Corp., rooms 925 and 926, 230 Park Avenue at 46th Street, by "four unknown men posing as police officers." The same day at 5:45 p.m. James Le Pore was shot dead at 2400 Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. Valachi gave a hearsay account of the killing.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963, pp. 236–239: the "boss of bosses" abolished, the Chicago meeting, and the membership "books" closed in about 1931](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-02-pp236-239-boss-of-bosses-abolished-books-closed/): Valachi testified that after Maranzano's death Luciano took over as boss, that the "boss of bosses" system "was abolished" and a group of six consiglieri was set up, that Luciano and Genovese had to justify the killing before the bosses at a meeting in Chicago, and that "the books were closed in about 1931." One witness's account, not a finding.
- [Hearing of October 9, 1963, pp. 332–333: New Jersey Assistant Attorney General John J. Bergin on the bodies of Samuel Monaco and Louis Russo, found September 13, 1931](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcc-1963-10-09-pp332-333-bergin-monaco-russo/): John J. Bergin testified from New Jersey records that Samuel Monaco was reported missing on September 10, 1931, and that on September 13 his body and that of Louis Russo were found in Newark Bay, one ashore at Bayonne and the other at Kearny, their heads crushed and throats cut. Monaco's car was found on 46th Street in New York.
- [Senate Resolution 74 (85th Congress), as stated at the first McClellan Committee hearing, Part 1 (1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-1-s-res-74-1957/): The chairman's opening statement in Part 1 of the hearings of the Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field: "Senate Resolution 74, 85th Congress, agreed to January 30, 1957, established this select committee."
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 10: the New York series opens (31 July to 6 August 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-10-new-york-locals-1957/): The volume that opens the committee's hearings on New York locals. The chairman's opening statement says the evidence will show that "hoodlums and racketeers came into the labor picture with the aid and assistance of certain high level union officials."
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 13: James R. Hoffa's first testimony (20 to 23 August 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-13-hoffa-1957-08-20/): The hearing at which James R. Hoffa first testified before the select committee. Sworn on 20 August 1957, he identified himself as "a business representative and a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters."
- [McClellan Committee staff list: "Individuals at Apalachin and Names of Some of Their Contacts and Associates" (1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-apalachin-staff-list-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."
- [Testimony of Sgt. Edgar D. Crosswell, N.Y. State Police, on the Apalachin raid (McClellan Committee, Part 32, pp. 12213-12216)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-crosswell-testimony-1958/): The New York State Police sergeant who led the stop at Joseph Barbara's property describes arriving at 12:40, men running, the roadblock, and the number picked up: "Sixty-two, but that included two characters of Barbara's, so there were 60."
- [Testimony of Capt. James E. Hamilton, Los Angeles Police Department, before the McClellan Committee (Part 32)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-hamilton-testimony-1958/): The commander of the Los Angeles police intelligence division described stopping Frank DeSimone's car in 1956 and finding "John S. LaRocca, of Pittsburgh, Pa." as a passenger, and said police knew who LaRocca was only from newspaper clippings.
- [Testimony of James V. La Duca before the McClellan Committee, 1958 (Part 32)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-laduca-testimony-1958/): 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.
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 32: "Mafia" (30 June-3 July 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-mafia-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.
- [McClellan Committee: investigator George H. Martin on the Detroit intermarriage chart (1 July 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-martin-detroit-chart-1958/): In the committee's 'Mafia' hearings, investigator George H. Martin explained a chart of intermarriages to chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy and named Detroit men he said were 'interrelated through various marriages'; the committee's printed list of Apalachin contacts adds Detroit entries.
- [Testimony of John C. Montana before the McClellan Committee, 1958 (Part 32)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-montana-testimony-1958/): 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.
- [Testimony of committee investigators Sherman Willse and George H. Martin on the Apalachin attendees (Part 32, p. 12260)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-32-willse-martin-testimony-1958/): 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.
- [McClellan Committee: Vincent H. Meli on the Detroit linen and overall supply business (1 August 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-35-vincent-meli-detroit-linen-1958/): In hearings on the linen and overall supply industry in the Detroit area, Vincent H. Meli testified about financing his Star Coverall Supply Co. with loans from his father-in-law Sam Perrone and from Anthony Tocco, and said Lafayette Motors had been owned by Jack Tocco.
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 36: Hoffa recalled as general president (5 to 12 August 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-36-hoffa-1958-08-05/): The committee resumed its inquiry into the Teamsters under James R. Hoffa, by then general president. The chairman's opening statement recalls the interim report's finding that Hoffa had "alined himself with certain underworld characters."
- [McClellan Committee: Robert P. Scott on Harry Fletcher and the 'Purple Gang' (August 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-36-scott-purple-gang-1958/): In the Hoffa and Teamsters hearings, witness Robert P. Scott said Jimmy Hoffa asked him to seek a retrial for Harry Fletcher, whom the newspapers 'wrote up' as head of the Purple Gang; asked whether the men sentenced were Purple Gang members, Scott answered, 'They were supposed to be.'
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 37: Allen Dorfman and the subpoenaed records (5 November 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-37-dorfman-1957-11-05/): Allen Dorfman appeared under subpoena with counsel Stanford Clinton. Chief counsel Robert Kennedy and the committee's accountant described three months of difficulty obtaining the records of Dorfman's companies; Dorfman said the staff had reviewed them in his office for eleven weeks.
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 43: Allen Dorfman and the Central Conference of Teamsters insurance (27 January 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-43-dorfman-1959-01-27/): Allen Dorfman, describing himself as in the insurance business, declined under the Fifth Amendment to say when he began it. Robert Kennedy said the hearing concerned how Dorfman "came to be the broker for the Central Conference of Teamsters Welfare and Pension Fund."
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 48: coin-operated machines in the New Orleans area (23 March to 15 April 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-48-new-orleans-coin-machines-1959/): The committee's study of the coin-machine business around New Orleans, "particularly with reference to operations in Jefferson Parish." The chairman said key racket figures controlled locations "through threats, coercion, and in some cases through alliances with corrupt public officials, as we expect the evidence to show."
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 5: Dave Beck testifies (26 and 27 March 1957)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-5-beck-1957-03-26/): The select committee's hearing at which Teamsters president Dave Beck, sworn, challenged the committee's jurisdiction and declined to answer questions about union money, saying a truthful answer "might tend to incriminate me."
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 53 (June 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-53-1959/): Printed hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Part 53, June 1959, including Sam Giancana's appearance on June 9, 1959 and staff testimony about him and Anthony Accardo.
- [McClellan Committee: Pierre Salinger on Anthony Zerilli, Jack Tocco and the Detroit laundry and overall industry (June 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-53-salinger-zerilli-tocco-1959/): While John LaRocca of Pittsburgh declined to answer, committee investigator Pierre Salinger said the committee had found 'hoodlum-dominated companies' in the Detroit laundry and overall industry, named Anthony Zerilli and Jack Tocco, and called them owners of the Melrose Linen Co. and the Hazel Park Racetrack.
- [McClellan Committee hearings, Part 55: Anthony Provenzano declines to answer (July 1959)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-part-55-provenzano-1959-07-06/): Printed hearings of 1, 6, 7, 8 and 9 July 1959. On 6 July Anthony Provenzano, with counsel, declined to state his occupation or to answer Robert Kennedy's questions about Teamsters offices and payments, saying his answer "might tend to incriminate me."
- [Interim Report of the McClellan Committee, S. Rept. 85-1417 (March 1958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-srept-85-1417-interim-report-1958/): The select committee's report on its first year, ordered printed 24 March 1958. It finds that Dave Beck "took, not borrowed, more than $370,000 in union funds" and that James R. Hoffa "repeatedly betrayed the members of his own union."
- [Final Report of the McClellan Committee, Part 3, S. Rept. 86-1139 (March 1960): the criminal syndicate, and Hoffa](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-srept-86-1139-part-3-1960/): Part 3 of the committee's final report, ordered printed 28 March 1960. It finds that "underworld infiltration of business and labor is a national problem" and restates its findings on James R. Hoffa, adding that it had found him "faithless to the members of his own union."
- [Final Report of the McClellan Committee, Part 4, S. Rept. 86-1139 (March 1960): the coin-operated machine industry](https://mobfiles.org/items/mcclellan-srept-86-1139-part-4-1960/): Part 4 of the committee's final report, ordered printed 31 March 1960, on jukeboxes, pinball and vending machines. It opens: "Alarming examples of criminal domination of legitimate business achieved by using corrupt unions keynoted the committee's extensive hearings."
- [The United States of America v. Alphonse Capone: criminal case file, Nos. 22852 and 23232](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-1105475-us-v-capone-case-file/): National Archives file unit for the 1931 federal income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone in the U.S. District Court at Chicago, case numbers 22852 and 23232. The catalog lists 226 item-level descriptions under it.
- [Clarence Anglin's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1485 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695644-clarence-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1485, with 525 digitized pages. The description gives receipt on 16 January 1961 and an end date of 11 June 1962, the date of the escape; the catalog remark reads presumed dead.
- [John Anglin's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1476 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695645-john-anglin-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1476, with 465 digitized pages. The description gives receipt on 24 October 1960 and an end date of 11 June 1962, the date of the escape; the catalog remark reads presumed dead.
- [Harvey Bailey's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 139 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695666-bailey-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 139, about 2,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 and transfer back on 8 September 1946.
- [Arthur Barker's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 268 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695687-doc-barker-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 268, about 300 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 and "DEATH" as the destination on 13 January 1939.
- [James Bulger's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1428 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695806-bulger-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1428, with 580 digitized pages. The description gives receipt from Atlanta on 13 November 1959 and transfer to Leavenworth on 25 July 1962.
- [Capone's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 85 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695842-capone-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for Capone's comprehensive Alcatraz inmate case file, 2,688 pages, not yet online. The description gives receipt from Atlanta on 22 August 1934, transfer on 4 January 1939, and death on 25 January 1947 at Miami Beach.
- [Paul John Carbo's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1568 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695843-carbo-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1568, about 1,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt on 24 May 1962 by direct commitment and a transfer on 6 February 1963 whose destination differs from the notebook page's handwritten header.
- [Meyer Harris Cohen's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1518 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117695896-cohen-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 1518, about 7,000 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt on 28 July 1961 by direct commitment and release on appeal bond on 17 October 1961.
- [Roy Gardner's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 110 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117696111-gardner-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 110, about 1,500 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 and transfer back on 8 August 1936.
- [Alvin Karpavicz's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 325 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117696353-karpis-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 325, about 1,800 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 and transfer back on 24 February 1958.
- [George Kelly's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 117 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117696360-kelly-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 117, with 1,410 digitized pages. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 and transfer back on 29 May 1951.
- [Robert Stroud's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 594 (National Archives catalog entry)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-117696972-stroud-alcatraz-case-file/): Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 594, about 16,500 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 19 December 1942 and a 1959 transfer whose destination conflicts with the Bureau of Prisons' account.
- [William H. Webster, Thomas F. Ryan Lecture, Georgetown University Law Center, October 13, 1982](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-118567890-webster-ryan-lecture-1982/): FBI Director Webster's lecture "The Informant, Electronic Surveillance, and the Undercover Agent," in a White House Counsel folder at the Reagan Library. Without naming him, he describes the agent who "assumed his role six years ago. In his undercover role, he was known as 'Donnie Brasco.'"
- [FBI announcement and briefing outline, "LCN Commission Indictment," February 26, 1985](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-118568050-commission-indictment-briefing-1985/): The FBI's announcement of the Commission indictment, forwarded to John Roberts at the White House, lists "Philip Rastelli, Boss, Bonnano Family." Its briefing outline says the Commission "authorized the murders of" Galante, Coppola, Alphonse Indelicato, Trinchera, Giaccone and "Anthony Indelicato, solider," and lists "Testimony of UCAs (Pistone)."
- [George E. Q. Johnson's handwritten notes (8 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021802-johnson-notes-1931/): Handwritten notes dated 8 October 1931 that the catalog says U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson made during the Capone income-tax prosecution.
- [Notes for Argument in Capone Case (October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021803-capone-argument-notes-1931/): Typed notes for the government's argument in the Capone income-tax trial, October 1931, which the catalog attributes to George E. Q. Johnson.
- [Telegram to U.S. Attorney Johnson about Capone in the Cook County Jail (2 December 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021804-capone-jail-telegram-1931/): Western Union telegram of 2 December 1931 to George E. Q. Johnson reporting that Al Capone was running his liquor business from the county jail, and asking for an investigation.
- [Contempt of court investigation of the Cook County Jail superintendents (December 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021805-cook-county-jail-contempt-1931/): Records of a December 1931 contempt-of-court investigation of Cook County Jail superintendent David T. Moneypenny and assistant superintendent George Gibson, filed in the U.S. Attorney's Capone prosecution file.
- [Letter from George E. Q. Johnson to G. A. Youngquist (6 May 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021807-johnson-youngquist-letter-1931/): Carbon of a 'Personal & Confidential' letter from U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson to Assistant Attorney General G. A. Youngquist asking to move their meeting earlier.
- [Letter from Attorney General William D. Mitchell to George E. Q. Johnson (24 July 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021808-mitchell-johnson-letter-1931/): The Attorney General approves the Chicago U.S. Attorney's proposal to recommend a sentence of two and one-half years if Capone pleaded guilty to the income-tax counts.
- [Summary of Indictments in United States v. Alphonse Capone (1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12021809-capone-summary-of-indictments-1931/): Typed memorandum to 'Mr. Johnson' summarizing Capone's two income-tax indictments, No. 22852 (one count, 1924) and No. 23232 (twenty-two counts, 1925–1929).
- [Nick Circella, Leavenworth inmate 60609, 1944 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-12089393-nick-circella-leavenworth-1944/): Front and profile mug shot from the Leavenworth inmate file of Nick Circella, inmate 60609, with a placard dated 2-9-44. A copy is stored here.
- [Statement by President Roosevelt on signing the crime bills, 18 May 1934 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-122180225-fdr-crime-bill-statement-1934/): The President's statement on signing the May 1934 federal crime bills, which he calls "a renewed challenge on the part of the Federal government to interstate crime." The marked-up draft includes the line "Federal men are constantly facing machine-gun fire in the pursuit of gangsters."
- [United States v. Howard T. Winter et al., criminal case file 79-CR-00042-MA (D. Mass.)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-135841179-us-v-winter-case-file/): 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.
- [Brass knuckles from J. Edgar Hoover's photograph files (FBI)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-141225374-fbi-brass-knuckles/): An FBI photograph of two metal knuckle-dusters on black cloth, one stamped with a maker's patent mark and the other engraved "J. Edgar Hoover, Chief F.B.I., Washington D.C." The catalog gives no date or case.
- [Secret Service daily reports, New York District, 13 April 1903: the watch on Morrello at Stanton Street and Elizabeth Street (T915 roll 109, pages 85-89)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-151173326-secret-service-1903-04-13-reports-pp85-89/): Operatives' reports for 13 April 1903, the day before the barrel was found: agents followed 'Morrello' to La Duca's butcher shop at 16 Stanton Street and to Elizabeth Street, where he met 'Cascioferro' and other men.
- [Secret Service daily reports, New York District, 14-17 April 1903: the body identified, the arrests, and a telegram about a letter to New Orleans (T915 roll 109, pages 103-111)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-151173326-secret-service-1903-04-14-17-reports-pp103-111/): Secret Service reports received on 17 April 1903: an operative's identification of the body at the Morgue as a man seen 'with Morrello et al.' the day before, the arrests of 15 April, a telegram to Chief Wilkie about a letter that 'indicated that murder was to be done', and the list of suspects.
- [Secret Service daily report, New York District, about 8-9 April 1903: search warrants and the watch on Morrello and Lupo (T915 roll 109, pages 47-49)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-151173326-secret-service-1903-04-reports-pp47-49/): Typed pages of the U.S. Secret Service New York District daily report from the week before the barrel killing: an application for search warrants for premises including those of 'Giuseppe Morrello' and 'Ignazio Lupo', and operatives' surveillance in a counterfeiting inquiry.
- [Secret Service daily report, New York District, 15 November 1909: search warrants on 'Morrello et al.' with the Italian Squad (T915 roll 116, pages 162-173)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-151194549-secret-service-1909-11-15-reports-pp162-173/): The New York District's report of the day Secret Service agents, helped by ten members of the New York police Italian Squad, executed search warrants against 'Morrello et al.' in a counterfeiting case. An agent wrote that he was 'satisfied' Morrello held 'very damaging "Black Hand" letters'; that is the agent's belief, not a finding.
- [Secret Service daily report, New York District, early January 1910: the watch on Callicchio and the arrest of Comito (T915 roll 116, pages 831-833)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-151196549-secret-service-1910-01-reports-pp831-833/): Pages of the New York District daily report for about 3-6 January 1910, three weeks before the counterfeiting trial: agents on watch for Callicchio, the arrest of Comito, and a list of charges, signed by William J. Flynn as 'Operative in charge'.
- [Internal Revenue Bureau chemical laboratory, testing whiskies (Treasury lantern slide, about 1915)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-158884157-irb-testing-whiskies-lantern-slide/): A hand-coloured Treasury lantern slide captioned "Internal Revenue Bureau, Chemical Laboratory, Testing Whiskies": a man beside a long rack of glass distilling apparatus and labelled whiskey bottles. The catalog serves this slide's scan under a neighbouring record.
- [Secret Service Division: William J. Flynn, Chief of Division, and staff (Treasury lantern slide, about 1915)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-158884159-secret-service-flynn-staff-lantern-slide/): A hand-coloured Treasury lantern slide captioned "Secret Service Division, William J. Flynn, Chief of Division, and Staff": nine men in an office around a desk. The slide does not say which man is Flynn.
- [Internal Revenue Bureau: captured opium outfit (Treasury lantern slide, about 1915)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-158884169-irb-captured-opium-outfit/): A hand-coloured Treasury lantern slide captioned "Internal Revenue Bureau. Captured Opium Outfit": a long opium pipe, a lamp, a small scale, tools and a tin box laid out on a table.
- [Internal Revenue Bureau: two moonshiners' stills captured in a raid (Treasury lantern slide, about 1915)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-158884171-irb-moonshiners-stills/): A hand-coloured Treasury lantern slide captioned "Internal Revenue Bureau. Two Moonshiners' Stills; Captured in Raid": two small metal pot stills with coiled tubing on a table.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22066: William P. Colbeck](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164583999-william-colbeck-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22066, with "WILLIAM P. COLBECK 22066" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of William P. Colbeck, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22067: Oliver Daugherty](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164584002-oliver-daugherty-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22067, with "22067 Oliver Daugherty" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of Oliver Daugherty, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22069: Gustav B. Dietmeyer](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164584015-gustav-dietmeyer-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22069, with "GUSTAV B. DIETMEYER 22069" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of Gustav B. Dietmeyer, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22070: Frank Hackethal](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164584018-frank-hackethal-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22070, with "FRANK HECKETHAL 22070" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of Frank Hackethal, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22071: Charles Lanham](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164584021-charles-lanham-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22071, with "22071 Charles Lanham" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of Charles Lanham, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Leavenworth identification photograph, No. 22072: Stephen Ryan](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-164584036-stephen-ryan-leavenworth/): Front and profile Bureau of Prisons photograph numbered 22072, with "22072 Stephen Ryan" written on the back, from the Leavenworth inmate case file of Stephen Ryan, one of the men convicted in the 1924 Staunton mail-robbery case. A copy is stored here.
- [Attorney General Francis Biddle to President Roosevelt, 10 April 1945, on Joseph Schenck and the Bioff and Browne prosecutions](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16618903-biddle-to-roosevelt-1945-04-10/): Recommending against a pardon for Joseph Schenck, the Attorney General writes that after Bioff and Browne were convicted "they testified for the Government against a group of Chicago racketeers," that Judge Knox modified their sentences, and that "they were recently released."
- ["A Well Stocked Los Angeles Store Awaits Repeal" (7 December 1933 caption)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16647181-los-angeles-store-awaits-repeal-1933/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph of a Los Angeles liquor counter. The original caption says the dealer was ready when ratification of the repeal amendment "flashed over the wires," and that his stock ran out soon after the doors opened.
- [Cleveland gets its beer from outside sources (9 April 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16647182-cleveland-beer-trucks-1933/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph of men unloading crates of bottled beer from a truck. The catalog title says that because local brewers would have none of their own brew aged before 1 May, Cleveland had to get its beer from outside sources.
- [A Milwaukee brewery readies for the end of Prohibition (catalog date 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16647183-milwaukee-brewery-repeal/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph of a brewhouse with a row of large domed kettles. The catalog title says a Milwaukee brewery had improved its facilities to get ready for the end of Prohibition.
- [An automobile decked out with signs for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (May 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16647184-repeal-automobile-1932/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph of an open car hung with flags and banners for repeal, driving past a crowd. The catalog dates it 1 May 1932.
- [Coast Guardsmen examine a haul of whiskey in New York Harbor](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16647185-coast-guard-whiskey-haul-new-york/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Coast Guardsmen Examine a Haul of Whiskey in New York Harbor": sailors on a vessel alongside an open boat heaped with sacked bundles. No date is given.
- [Leavenworth record card for Frank Zito, No. 43067, 1933 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-167822477-frank-zito-leavenworth-1933/): Leavenworth record card for Frank Zito, No. 43067, with front and profile photographs, recording his receipt on 1 March 1933 under a two-year Prohibition conspiracy sentence. A copy is stored here.
- [Bureau of Prisons Notorious Offender Files, 1920–2010: Capone, boxes 32–33](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-168943273-notorious-offender-files/): National Archives series of Bureau of Prisons files on notorious inmates. The container list places Capone's file, under register numbers 85-AZ, 397-CAL and 9243-NE, in boxes 32 and 33. Access is fully restricted.
- [Pro-Prohibition booth at Parents' Exposition Week, Grand Central Palace (23 February 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16972692-pro-prohibition-booth-1929/): A photograph in the Internal Revenue Service's general records of a pro-Prohibition booth in New York: signs reading "Buyers Make Bootleggers" and "Law Breakers Must Not Be Law Makers," a board of counterfeit strip stamps and labels, and a man holding a bottle of gin.
- [Bureau of Prohibition agent's memorandum of a manufacture and possession case (18 June 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16972723-agents-memorandum-sale-manufacture-1930/): National Archives printed Bureau of Prohibition form, filled in by typewriter, summarizing a case for manufacture and possession against an unidentified violator, listing a seized 600-gallon still and 4,800 gallons of mash.
- [Exhibit Number 3: illicit distillery, Chicago, seized 25 September 1929 (Wickersham Commission records)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16972730-chicago-illicit-distillery-exhibit-1929/): A photograph in the Wickersham Commission's Prohibition committee records, marked "Ex No 3," of a riveted tank and column still in a basement room; the handwritten caption gives a Chicago street address and the seizure date 25 September 1929.
- [Commissioner of Prohibition Doran to the Wickersham Commission on a Chicago residence converted to a distillery (4 October 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-16972736-doran-to-wickersham-1929/): National Archives letter from J. M. Doran, Commissioner of Prohibition, to George W. Wickersham, chairman of the National Commission on Law Observation and Enforcement, describing enclosed photographs of a Chicago residence converted into a large illicit distillery.
- [Identification Order No. 1217, John Dillinger (National Archives copy, 60-NP-319)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-175539853-dillinger-identification-order-1217/): The National Archives' copy of the Division of Investigation's 12 March 1934 wanted notice for John Dillinger, catalogued as a photograph in the Department of Justice's records. A copy is stored here.
- [Dutch Schultz mug shot (National Archives, 65-CC-37-3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-175539863-dutch-schultz-mugshot/): Undated front and profile mug shot of Dutch Schultz, also known as Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, held by the National Archives in the FBI's criminal-case photograph series. A copy is stored here.
- [Charles Luciano mug shot, June 1936 (National Archives, 65-CC-37-9)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-175539865-charles-luciano-mugshot-1936/): Front and profile mug shot of Charles Luciano with a placard reading "B92168 JUNE 1936", held by the National Archives in the FBI's criminal-case photograph series. A copy is stored here.
- ["Various Views of John Dillinger": FBI composite of nine photographs](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-176251172-dillinger-various-views/): An undated FBI photographic composite of nine views of John Dillinger's face, held by the National Archives in the FBI's records. A copy is stored here.
- [White House release of Executive Order 10132: tax returns open to the Kefauver Committee (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-178295523-eo-10132-press-release-1950/): One-page White House release of June 17, 1950, printing President Truman's executive order opening tax returns through 1949 to the special committee created by Senate Resolution 202.
- ["Firearms and the Crime Problem," address by Attorney General Homer Cummings, Baltimore, 5 October 1937](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179028714-cummings-firearms-crime-1937/): Attorney General Cummings explains that his 1934 bill was patterned upon the Harrison Narcotic Act, that without pistols the act became "a federal machine gun act," and reports registrations of 9,316 submachine guns, 11,520 machine guns and machine rifles, 16,456 miscellaneous weapons and 769 silencers in three years.
- ["Firearms Control," radio interview with Attorney General Homer Cummings by Rex Collier, 25 April 1938](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179028728-cummings-firearms-control-1938/): Prepared Department of Justice release of a broadcast interview in which Cummings argues for extending the 1934 act to pistols and revolvers and says the Department's files hold "long lists of weapons seized from criminals."
- [Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, address to the Attorney General's Conference on Law Enforcement Problems (15 February 1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179029088-mcgrath-address-1950-02-15/): McGrath told the conference that "the mobsters of the 1930's have not been entirely eliminated" and that gambling as a private business "cannot operate on its present gigantic scale without corrupting what it touches."
- [Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, address on the gambling-device act and the wire service, Highland Park, Illinois (10 August 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179029140-mcgrath-address-1951-08-10/): Prepared for the first annual meeting of the National Association of County and Prosecuting Attorneys: McGrath reported 126 registered manufacturers and dealers under the gambling-device law and called the wire service "the lifeblood of nationwide, illegal bookmaking activities."
- [Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, statement to House Judiciary Subcommittee No. 5 on the organized-crime bills (17 May 1961)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179029490-kennedy-house-statement-1961-05-17/): Kennedy's statement in support of the bills that became the Travel Act and the Wire Act: the wire bill "would prohibit the use of wire communication facilities for the transmission of certain gambling information in interstate and foreign commerce."
- [Statement by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, September 25, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179029658-rfk-statement-1963-09-25/): The Justice Department's 24-page typescript of Kennedy's prepared statement for the opening day of the 1963 hearings, held by the National Archives with the Attorney General's speeches.
- [Statement of Attorney General William French Smith to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, New York, 23 October 1984 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-179030980-attorney-general-smith-statement-1984/): The Attorney General's prepared statement to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, linking organized crime's "international phase" to drug trafficking and reporting 41 indictments in a heroin ring after an arrest in Spain that April.
- [Transcript excerpt: opening statement and testimony of Anthony Ciulla, fourth day of trial, May 8, 1979 (United States v. Winter)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-192803662-winter-trial-ciulla-1979-05-08/): 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.
- [Transcript: fifth day of trial, May 9, 1979 (United States v. Winter)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-192803835-winter-trial-day-5-1979-05-09/): 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.
- [Transcript: thirtieth day of trial, June 21, 1979 (United States v. Winter)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-192808621-winter-trial-day-30-1979-06-21/): 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.
- [Transcript: Judge Mazzone's charge to the jury, July 6, 1979 (United States v. Winter)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-192810330-winter-trial-jury-charge-1979-07-06/): 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.
- [Transcript: the verdict, 4:30 p.m., July 11, 1979 (United States v. Winter)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-192810459-winter-trial-verdict-1979-07-11/): 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.
- [Habeas corpus docket, Case No. 84: United States ex rel. William Bioff v. Edward J. Denemark (N.D. Ill., 1940)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-200542744-bioff-habeas-docket-84-1940/): Docket sheet from the Chicago federal court's habeas corpus dockets. Bioff petitioned on 10 July 1940 against the superintendent of the City of Chicago House of Correction; the petition was dismissed on 30 July 1940.
- [U.S. v. Arthur Flegenheimer, alias "Dutch Schultz" (National Archives file unit)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-203234254-us-v-flegenheimer-file-unit/): National Archives catalog entry for the case file of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Arthur Flegenheimer, held in Boxes 64 to 75 at the National Archives at Kansas City. Two items in it are digitized: the 1934 identification order and the Treasury broadside.
- [Identification Order No. 1234: Arthur Flegenheimer, "Federal Income Tax Law Violation" (19 November 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-203234256-flegenheimer-identification-order-1234/): Division of Investigation wanted notice for Arthur Flegenheimer, with aliases including "Dutch" Schultz, indicted in the Southern District of New York on 25 January 1933 for violating the federal income tax law. A copy is stored here.
- ["Wanted for Violation of Federal Income Tax Law": Treasury broadside for Arthur Flegenheimer and Henry Margolis (1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-203234258-income-tax-wanted-flegenheimer-margolis-1934/): A 1934 Treasury Department, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Intelligence Unit broadside with fingerprints and booking photographs of Arthur Flegenheimer ("Dutch Schultz") and Henry Margolis. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz Lighthouse, 12th Coast Guard District (9 December 1946)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205573479-alcatraz-lighthouse-1946/): A Coast Guard photograph, dated 9 December 1946 in the catalog, of the Alcatraz lighthouse tower and keeper's house on the island that then held the federal penitentiary.
- [Aiming a "Tommy" gun from a Coast Guard aircraft (30 September 1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205576693-coast-guard-tommy-gun-1941/): A Coast Guard aviation photograph of 30 September 1941: a man in a flying helmet aims a drum-fed submachine gun from an aircraft window. The caption says the aviation arm helps locate smuggling vessels and capture escaped convicts.
- [Coast Guard destroyer AMMEN (CG-8) picketing a rum-runner off New Jersey (28 April 1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205576739-destroyer-ammen-cg-8-1926/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph: per the catalog's original caption, the Coast Guard destroyer AMMEN (CG-8), a 742-ton oil burner with four stacks, picketing a rum-runner off the New Jersey coast outside the 12-mile limit.
- [Illicit still found by the Coast Guard and Alcohol Tax Unit, Craven County, North Carolina (30 November 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590823-illicit-still-craven-county-1948/): A Coast Guard photograph of 30 November 1948: wooden fermenting boxes and barrels among thin trees. The catalog says the Coast Guard and the Alcohol Tax Unit located the distillery in Craven County, North Carolina.
- [Illicit still, Craven County, North Carolina: barrels and piping (30 November 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590826-illicit-still-craven-county-1948-b/): A second Coast Guard photograph of the Craven County still of November 1948: barrels and a box vat joined by metal pipes among trees. The catalog credits the find to the Coast Guard and the Alcohol Tax Unit.
- [Illicit still, Craven County, North Carolina: barrels under a pipe (30 November 1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590829-illicit-still-craven-county-1948-c/): A third Coast Guard frame of the Craven County still of November 1948: stained barrels joined by pipes under a horizontal pipe hung with a cloth, among tree trunks at night or in deep shade.
- [Coast Guard vessel inspecting a rum-running vessel off New Jersey (12 January 1927)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590832-rum-runners-1927/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph titled "Rum-runners": per the catalog, a Coast Guard vessel inspecting a rum-running vessel off the coast of New Jersey. A two-masted vessel with a small boat of men alongside is shown.
- [Rum-running vessel LINWOOD set afire by her crew (4 May 1923)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590835-linwood-set-afire-1923/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph: per the catalog, the rum-running vessel LINWOOD set afire by her crew to destroy evidence during pursuit by a Coast Guard vessel.
- [Coast Guard destroyer BEALE chasing a rum-running vessel](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590838-destroyer-beale-rum-runner/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer BEALE. The catalog says it shows the vessel chasing a rum-running vessel in the North Atlantic. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Coast Guard picketboat firing on a rum-running vessel, Atlantic coast (18 March 1927)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590841-pursuit-of-rum-runners-1927/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph, per the catalog a Coast Guard picketboat firing upon a rum-running vessel off the Atlantic coast. The catalog names no vessels or people.
- [Coast Guard destroyer TERRY pursues the French rum-runner MISTINGUETT (1 June 1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590844-terry-pursues-rum-runners-1926/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph: per the catalog, the Coast Guard destroyer TERRY pursuing the French rum-running vessel MISTINGUETT. No location or people are given.
- [Coast Guard destroyer BEALE on patrol for rum-running vessels (12 March 1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590847-destroyer-beale-1925/): National Archives Coast Guard photograph: per the catalog, the Coast Guard destroyer BEALE on patrol searching for rum-running vessels in the Atlantic. The record names the vessel only.
- [Coast Guard destroyer SHAW on patrol for rum-running vessels](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590850-destroyer-shaw/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer SHAW. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Coast Guard destroyer PORTER on patrol for rum-running vessels](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590865-destroyer-porter/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer PORTER. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Coast Guard destroyer HUNT on patrol for rum-running vessels](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590874-destroyer-hunt/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer HUNT. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Coast Guard destroyer SEMMES on patrol for rum-running vessels](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590880-destroyer-semmes-1934/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer SEMMES. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Coast Guard destroyer BURROWS on patrol for rum-running vessels](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590886-destroyer-burrows/): A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer BURROWS. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- [Letter from Senator Harry P. Cain to Senator Lester Hunt (1950)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-210023361-cain-letter-to-hunt-1950/): Letter of December 6, 1950 from Senator Harry P. Cain to Lester Hunt, a member of the Kefauver Committee, forwarding an attached memorandum; the National Archives item has four page images, of which only the covering letter was read.
- [Commitment of William Brown to Leavenworth, 16 November 1920: 'Using the Mails in Scheme to Defraud (Black Hand)'](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-214445316-brown-commitment-1920-11-16/): Printed writ of commitment witnessed by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis and signed by the clerk: William Brown, found guilty on an indictment for 'Using the Mails in Scheme to Defraud (Black Hand)', was sentenced on 16 November 1920 to five years at Leavenworth.
- [The United States vs. William Brown: 'Black Hand' mail case, Chicago, 1920 (case file)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-214445316-us-v-brown-1920/): National Archives case file from the federal court at Chicago: the catalog note says William Brown was accused of mailing letters threatening to kill a woman unless she paid $500, and was found guilty and sentenced to five years at Leavenworth. The court's commitment form labels the offence '(Black Hand)'.
- [Indictment, United States v. Salvatore Lima et al., first page of text (Northern District of Ohio, December Term 1909)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-219793790-lima-indictment-p2/): Typed first page of the federal grand-jury indictment naming sixteen defendants and charging that on 3 November 1908, at Marion, Ohio, they conspired to violate section 5480 of the Revised Statutes, the mail-fraud statute.
- [Indictment, United States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: the 'Black-Hand' averment (file page 5)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-219793790-lima-indictment-p5-black-hand/): A page of the 1909 Marion, Ohio, indictment charging that the defendants were members of an organisation 'known and designated as "The Black-Hand"' and would send anonymous letters 'written in a Sicilian dialect of the Italian language' demanding money under threat. The government's charge, quoted as the record's words.
- [United States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: the Marion, Ohio, Black Hand indictment, December 1909 (case file)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-219793790-us-v-lima-et-al-indictment-1909/): National Archives case file for the federal indictment of sixteen men in the Northern District of Ohio, filed 11 December 1909, charging a conspiracy begun at Marion, Ohio, to use the mails to defraud by threatening letters as members of an organisation the indictment calls 'The Black-Hand'.
- [United States v. Salvatore Lima et al.: trial file with the verdict of 29 January 1910](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-219793791-us-v-lima-et-al-trial-file-1910/): Companion National Archives file to the Marion, Ohio, Black Hand indictment: the catalog note says it holds the indictment, the threatening letters in Italian with translations, other filings, and the verdict of 29 January 1910 finding the defendants guilty.
- [John Herbert Dillinger case file, U.S. Attorney, Northern District of Indiana (National Archives at Chicago)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-231363203-dillinger-case-file-crown-point-1934/): Catalog entry for the U.S. Attorney's file that, per NARA's description, documents Dillinger's 3 March 1934 escape from the Crown Point, Indiana, jail, which NARA says he made with a fake handgun carved from wood. 167 digitized pages.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Roy Gardner, No. 110](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734254-roy-gardner-alcatraz-1934/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Roy Gardner, No. 110 AZ, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 for robbery of the mails (District of Arizona); a red header records his transfer to Leavenworth on 8 August 1936. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson, No. 1117](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734275-bumpy-johnson-alcatraz-1954/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Ellsworth Johnson, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 14 April 1954 under a 15-year narcotics sentence from the Southern District of New York. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for George R. Kelly, No. 117](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734340-george-kelly-alcatraz-1934/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of George R. Kelly, No. 117, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping from the Western District of Oklahoma. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Albert L. Bates, No. 137](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734592-george-bates-alcatraz-1934/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Albert L. Bates, No. 137, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom; a red header records his death in the prison hospital on 4 July 1948. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734616-harvey-bailey-alcatraz-1934/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harvey J. Bailey, No. 139, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom; stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 8 September 1946. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James J. Bulger, Jr., No. 1428](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734663-whitey-bulger-alcatraz-1959/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of James J. Bulger, Jr., received at Alcatraz from Atlanta on 13 November 1959 under a 20-year sentence for robbery of an FDIC bank. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen, No. 1518](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734774-mickey-cohen-alcatraz-1961/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Meyer Harris Cohen, received at Alcatraz on 28 July 1961 under a 15-year income-tax sentence from the Southern District of California. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Paul John Carbo, No. 1568](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734838-frankie-carbo-alcatraz-1962/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Paul John Carbo, No. 1568-AZ, received at Alcatraz from the Southern District of California on 24 May 1962 under a 25-year sentence for obstructing interstate commerce by extortion; a red header gives a transfer on 2-6-63. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James Ryan, No. 189](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734919-james-ryan-alcatraz-1934/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of James Ryan, No. 189, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a 20-year sentence and $10,000 fine for post-office (mail) robbery (District of Minnesota); stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 28 April 1942. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for James C. Lucas, No. 224](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236734998-tex-lucas-alcatraz-1935/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of James C. Lucas, No. 224, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 24 January 1935 under a sentence for national bank robbery and the Dyer Act (Northern District of Texas); a note records a 1938 federal first-degree murder verdict and life sentence. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for John Paul Chase, No. 238](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735026-chase-alcatraz-238/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of John Paul Chase, received at Alcatraz on 31 March 1935 by direct commitment from the court at Chicago for "Killing Federal Officer," life sentence. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Volney Davis, No. 271](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735104-volney-davis-alcatraz-1935/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Volney Davis, No. 271, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person (Minnesota, St. Paul); stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 30 March 1947. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Harry Sawyer, No. 297](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735160-harry-sawyer-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harry Sawyer, No. 297, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 27 April 1936 under a life sentence for conspiracy under the Kidnapping Act (Minnesota, St. Paul); stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 24 May 1943. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Frank Epplesheimer, No. 309](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735187-frank-eppelsheimer-alcatraz-309/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page for a defendant in the Staunton mail-robbery case, received at Alcatraz on 30 May 1936 and transferred back to Leavenworth on 10 July 1938. Its codefendants box names the other men convicted with him and gives the place of sentence as Quincy, Illinois. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Joe Stein, No. 319](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735207-joe-stein-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Joe Stein, No. 319, received at Alcatraz on 6 August 1936 on the Fleisher internal revenue conspiracy case from Detroit; transferred to Leavenworth 18 March 1937. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Harry Fleisher, No. 320](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735209-harry-fleisher-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harry Fleisher, No. 320, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 on an internal revenue conspiracy conviction from Detroit; co-defendants Sam Fleisher, Joe Stein and Jack Selbin. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Harry Campbell, No. 322](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735214-harry-campbell-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Harry Campbell, No. 322, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a life sentence for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person (Minnesota, St. Paul); stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 28 April 1942. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Alvin Karpavicz, No. 325](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735220-alvin-karpis-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Alvin Karpavicz, No. 325, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a life sentence for conspiring to kidnap and transport (Minnesota, St. Paul); stamped transferred to Leavenworth on 2-24-58. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Jack Selbin, No. 326](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735226-jack-selbin-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Jack Selbin, No. 326, received at Alcatraz on 6 August 1936 on the Fleisher internal revenue conspiracy case from Detroit; his eight-year term was amended by the court to six years in June 1938. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Sam Fleisher, No. 327](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735228-sam-fleisher-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Sam Fleisher, No. 327, received at Alcatraz on 6 August 1936 on the same Detroit internal revenue conspiracy case as his brother Harry; transferred to Leavenworth 18 March 1937. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Frank B. Mulloy, No. 330](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735234-fritz-mulloy-alcatraz-1936/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Frank B. Mulloy, No. 330, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a two-year sentence and $10,000 fine for conspiracy (Western District of Missouri, Kansas City); a red header records transfer to Leavenworth on 25 September 1937. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz Warden's Notebook page: Richard Tallman Galatas, No. 331](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735236-alcatraz-galatas-331/): A Bureau of Prisons notebook page for Alcatraz inmate 331: conspiracy, two years and a $10,000 fine from W.D. Missouri, received 6 August 1936 from Leavenworth and transferred back 25 September 1937, with a 'Reason For Transfer' that refers to the murder of officers returning Frank Nash.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Bernard Paul Coy, No. 415](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735451-barney-coy-alcatraz-1937/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Bernard Paul Coy, No. 415, received at Alcatraz from Atlanta on 31 July 1937 under a sentence for conspiracy, bank robbery and related counts (Western District of Kentucky); a typed header records the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Sam Richard Shockley, No. 462](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735583-sam-shockley-alcatraz-1938/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Sam Richard Shockley, No. 462, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 23 September 1938 under a life sentence for bank robbery and kidnapping (Eastern District of Oklahoma); a handwritten header records execution in the San Quentin gas chamber on 12-3-48. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Joseph Paul Cretzer, No. 548](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735810-dutch-cretzer-alcatraz-1940/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Joseph Paul Cretzer, No. 548, received at Alcatraz from USP McNeil on 27 August 1940 under sentences for bank robbery, escape and second-degree murder; a typed header records the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Basil Hugh Banghart, No. 595](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236735894-basil-banghart-alcatraz-1943/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Basil Hugh Banghart, received at Alcatraz from Joliet, Illinois, on 7 January 1943. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Marvin Franklin Hubbard, No. 645](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236736023-marvin-hubbard-alcatraz-1944/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Marvin Franklin Hubbard, No. 645-AZ, received at Alcatraz from USP Atlanta on 7 December 1944 under a 30-year sentence (Eastern District of Tennessee, Chattanooga); a typed header records the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Clarence Carnes, No. 714](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236736248-clarence-carnes-alcatraz-1945/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Clarence Carnes, No. 714-AZ, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 6 July 1945 under sentences for kidnapping and escape from the custody of a U.S. marshal (Western District of Oklahoma); a red header gives a transfer to the Medical Center at Springfield, Missouri, on 1-15-63. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Miran Edgar Thompson, No. 729](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236736293-miran-thompson-alcatraz-1945/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Miran Edgar Thompson, No. 729-AZ, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 15 October 1945 under a life sentence for kidnapping and violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act (Northern District of Texas, Amarillo); a handwritten header records execution in the San Quentin gas chamber on 12-3-48. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Alphonse Capone, No. 85](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-236736566-alcatraz-wardens-notebook-capone-85/): Bureau of Prisons form with Capone's Alcatraz identification photograph, holding a card numbered 85. It records his receipt from Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1934, his tax sentence, parole denied in 1935, and his transfer to Terminal Island in January 1939.
- [Order of Destruction, E.D. Pennsylvania, No. 710 March Sessions 1924 (8 October 1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-23932797-order-of-destruction-mitchell-1926/): National Archives district-court order directing the U.S. Marshal to destroy liquor and property seized from a defendant who had pleaded guilty, because it was not fit for medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes.
- [Information, E.D. Pennsylvania, No. 908 September Sessions 1924 (15 September 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-23932801-information-torrances-1924/): National Archives district-court information filed by the U.S. Attorney charging that on 7 July 1924, at Philadelphia, a defendant transported forty half barrels of beer above one-half of one percent alcohol, in violation of the National Prohibition Act.
- [Mug Shot of Al Capone (National Archives, 306-NT-163820c)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24520406-capone-mug-shot/): Police photograph of Capone in a light fedora and striped tie, with a placard numbered 90725 and dated in May '29, from the New York Times Paris Bureau photo file at the National Archives. A copy is stored here.
- [United States v. Carrelli et al., criminal case file, Southern District of Ohio at Cincinnati (1973-1974)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-246816237-us-v-carrelli-case-file-1973/): A 290-image National Archives case file of a federal gambling prosecution of five defendants at Cincinnati; its first page is a typed note of 14 June 1973 to Judge Porter listing the motions pending in case 11995.
- [Robert Stroud, Leavenworth inmate file, No. 17431-L (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24731415-stroud-leavenworth-inmate-file/): Leavenworth inmate file of Robert F. Stroud, 97 digitized pages. Page 2, stored here, is an Associate Warden's Record Card giving offense murder, a life sentence imposed 10 May 1920, and receipt on 28 February 1922.
- [U.S. v. Volney Davis (D. Minn.)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24731545-us-v-volney-davis/): Federal criminal case file at the National Archives for Volney Davis, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the Bremer kidnaping. 1,906 digitized pages.
- [United States v. Adam Richetti and Charles Floyd (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS99: praecipe for alias capias, No. 12697](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24734052-us-v-richetti-floyd-12697/): A 16-page National Archives case file whose first page is a praecipe for alias capias in 'The United States vs. Adam Richetti,' number 12697, reciting an indictment exhibited and filed on 22 October 1934, dated 1 December 1934 and signed by U.S. Attorney Maurice M. Milligan.
- [United States v. Richard Tallman Galatas, et al. (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS100](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24734069-us-v-galatas-ss100/): The National Archives file of the conspiracy case against Galatas and co-defendants runs 593 digitized pages; the first scan is a Leavenworth form of 7 July 1936 in which prisoner Louis Stacci states he was sentenced on 5 January 1935 to two years and a $10,000 fine.
- [United States v. Adam Richetti (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS101: indictment No. 12777](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-24734664-us-v-richetti-indictment-12777/): The first page of the 29-page W.D. Mo. case file is an indictment charging Adam Richetti, Charles Arthur Floyd alias 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, and Vernon C. Miller alias Verne Mason alias Verne Moore with conspiring to violate federal law concerning the custody of Frank Nash, an escaped Leavenworth prisoner.
- [Final Report of the Kefauver Committee (S. Rept. 82-725, 1951)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-25465648-kefauver-final-report-1951/): Digitized National Archives copy of Senate Report No. 725, 82d Congress, the Final Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, ordered printed August 31, 1951.
- [Kefauver Committee Final Report (S. Rept. 82-725, 1951), p. 30: Luciano's 'present residence in Italy, which dates from 1947'](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-25465648-kefauver-final-report-p30-luciano/): Page 30 of the committee's Final Report, in its narcotics section, reports enforcement officers' belief that Luciano was the 'operating head' of the heroin influx and summarizes his sworn statements to the Italian police, noting that his residence in Italy 'dates from 1947.'
- [Executive Grant of Clemency commuting James R. Hoffa's sentence, 23 December 1971 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-258225384-hoffa-clemency-1971/): President Nixon's Executive Grant of Clemency of 23 December 1971, filed in a Nixon White House staff folder, commuted James R. Hoffa's sentence to six and one-half years on condition that he not manage any labor organization before 6 March 1980.
- [The United States of America v. John Dillinger (federal case file, Hammond, Indiana, 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-2694456-us-v-dillinger-hammond/): Eleven-page federal case file from Hammond, Indiana with the arrest warrant, indictment and praecipe for capias charging John Dillinger with the auto theft at Crown Point. The case was dismissed after his death.
- [Order to arrest John Dillinger, U.S. District Court at Hammond, Indiana (11 June 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-2694465-dillinger-arrest-order-1934/): Capias issued by the federal court at Hammond on 11 June 1934 commanding the marshal to bring John Dillinger, with six aliases, to answer an indictment for motor theft, bail $25,000. The National Archives notes it was never served. A copy is stored here.
- [President's Official File 2126: Lupo, Ignazio, 1936 (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-2782569-fdr-of2126-lupo-1936/): A three-image file from the Roosevelt White House: a memorandum of 10 July 1936 recording that the President, on the Attorney General's advice and Governor Lehman's recommendation, revoked the commutation of Ignazio Lupo's sentence and ordered him returned to Atlanta, and a telegram telling the Governor.
- [Alcatraz dining room, 24 June 1957: "Following noon meal, inmates are checked back into cellhouse" (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-280956858-alcatraz-dining-room-1957/): Bureau of Prisons photograph of the Alcatraz main dining room on 24 June 1957. The catalog's caption reads that inmates are checked back into the cellhouse after the noon meal.
- [Alcatraz serving counter, 24 June 1957: "After count is secure, culinary employees can eat" (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-280956861-alcatraz-culinary-counter-1957/): Bureau of Prisons photograph at Alcatraz dated 24 June 1957 of men in white uniforms at a serving counter. The catalog's caption reads that culinary employees can eat after the count is secure.
- [Frank Nash (FBI photograph, 75th Anniversary series, National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-280957346-frank-nash-fbi-photo/): An FBI display photograph of Frank Nash with the Bureau's caption: member of the Keating-Holden-Nash gang, a 'burglar, bank robber and killer,' participant in the Leavenworth break of 11 December 1931, killed on 17 June 1933 in the Kansas City Massacre.
- [Bureau of Internal Revenue Intelligence Unit memorandum for the Secretary, 30 October 1939, naming "the William Bioff case" (Morgenthau Diaries, Book 220)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-28276256-intelligence-unit-memo-bioff-1939-10-30/): A Treasury memorandum stating that Joseph M. Schenck was "the dominating figure" in three tax cases, "his own individual case, the William Bioff case and the so-called Twentieth Century-Fox reorganization case," referred to the Justice Department in mid-1939 for criminal prosecution.
- [Treasury General Counsel's summary report for October 1942: "William Bioff" (Morgenthau Diaries, Book 594)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-28277176-treasury-counsel-report-october-1942/): The Treasury legal staff's monthly report, sent to Secretary Morgenthau on 8 December 1942, states that Bioff "is presently serving a ten-year sentence as a result of his conviction last year on charges of extortion from moving picture producers."
- [United States v. William P. "Dinty" Colbeck et al., criminal case file No. 25 (S.D. Ill.)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-285094043-us-v-colbeck-case-file/): National Archives description of the Southern District of Illinois case file on the 26 May 1923 robbery of mail custodians at Staunton, Illinois. The archivist's note says the defendants "were members of a gang called Egan's Rats" led by William P. "Dinty" Colbeck.
- [Indictment and court papers, United States v. William P. Colbeck et al. (S.D. Ill., September term 1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-292316476-colbeck-court-documents/): The digitized court papers of the Colbeck case. The indictment charges fourteen men, several under nicknames, with robbing two custodians of a mail pouch at Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois, on 26 May 1923; the registered packages held $45,000, $5,000 and $4,134.
- [Bill of exceptions and trial testimony, United States v. William P. Colbeck et al. (S.D. Ill., filed 2 February 1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-292316479-colbeck-testimony/): The digitized trial transcript in the Colbeck mail-robbery case, filed as a bill of exceptions on 2 February 1925. The title page lists the defendants and their counsel; the index lists the first witnesses, among them the two mail custodians named in the indictment.
- [Warden's Notebook Pages, U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-296686-alcatraz-wardens-notebook-series/): National Archives series description for the Alcatraz warden's notebook pages: 1,576 item-level records, one per register number, each with a summary form and an identification photograph. The series note lists five pages whose originals are not extant.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Arthur "Doc" Barker, No. 268](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-296721-doc-barker-alcatraz-1935/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Arthur Barker, No. 268, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence from the District of Minnesota. A red header records his death in the institutional hospital on 13 January 1939. A copy is stored here.
- [Alcatraz warden's notebook page for Robert F. Stroud, No. 594](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-296722-robert-stroud-alcatraz-1942/): Bureau of Prisons notebook page with the identification photograph of Robert F. Stroud, No. 594-AZ, received at Alcatraz from Leavenworth on 19 December 1942 under a life sentence for murder (District of Kansas). The catalog title adds "aka The Birdman of Alcatraz." A copy is stored here.
- [Bureau of Prohibition letter on transporting liquor from California to Washington (21 February 1928)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298430-california-washington-smuggling-1928/): National Archives Bureau of Prohibition letter from the file on a conspiracy to transport liquor from California to Washington during Prohibition, as the catalog describes it. The catalog's single digital page is stored.
- [Drawing of a still, from a Prohibition investigative case file (Seattle)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298446-drawing-of-a-still/): A dimensioned drawing of a still from a Prohibition-era Treasury case file at the National Archives at Seattle: a rectangular tank, a twelve-inch column and a condenser of copper tubing. The catalog calls the case typical of alcohol-manufacture investigations.
- [Bureau of Prohibition letter on charges against agents investigating the Tacoma case (2 August 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298455-tacoma-agents-charges-1932/): National Archives Bureau of Prohibition case-file letter from the San Francisco office to Washington about charges brought against two special agents by a clergyman and the mayor of Tacoma. It reports one side of a dispute.
- [Photograph of a container in which alcohol was shipped from Cleveland to Tacoma (16 April 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298485-tacoma-alcohol-container-1932/): A photograph from the Treasury's Tacoma alcohol seizure investigation file: a strapped wooden crate beside a hand truck, with a measuring stick leaning on it. The catalog says alcohol was shipped in it from Cleveland, Ohio, to Tacoma, Washington.
- [Bureau of Prohibition memorandum recording a minister's allegations about Seattle (9 January 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298494-seattle-graft-memorandum-1931/): National Archives confidential Bureau of Prohibition memorandum from a Seattle special agent recording a minister's allegations of graft and protected bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. The memorandum says the minister had no concrete evidence against the officers he named.
- [Bureau of Prohibition reply to a Montana pastor about conditions in Absarokee (29 December 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-298499-absarokee-letter-1930/): National Archives Bureau of Prohibition letter from a Special Agent in Charge in Denver answering a Montana pastor's report on liquor-law conditions in Absarokee, with the Bureau's account of how enforcement was divided.
- [Enrolled National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act), 28 October 1919](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-299827-volstead-act-enrolled/): National Archives enrolled copy, first page, of H.R. 6810, the National Prohibition Act, with the title "An Act to prohibit intoxicating beverages" and a Department of State stamp dated 28 October 1919.
- [The United States of America vs. Jack Gebardi, alias Jack McGurn, alias Jim Vincent D'Oro, and Louise Rolfe (Mann Act case, Chicago)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-300886022-us-v-gebardi-rolfe-mann-act/): Federal criminal case file at Chicago against Jack Gebardi, alias "Machinegun" Jack McGurn, and Louise Rolfe for violating the Mann Act by travelling from Chicago to Miami. Both were found guilty by the court without a jury. 232 digitized pages.
- [United States v. Gallo et al., criminal case CR82-119, N.D. Ohio (case file, National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-315949004-us-v-gallo-case-file-cr82-119/): 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.
- [Superseding indictment, United States v. Gallo et al., CR82-119, N.D. Ohio (filed 27 October 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-315949009-gallo-superseding-indictment-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'.
- [Transcript of trial proceedings, Volume 1, United States v. Gallo et al., CR82-119 (November 1982)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-315949012-gallo-trial-transcript-vol-1-1982/): 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.
- [The United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone et al.: Prohibition case 23256 (1931–1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-32597091-us-v-capone-prohibition-23256/): Criminal case file 23256 for the June 1931 Prohibition indictment of Alphonse Capone and many co-defendants, charged, the catalog says, with unlawfully possessing intoxicating alcohol.
- [The United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone: law case 46640 (1937–1941)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-32621159-us-v-capone-law-case-46640/): Law (civil-side) case file 46640 in the U.S. District Court at Chicago, which the catalog says concerns Capone 'charged with tax evasion'. Contents not read for this archive.
- [Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri (11 November 1961, Truman Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-336563133-union-station-kansas-city-1961/): An Army Hometown News Center photograph of Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, dated 11 November 1961, from the Truman Library. It shows the building, not the events of 17 June 1933.
- [Senator Estes Kefauver leaving the White House, January 15, 1952 (Truman Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-338958794-kefauver-leaves-white-house-1952/): Abbie Rowe photograph of Senator Estes Kefauver leaving the White House on January 15, 1952, after meeting President Truman. It postdates the committee and does not show the hearings.
- [Senator Estes Kefauver with the press at the White House, January 15, 1952 (Kefauver Speaks with Press, Truman Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-338958796-kefauver-speaks-with-press-1952/): Abbie Rowe photograph of 15 January 1952: per the catalog, Senator Estes Kefauver speaks with reporters after meeting President Truman. It postdates the crime committee and does not show the hearings.
- [Senator Estes Kefauver with the press at the White House, January 15, 1952 (Kefauver Addresses Media, Truman Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-338958798-kefauver-addresses-media-1952/): Abbie Rowe photograph of 15 January 1952: per the catalog, Senator Estes Kefauver at microphones addresses reporters after meeting President Truman. It postdates the crime committee and does not show the hearings.
- [Criminal docket No. 23273: The United States vs. Joseph Valachi (Atlanta, 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-348023476-valachi-docket-23273/): The federal criminal docket for the June 1962 killing at the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta. It records the indictment of June 26, 1962, and Valachi's plea of guilty to second-degree murder on July 17, 1962.
- [Thomas J. Pendergast, portrait from "Independence As It Is" (catalog date ca. 1900, Truman Library)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-348309825-thomas-pendergast-portrait/): An oval book portrait of a young man that the Truman Library catalog identifies as Thomas J. Pendergast; the catalog says it comes from the book "Independence As It Is" and dates it about 1900.
- [Atlanta penitentiary index cards: Compagna, Louis, No. 63773-A (1944–1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351184144-compagna-atlanta-card/): Two prisoner index cards from the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta: conspiracy to interfere with trade and commerce by violence, threats and coercion, Southern District of New York, ten years from 31 December 1943, transferred to Leavenworth on 28 July 1945, received again in July 1948, and stamped "Discharged by Order of Court DEC 20 1948."
- [Atlanta penitentiary index card: D'Andrea, Phil, No. 63777-A (1944–1945)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351186981-dandrea-atlanta-card/): Prisoner index card from the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, for "Phillip Louis D'Andrea": conspiracy to interfere with trade and commerce by coercion, threats and violence, Southern District of New York, ten years from 31 December 1943, residence Crete, Ill., transferred to Leavenworth on 28 July 1945.
- [Atlanta penitentiary index cards: Gioe, Charles, No. 63774-A (1944–1948)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351199467-gioe-atlanta-card/): Two prisoner index cards from the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, for "Charles James Gioe," aliases Charlie Joy, Charles Joye and Charles Veltre: ten years from 31 December 1943, transferred to Leavenworth on 28 July 1945, received again in July 1948, and stamped "Discharged by Order of Court DEC 20 1948."
- [Atlanta penitentiary index card: Maritote, Francis, No. 64955-A (1945)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351224983-maritote-atlanta-card/): Prisoner index card from the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta: aliases Frank Romano and Frances Tote, conspiracy to interfere with trade and commerce by violence, threats and coercion, ten years from 31 December 1943, received 12 March 1945 and transferred to Leavenworth on 28 July 1945.
- [Atlanta penitentiary index card: Valachi, Joseph, No. 77320-A (1956)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351263171-valachi-index-card-77320/): Prisoner index card from the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta: conspiracy to sell narcotics, Southern District of New York, five years and a $10,000 fine, received May 18, 1956, and stamped "Released on bail."
- [Atlanta penitentiary index card: Valachi, Joseph, No. 82811-A (revised computation, 1962)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-351263171-valachi-index-card-82811/): Prisoner index card headed "Revised computation: corrected, 8-16-62": murder in the second degree and narcotics violations, sentence "Life" and 21 years, 8 months, 10 days.
- [Indictment, United States v. Salvatore Lo Bue, first page (Northern District of Illinois, 1915)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-355459444-lo-bue-indictment-p21/): Typed first page of the federal indictment charging that Salvatore Lo Bue devised a scheme to defraud Frank D'Amico by threatening to kill him and his family and destroy his home unless he paid one thousand dollars.
- [Threatening letter with drawn crosses and a coffin, exhibit in United States v. Salvatore Lo Bue (file page 30)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-355459444-lo-bue-letter-coffin-crosses-p30/): A folded sheet from the Lo Bue case file with four crosses drawn in red and brown pencil above a shaded coffin, and three lines of handwritten Italian ending 'questa tomba' (this tomb).
- [Threatening letter with pencil drawings, exhibit in United States v. Salvatore Lo Bue (file page 23)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-355459444-lo-bue-letter-drawing-p23/): A handwritten Italian letter on lined paper, beginning 'Caro Mr Franch', with pencil drawings of one figure attacking another and of a cross over a tomb, and brown stains that the catalog says may be human blood.
- [The United States vs. Salvatore Lo Bue: threatening-letter case, Chicago, 1915 (case file)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-355459444-us-v-lo-bue-1915/): National Archives case file from the federal court at Chicago: the catalog note says Lo Bue was accused of mailing letters demanding $1,000 from Frank D'Amico on pain of death to a family member and the destruction of his house; the file holds letters with drawings of an attack and of a tomb.
- [Alphonse Capone vs. The United States of America and Warden James A. Johnston: habeas case 39 (1938)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-401029959-capone-habeas-alcatraz-1938/): Habeas corpus case file of April 1938 in the U.S. District Court at Chicago. The catalog says Capone's mother, Theresa Capone, petitioned against the United States and the Alcatraz warden for his release.
- [The United States of America vs. Louis Piquette (No. 28821)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-405218934-us-v-piquette-28821/): Federal criminal case file at Chicago in which Dillinger's attorney Louis Piquette was convicted of harboring. The appeal went to the Seventh Circuit as No. 5550.
- [Army captain explaining the mechanism of a Thompson submachine gun to a Hartford police captain, Camp Perry, Ohio, 1930 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-405231070-thompson-camp-perry-1930/): U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph from the 1930 National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The original caption describes the Thompson submachine gun as "a favorite of Chicago gunmen." Two Thompsons are visible, and the man on the right holds a drum magazine.
- [United States v. Alphonse Capone, Ralph Capone, et al.: civil case 3375 (1941–1944)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-406126090-us-v-capone-civil-3375/): Civil case file 3375 in the U.S. District Court at Chicago, brought by the United States against Al Capone and others for unpaid taxes, according to the catalog.
- [The United States of America vs. Louis Piquette, Wilhelm Loeser, Harold Bernard Cassidy, and Arthur W. O'Leary (No. 28341)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-411131513-us-v-piquette-28341/): Federal criminal case file at Chicago against Dillinger's attorney Louis Piquette and others. The National Archives says Piquette and his investigator arranged surgery to alter the appearance of Dillinger and Homer Van Meter.
- [The United States of America vs. John Paul Chase (No. 28680): the Barrington killings, 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-411131517-us-v-chase-28680/): Federal criminal case at Chicago over the killing of Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Special Agent Herman E. Hollis at Barrington, Illinois on 27 November 1934. The National Archives says Chase was convicted under the Act of 18 May 1934.
- ["Crime - Hoffa Disappearance": Philip Buchen Files, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-4520501-ford-hoffa-disappearance-file/): A Ford White House counsel's folder on the Hoffa disappearance. It holds a November 1975 Senate resolution to create a select committee that would study, among other matters, "the disappearance of James R. Hoffa," and a Labor Department letter of 2 December 1975.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Records relating to gangs, mobs and syndicates (National Archives file unit 45640411)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640411-kefauver-gangs-mobs-syndicates/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: records relating to gangs, mobs and syndicates. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Homicide lists (National Archives file unit 45640425)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640425-kefauver-homicide-lists/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: homicide lists. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Press releases (National Archives file unit 45640433)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640433-kefauver-press-releases/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: press releases. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Subpoena files (National Archives file unit 45640441)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640441-kefauver-subpoena-files/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: subpoena files. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Executive session hearings and committee meetings (National Archives file unit 45640443)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640443-kefauver-executive-session-hearings/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: executive session hearings and committee meetings. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Public hearing records (National Archives file unit 45640444)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640444-kefauver-public-hearing-records/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: public hearing records. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [Kefauver Committee files: Digests of hearings (National Archives file unit 45640445)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-45640445-kefauver-digests-of-hearings/): National Archives finding-aid entry for a file unit of the Kefauver Committee's own records in Record Group 46: digests of hearings. The catalog shows no digitized pages.
- [The United States of America vs. Anna Hamilton Campbell Steve, Charles Campbell, John Hamilton, and Pat Cherrington (harboring, 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-464828806-us-v-steve-et-al-harboring/): Federal criminal case file on the harboring of John Dillinger at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1934. Forty digitized pages.
- [United States of America vs. John Herbert Dillinger, et al. (Little Bohemia Lodge, Wisconsin, 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-470787139-us-v-dillinger-et-al-little-bohemia/): Federal criminal case charging Dillinger and others with concealing the fugitive Thomas Carroll and resisting Division of Investigation agents at the Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, on 22 April 1934.
- [United States of America vs. John Hamilton, et al. (Little Bohemia Lodge, Wisconsin, 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-470787140-us-v-hamilton-et-al-little-bohemia/): Companion federal case to the Little Bohemia prosecution, charging John Hamilton and others with concealing John Dillinger and resisting Division of Investigation agents on 22 April 1934.
- [Warren Commission Exhibit 1697: FBI report of the interview of Lewis J. McWillie on the Tropicana and Capri casinos in Havana (11 June 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-488846833-ce1697-mcwillie-1964/): An FBI Las Vegas report printed as Commission Exhibit 1697 records that McWillie went to Cuba in September 1958, managed the Tropicana Casino until May 1960, was a pit boss at the Capri Hotel-Casino until 2 January 1961, and said that when Castro took over 'American ownership was forced out of the gambling business.'
- [Commitment of Paul Mennite by U.S. Commissioner Mark A. Foote, Chicago, 1 June 1915](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-49550600-mennite-commitment-1915-06-01/): Printed commitment form from the Mecca and Mennite case file: U.S. Commissioner Mark A. Foote commits Paul Mennite to the Cook County jail in default of a $10,000 recognizance, on a complaint that he mailed three letters in a scheme to defraud Antonio Petrone.
- [The United States vs. Pietro Mecca and Paul Mennite: threatening-letter case, Chicago, 1915 (case file)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-49550600-us-v-mecca-mennite-1915/): National Archives case file from the federal court at Chicago: the catalog note says Mecca and Mennite were accused of mailing letters threatening to kill a man and his family and to bomb his home unless he paid $300; both were sentenced to five years at Leavenworth.
- [U.S. vs. Gianni Alongi: threatening-letter case, Chicago, 1911 (case file)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-49566908-us-v-alongi-1911/): National Archives case file from the federal court at Chicago: the catalog note says Gianni Alongi was accused in February 1911 of mailing three letters demanding $500 under threat of murder, in which he claimed to be a member of the Black Hand, and was found guilty and sentenced to five years and a $1,000 fine.
- [J. Edgar Hoover, Sumner Blossom and Courtney Ryley Cooper aiming guns (11 December 1935, 65-H-125-2)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-505632199-hoover-blossom-cooper-aiming-guns-1935-a/): An FBI photograph of 11 December 1935 with the original caption naming, left to right, Director J. Edgar Hoover, Sumner Blossom, editor of The American Magazine, and the author Courtney Ryley Cooper, each aiming a gun.
- [J. Edgar Hoover, Sumner Blossom and Courtney Ryley Cooper aiming guns (11 December 1935, 65-H-125-3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-505632202-hoover-blossom-cooper-aiming-guns-1935-b/): An FBI photograph of 11 December 1935 with the original caption naming, left to right, Director J. Edgar Hoover, Sumner Blossom, editor of The American Magazine, and the author Courtney Ryley Cooper, each aiming a gun.
- [Exterior of Lewisburg Penitentiary, 9 October 1947 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-505633614-lewisburg-exterior-1947/): Bureau of Prisons photograph dated 9 October 1947 of the exterior of the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: a brick building with a tall tower. The catalog's caption reads "Lewisburg Letter."
- [Portrait of Harry Jacob Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics (National Archives, 306-PSA-55-11680)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-505634166-anslinger-portrait/): Formal studio portrait of Harry J. Anslinger, captioned by the National Archives as U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, with the source given as the Bureau of Narcotics. Undated. A copy is stored here.
- [Album of Views of the Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-518093-doj-album-atlanta-leavenworth-series/): National Archives series of 41 mounted photographs from Department of Justice records, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries. Nine are filed here.
- [Portrait of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (catalog date 1953)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-518187-hoover-portrait-1953/): A studio portrait of J. Edgar Hoover seated at a desk with an FBI seal plaque, from the FBI's photographs of personnel and activities during his tenure. The catalog notes there is no original caption.
- [Photographs Illustrating the Facilities and Activities of the Bureau of Prisons (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-532602-bop-photographs-series/): National Archives series of photographs of federal prisons and camps, mostly from about 1930: buildings, living conditions, dining, recreation and custody procedures. Three items from it are filed here.
- [Bullet-riddled taxi after a gun battle with police in a New York City street (1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-541879-taxi-gun-battle-new-york-1931/): A 1931 New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Bullet-riddled taxi and the bodies of two gangsters in a New York City street after a gun battle with police." The catalog names no one and gives no street.
- [Joseph Basile under arrest in a $25 million narcotics seizure, New York (February 1949)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-541915-basile-narcotics-arrest-1949/): A February 1949 New York Times Paris Bureau photograph: per the catalog, Joseph Basile, hiding his face with his coat, under arrest in connection with a narcotics seizure, with Chief of Detectives William T. Whalen standing near him.
- [Unemployed men queued outside a Chicago soup kitchen attributed to Capone (February 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-541927-capone-soup-kitchen-1931/): National Archives photograph, February 1931, of men in a line outside a Chicago storefront signed "Free Soup, Coffee and Doughnuts for the Unemployed." The catalog title attributes the soup kitchen to Al Capone; he is not in the picture.
- [Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery (Prohibition era)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-541928-detroit-underground-brewery/): A New York Times Paris Bureau photograph that the National Archives titles "Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery during the prohibition era." The catalog gives no date or address.
- [Trial transcript, United States v. DeLuna et al., Volume 22 (30 October 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55300164-deluna-trial-transcript-vol-22-1985-10-30/): A 56-page excerpt of the trial transcript in United States of America v. Carl Angelo DeLuna, et al., No. 83-00124-01/15-CR-W-8 (W.D. Mo.), held by the National Archives at Kansas City: the testimony of Roy L. Williams on October 30, 1985.
- [Docket for Case Number 23232 (to 1942)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55310989-capone-docket-23232/): The court's docket sheets for criminal case 23232, the indictment on which Capone was convicted. The last entry is dated 1 April 1942.
- [Indictment in Case Number 22852 (March 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311008-capone-indictment-22852-1931/): The first income-tax indictment against Alphonse Capone, returned by a federal grand jury at Chicago in the March Term 1931. Its one count concerns tax for 1924. The jury acquitted him on it.
- [Indictment in Case Number 23232 (June 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311014-capone-indictment-23232-1931/): The twenty-two-count income-tax indictment returned against Alphonse Capone on 5 June 1931. He was convicted on counts 1, 5, 9, 13 and 18.
- [Order consolidating Nos. 22852 and 23232 (30 July 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311098-capone-order-consolidating-1931/): Court order of 30 July 1931 consolidating Capone's two income-tax indictments for trial. The catalog title prints the second number as 23832.
- [Demurrer to Indictment in Case 23232 (29 September 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311258-capone-demurrer-23232-1931/): Defense demurrer of 29 September 1931 challenging the sufficiency of indictment 23232. The court overruled it, and the Seventh Circuit upheld that ruling.
- [Motion in Arrest of Judgment (23 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311698-capone-motion-arrest-judgment-1931/): Defense motion in arrest of judgment filed after the verdict in the Capone tax case. The court heard argument and overruled it on 24 October 1931.
- [Judgment and sentence, United States v. Alphonse Capone (24 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311708-capone-judgment-1931/): Judgment of 24 October 1931 on counts One, Five, Nine, Thirteen and Eighteen of indictment 23232: imprisonment totaling eleven years and fines totaling $50,000, with costs of prosecution.
- [Commitment to the Cook County Jail and the Leavenworth penitentiary (24 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311719-capone-commitment-leavenworth-1931/): Commitment writ of 24 October 1931 for Alphonse Capone, addressed to the U.S. Marshal, the warden at Leavenworth and the Cook County jailer, covering the felony terms of ten years and $30,000 in fines.
- [Petition for Appeal filed by Ahern and Fink (24 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311744-capone-petition-appeal-1931/): Petition for appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, filed by Capone's counsel Ahern and Fink on the day of sentencing.
- [Order Amending Judgment and Sentence of October 24, 1931 (9 November 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55311935-capone-order-amending-judgment-1931/): Order of 9 November 1931 in D.C. No. 23232 restating the sentence on the misdemeanor counts so that the record matches the sentence announced from the bench.
- [Mandate of the Circuit Court of Appeals (3 May 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55312064-capone-mandate-ca7-1932/): Mandate of the Seventh Circuit returning the Capone tax case, Nos. 22852 and 23232, to the District Court at Chicago after the appeal was decided.
- [Commitment to the Atlanta penitentiary in lieu of Leavenworth (3 June 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55312091-capone-commitment-atlanta-1933/): Commitment paper of 3 June 1933 directing Capone's confinement at the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, in place of Leavenworth.
- [Memorandum denying petition to vacate misdemeanor sentences (12 August 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55312136-capone-memo-deny-vacate-1937/): District Court memorandum of 12 August 1937 denying Capone's petition to vacate the county-jail sentences on counts 13 and 18. The Seventh Circuit dismissed the appeal.
- [Partial transcript of evidence before Judge Wilkerson, 17 October 1931 (filed 1937)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-55312156-capone-partial-transcript-filed-1937/): Partial transcript of proceedings before Judge James H. Wilkerson on 17 October 1931, the day of the verdict, filed in 1937 during the dispute over the jail sentences.
- [Inmate Case Files, U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-571125-leavenworth-inmate-case-files-series/): National Archives series description of 26,283 Leavenworth inmate case file units, 1895 to 1957, held at the National Archives at Kansas City. Only a sampled subset is digitized.
- [United States vs. Roger Touhy (Selective Service case, Chicago)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-583696011-us-v-touhy-draft/): Federal criminal case file at Chicago against Roger Touhy for failing to register for the draft under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Nine digitized pages.
- [Joint Resolution proposing the Eighteenth Amendment (S.J. Res. 17, 1917)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-596355-joint-resolution-18th-amendment/): National Archives enrolled copy of S.J. Res. 17, 65th Congress, proposing the Eighteenth Amendment, with Department of State stamps dated 19 December 1917.
- [Joint Resolution proposing the Twenty-first Amendment (S.J. Res. 211, 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-596379-joint-resolution-21st-amendment/): National Archives enrolled copy of S.J. Res. 211, 72d Congress, proposing the amendment that repeals the Eighteenth. Section 1 repeals the eighteenth article of amendment.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Desire for Something Stronger" (5 October 1919)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6011584-berryman-desire-for-something-stronger-1919/): A Clifford Berryman drawing of 5 October 1919 in the Senate's Berryman collection at the National Archives: two men with pails at a water pump under a sign on wartime prohibition. One says, "Bill, it looks like the good old days have gone forever!"
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Manslaughter?" (8 March 1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6011715-berryman-manslaughter-1922/): A Berryman drawing of 8 March 1922: his character Mr. D.C., as prosecutor, holds up a bottle marked "Poison" before a jury and points to a crate marked "Pure Whisky" while a bootlegger watches.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "St. Patrick!!" (17 March 1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6011716-berryman-st-patrick-1922/): A Berryman drawing for St. Patrick's Day 1922: Mr. D.C. recoils from snakes labelled "Poison Liquor," "Bootlegger" and "Bookmaker." The National Archives note reads it as the District's Prohibition-era troubles.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon on Senator William Bruce and a "wet" Maryland (3 April 1928)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6011949-berryman-bruce-wet-maryland-1928/): An untitled Berryman drawing of 3 April 1928: Senator William Bruce of Maryland in rain gear under a bulletin that Democratic leaders say Prohibition will not be a question in the 1928 campaign.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon on Congress, the tariff and Prohibition enforcement (6 January 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012006-berryman-prohibition-enforcement-tariff-1930/): An untitled Berryman drawing of 6 January 1930: Congress tends a battered "Tariff" while a sweating figure labelled "Prohibition Enforcement?" waits its turn.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Speaking of Superfluous Starlings" (10 January 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012008-berryman-superfluous-starlings-1930/): A Berryman drawing of 10 January 1930 on the federal law enforcement commission: an old man with a butterfly net and a sash marked "Law Enforcement Commission" says "We find something must be done!" under trees full of birds spelling "Crime."
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Just One Boil After Another" (13 January 1930)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012010-berryman-law-enforcement-boil-1930/): An untitled Berryman drawing of 13 January 1930: a weary figure for Congress, a "Tariff" on his neck and "Law Enforcement" on his arm, reaches for a tonic. The National Archives ties it to President Hoover's requests for better federal enforcement.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon: a racketeer and a gangster read about "Wall Street Bears" (30 April 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012115-berryman-racketeer-gangster-wall-street-1932/): An untitled Berryman drawing of 30 April 1932: two men in hats labelled "Racketeer" and "Gangster" read of the "workings of Wall Street bears" and say, "Them guys makes us look like pikers." No copy is stored.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon on Capone and Judge James Wilkerson (4 May 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012116-berryman-cartoon-capone-1932/): An untitled Clifford Berryman drawing of 4 May 1932 in the Senate's Berryman collection at the National Archives. NARA's note ties it to Capone's departure for the Atlanta penitentiary and Judge James Wilkerson's pending Seventh Circuit nomination.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Postmaster General Brown's Prize Package" (7 June 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012118-berryman-brown-prize-package-1932/): A Berryman drawing of 7 June 1932: the Postmaster General carries the Republican Prohibition plank toward the Chicago convention while "Miss Democracy" looks on. No copy is stored.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon, "Oh So Tempting" (10 June 1932)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012119-berryman-oh-so-tempting-1932/): A Berryman drawing of 10 June 1932 on the 1932 party platforms: the Republican elephant on a "water wagon" eyes the Democratic donkey in a "wet trough." No copy is stored.
- [Clifford Berryman cartoon: Uncle Sam takes down the old "Public Enemies No. 1" (22 February 1942)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6012255-berryman-public-enemies-1942/): An untitled Berryman drawing of 22 February 1942: Uncle Sam has the old portraits labelled Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Arthur Barker, Alvin Karpis and "Baby Face" Nelson taken down in favor of wartime loose talkers. No copy is stored.
- [Index to Prisoners, U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6087807-atlanta-index-to-prisoners-series/): National Archives series of index cards for Atlanta penitentiary inmates, 1902 to 1973, arranged in 263 alphabetical file units. The digitized unit where Capone's card would fall was paged without finding it.
- [Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates, U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz (National Archives series)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-622809-alcatraz-case-files-series/): National Archives series description of the extant Alcatraz case files on about 1,550 men. Only a few file units are digitized. The series' own inclusive dates are an accession span; the bulk dates of the Alcatraz records are 1934 to 1963.
- [Jury verdict, United States v. Alphonse Capone (17 October 1931)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-628966-capone-verdict-1931/): The signed jury verdict: not guilty on indictment 22852, guilty on counts one, five, nine, thirteen and eighteen of indictment 23232, returned before Judge Wilkerson on 17 October 1931.
- [An aerial view of Alcatraz Island, 8 May 1986 (National Archives)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6410397-alcatraz-aerial-1986/): Military aerial photograph of Alcatraz Island dated 8 May 1986, taken more than twenty years after the penitentiary closed. It is filed as a view of the island, not of the prison years.
- [House Select Committee on Assassinations: immunity orders, Thomas through Trafficante (NARA file unit 641695970)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-641695970-hsca-immunity-orders-thomas-trafficante/): A National Archives file unit of immunity orders and orders compelling testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, alphabetically from Thomas, Carl through Trafficante, with 158 digital scans. The title shows an order concerning Trafficante is in it; the scans were not opened.
- [Records Relating to the Prosecution of Alphonse Capone (U.S. Attorney, Chicago)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6427838-usao-capone-prosecution-file/): The U.S. Attorney's file at Chicago on the 1931 income-tax prosecution of Alphonse Capone: correspondence with Washington, notes, reports and drafts. Seven items are digitized.
- [Pardon warrant 36-638: conditional commutation of the sentence of Ignazio Lupo, 1921, with the 1936 revocation note](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-648066344-pardon-warrant-lupo-1921/): Printed warrant signed by President Warren G. Harding commuting Ignazio Lupo's thirty-year counterfeiting sentence on condition that he be law-abiding, so that he could go to Italy; a handwritten note records the revocation of 10 July 1936 and his return to Atlanta.
- [Assassination Records Review Board file "Exner, Roselli, Giancana, Logs" (National Archives), file page 1: fax of 17 June 1997](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-655788330-arrb-exner-roselli-giancana-logs/): A 240-page file unit in the records of the Assassination Records Review Board. Its first page is a 1997 fax to the Board's T. Jeremy Gunn asking about the FBI's withholding of "see" references on Judith Exner "prior to her deposition." The other pages have not been read.
- [Photograph of a still, from the case file United States v. John Henry Hardin (federal court, northern Georgia)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-656696-hardin-still-photograph/): A mounted photograph from a Prohibition-era federal criminal case file at the National Archives at Atlanta: seven men in hats beside a still in the woods. The catalog says the case arose from an indictment for possessing equipment used to make "spirituous liquors."
- [10478: United States v. Albert Bates, et al. (Western District of Oklahoma): the Urschel kidnaping file](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-66383199-us-v-bates-et-al-file/): National Archives file unit for the federal prosecution of the Urschel kidnaping at Oklahoma City. The defendants included George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathryn Thorne Kelly. The filings are catalogued as separate items.
- [Private citizen's letter to Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt about two New Jersey establishments (April 1929)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6857733-letter-to-willebrandt-1929/): National Archives Justice Department file: a typed letter, stamped received 30 April 1929, saying Prohibition has not been properly enforced and asking Mabel Willebrandt to act against two named places in New Jersey. The names are not repeated here.
- [Indictment of Earl Weiss, alias Hymie Weiss, Frank Foster and Edward Vogel (N.D. Ill., filed June 29, 1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-6883414-weiss-indictment-1926/): A federal grand jury indictment charging Earl Weiss, alias Hymie Weiss, and two others with possessing and transporting liquor in Chicago on June 24, 1926, in violation of the National Prohibition Act, and with conspiracy. The charging page lists a barrel of beer on tap, champagne, whiskey and brandy.
- [8250: United States v. Mary Pitts, alias Mary O'Dare, et al. (harboring Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-68884673-us-v-pitts-harboring-8250/): Federal criminal case file from the Northern District of Texas in which the defendants were charged with conspiring to harbor and conceal Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. 131 digitized pages; undated in the catalog.
- [8008: United States v. Raymond Hamilton, et al. (theft of weapons from a Texas National Guard armory)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-68887161-us-v-hamilton-armory-8008/): Federal criminal case file from the Northern District of Texas against Raymond Hamilton, Clyde C. Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Henry Methvin, Joe Palmer and Hilton Bybee, accused of stealing weapons from a Texas National Guard armory.
- [United States of America v. Alvin Karpavicz, alias Alvin Karpis; Arthur Barker, alias "Doc" Barker; Byron Bolton; John P. Peifer; Charles J. Fitzgerald; Elmer Farmer; and Edmund C. Bartholmey (D. Minn., No. 6258)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-70668628-us-v-karpavicz-6258/): Federal criminal case file at St. Paul against Karpis, Arthur Barker and five others named in the catalog title. 122 digitized pages; the catalog gives no description of the charge.
- [United States v. Joseph Bonanno, S.D.N.Y. criminal case file 66 Cr. 377](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-7570225-us-v-joseph-bonanno-66-cr-377/): The case file of the 1966 Southern District of New York prosecution of Joseph Bonanno. The indictment, filed April 14, 1966, charges that from about October 21, 1964 he obstructed justice "by wilfully failing to appear before a Federal Grand Jury" and by "wilfully and knowingly concealing himself to prevent his appearance."
- [Indictment in United States v. Albert Bates, et al., Urschel kidnaping (23 August 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815532-urschel-indictment-1933/): Ten-page federal indictment of 23 August 1933 against Albert L. Bates, George R. Kelly, Kathryn Thorne Kelly, Harvey J. Bailey, the Shannons and others for the conspiracy to kidnap Charles F. Urschel.
- [Instructions to the jury in United States v. Albert Bates, et al. (30 September 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815718-urschel-jury-instructions-1933/): The court's forty-page charge to the jury in the first Urschel kidnaping trial at Oklahoma City, dated 30 September 1933.
- [Commitment of Harvey J. Bailey (12 October 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815987-bailey-commitment-1933/): The court's commitment of Harvey J. Bailey, with the aliases J. J. Brennan, John Brown and R. G. McDonald, after his conviction in the Urschel kidnaping case, dated 12 October 1933.
- [Commitment of George R. Kelly (16 October 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815995-george-kelly-commitment-1933/): The court's commitment of George R. "Machine Gun" Kelly to custody after his life sentence in the Urschel kidnaping case, dated 16 October 1933.
- [Commitment of Kathryn Thorne Kelly (20 October 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75815999-kathryn-kelly-commitment-1933/): The court's commitment of Kathryn Thorne Kelly, alias Catherine Kelly, after her life sentence for conspiracy in the Urschel kidnaping, dated 20 October 1933.
- [Petition for appeal by George R. Kelly (11 November 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75816045-george-kelly-petition-appeal-1933/): George R. Kelly's petition for appeal from his conviction in United States v. Albert L. Bates, et al., dated 11 November 1933.
- [Agreed statement of facts, United States v. Harvey J. Bailey (28 May 1934)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75816255-bailey-agreed-statement-1934/): Eighteen-page agreed statement of facts of 28 May 1934, prepared for Harvey J. Bailey's appeal from his conviction in the Urschel kidnaping case.
- [Transcript of testimony, United States v. George R. Kelly and Kathryn Kelly (October 1933)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-75818294-kelly-trial-transcript-1933/): The 564-page transcript of the October 1933 federal trial of George R. Kelly and Kathryn Kelly at Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnaping.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: Panorama of Prison Building and Wall (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99670842-atlanta-panorama-prison-wall/): A mounted panorama strip from the Department of Justice album showing the Atlanta prison building and wall, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: Prison Gateway (not completed) (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904391-atlanta-prison-gateway/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta prison gateway, captioned not completed, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: a stone arch lettered USP.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: East Sally Port, Showing Steel Doors (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904401-atlanta-east-sally-port/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of the east sally port at Atlanta, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, with its steel doors and a rail track in the foreground.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: Isolation Building (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904409-atlanta-isolation-building/): Plate 8 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Isolation building." The photograph shows a two-storey brick building with barred windows on bare ground, with the domed cell house behind it.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: Prison Chapel Service (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904424-atlanta-chapel-service/): Plate 13 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Prison chapel service." The photograph shows a large hall with columns, flags draped across the far wall above a stage, and rows of seated men facing the stage, with a few men seated at the sides and a chair on a low platform in the aisle.
- [United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: Corridor in East Cell House (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904430-atlanta-east-cell-house-corridor/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of a corridor in the east cell house at Atlanta, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: tiers of cells along a long brick-walled corridor.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Birdseye View of Penitentiary (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904437-leavenworth-birdseye-view/): A mounted bird's-eye view of the Leavenworth penitentiary complex from the Department of Justice album, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925. The scan shows an illustration of the buildings and grounds, not an aerial photograph.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: View of Unfinished Front of the Penitentiary (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904443-leavenworth-unfinished-front/): Plate 18 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "View of unfinished front of the penitentiary." The photograph looks down a fenced walk across open ground to the long front of the penitentiary, with a taller central block, a guard tower at the right, a telegraph pole and a small sign by a dirt road in the foreground.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: East Wagon Gate (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904445-leavenworth-east-wagon-gate/): Plate 19 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "East wagon gate." The photograph shows an arched brick gateway inscribed "U.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Bullet-proof Guard Tower (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99904447-leavenworth-guard-tower/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album of a guard tower at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, with wall construction visible behind it.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Sleeping Quarters of Trusty Prisoners (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956045-leavenworth-trusty-sleeping-quarters/): Plate 25 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Sleeping quarters of trusty prisoners." The photograph shows a long, high room with tall windows on the right, rows of made iron cots along both walls, and hanging lamps; no one is in the room.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Isolation and Punishment Cell Building (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956053-leavenworth-isolation-punishment-building/): Plate 29 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Isolation and punishment cell building." The photograph shows a two-storey brick building with barred windows, a hipped roof and a chimney, over brick paving.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior View of Isolation Cell (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956055-leavenworth-isolation-cell/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album titled as an interior view of an isolation cell at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, seen through the bars.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Prisoners Being Punished for Fighting Each Other (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956057-leavenworth-prisoners-punished-fighting/): Plate 31 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Prisoners being punished for fighting each other." The photograph shows two men in light uniforms standing behind a barred cell door, backlit, with the door open outward.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Interior of North-east Cell Building (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956059-leavenworth-northeast-cell-building/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album showing the interior of the northeast cell building at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: tiers of cells along a long hall.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: View of Cells (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956061-leavenworth-view-of-cells/): A mounted photograph from the Department of Justice album showing cells at Leavenworth, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925: open cell doors with numbered cells and folded bedding.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: View of Partially Constructed East Cell Building (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956063-leavenworth-east-cell-building-construction/): Plate 34 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "View of partially constructed east cell building." The photograph shows a long building with stone piers and open steel framing above, a round guard tower with a conical roof in front of it, and a lawn and shrub in the foreground.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Prisoners Building an Enclosing Wall of the Penitentiary (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956073-leavenworth-prisoners-building-wall/): Plate 39 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Prisoners building an enclosing wall of the penitentiary." The photograph is a high view over a construction site: a long wall under scaffolding, cell blocks with arched openings at the left, piles of sand and stone, and small figures of men working with carts and a horse.
- [United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: Prisoners and Armed Guards Marching into Penitentiary from Outside Work (Department of Justice album)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-99956075-leavenworth-prisoners-guards-marching/): Plate 40 of the Department of Justice album of the Atlanta and Leavenworth penitentiaries, ca. 1900 to ca. 1925, captioned "Prisoners and armed guards marching into penitentiary from outside work." The photograph is an elevated view from a stone building down a dirt road: a long column of prisoners marches toward the building, with figures along the road and in the field, and trees and houses beyond.
- [National Archives list of former Alcatraz inmates: Capone, register 85](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-alcatraz-inmate-index/): The National Archives at San Francisco lists Alphonse Capone, called Scarface on the list, among former inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, register number 85.
- [National Archives numerical list of former Alcatraz inmates, register numbers 1 to 1576](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-alcatraz-numeric-index/): The National Archives at San Francisco's numerical index of former Alcatraz inmates: register numbers 1 through 1576, each with a name. It prints no dates of confinement and no cell.
- [Indictment of James Dorsey, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, Case #3226 (July 1921)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-boston-dorsey-indictment-1921/): National Archives at Boston featured document: the July 1921 indictment of James Dorsey of Lynn, Massachusetts, for knowingly selling one-half pint of intoxicating liquor. The page says he pleaded guilty and uses the case to show the range of Prohibition prosecutions.
- [National Archives lesson, "The Volstead Act" (Educator Resources)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-lesson-the-volstead-act/): National Archives teaching lesson pairing the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, a Bureau of Prohibition letter on transporting liquor from California to Washington, the proclamation of repeal and the Twenty-first Amendment resolution. A finding aid to records filed here.
- [Prologue article, "Spirited Republic: Alcohol's Evolving Role in U.S. History" (Winter 2014)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-prologue-spirited-republic-2014/): Prologue article by National Archives senior curator Bruce Bustard introducing the exhibition "Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History", and pointing to National Archives records on Prohibition.
- ["The Man Who Tried to Kill Al Capone" (National Park Service, Alcatraz Island)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-alcatraz-1936-attack-on-capone/): National Park Service article on Alcatraz inmate James "Tex" Lucas. It states that on June 23, 1936 Lucas attacked Capone in the shower room and that Capone suffered a minor chest wound and superficial cuts to his hands.
- ["Baseball on the Rock" (National Park Service, Alcatraz Island)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-baseball-on-the-rock/): National Park Service page on inmate recreation at Alcatraz: two hours of yard time each Saturday and Sunday, softball rather than baseball, eight teams in 1938, and cell radio jacks installed on 4 October 1955. It names Volney Davis as a pitcher.
- [U.S. Submachine Gun Thompson Model 1921 .45ACP, SN 11867 (Springfield Armory NHS, SPAR 1546)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-spar-1546-thompson-m1921/): NPS museum catalog record for a Colt-made Model 1921 Thompson, which the catalog says was manufactured between 1 and 4 April 1922 and transferred to the museum on 27 April 1960. The catalog photograph is not stored here.
- [U.S. Submachine Gun Thompson Model 1928 .45ACP, SN 13159 (Springfield Armory NHS, SPAR 18)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-spar-18-thompson-m1928/): NPS museum catalog record for a Colt-made Thompson marked "U.S. NAVY MODEL OF 1928/13159," with a 20-round box magazine and Cutts compensator, made about 1928 and donated by Savage Arms Co. in 1979. The catalog photograph is not stored here.
- [U.S. Rifle Model 1918 Browning Automatic .30, SN 12701 (Springfield Armory NHS, SPAR 3565)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-spar-3565-bar-m1918/): NPS museum catalog record for a Colt-made Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, described as the "First production Model 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle off the Colt production line." It illustrates the rifle type traced from National Guard armories to the Barrow gang in 1933.
- [U.S. Rifle Model 1925 Monitor Browning Automatic .30 (Springfield Armory NHS, SPAR 7213)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-spar-7213-colt-monitor/): NPS museum catalog record for a Colt "Monitor" (R80), which the catalog calls a "Commercial variant of the M1918 (R80) intended for police use and prison guard use. Introduced in 1933, it was made only for a few years." Text-only record.
- ["U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz: Federal Prison 1934-1963" (National Park Service, Alcatraz Island)](https://mobfiles.org/items/nps-us-penitentiary-alcatraz/): National Park Service summary of the penitentiary years: the product of Attorney General Homer Cummings and Bureau Director Sanford Bates, with James A. Johnston as warden for fourteen years and a "concentration model" that later served as a blueprint for the high-security prison at Marion, Illinois.
- [President's Commission on Organized Crime, Record of Hearing VI: Organized Crime and Labor-Management Racketeering (Chicago, April 1985)](https://mobfiles.org/items/pcoc-1985-chicago-hearing-labor-racketeering/): Transcript of the Commission's Chicago hearing of 22 to 24 April 1985. Teamsters general president Jackie Presser appeared under subpoena; asked his occupation, he answered, "I am the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters."
- [President's Commission on Organized Crime, The Edge (1986): Atlantic City and Local 54](https://mobfiles.org/items/pcoc-1986-the-edge-local-54/): The Atlantic City section of the President's Commission on Organized Crime's 1986 report on organized crime, business and labor unions, on the struggle for control of hotel workers' Local 54 after the casinos opened.
- [President's Commission on Organized Crime, The Edge (1986): the Teamsters and longshoremen sections](https://mobfiles.org/items/pcoc-1986-the-edge-teamsters-ila/): The Commission's 1986 report on organized crime, business and labor unions. Its Teamsters section, "The Most Controlled Union," reviews five IBT presidents from 1952 to 1985 and quotes Roy L. Williams: "Every big [Teamster] local union ... had some connection with organized crime."
- [President's Commission on Organized Crime, America's Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime (March 1986)](https://mobfiles.org/items/pcoc-americas-habit-1986/): The 1986 report of the President's Commission on Organized Crime on drugs and organized crime, with a section on "La Cosa Nostra and the French Connection" and a case study of the "Pizza Connection." Read from a microfiche scan.
- [Photographs, Descriptions and Records of Persons Charged with Violation of the Postal Laws, volume 1 (Post Office Department, 1916)](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-album-vol1/): Volume 1 of the 1916 Post Office album includes scattered black-hand letter cases, among them a Philadelphia sentence of 1914 in a scheme the entry says targeted wealthy Armenians, showing the term used for mail extortion outside Italian communities.
- [Photographs, Descriptions and Records of Persons Charged with Violation of the Postal Laws, volume 2 (Post Office Department, 1916)](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-album-vol2/): A 1916 Government Printing Office album for post-office inspectors. Its fraud section tags 23 entries '[BLACK HAND.]', recording federal sentences for mailing black-hand letters at Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Marion and Toledo, Trenton, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh and Clarksdale between 1910 and 1915.
- [Post Office album (1916), volume 2: Chicago black-hand letter sentences, 1912 to 1915](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-chicago-1912-1915/): Entries in the 1916 Post Office album record federal sentences at Chicago for mailing black-hand letters: two men in January 1912, one in February 1914, and Paul Mennite and Pietro Mecca on 16 August 1915, each to five years at Leavenworth.
- [Post Office album (1916), volume 2: the Marion, Ohio, black-hand letter conspiracy, sentences of 29 January 1910 at Toledo](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-marion-toledo-1910/): Entries in the 1916 Post Office album record sentences passed at Toledo on 29 January 1910, from two to ten years, for 'conspiring, with others, to obtain $10,000 by means of black-hand letter mailed at Marion, Ohio, June 7, 1909'.
- [Post Office album (1916), volume 2: black-hand letters from Wehrum, Pa., sentences of 8 May 1914 at Pittsburgh](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-pittsburgh-1914/): Three entries in the 1916 Post Office album record that three men were sentenced at Pittsburgh on 8 May 1914 to five years each in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia for mailing black-hand letters at Wehrum, Pa., in March 1914.
- [Post Office album (1916), volume 2: St. Louis black-hand letter sentences of 3 July 1912](https://mobfiles.org/items/podept-1916-st-louis-1912/): Three entries in the 1916 Post Office album record sentences passed at St. Louis on 3 July 1912, of eighteen months, two years and five years at Leavenworth, for mailing black-hand letters at St. Louis in January and February 1912.
- [Hearing, October 15, 1963: Boston Police testimony on the Boston half of Exhibit 53](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-boston-police-1963-10-15/): Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara and Deputy Superintendent John T. Howland walked the Senate subcommittee through the Boston half of the Exhibit 53 chart, while saying they were not cognizant that the men were members of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra.
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 15 October 1963: Chief Brown on 'Louis Santos of Havana, Cuba' at Apalachin, and Sergeant de la Llana's statement (pp. 525-526)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-brown-trafficante-pp525-526-1963-10-15/): Tampa police chief Neil G. Brown said the 'Louis Santos of Havana, Cuba' apprehended at Apalachin in November 1957 was positively identified as Santo Trafficante, Jr., and gave the police account of his stay with Albert Anastasia as 'B. Hill'; a statement by Sgt. Jack de la Llana says a visitor to Trafficante had worked as a 'pit boss' in casinos in Las Vegas and Havana.
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 10 October 1963: Detroit's Vincent Piersante on deported men in Cuba 'during the tail end of the Batista regime' (p. 449)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-piersante-catalanotti-cuba-1963-10-10/): Detroit police inspector Vincent W. Piersante testified that Joseph Catalanotti, deported in September 1957, 'later turned up in Cuba during the tail end of the Batista regime' with two other deported men, that no Batista connection could be established, and that 'Cuba was a haven for these deported criminals.'
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 25 September 1963: Inspector Shanley's example of $200,000 sewn into a coat and carried to Cuba (p. 75)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-shanley-money-to-cuba-1963-09-25/): 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.
- [Hearing, October 15, 1963: Rhode Island State Police testimony on Raymond L. Patriarca](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-stone-rhode-island-1963-10-15/): Colonel Walter E. Stone, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, read a statement on Raymond L. Patriarca to the Senate subcommittee, entered the Rhode Island half of the Exhibit 53 chart, and the record notes Patriarca's 1959 appearance before the McClellan committee.
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 9 October 1963: Valachi's half point in the Capri casino, Havana, and his account of the casinos' end (pp. 391-392)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-capri-casino-1963-10-09/): Joseph Valachi testified that casino interests were sold as 'points' at about $5,000 each, that he had 'a half point with a friend' in the casino at the Capri 'just about when Castro started making trouble,' and that when Castro raised the rent 'they all went out of Havana.'
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 27 September 1963: Valachi on Vito Genovese's gambling interests 'like Las Vegas and Havana, Cuba, when it was there' (p. 116)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-genovese-havana-1963-09-27/): Asked by Senator Javits how Vito Genovese made his money, Joseph Valachi named an Italian lottery, slot machines, and 'lots of interests in gambling like Las Vegas and Havana, Cuba, when it was there.'
- [Senate narcotics hearings, 1 October 1963: Valachi, 'Anywhere where Meyer Lansky is, Vito Genovese is,' and 'I knew in Havana' (p. 159)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-lansky-genovese-havana-1963-10-01/): Asked about Genovese's establishment in Las Vegas, Joseph Valachi said 'Anywhere where Meyer Lansky is, Vito Genovese is,' that he knew the places in Havana but not in Las Vegas 'since they went out of Havana,' and that Lansky and Genovese 'do everything together.'
- [Valachi hearing, October 2, 1963: Valachi questioned on Raymond Patriarca](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-02/): Joseph Valachi told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he met Raymond Patriarca through horse racing in New England and that Patriarca was introduced to him as a member of the Cosa Nostra. Testimony, not a finding.
- [Valachi hearing, October 8, 1963: Valachi on Patriarca and the Boston bosses](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-08/): Joseph Valachi testified that he met Raymond Patriarca around 1939 or 1940, that Patriarca was a member, and that he heard in prison that Patriarca had become the boss in Boston after Joe Bruno and Phil Buccola. Testimony, not a finding.
- [Valachi hearing, October 9, 1963: "the Raymond family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1963-valachi-patriarca-1963-10-09/): Asked by Senator McIntyre about the Boston area, Joseph Valachi named Phil Buccola as the boss he had met, said he met Patriarca "as a soldier," and said he understood Patriarca was the boss now: "That is what I heard." Testimony, not a finding.
- [Testimony of Harry J. Anslinger, 28–29 July 1964 (Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-anslinger-testimony/): The former Commissioner of Narcotics, by then the U.S. representative on the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, testifies mainly on the international control treaties. His prepared statement says addiction is concentrated in large cities "where organized criminals have made it available."
- [Bureau of Narcotics background sheets on French traffickers: nightclubs and casinos in Havana (Senate narcotics hearings, pp. 954-955, 958)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-exhibit-2a-background-havana-nightclubs/): Background sheets printed with the Bureau of Narcotics' France exhibit say Jean Baptiste Croce 'Owns two nightclubs in Havana, Cuba,' that Albert Bistoni was 'Believed to have interests in the Eve, Cupidon, and Pigalle night clubs, Havana, Cuba,' and that Paul Mondoloni frequented 'gambling casinos in Havana.'
- [Exhibit 3 background sheets: Richard Boiardo's residence and gambling in Havana; Joseph Catalanotto 'deported to Italy again 1959 from Cuba' (Senate narcotics hearings, pp. 1015 and 1019)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-exhibit-3-boiardo-catalanotto-havana/): Two Bureau of Narcotics background sheets printed in 1964: one says Richard Boiardo of Newark 'Has residences in Newark, N.J., and Havana, Cuba' and was 'active in gambling activities in Havana, Cuba'; the other says Joseph Catalanotto was deported in 1957, returned, and was 'deported to Italy again 1959 from Cuba.'
- [Exhibit 3, east coast narcotic traffic: the 1954-58 Genovese heroin conspiracy 'via Cuba' (Senate narcotics hearings, pp. 923 and 1117)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-exhibit-3-genovese-conspiracy-via-cuba/): The Bureau of Narcotics history printed as Exhibit 3 says the principal conspiracy case it concluded in 1958, against Vito Genovese and others, 'began in 1954 and involved the smuggling of large amounts of heroin into the United States via Cuba.'
- ['International Illicit Narcotic Cases 1951 to July 1963' by Commissioner Henry L. Giordano: the Havana cases of 1956-57 (Senate narcotics hearings, pp. 789-804)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-giordano-international-cases-havana/): A Bureau of Narcotics summary printed in the 1964 hearing record reports that an undercover agent went to Havana in December 1956 and, 'Working in cooperation with the Cuban police,' bought cocaine from Jose Flaifel Moubarak on 4 February 1957, and that the Herran Olozaga defendants were arrested in Havana by Cuban police on 24 December 1956.
- [Testimony of Commissioner Henry L. Giordano, Bureau of Narcotics, 28 July 1964 (Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-giordano-testimony/): The Commissioner of Narcotics tells the Senate subcommittee that since 1956 the Bureau has "developed 20 major conspiracy cases resulting in the conviction of 206 important gangsters," naming Vito Genovese, John Ormento, Carmine Galante and Joseph Valachi, and presents the Valachi-hearing family charts marked for Bureau convictions.
- [Testimony of Martin Pera, Bureau of Narcotics, and Exhibit 2A on the French heroin traffic, 30 July 1964 (Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 4)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-pera-french-heroin-traffic/): A Bureau of Narcotics witness describes heroin made by Corsican groups in France who "have a strong affinity with the Mafia element in Sicily," and the Bureau's exhibit states that "Since the early 1950's France has been the center for the laboratory operations which produce heroin from morphine base."
- [Statement of John E. Storer, California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, July 1964 (Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1964-storer-california-statement/): The chief of California's state narcotics bureau tells the Senate subcommittee that heroin and marihuana in California come from Mexico and that "It is not a Mafia, Cosa Nostra-type operation in California."
- [Labor Management Racketeering: hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (24 and 25 April 1978)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1978-labor-management-racketeering-hearings/): Senate hearings chaired by Senator Sam Nunn on the Justice Department's organized crime strike forces and the Labor Department's part in labor-racketeering cases, with the Acting Deputy Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor and strike-force attorneys.
- [Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Central States Pension Fund hearings (1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1980-central-states-pension-fund-hearings/): Hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, August 25-26 and September 29-30, 1980, on the Labor Department's investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, including a staff summary of FBI affidavits on Kansas City and hidden interests in Las Vegas casinos.
- [Organized Crime and Use of Violence, Senate hearings, Part 2 (May 2 and 5, 1980)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1980-use-of-violence-part-2/): Part 2 of the 1980 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings on organized-crime violence. A Cleveland case summary printed in the record says four admitted "hit men" cooperated with federal authorities after the 1976-77 bombings, naming James "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno and Raymond Ferritto.
- [Senate Report 97-177: Oversight Inquiry of the Labor Department's Investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund (1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1981-srept-97-177/): The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' 1981 report, including its account of notes seized from a Kansas City home in February 1979 that the staff concluded set out how proceeds of a Las Vegas skimming operation were divided.
- [Waterfront Corruption: hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (February 1981)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1981-waterfront-corruption-hearings/): The printed record of six days of Senate hearings in February 1981 on corruption on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast waterfronts. Witnesses included FBI Director William H. Webster and ILA president Thomas W. Gleason.
- [Waterfront Corruption: Senate Report 98-369 (March 1984)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1984-srept-98-369-waterfront-corruption/): The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' report on its 1981 waterfront hearings. It describes the FBI's UNIRAC investigation, begun in 1975, records ILA president Thomas W. Gleason's denial that the union was dominated by organized crime, and recommends changes to federal labor law.
- [Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union: Senate Report 98-595 (August 1984)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1984-srept-98-595-hereiu/): The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' report on its 1981 to 1984 inquiry into the hotel and restaurant workers' union, with sections on Atlantic City Local 54, Las Vegas Local 226 and union benefit plans.
- [Organized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi (S. Hrg. 100-906, 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1988-25-years-after-valachi/): Hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, April 1988, in which FBI officials compared the 1963 Valachi charts with the Bureau's 1987 charts of the families. FBI testimony about its own intelligence, not court findings.
- [Organized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi (1988): FBI and U.S. Attorney testimony on the Philadelphia family](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1988-daniels-dennis-philadelphia/): Passages of the April 1988 Senate hearings in which FBI Deputy Assistant Director Anthony Daniels traced the Philadelphia LCN family from Salvatore Sabella to Nicodemo Scarfo, and U.S. Attorney Edward S. G. Dennis, Jr. described the killings after Angelo Bruno's death. Testimony, not findings.
- [Senate subcommittee hearing, 1988: testimony of FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph E. Griffin, Cleveland](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1988-griffin-fbi-cleveland/): Joseph E. Griffin, head of the FBI's Cleveland office, described two task-force RICO cases, 'Buzzmark' and 'Gangmurs', and walked the subcommittee through the Cleveland conflict of the 1970s between James Licavoli's faction and Danny Greene and John Nardi.
- [Senate subcommittee hearing, 1988: prepared statement of Angelo Lonardo](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1988-lonardo-prepared-statement/): The written statement Angelo Lonardo filed with the Senate subcommittee in April 1988, printed from page 529: his initiation at the Statler Hotel in Cleveland, the people he says were present, the family's ties to New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and Youngstown, and a chronology of Cleveland-area violence.
- [Senate subcommittee hearing, 1988: testimony of Angelo Lonardo](https://mobfiles.org/items/psi-1988-lonardo-testimony/): On 15 April 1988 Angelo Lonardo, testifying behind a screen under a court immunity order, told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he was 'the former underboss of the Cleveland organized crime family' and described its leaders, its Las Vegas casino income and its dealings with New York and Chicago.
- [Testimony of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, September 25, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/rfk-testimony-1963-09-25/): Kennedy opened the 1963 hearings. His prepared statement says that Joseph Valachi was "an insider" who had "broken the underworld's code of silence," and that "Cosa Nostra is run by a commission."
- [Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132 (1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-carroll-v-united-states-1925/): The Supreme Court holds, 2 March 1925, that a federal prohibition agent may search an automobile without a warrant when he has probable cause to believe it contains contraband liquor, but may not stop cars at random.
- [James Everard's Breweries v. Day, 265 U.S. 545 (1924)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-james-everards-breweries-v-day-1924/): The Supreme Court upheld, 9 June 1924, the Supplemental Prohibition Act's ban on physicians prescribing malt liquor as medicine. The printed counsel line lists Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt on the government's brief.
- [Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-lambert-v-yellowley-1926/): The Supreme Court upheld, 29 November 1926, the National Prohibition Act's limit on how much spirituous liquor a physician could prescribe. Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt heads the counsel line for the appellees.
- [Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-olmstead-v-united-states-1928/): The Supreme Court holds, 4 June 1928, that federal prohibition officers' wiretapping of telephone lines without entering the defendants' premises was not a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment, so the intercepted conversations were admissible.
- [Steele v. United States No. 2, 267 U.S. 505 (1925)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-steele-v-united-states-no-2-1925/): The Supreme Court held, 13 April 1925, that a general prohibition agent could be authorized to receive and serve a search warrant. The counsel line lists "Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt" on the brief for the United States.
- [United States v. Lanza, 260 U.S. 377 (1922)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-united-states-v-lanza-1922/): The Supreme Court holds, 11 December 1922, in an opinion by Chief Justice Taft, that the same act violating prohibition laws can be punished by both a state and the United States, so a state prosecution does not bar a federal one.
- [United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile, 272 U.S. 321 (1926)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-united-states-v-one-ford-coupe-1926/): The Supreme Court holds, 22 November 1926, that the National Prohibition Act did not displace Revised Statutes section 3450, so an automobile used to conceal tax-unpaid illicit liquor could be forfeited under that section.
- [United States v. Sullivan, 274 U.S. 259 (1927)](https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-united-states-v-sullivan-1927/): The Supreme Court holds, 16 May 1927, in an opinion by Justice Holmes, that gains from an unlawful liquor business are taxable income and that the Fifth Amendment did not excuse the defendant from filing a return at all.
- [Senate Historical Office: the Kefauver Committee, Notable Senate Investigations](https://mobfiles.org/items/senate-kefauver-committee-history-page/): The U.S. Senate Historical Office's account of the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: its resolution, chairmen and members, funding, extension, and television audience. A secondary account written by the Senate.
- [Exhibit No. 38: affidavit of Vincent Cafaro (S. Hrg. 100-906, pp. 866 ff.)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-cafaro-affidavit-exhibit-38/): Cafaro's signed statement to the subcommittee staff, printed as Exhibit 38. It covers his meeting Anthony Salerno after a narcotics arrest at 17, his work in Salerno's numbers office from about 1958, his 1986 indictment, five months wearing a wire, and his withdrawal from cooperation in October 1987.
- [Testimony of Vincent Cafaro (29 April 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-cafaro-testimony-1988-04-29/): Vincent "Fish" Cafaro, under federal indictment and testifying without immunity, told the Senate subcommittee he became a "made" member of the Genovese family in 1974, described its hierarchy, its rules on killings, his West Harlem numbers business and the concrete "2 percent club," and said Vincent Gigante's public behavior was a guise.
- [Testimony of FBI supervisor James Kossler on the GENUS project, 1988 (S. Hrg. 100-906, pp. 190-191)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-kossler-genus-1988-04-22/): James Kossler of the FBI's New York division tells the Senate subcommittee that in 1981 the office chose to attack "the hierarchy and the infrastructure of the Bonanno LCN family." "This project was called the Genus Project."
- [Joseph D. Pistone, answers to the subcommittee, April 22, 1988 (S. Hrg. 100-906, pp. 207-217)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-pistone-qa-1988-04-22/): Pistone's answers to Senators Nunn and Roth after his opening statement, testifying behind a screen. He describes the 1979-1981 struggle "within the Bonanno family," the contract he was given to find Bruno Indelicato, and the end of the operation, "I think it was July 27."
- [Testimony of Joseph D. Pistone, former FBI Special Agent (22 April 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-pistone-testimony-1988-04-22/): The retired FBI agent who worked undercover as "Donnie Brasco" testified from behind a screen that his undercover work began in September 1976, that he infiltrated the Colombo and then the Bonanno families, and that his testimony in over 10 trials resulted in more than 200 indictments and over 100 convictions.
- [S. Hrg. 100-906: opening of the 1988 hearings on Joseph Valachi's 1963 testimony (11 April 1988)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-100-906-valachi-retrospective-1988-04-11/): Senator Sam Nunn opened "Organized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi" by recalling Valachi's 1963 testimony before the same subcommittee, with the 1963 charts hung in the hearing room. An FBI witness called Valachi the first member informant the Bureau developed.
- [Statement of FBI Director William H. Webster, November 29, 1983 (S. Hrg. 98-914, pp. 94-95)](https://mobfiles.org/items/shrg-98-914-webster-statement-1983-11-29/): FBI Director Webster's statement to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, reprinted in a 1984 Senate hearing. He says undercover agent Joe Pistone "was able to work his way into the family's confidence" and that the investigation led to the convictions of "Benjamin Ruggiero, a capo in the New York Bonanno organized crime 'family,'" and two of his soldiers.
- [Thompson Model 1928 Submachine Gun (Smithsonian, National Museum of American History 1986.0698.02)](https://mobfiles.org/items/si-nmah-1986-0698-02-thompson-m1928/): Smithsonian Open Access catalog record, CC0, for a Thompson Model 1928 submachine gun, serial number 11768, credit line "U.S. Postal Service." No image is published with the record.
- [Model 1921 Thompson Submachine Gun, Colt (Smithsonian, National Museum of American History AF.69053MA)](https://mobfiles.org/items/si-nmah-af-69053ma-thompson-m1921/): Smithsonian Open Access catalog record, CC0, for a Model 1921 Thompson submachine gun made by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, serial number 5075, date made ca. 1922 or ca. 1926. No image is published with the record.
- [Thompson submachine gun, 1920s (Smithsonian, National Postal Museum 2013.2011.158)](https://mobfiles.org/items/si-npm-2013-2011-158-thompson-postal-inspectors/): Smithsonian Open Access record and CC0 image of a Thompson submachine gun with canvas strap, transferred to the National Postal Museum from the United States Postal Inspection Service. The museum says Postal Inspectors were the first law enforcement agency to use it against criminals.
- [Organized Crime in America, Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Part 1 (1983)](https://mobfiles.org/items/sjc-1983-organized-crime-in-america-part-1/): Part 1 of the 1983 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, opening with the Attorney General and FBI Director William H. Webster. Webster called Jimmy Fratianno "an LCN member" and a government witness in the witness protection program; a note for the record reports Angelo A. Lonardo's 1983 conviction.
- [Money Laundering Control Act of 1986: Subtitle H of Title I of Public Law 99-570, 100 Stat. 3207-18, adding 18 U.S.C. 1956](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-100-stat-3207-18-money-laundering-control-act/): Subtitle H of the 1986 drug act, "the 'Money Laundering Control Act of 1986'", added 18 U.S.C. 1956, which made it a crime to conduct a financial transaction with the proceeds of specified unlawful activity to promote that activity, conceal the proceeds, or avoid a reporting requirement.
- [Mann Act: 36 Stat. 825 (Chapter 395, Public, No. 277), 25 June 1910](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-36-stat-825-mann-act/): Chapter 395 of the 61st Congress, "An Act To further regulate interstate and foreign commerce by prohibiting the transportation therein for immoral purposes of women and girls". Section 2 made that transportation a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, up to five years in prison, or both.
- [Harrison Narcotics Act: 38 Stat. 785 (Chapter 1, Public, No. 223), 17 December 1914](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-38-stat-785-harrison-narcotics-act/): The 1914 Act requiring every person who produced, imported, dealt in, dispensed or gave away opium or coca leaves or their derivatives to register with the collector of internal revenue and pay a special tax. Only the Act's first page was read.
- [National Prohibition Act, 41 Stat. 305 (Chapter 85, 28 October 1919)](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-41-stat-305-national-prohibition-act/): Page 305 of volume 41 of the Statutes at Large, printing the opening of Chapter 85 (H.R. 6810, Public No. 66), "An Act to prohibit intoxicating beverages", with its short title "National Prohibition Act" and the Title I definition of intoxicating beverages.
- [Federal Kidnapping Act: 47 Stat. 326 (Chapter 271, Public, No. 189), 22 June 1932](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-47-stat-326-federal-kidnapping-act/): The 1932 Act "Forbidding the transportation of any person in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped, or otherwise unlawfully detained, and making such act a felony." Congress amended it on May 18, 1934.
- [Kidnapping Act amendment: 48 Stat. 781-782 (Chapter 301, Public, No. 232), 18 May 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-48-stat-781-kidnapping-act-amendment/): One of the May 1934 crime bills. It amended the 1932 kidnapping Act to allow a death sentence on the jury's recommendation, unless the victim was liberated unharmed, and made failure to release a victim within seven days a presumption of interstate transport.
- [Fugitive Felon Act: 48 Stat. 782 (Chapter 302, Public, No. 233), 18 May 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-48-stat-782-fugitive-felon-act/): One of the May 1934 crime bills: "An Act Making it unlawful for any person to flee from one State to another for the purpose of avoiding prosecution or the giving of testimony in certain cases."
- [Bank Robbery Act: 48 Stat. 783 (Chapter 304, Public, No. 235), 18 May 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-48-stat-783-bank-robbery-act/): One of the May 1934 crime bills: "An Act To provide punishment for certain offenses committed against banks organized or operating under laws of the United States or any member of the Federal Reserve System."
- [Anti-Racketeering Act of 1934: 48 Stat. 979-980 (Chapter 569, Public, No. 376), 18 June 1934](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-48-stat-979-anti-racketeering-act/): "An Act To protect trade and commerce against interference by violence, threats, coercion, or intimidation", which made it a felony to obtain money or property in connection with trade or commerce by force, violence or coercion. The Hobbs Act of 1946 rewrote it.
- [Hobbs Act: 60 Stat. 420 (Chapter 537, Public Law 486), 3 July 1946](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-60-stat-420-hobbs-act/): The 1946 Act that rewrote the 1934 Anti-Racketeering Act: "Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce, or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, by robbery or extortion, shall be guilty of a felony."
- [Johnson Act (gambling devices): 64 Stat. 1134-1135 (Chapter 1194, Public Law 906), 2 January 1951](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-64-stat-1134-johnson-act/): "An Act To prohibit transportation of gambling devices in interstate and foreign commerce." It barred knowingly shipping slot machines and similar devices into a State unless that State had exempted itself by law, and required makers and dealers to register with the Attorney General.
- [Wagering taxes: Revenue Act of 1951, Part VII, sec. 471 (Public Law 183), 65 Stat. 529](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-65-stat-529-wagering-tax/): Part VII of the Revenue Act of 1951 added a chapter of wagering taxes: a 10 percent excise tax on wagers, including "the numbers game, policy, and similar types of wagering", and a $50 special tax with registration for those in the business. The Supreme Court limited its criminal enforcement in 1968.
- [Waterfront Commission Compact: 67 Stat. 541 (Public Law 252, Chapter 407), 12 August 1953](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-67-stat-541-waterfront-commission-compact/): The 1953 Act of Congress consenting to the New York-New Jersey Waterfront Commission Compact. In the compact's findings the two states declare that hiring on the Port of New York waterfront was marked by "corrupt hiring practices" by persons who "are frequently criminals."
- [Wire Act: 75 Stat. 491 (Public Law 87-216), 13 September 1961, adding 18 U.S.C. 1084](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-75-stat-491-wire-act/): The 1961 Act adding 18 U.S.C. 1084, which made it a crime for a person in the business of betting or wagering knowingly to use a wire communication facility to transmit bets, wagers or wagering information across state or national lines.
- [Travel Act: 75 Stat. 498-499 (Public Law 87-228), 13 September 1961, adding 18 U.S.C. 1952](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-75-stat-498-travel-act/): The 1961 Act "to prohibit travel or transportation in commerce in aid of racketeering enterprises", adding 18 U.S.C. 1952 for interstate travel or use of interstate facilities to carry on gambling, untaxed liquor, narcotics, prostitution, extortion or bribery businesses.
- [Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Title III: Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance (Public Law 90-351), 82 Stat. 211](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-82-stat-211-title-iii-wiretap/): Title III of the 1968 Act added chapter 119 to title 18: it prohibited private interception of wire and oral communications and set up court-ordered interception for listed offenses. Its findings state: "Organized criminals make extensive use of wire and oral communications in their criminal activities."
- [Bank Secrecy Act: 84 Stat. 1114 (Public Law 91-508), 26 October 1970, Title I (Financial Recordkeeping) and Title II (Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act)](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-1114-bank-secrecy-act/): The 1970 Act requiring insured banks and other financial institutions to keep records and authorizing the Treasury to require reports that "have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings." FinCEN calls it and its amendments the Bank Secrecy Act.
- [Continuing Criminal Enterprise: Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Title II, sec. 408 (Public Law 91-513), 84 Stat. 1265-1266](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-1265-continuing-criminal-enterprise/): Section 408 of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 set a sentence of ten years to life, a fine of up to $100,000 and forfeiture for a person who organizes, supervises or manages five or more others in a continuing series of drug felonies and obtains substantial income from it.
- [Organized Crime Control Act of 1970: 84 Stat. 922-962 (Public Law 91-452), 15 October 1970](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-922-organized-crime-control-act/): "An Act Relating to the control of organized crime in the United States", with titles on special grand juries, witness immunity, recalcitrant witnesses, protected housing for government witnesses, syndicated gambling, racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO), dangerous special offenders and explosives.
- [Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title V: Protected Facilities for Housing Government Witnesses, 84 Stat. 933-934](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-933-witness-protection-title-v/): Title V of the 1970 Act authorized the Attorney General to provide for the security of government witnesses and their families in proceedings against persons alleged to have participated in organized criminal activity. The U.S. Marshals Service dates its Witness Security Program to this authority.
- [Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title VIII, Part C: Illegal Gambling Business (18 U.S.C. 1955), 84 Stat. 937](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-937-illegal-gambling-business/): Section 803 of the 1970 Act added 18 U.S.C. 1955, which made it a federal crime to conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct or own an illegal gambling business of five or more persons operating more than thirty days or grossing $2,000 in a day.
- [Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title IX: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (18 U.S.C. 1961-1968), 84 Stat. 941-948](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-84-stat-941-rico-title-ix/): Title IX of the 1970 Act, the RICO statute: it made it unlawful to conduct an enterprise's affairs through a "pattern of racketeering activity", defined the predicate offenses, and provided prison terms, fines and forfeiture. Section 904 directs that it "be liberally construed to effectuate its remedial purposes."
- [Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (Title II of Public Law 98-473), with Chapter III, the Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984, 98 Stat. 1976, 2040](https://mobfiles.org/items/statutes-at-large-98-stat-1976-comprehensive-crime-control-act/): Title II of the 1984 continuing-appropriations resolution, which may be cited as the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Its Chapter III rewrote RICO's forfeiture section to reach property constituting or derived from racketeering proceeds.
- [Testimony of Tampa Police Chief Neil G. Brown, October 15, 1963 (opening pages)](https://mobfiles.org/items/tampa-brown-testimony-1963-10-15/): Tampa's police chief introduced the Tampa chart (Exhibit 45) and said he believed it "completely accurate in showing that Santo Trafficante is the boss of this criminal group." His statement says 1958 Senate testimony had Trafficante taking over Havana's Sans Souci casino from "the Mannarino brothers in Pittsburgh, Pa."
- [United States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1989)](https://mobfiles.org/items/us-v-salerno-868-f2d-524/): Second Circuit opinion on the appeal from the Southern District of New York trial of Anthony Salerno and seven other defendants, decided January 31, 1989.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on the superseding indictment of Vincent Basciano (June 27, 2005)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2005-06-27-basciano-superseding-indictment/): The U.S. Attorney announces new charges against "Bonanno family acting boss Vincent Basciano," including a conspiracy to murder a Bonanno captain and the solicitation of the murder of a federal prosecutor. The release calls Joseph Massino "the incarcerated official boss of the Bonanno family."
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D. New York: Director's Awards release (October 28, 2005)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2005-10-28-directors-awards/): A U.S. Attorney's release on Justice Department awards to Eastern District prosecutors and FBI agents. It states that in July 2004, after a twelve-week trial, a jury convicted Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino of racketeering, including seven murders or murder conspiracies.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on Bonanno family convictions (July 12, 2006)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2006-07-12-bonanno-convictions/): Release on the convictions of Bonanno family soldiers, in which U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said more than seventy Bonanno members and associates had been prosecuted, among them "Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino" and the men who led the family after him.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on the indictment of Nicholas Santora, Anthony Rabito and 17 others (February 6, 2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2007-02-06-santora-rabito-indictment/): The U.S. Attorney announces a superseding indictment of nineteen Bonanno members and associates, including "Bonanno family acting underboss Nicholas Santora and Bonanno family acting consigliere Anthony Rabito." Both men had been defendants in the 1982 Brasco trial.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on four Bonanno guilty pleas, among them Anthony Indelicato's (August 6, 2008)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2008-08-06-bonanno-pleas/): Four Bonanno members plead guilty before Judge Garaufis. The release says Anthony Indelicato, "also known as 'Bruno,'" and another man "admitted to their involvement in the 2001 murder of Frank Santoro," which it says Vincent Basciano ordered.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on a Bonanno family indictment (October 7, 2009)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2009-10-07-bonanno-indictment/): Release on a 33-count Bonanno family indictment, stating that since March 2002 four Bonanno bosses or acting bosses had been convicted. The new charges are allegations.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: release on the La Cosa Nostra indictments (January 20, 2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2011-01-20-lcn-indictments/): The Eastern District of New York's release on the same day's indictments, giving the Brooklyn cases against members and associates of the Colombo, Gambino and other families. The charges are allegations.
- [U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y.: "38 Defendants in Historic Colombo Family Case Plead Guilty" (November 9, 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edny-2012-11-09-colombo-pleas/): Release reporting guilty pleas by 38 defendants in the Colombo family case that came out of the January 2011 indictments.
- [Leadership, Members and Associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Family Charged (U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2011)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edpa-ligambi-indictment-2011-05-23/): Press release of May 23, 2011 announcing a 50-count superseding indictment of 13 people charged with racketeering conspiracy and related crimes as members and associates of the Philadelphia LCN family. Charges are allegations.
- [Two Members of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Family Charged in Second Superseding Indictment (U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edpa-ligambi-second-superseding-2012-04-26/): Press release of April 26, 2012 announcing a second superseding indictment against 14 defendants in the Philadelphia LCN case, adding two North Jersey men and a charge of theft from a Teamsters benefit fund. Charges are allegations.
- [Members of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Family Found Guilty of Racketeering and Other Charges (U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2013)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-edpa-ligambi-verdict-2013-01-03/): Press release of January 3, 2013: after the trial of the 2011 to 2012 Philadelphia LCN indictment, the jury convicted three defendants of racketeering conspiracy and one of related counts, acquitted on others, and hung on several counts.
- [Federal Jury Convicts James "Whitey" Bulger (U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 2013)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ma-bulger-convicted-2013-08-12/): Press release of August 12, 2013: after a two-month trial a federal jury in Boston convicted James J. Bulger of racketeering conspiracy and racketeering acts, and found that he played a role in eleven murders.
- [Bulger Sentenced to Two Life Terms (U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 2013)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ma-bulger-sentenced-2013-11-14/): Press release of November 14, 2013: Judge Denise J. Casper sentenced James J. Bulger in Boston to two consecutive life terms plus five years and $19.5 million in restitution.
- [Greig Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison (U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 2012)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ma-greig-sentenced-2012-06-12/): Press release of June 12, 2012: Catherine E. Greig, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor a fugitive and identity-fraud counts, was sentenced to eight years for harboring James J. Bulger.
- [Former LCN Boss Arrested in Connection with the Murder of a Federal Witness (U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 2016)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ma-salemme-arrest-2016-08-10/): Press release of August 10, 2016: Francis P. Salemme, 82, was arrested in Connecticut and charged with murder of a witness. The charge was an allegation; the release states his earlier racketeering and obstruction convictions.
- [Former Mafia Boss and Associate Convicted of 1993 Murder (U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 2018)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ma-salemme-convicted-2018-06-22/): Press release of June 22, 2018: a federal jury convicted Francis P. Salemme and Paul M. Weadick of one count of murder of a federal witness in the 1993 killing of Steven A. DiSarro.
- [U.S. Attorney, N.D. Illinois: deputy marshal charged with disclosing information about protected witness Nicholas Calabrese (January 11, 2007)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ndil-2007-01-11-witsec-disclosure/): A U.S. Attorney's release on a complaint against a deputy U.S. marshal. Citing the FBI's affidavit, it says Nicholas Calabrese admitted being a "made" member of the Chicago Outfit, agreed in 2002 to cooperate, and entered the Witness Security Program in August 2002 on an application describing his ability to testify about 16 murders in which he participated and 22 others.
- [U.S. Attorney, N.D. Illinois: Family Secrets indictment release (April 25, 2005)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ndil-family-secrets-indictment-2005/): Press release of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announcing a 14-defendant racketeering indictment that named the "Chicago Outfit" as the RICO enterprise and charged 18 murders and one attempted murder between 1970 and 1986.
- [Former Mafia Boss and Associate Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1993 Murder (U.S. Attorney, District of Rhode Island, 2018)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-ri-salemme-sentenced-2018-09-13/): Press release of September 13, 2018: Judge Allison D. Burroughs sentenced Francis P. Salemme and Paul M. Weadick to life in prison in federal court in Boston for the 1993 murder of Steven A. DiSarro.
- [Manhattan U.S. Attorney announces a proposed settlement to replace the Teamsters Consent Decree (14 January 2015)](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-sdny-ibt-consent-decree-settlement-2015/): Press release 15-010 of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York: a proposed agreement to replace the Teamsters Consent Decree, "in place since March 1989," keeping its injunction and election reforms and phasing out the Independent Review Board over five years.
- [U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania: leadership-team release of April 16, 2018](https://mobfiles.org/items/usao-wdpa-leadership-release-2018/): A Justice Department release naming the Pittsburgh U.S. Attorney's senior staff. Its biography of the First Assistant lists among his notable cases "the successful eight-week trial of the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family on RICO charges." It gives no date, defendants or docket for that trial.
- [Coast Guard Historian's article on catching rum-runners during Prohibition (19 November 2021)](https://mobfiles.org/items/uscg-long-blue-line-prohibition-tech/): Article by Coast Guard Atlantic Area historian William H. Thiesen, "The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners," on the Coast Guard's Prohibition mission, "Rum Row", the 1924 fleet expansion and the 320 cutters and destroyers at the end of Prohibition.
- [Coast Guard Historian's bibliography on Prohibition and the "Rum War"](https://mobfiles.org/items/uscg-prohibition-rum-war-bibliography/): The Coast Guard Historian's Office bibliography of articles, books and theses on Prohibition and the "Rum War", including Malcolm F. Willoughby's "Rum War at Sea" (GPO, 1964) and Eric S. Ensign's 1998 thesis. A list of publications only.
- ['Black Hand Gang', U.S. Postal Inspection Service history page (cite and link only)](https://mobfiles.org/items/uspis-black-hand-gang/): The U.S. Postal Inspection Service's modern history page on Black Hand letters, describing the 1909 Ohio case it calls the 'Society of the Banana' and the 1915 Chicago case of Mennite and Mecca. The page carries a copyright notice; it is cited and linked, not reproduced.
- [Valachi's account of the June 1962 killing at the Atlanta penitentiary (testimony, September 27, 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-atlanta-account-1963-09-27/): Valachi testified that he struck a man in the Atlanta penitentiary yard with an iron pipe, believing him to be someone sent to kill him, and was then shown he had hit the wrong man.
- [Chart A: "The Vito Genovese Family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-chart-a-genovese/): New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963, with photographs, FBI or police numbers and an activity code. A star marks names "identified by Joseph Valachi."
- [Chart B: "The Gaetano Lucchese Family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-chart-b-lucchese/): New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963: boss, underboss, consiglieri, caporegime and soldiers, with photographs and the activity code. McClellan counted 53 names.
- [Chart C: "The Carlo Gambino Family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-chart-c-gambino/): New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963: boss, underboss, consigliere and caporegime, with photographs and the activity code. It is bound out of order in the printed volume.
- [Chart D: "The Giuseppe Magliocco Family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-chart-d-magliocco/): New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963, of what counsel called "originally ... the Profaci family": boss, underboss, caporegime and soldiers. No consigliere box is printed.
- [Chart E: "The Joseph Bonanno Family"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-chart-e-bonanno/): New York police fold-out chart presented on October 8, 1963. McClellan stated that it carried 21 names, 17 of them identified by Valachi.
- [The five New York family charts, re-marked for Bureau of Narcotics convictions (Part 3)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-charts-part-3-narcotics-convictions/): The Genovese, Gambino, Magliocco, Bonanno and Lucchese charts, reprinted in 1964 with an "X" for members convicted in Bureau of Narcotics cases. One segment is stored here.
- [Bureau of Narcotics case charts: "Albert and Vito Agueci case" and "Carmine Galante-Mancino case" (Part 4)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-charts-part-4-agueci-galante/): Two fold-out Bureau of Narcotics case charts of 1964, printed with Exhibit No. 3 on interstate traffic from New York City. One segment is stored here.
- [Bureau of Narcotics route charts: Europe and Asia, and distribution in the United States (Part 4)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-charts-part-4-routes/): Two fold-out Bureau of Narcotics charts of 1964: narcotics routes in Europe and Asia, and distribution in the United States, each with names of persons. One segment is stored here.
- [Criminal record of Joseph Valachi, as printed in the 1963 hearing record](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-criminal-record-exhibit-1963/): The police and FBI identification record of Valachi, read into the record by Sergeant Ralph Salerno: arrests from 1921, Sing Sing sentences in the 1920s, federal narcotics cases from 1944, and Atlanta penitentiary entries.
- [Valachi's executive-session testimony of October 29, 1963, released July 28, 1964](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exec-session-1963-10-29/): Closed-session testimony on narcotics, made public in 1964. Valachi described one heroin deal in 1952 and going to Anthony Strollo, "Tony Bender," for money.
- [Exhibit No. 18: "The Mafia Organization in the Detroit Area"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-18-detroit-chart/): Detroit Police Department fold-out chart presented on October 10, 1963: a "Ruling Council," "The Big Men," and lower tiers, with photographs, a relationship legend and a criminal-activity code.
- [Exhibit No. 24: Detroit chart of gangland slayings, shootings and missing persons](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-24-detroit-slayings-chart/): Detroit Police Department chart of gangland slayings, shootings and missing persons by year, entered on October 10, 1963. The first segment is stored here.
- [Exhibit No. 35: "Family Relationship Study" (Detroit)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-35-detroit-family-relationship/): Detroit police fold-out chart of intermarriage among the families named in the Detroit testimony, entered on October 11, 1963. The second segment is stored here.
- [Exhibit No. 36: "Some Legitimate Businesses Owned, Infiltrated or Influenced by the Mafia" (Detroit)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-36-detroit-businesses/): Detroit police fold-out chart linking named men to businesses, entered on October 11, 1963. One segment is stored here. No address on it is mapped.
- [Exhibit No. 39: "Chicago-Italian Organization, Overall Chicago Area Bosses and Lieutenants"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-39-chicago-chart/): Chicago Police Department fold-out chart presented on October 11, 1963, with photographs, grouped as overall bosses and lieutenants and then by district.
- [Exhibit No. 40: "Non-Member Associates" of the Chicago-Italian organization](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-40-chicago-associates/): A Chicago police fold-out chart of associates whom it labels non-members, entered after Exhibit 39 on October 11, 1963.
- [Exhibit No. 45: "The Mafia Organization in the Tampa, Florida Area"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-45-tampa-chart/): Tampa fold-out chart entered on October 15, 1963: New York links, Tampa predecessors, an "elder," a "top man" and numbered members. The "Top Man" box is illegible in the scan.
- [Exhibit No. 53: "Rhode Island and Boston, Mass. Organization"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-53-rhode-island-boston-chart/): Fold-out chart entered on October 15, 1963, with a "former boss" residing in Italy, a man labelled "Boss," and Rhode Island and Boston members below.
- [Exhibit No. 64: "Buffalo, N.Y. Organization"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-64-buffalo-chart/): 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.
- [Exhibit No. 65: "Magaddino Empire of Organized Crime" (Buffalo Police Department)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-65-magaddino-empire/): A typed box chart by the Buffalo Police Department, printed at page 587 of Part 2, linking Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Youngstown and Canada under one name.
- [Exhibit No. 66: "Narcotics Distribution Chart, Buffalo Area"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-66-buffalo-narcotics/): A printed flow chart of one heroin source into Buffalo, entered on October 16, 1963. The printed page is stored here.
- [Exhibit No. 8: "Masseria-Maranzano War and Evolution of Gang Control—1930 to Present"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-exhibit-8-masseria-maranzano-chart/): Staff fold-out chart presented on October 1, 1963: the 1930 to 1931 war in three key-coded groups and the lines of succession drawn from it to five 1963 bosses. Several name boxes are illegible in the scan.
- [Hearing of October 2, 1963: Valachi's testimony and police records](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearing-1963-10-02/): Valachi continued his account of the 1930 to 1931 gang war. Police witnesses from Hartford and New York testified to records the subcommittee set beside his statements.
- [Hearing of October 8, 1963: the five New York family charts presented](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearing-1963-10-08/): New York police Deputy Chief Inspector John J. Shanley presented Charts A to E, and Valachi answered questions about the men on them. McClellan directed that the charts be printed "exactly as they appear."
- [Hearing of October 9, 1963: final day of Part 1](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearing-1963-10-09/): The last day of Valachi's public testimony, with further New York police and staff witnesses. The chairman stated a chart total of 338 persons, 289 of them identified by Valachi.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics: Index to Hearings (1965)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-index-1965/): The printed name index to the five parts of the 1963 and 1964 hearings, published by the Government Printing Office in 1965.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 1 (September 25 to October 9, 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-1-1963/): The first printed volume of the 1963 Senate hearings: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's opening testimony, Joseph Valachi's public testimony, New York police witnesses, Exhibit 8 and Charts A to E.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 2 (October 10 to 16, 1963)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-2-1963/): The second printed volume: police testimony and organization charts for Detroit, Chicago, Tampa, Rhode Island and Boston, and Buffalo, entered as Exhibits 17 to 69.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 3 (October 29, 1963; July 28 to 30, 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-3-1963-1964/): The third printed volume: the released portion of Valachi's October 29, 1963 executive-session testimony, and Bureau of Narcotics testimony with the New York family charts re-marked for narcotics convictions.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 3, printed page 774: the Bureau of Narcotics entry for Joseph Bruno of Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-3-bruno-p774/): In its list of traffickers arrested since 1951, the Bureau of Narcotics says Joseph Bruno of Chicago, sentenced in June 1958 to eight years on a federal narcotics charge, had for many years distributed bootleg alcohol and narcotics to large-scale sellers on Chicago's South Side.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 3, printed pages 786-787: the Bureau of Narcotics entry for Fiore Siano of New York](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-3-siano-p786-787/): The Bureau of Narcotics list describes Fiore Siano, sentenced to eight years on a narcotics charge, as a main source of supply for Black traffickers in Harlem and an associate of the men it says controlled the rackets there. The opening sentence is paraphrased because the OCR is garbled.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 3, printed page 788: the Bureau of Narcotics entry for Joseph Valachi and John Freeman](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-3-valachi-freeman-p788/): The Bureau of Narcotics entry for Joseph Valachi says that in the 1930s he supplied heroin to John Freeman, whom the Bureau calls one of the most active interstate heroin traffickers, and that in 1960 Valachi was sentenced to fifteen years in a case involving Freeman's son. The Freeman sentence is paraphrased because the OCR is garbled.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 4 (July 30, 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-1964/): The fourth printed volume: the afternoon session of July 30, 1964, with Bureau of Narcotics testimony on heroin routes and fold-out route and case charts.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed pages 931-932: Belk and the Bureau's exhibit on Chicago's supply from New York](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-belk-p931-932/): Mr. Belk of the Bureau of Narcotics' New York office, formerly in Chicago, said Chicago's narcotics came "Primarily" from New York City, and the Bureau's Exhibit 4 described Italian organizations and independent Black organizations, both with New York sources, supplying Chicago.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed page 918: the Bureau of Narcotics history of the New York traffic](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-exhibit-p918/): A Bureau of Narcotics exhibit says that most of the New York heroin traffic outside the Italian syndicates was handled by Jewish racketeers and several Puerto Rican, Cuban and Black traffickers with their own foreign sources, and restates Valachi's naming of five New York organizations.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed page 924: the 1959 John Freeman heroin case](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-freeman-case-p924/): The Bureau of Narcotics account of a 1959 case says John Freeman, Sr., a New York flower-shop operator, supplied large quantities of heroin to west Harlem, the South Side of Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, with Joseph Valachi as his principal source, and that Valachi and Freeman were each sentenced to twenty years.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed page 913: Bureau witness Ward on who controlled heroin in New York](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-ward-p913/): Mr. Ward of the Bureau of Narcotics told the subcommittee on 30 July 1964 that about 95 percent of the heroin in the New York area was controlled by five organizations, and that the balance was in the hands of Jewish racketeers, Black traffickers with contacts among seamen, or Puerto Ricans.
- [Narcotics hearings, Part 4, printed page 915: Ward on traffickers travelling between New York, Washington and Baltimore](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-4-ward-p915/): Asked about Washington, the Bureau of Narcotics witness Ward said that Baltimore and Washington depended on New York, and that the major traffickers there, whom he described as Black, travelled to New York for heroin or were supplied by New York traffickers who travelled to them.
- [Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 5 (August 4 and 5, 1964)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-hearings-part-5-1964/): The fifth printed volume: testimony on narcotic addiction, treatment and rehabilitation, with a three-part fold-out map of the worldwide illicit narcotics traffic.
- [Map: "The flow of worldwide traffic in illicit narcotics" (Part 5)](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-map-part-5-worldwide-traffic/): A three-part fold-out world map of opium, morphine and heroin routes, facing page 1330 of Part 5. One segment is stored here.
- [Table: "Summary of arrests in families named by Joseph Valachi—Crime category"](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-table-arrests-five-families/): A printed table at page 259 of Part 1 counting arrests by crime category for the men on the five New York family charts. The scan is small, and this page does not transcribe its figures.
- [Testimony of Joseph Valachi, September 27, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-testimony-1963-09-27/): Valachi's first public day before the Senate subcommittee. He gave his birth date and sentences, said he joined "Cosa Nostra" in 1930, and set out its ranks.
- [Testimony of Joseph Valachi, October 1, 1963: the initiation ceremony](https://mobfiles.org/items/valachi-testimony-1963-10-01/): Valachi 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.
- [SAC Phoenix airtel to the FBI Director, March 22, 1979: summary of Joseph Bonanno's handwritten notes seized at Tucson, which include his account of the "Castellammarese War"](https://mobfiles.org/items/vault-bonanno-01-1979-03-22-airtel-seized-notes-castellammarese/): An FBI airtel forwarding hundreds of handwritten notes found in Joseph Bonanno's house during a federal search in 1979. The agent judged them drafts of a memoir and reported that Bonanno "writes at great length concerning the Castellammarese War." Filed as a record of seized evidence; nothing in the notes is used here as a fact.
- [New York teletype on the FBI interview of Salvatore Vincent ("Bill") Bonanno, Tucson, December 31, 1964: "Organization of Joseph Bonanno" and the death of Maranzano](https://mobfiles.org/items/vault-bonanno-02-1964-12-31-bill-bonanno-interview-maranzano/): An urgent FBI teletype reporting agents' interview of Bill Bonanno after his father's reported abduction in October 1964. On its fifth page the son said his father had been "the boss" since about 1930 or 1931; when agents put to him the date of the death of Salvatore Maranzano, "who was boss prior to Joseph Bonanno's taking over," he said it "must have been around that time." His statement as the FBI recorded it.
- [FBI identification record of Thomas Lucchese, furnished April 3, 1956: a New York homicide arrest of September 1930, dismissed February 26, 1931](https://mobfiles.org/items/vault-lucchese-01-identification-record-1930-homicide-arrest/): An FBI New York report (file NY 92-305) in the Lucchese file reproduces the Identification Division's record of April 3, 1956. Among its entries is a New York police arrest of "Thomas Luckese" in September 1930 on a homicide charge, disposition "dismissed," February 26, 1931. Read from the viewer's OCR.
- [FBI memorandum of October 2, 1974, "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano": the Bureau's statement that Luciano created the Commission "in 1931"](https://mobfiles.org/items/vault-luciano-02-1974-10-02-memo-last-testament/): An FBI headquarters memorandum judged a 1974 book presented as Luciano's memoirs to be "a complete fraud." Among the errors it lists, it says Bureau information indicates Luciano dropped an old title "when he created the concept of the La Cosa Nostra ruling Commission in 1931." The Bureau's 1974 summary, not a record of a 1931 event.
- [Legal Attache, Rome, to the FBI Director, December 7, 1965: a confidential source on Charles Luciano, including the Masseria and Maranzano killings as the source recounted them](https://mobfiles.org/items/vault-luciano-02-legat-rome-1965-12-07-informant-on-masseria-maranzano/): A letter in Part 02 of the FBI's Luciano file reports a December 1965 interview of a source who had known Luciano in Italy. The source said Luciano "and VITO GENOVESE engineered the murder of JOE MASSERIA and later of SALVATORE MARANZANO." The Legal Attache called the source's knowledge "very limited, general in nature." What the Bureau was told, not a finding.
- [Arizona Republican, 17 October 1890, page 1: Policeman killed](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-arizona-republican-1890-10-17-p1/): A short telegraphic item datelined New Orleans, October 16, reporting that Police Chief David C. Hennessy was fatally shot at midnight near the corner of Basin and Girod Streets, with the assailants unknown.
- [Beatrice Daily Express, 17 October 1890, page 3: Chief of Police Hennessy of New Orleans Assassinated](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-beatrice-daily-express-1890-10-17-p3/): A wire report prints a statement attributed to Capt. William J. O'Connor that, after parting from the chief at Girard (Girod) Street, he heard shotgun reports from a house at the corner of Girard and Basin streets and found the chief on a doorstep, who said 'Dagoes.'
- [Birmingham Age-Herald, 28 October 1919, page 1: Enforcement bill passed over veto](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-birmingham-age-herald-1919-10-28-p1/): The Birmingham Age-Herald's front page of 28 October 1919 carries the Associated Press report that the House repassed the prohibition-enforcement bill over President Wilson's veto, 176 to 55.
- [Bismarck Daily Tribune, 14 March 1909, page 1: Petrosino shot in Palermo](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-daily-tribune-1909-03-14-p1/): The Bismarck Daily Tribune front page of 14 March 1909 carries a wire report from Palermo that Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino of the New York police was shot dead in Marina square the previous evening, and that the identity of the assassins was not known.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 11 November 1924, page 1: Rich Chicago criminal is shot to death](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1924-11-11-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune's front page of 11 November 1924 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of Dion O'Bannion in his flower shop.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 13 October 1926, page 1: Capone wants to see end of gang murders](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1926-10-13-p1/): Associated Press front-page report of 13 October 1926 in which Al Capone, interviewed in a Cicero hotel room after the killing of Hymie Weiss, says he wants an end to gang killings.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 2 July 1928, page 1: Machine guns mow down Frank Yale in Brooklyn](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1928-07-02-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune front page of 2 July 1928 carries an Associated Press story from New York on the shooting of Frank Yale on a Brooklyn street.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 13 September 1928, page 2: Kidnapings and hijacking laid to racketeers](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1928-09-13-p2/): The seventh article in James P. Kirby's syndicated series on racketeering, about Detroit: it says Chicago men had affiliated with local talent, 'notably the Purple Gang', and that police attributed three murders to the gang.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 14 September 1928, page 2: Racketeers' torch kills six as gangster 'war' hits City of Cleveland](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1928-09-14-p2/): The eighth article in James P. Kirby's syndicated series on racketeering, about Cleveland: it says that since January 1927 thirteen well-known underworld figures had been murdered, 'including Big Joe and John Lonardo and Lawrence Lupo', with no conviction.
- [The Bismarck Tribune, 15 September 1928, page 2: "Philadelphia Grapples With Gangster Rule"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1928-09-15-p2/): Syndicated feature, the ninth in James P. Kirby's series on racketeering, relaying the Philadelphia district attorney's claims about Max Hoff, the Franklin Mortgage and Investment Company, and visits by Al Capone.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 14 February 1929, page 1: 7 gangsters trapped, killed](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1929-02-14-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune front page of 14 February 1929 carries a banner and a column on the killing of seven men in a Chicago garage.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 17 May 1929, page 1: Al Capone gets year in jail](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1929-05-17-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune front page of 17 May 1929 carries an Associated Press story from Philadelphia on Al Capone's sentence for carrying a concealed weapon.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 4 June 1929, page 7: Chicago’s Al Capone likes to wear apron, cook spaghetti](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1929-06-04-p7/): Page 7 of the Bismarck Tribune, 4 June 1929: an NEA feature with a photograph captioned “Where Al Capone Lives,” which names a brick house at 7244 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, as the home of his family.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 27 July 1929, page 5: Purple-Gang member found shot to death](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1929-07-27-p5/): A short Associated Press item from Detroit: Irving Shapiro, 25, 'known as a member of the purple gang', was found shot to death in the street and identified by fingerprints.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 24 April 1930, page 1: Hoodlum who's who with Al Capone leading list](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-04-24-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune front page of 24 April 1930 carries an Associated Press story on the Chicago Crime Commission's published list of 28 gangsters, with Al Capone first.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 10 June 1930, page 1: Seek newspaperman's slayer](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-06-10-p1/): The Bismarck Tribune front page of 10 June 1930 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on the police response to the killing of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 5 July 1930, page 6: Two men killed in Cleveland gang war](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-07-05-p6/): An Associated Press item: two men were shot dead, one inside Frank Milano's restaurant and the other just outside; it names them as Joe Porello, head of Cleveland's corn sugar business since the 1927 Lonardo killings, and Sam Tilocco.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 16 July 1930, page 3: Detroit gang guns get tenth victim](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-07-16-p3/): A short Associated Press item: David Overstein, 'formerly identified with the notorious purple gang', was found shot to death in a Detroit alley, the tenth victim of gang guns in under two weeks.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 24 July 1930, page 1: Brand as untrue claim announcer was extortionist](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-07-24-p1/): An Associated Press report that the Detroit News said Police Commissioner Thomas C. Wilcox admitted to be false his statement that he held an affidavit accusing the slain announcer Jerry Buckley of taking money from a racketeer.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 23 October 1930, page 3: Life term given Detroit gangster](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1930-10-23-p3/): An Associated Press item: Philip Keywell, described as the first of Detroit's 'notorious purple gang' to receive a major prison term in state court, was sentenced to life for the murder of Arthur Mixon, a 19-year-old iceman.
- [Bismarck Tribune, 17 October 1931, page 1: Capone income tax case is given to Chicago jury](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-bismarck-tribune-1931-10-17-p1/): Associated Press front-page report in the Bismarck Tribune of 17 October 1931 that Capone's income tax case went to the jury, quoting the closing argument of United States District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson.
- [Brownsville Herald, 28 April 1926, page 1: “Hanging prosecutor” is slain](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1926-04-28-p1/): Front page of the Brownsville Herald, 28 April 1926: an Associated Press report that Assistant State’s Attorney William M. McSwiggin (as printed) and two companions were shot from an automobile on Roosevelt Road at Fifty-Sixth Avenue, on the Chicago-Cicero line.
- [Brownsville Herald, 14 October 1927, page 2: Cleveland men slain](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1927-10-14-p2/): A short wire item: the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, commission merchants 'supposedly well-to-do', were shot and killed from ambush in a Cleveland barber shop the night before.
- [Brownsville Herald, 2 July 1928, page 1: Chicago gangsters sought in slaying of N.Y. racketeer](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1928-07-02-p1/): Short Associated Press item on the front page of the Brownsville Herald, 2 July 1928, on the killing of Frank Yale in Brooklyn the day before.
- [Brownsville Herald, 3 July 1928, page 8: Find body of gun victim in Brooklyn](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1928-07-03-p8/): Short wire item on page 8 of the Brownsville Herald, 3 July 1928, on a man found dead in a Brooklyn lot, described as the third killing in a series that began with the slaying of Frankie Yale.
- [Brownsville Herald, 3 June 1929, page 6: Detroit rounds up 'Purple' gang (photograph)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1929-06-03-p6/): A news photograph and caption: federal officers had rounded up Detroit's 'Purple Gang' and four of its members had been indicted for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law; the picture shows the United States Marshal herding prisoners into a police van.
- [Brownsville Herald, 11 June 1929, page 1: Gang war opens; 1 dead](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1929-06-11-p1/): A brief Associated Press bulletin: Sam 'Black Jack' Todaro was shot and killed in Cleveland in what police called a fresh outbreak of gang warfare, in retaliation for the killing of 'Big Joe' and John Lonardo.
- [Brownsville Herald, 24 April 1930, page 1: Published list of gangland shows all for Al](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1930-04-24-p1/): The Brownsville Herald front page of 24 April 1930 carries an Associated Press story on the Chicago Crime Commission's published list of 28 gangsters.
- [Brownsville Herald, 6 July 1930, page 2: Gangland guns bark and two leaders die](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-brownsville-herald-1930-07-06-p2/): An Associated Press report from Cleveland: Joe Porrello, 'Cleveland bootleg sugar baron', and his first lieutenant were shot dead, Porrello near the door of the restaurant of Frank Milano.
- [Butte Inter Mountain, 14 April 1903, page 1: Dead body in a barrel](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-butte-inter-mountain-1903-04-14-p1/): The Butte Inter Mountain front page of 14 April 1903 carries an Associated Press dispatch from New York on a man's body found in a barrel on East Eleventh Street.
- [Cheyenne Daily Leader, 15 March 1891, page 1: Vengeance: the killing of eleven prisoners in New Orleans](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-cheyenne-daily-leader-1891-03-15-p1/): The Cheyenne Daily Leader front page of 15 March 1891 reports the killing of eleven prisoners by a crowd at the New Orleans parish prison, and itself reports that the jury had acquitted six defendants and returned a mistrial on three.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 14 October 1927, page 1: Two merchants shot and killed; mystery](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1927-10-14-p1/): A brief wire item from Cleveland: Joseph and John Lonardo, 'commission merchants, supposedly well-to-do', were shot and killed from ambush in a barber shop; the gunmen and the motive were unknown to police.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 16 February 1929, page 1: Trail three gangmen for late murders](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1929-02-16-p1/): Front page of the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 16 February 1929: Chicago police say witnesses identified photographs of three Detroit men, and George Moran blames the Capone gang.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 21 October 1929, page 1: One time 'sugar corn baron' is assassinated](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1929-10-21-p1/): A wire item from Cleveland: Frank Lonardo, 'one time corn sugar baron' whose brothers Joe and John were killed two years earlier, was shot dead at a card table in a downtown barber shop.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 18 March 1930, page 1: Scarface Al Capone freed from prison](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1930-03-18-p1/): Front-page report in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 18 March 1930, that Capone and Frank Cline left custody unseen after serving ten months of a one-year sentence.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 24 October 1931, page 1: 'Scarface' Al Capone given eleven years](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1931-10-24-p1/): Front-page report in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 24 October 1931, that Capone was sentenced to eleven years for income tax evasion and fined $50,000 plus costs.
- [Daily Alaska Empire, 27 January 1947, page 1: Al Capone dies, Miami](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-alaska-empire-1947-01-27-p1/): Front-page item in the Daily Alaska Empire, Juneau, 27 January 1947: Capone's body awaits funeral plans at Miami Beach, and his attorney says he left no will and no money.
- [Daily Worker, 25 May 1926, page 4: Forest View is controlled by Capone gunmen](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-daily-worker-1926-05-25-p4/): Page 4 of the Daily Worker, 25 May 1926: a short story attributing to Captain John Stege of the Chicago detective bureau the statement that Forest View, a village just south of Cicero, was controlled by Capone’s men.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 20 January 1912, page 30: a Black Hand letter in Ashtabula](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-01-20-p30/): A one-paragraph item in the Chicago Day Book of 20 January 1912 reports a Black Hand letter demanding $1,100 from a man in Ashtabula, Ohio, with the columnist's sardonic comment.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 6 May 1912, page 28: police blame the Black Hand for two killings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-05-06-p28/): A short Day Book item of 6 May 1912 reports two killings in Chicago the previous day and says police attributed both to the 'Black Hand', without naming anyone.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 7 August 1912, page 11: a fire and a Black Hand letter](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-08-07-p11/): A Day Book fire story of 7 August 1912: the owner of two burned West Side buildings said he had received a Black Hand letter that morning and thought the fire might be its work; the paper says the fire attorney would look into it.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 3 September 1912, page 29: Black Hand letters to the Rockefeller household](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-09-03-p29/): A wire item in the Day Book of 3 September 1912, datelined Tarrytown, says John D. Rockefeller's secretaries had received Black Hand letters and that armed guards were posted at Pocantico Hills. The paper's own correspondent disputed the story eight days later.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 11 September 1912, page 9: the Rockefeller Black Hand story 'stretched'](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-09-11-p9/): The Day Book's correspondent reports from Pocantico Hills on 11 September 1912 that he walked onto the Rockefeller estate and found no armed guards, and concludes that the Black Hand story of the week before had been stretched.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 20 September 1912, page 3: 'More Black Hand' in Peoria](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1912-09-20-p3/): A Day Book wire item of 20 September 1912 from Peoria reports that a State's Attorney preparing indictments was receiving anonymous threatening letters, one signed 'Black Hand' and written in shorthand.
- [The Day Book (Chicago), 4 November 1913, page 22: a killing attributed to the Black Hand](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1913-11-04-p22/): A wire item in the Day Book of 4 November 1913, datelined New York, reports that a woman was killed because her husband refused to pay money demanded in a letter, and says the killers were 'believed members of the "Black Hand"'.
- [The Day Book, 2 October 1916, image 2: Judge Landis's probe of gambling by Automatic telephone](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1916-10-02-p2/): A Chicago daily reports that Judge Landis "today continued his probe of the gambling situation that thrives by use of the Automatic telephone" and was to hear Mont Tennes and the head of the General News Bureau.
- [The Day Book, 3 October 1916, image 3: Mont Tennes and the General News bureau](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1916-10-03-p3/): The paper reports that Mont Tennes and his syndicate were "said to clear $75,000 a year" through the General News bureau, selling race information delivered by Automatic telephone to forty or more betting places, according to a list given to Judge Landis.
- [The Day Book, 4 October 1916, image 3: Prosecutions in gambling case may be pushed by federal govt.](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-day-book-1916-10-04-p3/): After Mont Tennes's General News Bureau service was cut off, the paper reports, racetrack gamblers got their results from late newspaper editions, and the federal government "may start prosecutions" on the evidence gathered before Judge Landis.
- [Detroit Times, 13 March 1909, page 1: N.Y. detective slain in Italy](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-detroit-times-1909-03-13-p1/): The Detroit Times front page of 13 March 1909 reports the shooting of New York detective Joseph Petrosino in Palermo, and prints the U.S. consul-general's cable saying the assassins were unknown.
- [Douglas Daily Dispatch, 6 July 1930, page 3: Bootleg leaders riddled in cafe by rival gunmen](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-douglas-daily-dispatch-1930-07-06-p3/): The Associated Press version of the 5 July 1930 Cleveland shootings: Joe Porrello, 'latest Cleveland bootleg sugar baron', was shot in the restaurant of Frank Milano and his first lieutenant just outside.
- [East St. Louis Daily Journal, 19 June 1924, page 1: Plotted $3,000,000 Robbery Here](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-east-st-louis-daily-journal-1924-06-19-p1/): A front page on the robbery of a mail train near Rondout, Illinois, reporting the Chicago police chief's statement that "Max Greenberg, former chief of Egan's rats, a well-known St. Louis band of gangsters, was the 'master mind' of the robbery."
- [East St. Louis Daily Journal, 16 November 1924, page 1: Colbeck and Egan's Rats Bow to Law](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-east-st-louis-daily-journal-1924-11-16-p1/): A short front-page story datelined Quincy, Illinois, 15 November 1924, reporting that W. P. ("Dinty") Colbeck and eight others convicted of robbing the mails at Staunton were on their way to Leavenworth to serve 25-year sentences.
- [El Dorado Daily News, 25 January 1925, page 1: Windy City's gang war is fanned anew](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-el-dorado-daily-news-1925-01-25-p1/): The El Dorado Daily News front page of 25 January 1925 carries a dispatch from Chicago reporting that John Torrio was shot and probably fatally wounded outside his home.
- [Evening Star (Washington), 16 March 1891, page 6: The New Orleans Lynching. Italy Protests Against the Killing of Her Citizens](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1891-03-16-p6/): A Monday report with an Italian indignation-meeting subhead and a detailed account of the speeches at the Clay statue, the march to the prison and the entry, including speakers who said the 'execrable Mafia' must not be allowed to bribe jurors; crowds visited the prison on Sunday.
- [Evening Star, 28 January 1925, page 3: Gang 'Lord' Dying, Avengers Gather](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1925-01-28-p3/): An Associated Press story from Chicago on John Torrio's condition after he was shot, reporting that George Moran, "pal of O'Banion," had been charged with the attack and that Vincent Drucci and Earl Weiss were in custody.
- [Evening Star, 21 September 1926, page 18: Machine gun gang shoots up Cicero](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1926-09-21-p18/): Page 18 of the Evening Star, 21 September 1926: an Associated Press report that eight cars fired on the Hawthorne Inn and an adjoining hotel in Cicero, Illinois, with a line naming the Hawthorne Inn as Capone’s reputed headquarters.
- [Evening Star, 12 October 1926, page 1: Deadly gangwar flares in Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1926-10-12-p1/): Associated Press front-page report of 12 October 1926 on the machine-gun shooting near Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago in which Earl "Hymie" Weiss and Paddy Murray were killed.
- [Evening Star, 5 April 1927, page 1: Shots and Bombs Are in Evidence as Chicago Votes](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1927-04-05-p1/): An Associated Press story on Chicago's election-day violence that reports the killing of Vincent "Schemer" Drucci by a detective after he had been taken into custody.
- [Evening Star, 24 September 1928, page 21: Casper Holstein freed by kidnapers](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1928-09-24-p21/): An Associated Press dispatch from New York reporting that Casper Holstein, kidnapped on Thursday night, was released early on 24 September with $3 for taxi fare, that Michael Bernstein had been arrested after a ransom demand, and that the demand had risen to $50,000.
- [Evening Star (Washington), 26 October 1928, page 4: Hunt 7 Men in Kansas City Bombing and Racketeering](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1928-10-26-p4/): An Associated Press item datelined Kansas City, 26 October, says the Jackson County grand jury returned indictments naming ten men over bombings, sluggings and other racketeering 'laid to labor trouble,' with warrants for seven in Sheriff John Miles's hands.
- [Evening Star, 5 November 1928, page 11: Rothstein, shot, maintains silence](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1928-11-05-p11/): An Associated Press dispatch from New York the day after Arnold Rothstein was shot: he lay in Polyclinic Hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen and gave police no help, and detectives said he had been shot in a room of the Park Central Hotel.
- [Evening Star, 6 November 1928, page 2: Rothstein wound result is fatal](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1928-11-06-p2/): An Associated Press dispatch from New York reporting that Arnold Rothstein died on 6 November 1928 without naming the person who shot him, with the wire service's background on his past.
- [Evening Star, 11 January 1929, page 22: Extortion charged to labor leader](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-01-11-p22/): An Associated Press item from Detroit: the president of the Detroit Federation of Labor was held for trial on an extortion charge resting on testimony at the previous summer's trial of Charles Jacoby and nine members of 'what police termed the purple gang'.
- [Evening Star, 14 February 1929, page 1: Seven massacred as five posing as officers line up gangmen](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-02-14-p1/): The Evening Star's front page of 14 February 1929 carries the Associated Press report, filed the afternoon of the shooting, that seven men were shot in the rear of the S. M. C. Cartage Co. garage at 2122 North Clark street, Chicago.
- [Evening Star, 15 February 1929, page 1: Police massacred 7 for cutting off protection money, dry agent thinks](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-02-15-p1/): Associated Press front-page follow-up of 15 February 1929: a federal prohibition official's theory that police carried out the Chicago garage killings, and the police commissioner's rejection of it.
- [Evening Star, 15 February 1929, page 2: Police executed 7, dry agent thinks](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-02-15-p2/): Page 2 continuation of the Evening Star's 15 February 1929 Associated Press story: the coroner's jury views the garage, the address is printed again, and the seven dead are named as police described them.
- [Evening Star, 23 February 1929, page 1: Missing witness in gang massacre found in Detroit](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-02-23-p1/): Associated Press front-page report of 23 February 1929 that a Chicago dentist who had identified a photograph for police in the garage-killings inquiry was missing, then found in Detroit.
- [Evening Star, 17 May 1929, page 1: Al Capone and bodyguard get year for "gun-toting"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-05-17-p1/): Associated Press front-page report of 17 May 1929 that Al Capone and Frank Cline pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to carrying concealed deadly weapons and were sentenced to one year.
- [Evening Star, 17 May 1929, page 4: Capone and Cline sentenced, continued from page 1](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-05-17-p4/): Continuation of the Associated Press report of 17 May 1929 on Al Capone's arrest in Philadelphia, his indictment less than 12 hours later, and his guilty plea before Judge John E. Walsh.
- [Evening Star, 18 May 1929, page 1: Chicago expects a bloody election of a new gang lord](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-05-18-p1/): The Evening Star front page of 18 May 1929 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on what police expected after Al Capone's jailing in Philadelphia.
- [Evening Star, 24 May 1929, page 4: Four village officials linked with rum gang](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-05-24-p4/): An Associated Press item: a federal grand jury at Detroit indicted four officials of the village of Inkster, an alleged member of the Purple Gang named Sam Adler, and a truck operator on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
- [Evening Star, 23 September 1929, page 3: Rosenberg, alleged gunman, is seized](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-09-23-p3/): An Associated Press item: Chicago detectives held Abe Rosenberg, described as an alleged Detroit gunman, for return to Detroit in the July 1929 disappearance of David Cass; officials called him the reputed head of the purple gang.
- [Evening Star, 21 October 1929, page 3: Retired 'racket' baron is slain](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-10-21-p3/): An Associated Press report from Cleveland: Frank Lonardo, a one-time corn sugar baron, was shot dead at a card table in a downtown barber shop; the item adds that Mrs. Concietta Lonardo and her eldest son, Angelo, 20, had been indicted for first-degree murder in Todaro's death.
- [Evening Star, 2 December 1929, page 3: Dry agents raid town mayor’s home](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-12-02-p3/): Page 3 of the Evening Star, 2 December 1929: an Associated Press report that federal prohibition agents raided the home and roadhouse of the mayor of Stickney, Illinois, a Chicago suburb the story calls reputedly under Capone’s domination.
- [Evening Star, 23 December 1929, page 1: Burke gun held used in massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1929-12-23-p1/): Associated Press front-page report of 23 December 1929 that Maj. Calvin H. Goddard testified before the reconvened coroner's jury that bullets from the seven victims matched test bullets fired from machine guns found in Fred Burke's home.
- [Evening Star, 3 January 1930, page 4: Rhode Island names the patrol boat crew](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-01-03-p4/): Providence dispatch of 3 January 1930 that Rhode Island's attorney general made public the names of the CG-290 crew and asked that they be summoned to the inquest over the Black Duck shooting.
- [Evening Star, 12 February 1930, page B-4: Gangsters refuse to assist police](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-02-12-p16/): An Associated Press item: Detroit underworld figures refused the police commissioner's request for help in the inquiry into Inspector Henry J. Garvin, after detectives testified that a December 1927 report of the arrest of five members of the 'notorious purple gang' was altered.
- [Evening Star, 24 April 1930, page B-9: Publicity drive opened on gangs](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-04-24-p25/): Associated Press report of 24 April 1930 that the Chicago Crime Commission issued a list of 28 men it called public enemies, with Capone named first.
- [Evening Star, 25 July 1930, page A-2: Wide raids staged by Detroit police](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-07-25-p2/): An Associated Press report that Detroit police raided saloons, handbooks and beer flats after the commissioner abolished the centralized vice squad, and that 20,000 people filed past the bier of the slain announcer Gerald E. Buckley.
- [Evening Star, 26 July 1930, page 1: Hold bootlegger tricked in charge against Buckley](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-07-26-p1/): An Associated Press report that the Detroit News said a bootlegger, Frank Chock, swore in a new affidavit that Commissioner Wilcox tricked him into signing an affidavit accusing the slain announcer Jerry Buckley of an attempted shakedown.
- [Evening Star, 16 August 1930, page B-12: Kirchenbaum is freed on charge of assault](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-08-16-p24/): An Associated Press item: Harry Kirchenbaum was acquitted in Detroit Recorder's Court of assault with intent to kill after the alleged victim, Joe Bernstein, 'reputed leader of the once powerful Purple gang', testified for the State as an unwilling witness.
- [Evening Star, 9 October 1930, page D-2: The scandal of boxing (Owney Madden)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-10-09-p48/): The fourth of six syndicated articles by Milton Mackaye on control of professional boxing, naming Owney Madden, "since his release from Sing Sing," and Will Duffy as the men behind Primo Carnera's management. A journalist's allegations, not a record of any case.
- [Evening Star, 13 October 1930, page A-7: 'Legs' Diamond fights for life](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-10-13-p7/): An Associated Press dispatch from New York on the shooting of Jack "Legs" Diamond the day before in a room on the eighth floor of the Monticello Hotel on West Sixty-fourth Street; he told police he did not know who shot him.
- [Evening Star, 6 June 1931, page A-2: Capone may get term of 32 years](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1931-06-06-p2/): Page A-2 of the Evening Star, 6 June 1931: the continuation of a front-page account of how federal agents traced Capone income, and an Associated Press report on the indictment, the $50,000 bond and the prosecutors named.
- [Evening Star, 22 January 1947, page A-2: Al Capone rallies after stroke in Florida](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1947-01-22-p2/): Associated Press item on page A-2 of the Evening Star, 22 January 1947, reporting that Al Capone was "much improved" after a stroke at his Miami Beach home but not out of danger.
- [Evening Star, 25 January 1947, page 1: Capone in slight rally as oxygen is given](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1947-01-25-p1/): Associated Press item on the front page of the Evening Star, 25 January 1947, the day Capone died, reporting that a noon bulletin called him slightly improved but very critical, with pneumonia in both lungs.
- [Evening Star, 27 January 1947, page A-8: End of Capone (editorial)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-star-1947-01-27-p8/): Unsigned editorial on page A-8 of the Evening Star, 27 January 1947, setting Capone's death beside that of Andrew J. Volstead and drawing a lesson about Prohibition.
- [Evening Times-Republican, 12 May 1920, page 1: Underworld king slain](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-times-republican-1920-05-12-p1/): Front page of the Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa), 12 May 1920: an Associated Press report that James Colosimo, proprietor of a Chicago restaurant in the former tenderloin district, was shot dead at his cafe on South Wabash Avenue.
- [The Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Extra edition, page 2: editorial on the Hennessy jury's verdict](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-world-1891-03-14-extra-p2/): An editorial paragraph written after the verdict and before the killings says the acquittal of six prisoners was unanimous, that the verdict was 'exceedingly distasteful' to New Orleans, that the Mafia 'has never been proven to have a being in this country,' and that lynching the Italians would be murder.
- [The Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Last Edition, page 1: Lynched! Six Prisoners Shot or Hanged by a New Orleans Mob](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-world-1891-03-14-last-edition-p1/): The front page of the Last Edition, a special from New Orleans the same day, reports that thousands gathered at the Clay statue, attacked the Parish Prison, and shot or hanged 'six of the accused Italians.' A later edition of the same day revised the count to eleven.
- [The Evening World (New York), 14 March 1891, Sporting Extra, page 1: Lynched! Eleven Prisoners Shot or Hanged by a New Orleans Mob](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-world-1891-03-14-sporting-extra-p1/): A later edition's front page lists the dead, says two prisoners listed first were later reported not to have been shot in their cells, names the leaders the paper identified, and gives a background section on the Matranga and Provenzano stevedore rivalry and the earlier trial.
- [Evening World, 26 May 1915, page 1: Girl Tells Jury She Gave Signal for Gang Murder](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-evening-world-1915-05-26-p1/): The Evening World's front-page report of testimony at the New York trial of Owney Madden, "on trial for instigating the murder of Patsy Doyle, a rival leader," as a woman witness told the jury how she gave the signal that led to the killing.
- [Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 17 October 1890, page 4: Italians Did It](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-fort-worth-gazette-1890-10-17-p4/): A special dispatch dated 16 October under the heading 'Italians Did It' gives the same account as the Tribune: an ambush on Rampart and Basin streets, six wounds, nine suspicious Italians in jail by daylight, one witness who identified three. The subhead repeats a claim about a society ordering murders.
- [The Gary American, 28 September 1928, page 1: Holstein back home, and mystery around his abduction](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-gary-american-1928-09-28-p1/): An Amsterdam News Service story on Casper Holstein's return, saying no one knew where he had been held, that he was blindfolded throughout, that police said they found on a prisoner a list of other people to be kidnapped, and that he had sent storm relief to the Virgin Islands, 'his native home'.
- [The Gary American, 12 October 1928, page 2: charges dropped against two men in the Holstein kidnapping](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-gary-american-1928-10-12-p2/): A report that a magistrate in Washington Heights court dismissed the kidnapping charges against Rudolph Brown and Moe (Monty) Schubert after Casper Holstein would not identify them, and that Michael Bernstein's $10,000 bond was forfeited when he did not appear.
- [The Gary American, 23 November 1928, page 1: a robbery plot against Holstein reported](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-gary-american-1928-11-23-p1/): A short front-page item reporting that Casper Holstein, 'whose kidnapping last September aroused national interest,' was to have been the victim of a planned $20,000 robbery, learned with the arrest of a man just out of Sing Sing.
- [The Gary American, 28 December 1928, page 1: Bernstein surrenders in the Holstein kidnapping](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-gary-american-1928-12-28-p1/): A report that Michael Bernstein, sought since 1 October as the alleged leader of the gang that kidnapped Casper Holstein, walked into a police station and was held in $100,000 bail. It recaps the abduction with an address and details that differ from other papers.
- [The Indianapolis Journal, 18 October 1890, page 2: Bold Murder in a Prison (Scaffidi shot in the Parish Prison; the chief's funeral)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-journal-1890-10-18-p2/): A dispatch of 17 October reports that Antonio Scaffidi, identified as one of those accused in the Hennessy killing, was shot and wounded in the Parish Prison corridor by Thomas H. Duffy, 28, who gave no reason beyond his belief that the prisoner deserved death.
- [The Indianapolis Journal, 15 March 1891, page 1: Hennessy's Death Avenged](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-journal-1891-03-15-p1/): A front-page Associated Press dispatch of 14 March, under a long deck beginning 'Hennessy's Death Avenged,' describes a mass meeting at Clay square on Canal street, the march to the prison, and the killing of eleven men, and says business exchanges passed resolutions approving the act.
- [The Indianapolis Journal, 15 March 1891, page 2: The Mafia and Its Work (background, a Pinkerton interview, and statements of the Provenzanos)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-journal-1891-03-15-p2/): An inside page with a background article on the Hennessy killing, a note that Solicitor-General Taft called the Italian trouble 'purely a State matter,' an interview attributed to William A. Pinkerton on the stevedore dispute, and statements by Giovanni and Pietro Provenzano held in the Parish Prison.
- [The Indianapolis Journal, 18 March 1891, page 1: More Threats by the Mafia (Provenzanos and Matrangas said to be at war again)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-journal-1891-03-18-p1/): A dispatch of 17 March reports an alleged threatening letter to the Mayor and Parkerson, that the Provenzanos and Matrangas were accusing each other of Mafia membership, and that 'in the Hennessy case there was not sufficient evidence to implicate Charles Matranga.'
- [Indianapolis Times, 26 November 1926, page 12: Three Shot as Gangsters Fight](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1926-11-26-p12/): A United Press dispatch from Chicago reporting that Thomas and Charles O'Donnell, brothers of Edward "Spike" O'Donnell, and one other man were wounded in a Thanksgiving shooting.
- [Indianapolis Times, 14 February 1929, page 1: Two carloads of Chicago thugs invade warehouse](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-02-14-p1/): The Indianapolis Times front page of 14 February 1929 carries a same-day United Press report from Chicago that six men were killed and one wounded in a cartage-company garage.
- [Indianapolis Times, 15 February 1929, page 1: Capone's gangland throne tottering after massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-02-15-p1/): United Press front-page report in the Indianapolis Times, 15 February 1929, on the aftermath of the Chicago garage killings, with a second item on police questioning of the victims' widows.
- [Indianapolis Times, 18 May 1929, page 1: Fear drove Al Capone in jail, officers say](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-05-18-p1/): United Press front-page report from Philadelphia, 18 May 1929, quoting Mayor Harry A. Mackey's view that Capone was glad to go to jail.
- [Indianapolis Times, 15 November 1929, page 6: Mother is acquitted](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-11-15-p6/): A United Press item from Cleveland: Mrs. Concietta Lonardo, widow of the murdered 'Big Joe' Lonardo, was found not guilty of murdering Salvatore (Black Jack) Todaro.
- [Indianapolis Times, 23 December 1929, page 1: Bullets link killer Burke to massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1929-12-23-p1/): United Press front-page report in the Indianapolis Times of 23 December 1929 on Calvin Goddard's testimony at the resumed garage-killings inquest that test cartridges from Burke's machine gun were "very similar" to the massacre shells.
- [Indianapolis Times, 17 March 1930, page 1: Capone to quit prison cell today](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1930-03-17-p1/): United Press front-page report of 17 March 1930 that a crowd waited outside Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia for Al Capone's release, and that the governor had signed the papers.
- [Indianapolis Times, 24 April 1930, image 11: Exile sought for Chicago gang chiefs](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1930-04-24-p11/): United Press report of 24 April 1930 that the Chicago Crime Commission, through Frank J. Loesch, sent police a list of twenty-eight men it called "public enemies," headed by Al Capone.
- [Indianapolis Times, 16 October 1930, page 2: Legs Diamond may recover, say doctors](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-indianapolis-times-1930-10-16-p2/): A United Press dispatch from New York on the Diamond shooting: the police commissioner said he knew the names of three men at a conference before it, and the story reports police searching for "Irving Wexler, alias Maxie Gordon" and naming "Arthur Flagenheimer, alias Dutch Schultz" among men held for questioning.
- [Lake County Times, 12 May 1920, page 1: Colosimo murdered in Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-lake-county-times-1920-05-12-p1/): The Lake County Times front page of 12 May 1920 carries an International News Service dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of James Colosimo at his cafe.
- [Laramie Republican, 16 January 1920, page 1: Old J. Barleycorn is out of business](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-laramie-republican-1920-01-16-p1/): The Laramie Republican's front page of 16 January 1920 leads with an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago saying national prohibition takes effect at midnight.
- [Las Vegas Age, 18 May 1929, page 1: Scarface Al lands in jail](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-las-vegas-age-1929-05-18-p1/): The Las Vegas Age front page of 18 May 1929 carries a United Press story from Philadelphia on Al Capone's guilty plea and one-year sentence for carrying a concealed weapon.
- [Mahnomen Pioneer, 13 December 1929, page 2: Gang member is taken for ride](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-mahnomen-pioneer-1929-12-13-p2/): A syndicated feature on the July 1929 killing of Irving Shapiro in Detroit, 'one of the mainstays of the Purple gang', with Inspector Garvin's view that it marked 'the beginning of the end' and an account of how the gang got its name.
- [Manning Times, 13 October 1926, page 1: Gangland silence after the State Street shooting](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-manning-times-1926-10-13-p1/): The Manning Times front page of 13 October 1926 carries an Associated Press story from Chicago on the machine-gun attack opposite Holy Name Cathedral.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 6 July 1928, page 5: Furtive guards watch over gangland’s ruler](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1928-07-06-p5/): Page 5 of the Milwaukee Leader, 6 July 1928: a United Press feature describing the Metropole Hotel at Michigan Boulevard and 23rd Street, Chicago, as Al Capone’s base, with a mention of the Hawthorne Inn in Cicero.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 15 February 1929, page 15: Widows keep gangland's silence code](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-02-15-p15/): Page 15 of the Milwaukee Leader, Mail Edition, 15 February 1929: continuation of the front-page report on the Chicago garage killings, with the shells found on the floor and a list of the dead.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 20 March 1929, page 1: Matches wits with U. S. in gang probe](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-03-20-p1/): Front page of the Milwaukee Leader, 20 March 1929: a report that Capone was questioned before a federal grand jury on the eighth floor of the federal building in Chicago about a beer syndicate in the suburb of Chicago Heights.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 27 March 1929, page 1: Al Capone is arrested for contempt](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-03-27-p1/): Front page of the Milwaukee Leader, 27 March 1929: a short report that Capone was arrested on a contempt-of-court charge as he left a federal grand jury room in the federal building in Chicago.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 21 May 1929, page 1: Chicago gangs form syndicate](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-05-21-p1/): The Milwaukee Leader front page of 21 May 1929 carries a United Press story by Robert T. Loughran claiming that Chicago gang factions signed a peace pact at Atlantic City.
- [Milwaukee Leader, 25 July 1929, page 4: Detroit's rum ring now disorganized](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-07-25-p4/): A short item from Detroit: the 'purple gang', once Detroit's most powerful bootlegging organization, was 'disorganized' after a federal jury convicted four of its ringleaders, Abe Axler, Eddie Fletcher, Harry Sutton and Irving Milberg, of prohibition violations.
- [The Milwaukee Leader, 30 December 1929, page 3: clash over the Black Duck inquiry](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-milwaukee-leader-1929-12-30-p3/): United Press continuation on the investigations of the 29 December 1929 Coast Guard shooting of the rum boat Black Duck in Narragansett Bay, with the survivor's account that no proper warning was given.
- [New Britain Herald, 5 November 1928, page 1: Rothstein's case baffles police](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-britain-herald-1928-11-05-p1/): The New Britain Herald front page for 5 November 1928 carries an Associated Press story from New York on police efforts to question George McManus after the shooting of Arnold Rothstein.
- [New Britain Herald, 6 December 1928, page 3: Sugar monopoly drew Cleveland gangsters](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-britain-herald-1928-12-06-p3/): An Associated Press report: police and federal investigators believed an upheaval in the corn sugar trade drew twenty-seven 'gangsters' to Cleveland, twenty-three of whom were arrested in a downtown hotel.
- [New Britain Herald, 20 June 1929, page 12: Dry army and navy seek to stem booze invasion](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-britain-herald-1929-06-20-p12/): A Detroit-datelined feature on federal prohibition enforcement on the Detroit River: seventeen Coast Guard cutters assigned to 'the Detroit rum war', Canadian customs figures on liquor landed in Detroit, and the claim that trucks carrying liquor to other cities were escorted by the 'Purple Gang'.
- [New Britain Herald, 1 July 1930, page 15: Lingle suspect caught in raid](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-britain-herald-1930-07-01-p15/): Page 15 of the New Britain Daily Herald, 1 July 1930: an Associated Press item on a man arrested in a raid in the Lingle murder inquiry, which places Jake Lingle’s body in the Illinois Central subway under Michigan Avenue at Randolph Street.
- [New York Herald, 9 September 1921, page 1: Girl's Escort Shot by Gunmen in Motor](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-herald-1921-09-09-p1/): A front-page report of a shooting from a car at Seventh Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, Manhattan, in which, the Herald said, detectives were trying to lay the trouble to "the Owney Madden gang," which it called "officially non-existent for some time."
- [New-York Tribune, 15 April 1903, page 1: Man's body in a barrel](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1903-04-15-p1/): The New-York Tribune front page of 15 April 1903 reports the discovery of an unidentified man's body in a barrel on East Eleventh Street and the police theory that it was a secret-society killing.
- [New-York Tribune, 16 April 1903, page 1: eight arrested in the barrel case](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1903-04-16-p1/): The New-York Tribune front page of 16 April 1903 reports the arrest of eight men by police and Secret Service agents on suspicion of counterfeiting and of the killing of the man found in a barrel two days earlier, and names Giuseppe Morello among them.
- [New-York Tribune, 21 April 1903, page 1: barrel victim identified as a Buffalo man](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1903-04-21-p1/): The New-York Tribune front page of 21 April 1903 reports that the man found in the barrel was identified as a 48-year-old stone mason from Buffalo, after Detective Petrosino showed his photograph to the dead man's brother-in-law in Sing Sing.
- [New-York Tribune, 28 January 1910, page 8: counterfeiting witness testifies to a death threat](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1910-01-28-p8/): The New-York Tribune of 28 January 1910 reports the testimony of Antonio Comito, the government's principal witness at the federal counterfeiting trial of eight men, that he printed counterfeit notes at a farm near Highland, N.Y., and that Morello and Lupo threatened him.
- [New-York Tribune, 19 February 1910, page 4: counterfeiting case goes to the jury](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1910-02-19-p4/): A short New-York Tribune report of 19 February 1910 that the case of the eight men charged with counterfeiting, among them Ignazio Lupo and Giuseppi Morello, 'alleged leader of the band', would go to the jury after Judge Ray's charge.
- [New-York Tribune, 20 February 1910, page 1: long jail terms for eight counterfeiters](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1910-02-20-p1/): The New-York Tribune front page of 20 February 1910 reports that eight men were convicted of counterfeiting after a trial of twenty-five days and sentenced the same afternoon, Lupo to thirty years and Morello to twenty-five. A scan is stored here.
- [New-York Tribune, 20 February 1910, page 3: sentencing story continued, with press speculation](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1910-02-20-p3/): Page 3 of the New-York Tribune of 20 February 1910 continues the counterfeiting sentencing story under portraits captioned 'Italians sentenced for counterfeiting', and repeats detectives' unproven suspicions about the barrel killing and the Petrosino killing. Flagged as speculation.
- [New-York Tribune, 3 June 1915, page 14: Owney Madden, Found Guilty in Gang Killing, Escapes Chair by Manslaughter Verdict](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1915-06-03-p14/): The Tribune's report that a jury in the Court of General Sessions found Owen Madden guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for instigating the killing of William Moore, alias Patsy Doyle, with a photograph of Madden and the two women witnesses.
- [New-York Tribune, 28 October 1919, page 1: House repasses the enforcement bill after a veto](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1919-10-28-p1/): The New-York Tribune's front page of 28 October 1919 leads on the House repassing the prohibition-enforcement bill three hours after President Wilson vetoed it, and prints the text of his veto message.
- [New York Tribune, 17 August 1921, page 1: 8 Held in 51 Murders Charged to Camorra](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1921-08-17-p1/): Front page of the New York Tribune, 17 August 1921: police arrest eight men in New York on homicide charges after an informant's confession to a killing at Avon, N.J. "Stefano Magadinno, thirty years old," of Brooklyn, heads the list of those arrested.
- [New York Tribune, 22 August 1921, page 4: Guards Hired By Rich Italians Fearing Murder](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-new-york-tribune-1921-08-22-p4/): Page 4 of the New York Tribune, 22 August 1921: a follow-up on the August arrests, reporting that a man leaving for Italy had been threatened by members of the "Camorra band headed by Lombardi and Magaddino, now awaiting trial."
- [Nome Nugget, 23 February 1929, page 1: Two others arrested connected with gang massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-nome-nugget-1929-02-23-p1/): Short Associated Press item on the front page of the Nome Nugget, Alaska, 23 February 1929, on a Detroit arrest in the Chicago garage-killings inquiry.
- [New-York Tribune, 17 October 1890, page 2: Assassination in New-Orleans](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-ny-tribune-1890-10-17-p2/): A special dispatch of 16 October reports that Chief of Police Hennessy was shot at midnight by assailants posted on Rampart and Basin streets and died hours later; nine men were in jail by daylight. The paper repeats a claim that an Italian society orders assassinations.
- [New-York Tribune, 15 March 1891, page 2: Stamped Out in Blood, and Italy May Demand Indemnity](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-ny-tribune-1891-03-15-p2/): Page 2 carries a New Orleans account headed 'Stamped Out in Blood. The Mafia in New-Orleans Receives Its Death Blow,' and a Washington special, 'Italy May Demand Indemnity,' saying the State Department had held that a lynching of foreign subjects gave no strictly legal claim for damages.
- [New-York Tribune, 17 March 1891, page 5: All Quiet in New Orleans (continued), interviews with Parkerson, the Italian consul and Mayor Shakespeare](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-ny-tribune-1891-03-17-p5/): A continuation of a front-page story with interviews: Parkerson defends the action; the Italian consul says the trouble is between the Matrangas and the Provenzanos and demands a change of venue; the Mayor says Parkerson and his associates 'did just right.'
- [New-York Tribune, 2 April 1891, page 1: correspondence on Baron Fava's recall (Fava's letter of 31 March and Blaine's reply)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-ny-tribune-1891-04-02-p1/): A front-page report that Baron Fava, the Italian minister, presented his letters of recall on 1 April 1891, with the correspondence given out by the State Department. Fava's letter of 31 March recalls his notes of 15 and 18 March on New Orleans.
- [Ocala Evening Star, 16 January 1920, page 1: The Eighteenth Amendment takes effect at midnight](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-ocala-evening-star-1920-01-16-p1/): The Ocala Evening Star's front page of 16 January 1920 carries an Associated Press story from Washington saying constitutional prohibition takes effect at midnight.
- [Omaha Monitor, 4 January 1929, page 1: 'Hold Holstein Kidnappers'](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-omaha-monitor-1929-01-04-p1/): A two-sentence Associated Negro Press item reporting that 'Michael Hornstein,' named as one of the ringleaders in the Casper Holstein kidnapping, was held in $25,000 bail when arraigned in New York. Other papers spell the name Bernstein and give other bail figures.
- [Omaha Morning Bee, 26 January 1925, page 1: Torrio puts up a life battle](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-omaha-morning-bee-1925-01-26-p1/): The Omaha Morning Bee front page of 26 January 1925 carries a United Press story from Chicago saying John Torrio refused to say who shot him.
- [Pittsburg Dispatch, 15 March 1891, page 1: New Orleans lynching report with the 'Meeting Held Last Night' section](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-pittsburg-dispatch-1891-03-15-p1/): A front-page report that includes a section on the night before the killings: secret meetings after the verdict, the Mayor's law-and-order committee, and a printed call for a mass meeting at the Clay statue 'to take steps to remedy the failure of justice in the Hennessey case.'
- [Richmond Dispatch, 15 March 1891, page 2: A Terrible Resort. Eleven of the New Orleans Sicilian Suspects Lynched](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-dispatch-1891-03-15-p2/): An Associated Press dispatch of 14 March, with the paper's own approving headline, on the killing of eleven prisoners and the coroner's inquest; the text is the same account the Indianapolis Journal printed.
- [The Richmond Planet, 3 May 1930, Illustrated Feature Section: 'Do Racketeers Really Rule America?'](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-planet-1930-05-03-p9/): A feature by James A. Jackson calling the numbers game 'the dominant racket of today,' with his account of how it began and how it paid. It is a period opinion piece with posed illustrations, filed as a record of how the game was described in 1930, not as a source of fact.
- [The Richmond Planet, 23 August 1930, page 1: Elks answer Casper Holstein's call](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-planet-1930-08-23-p1/): A front-page report from Richmond that about fifty Elks met on 17 August 1930 in answer to a call from Caspar Holstein of New York, who attacked Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson. It records Holstein's public role in the fraternal order; it is not an organized-crime record.
- [The Times (Richmond), 18 October 1890, page 1: The Hennessy Homicide. A Bloody Sequel to the Recent Assassination](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-times-1890-10-18-p1/): Dispatches of 17 October: a newspaper carrier shot prisoner Antonio Scaffidi in the Parish Prison; 'John Matranga alias Caramba, the leader of the Matranga faction' was arrested as an accessory; the paper describes the Provenzano and Matranga factions; the chief lay in state and was buried.
- [The Times (Richmond), 13 March 1891, page 1: The Argument Closed. The Hennessy Murder Case Given to the Jury](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-times-1891-03-13-p1/): A New Orleans dispatch of 12 March reports the closing arguments in the Hennessy trial and an outburst by the prisoner Politz in the courtroom.
- [The Times (Richmond), 14 March 1891, page 1: The Verdict "Guilty" (an early wire report)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-times-1891-03-14-p1/): An early dispatch headed 'The Verdict "Guilty"' says the Hennessy jury convicted Scaffidi, Politz and Monastero; this contradicts the Sun, the Evening World and the Pittsburg Dispatch, which report not-guilty verdicts as to six defendants and disagreement as to three.
- [Richmond Times, 15 March 1891, page 1: Foul murder avenged: the New Orleans prison killings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-richmond-times-1891-03-15-p1/): The Richmond Times front page of 15 March 1891 reports the lynching of eleven men at the New Orleans parish prison, approving it in its headline, which conflicts with the verdicts reported in other papers of the same date.
- [Rock Island Argus, 12 May 1920, page 1: Thirteen held in the Colosimo shooting](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-rock-island-argus-1920-05-12-p1/): The Rock Island Argus front page of 12 May 1920 carries a United Press dispatch from Chicago saying thirteen men were held after the shooting of James Colosimo.
- [San Antonio Daily Light, 20 February 1891, page 1: telegram note on the opening of the Hennessy trial](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-san-antonio-daily-light-1891-02-20-p1/): One line in a column of boiled-down telegrams reads 'Five jurors in four days is the outcome in the Hennessy trial,' dating the slow jury selection in the first week of the trial.
- [San Antonio Light, 28 April 1926, page 1: Prosecutor slain by gang](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-san-antonio-light-1926-04-28-p1/): The San Antonio Light front page of 28 April 1926 leads on the shooting of Assistant State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin and two companions near Chicago.
- [Savannah Morning News, 15 March 1891, page 1: A city in arms: the New Orleans prison killings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-savannah-morning-news-1891-03-15-p1/): The Savannah Morning News front page of 15 March 1891 reports the killing of eleven prisoners at the New Orleans parish prison and, in a background section, that the jury had acquitted six defendants and returned a mistrial on three.
- [The Savannah Tribune, 27 September 1928, page 1: the Casper Holstein kidnapping, reprinted from the New York World](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-savannah-tribune-1928-09-27-p1/): A front-page report, datelined New York, 24 September and drawn from the New York World, that Casper Holstein of Harlem had been abducted at midnight on Thursday and was held for $50,000 ransom, that five men had been arrested and that twenty detectives were on the case.
- [The Savannah Tribune, 27 September 1928, page 4: the Holstein kidnapping story continued](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-savannah-tribune-1928-09-27-p4/): The continuation of the front-page Holstein story: Michael Bernstein of the Bronx held on the kidnapping charge with four other men, the ransom demand made to Holstein's secretary, the abduction outside 265 West 145th Street as this paper prints it, and Holstein's release after three days.
- [The Enterprise (Seattle), 4 October 1928, page 1: Casper Holstein's photograph and the police doubts](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-seattle-enterprise-1928-10-04-p1/): A Seattle weekly's front-page photograph of Casper Holstein with a caption story saying police doubted his account of the kidnapping, and reporting that he had sued a New York paper for libel over an alleged claim that he kept a policy house. The libel claim is the paper's report.
- [Seward Daily Gateway, 15 February 1929, page 1: Bloodiest page gang-war history Chicago written](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-seward-daily-gateway-1929-02-15-p1/): Associated Press front-page report in the Seward Daily Gateway, Alaska, 15 February 1929, on the killing of seven men in a North Clark street garage; an example of early wire reporting with a partly wrong list of names.
- [South Bend News-Times, 15 October 1927, Mishawaka section page 16: Cleveland police probe double bootleg murder](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1927-10-15-p38/): An International News Service item of 14 October repeating that the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, described as sugar dealers who supplied bootleggers, were killed in a Cleveland barber shop, and that Joe 'is said to have kept a bodyguard'.
- [South Bend News-Times, 7 December 1928, page 3: Cleveland police round up bandits in fashionable hotel](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1928-12-07-p17/): An International News Service dispatch: twenty-three alleged gangsters who had been arriving in Cleveland for two days were arrested in suites at the Hotel Statler, most of them carrying pistols.
- [South Bend News-Times, 15 February 1929, page 1: Seven gangsters die in Chicago underworld battle](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1929-02-15-p1/): The South Bend News-Times front page of 15 February 1929 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the killing of seven men in a cartage-company garage the day before.
- [South Bend News-Times, 28 July 1929, page 1: Detroit gunman taken for ride](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1929-07-28-p1/): A United Press item on the killing of Irving Shapiro, 25, an 'alleged member of the Purple Gang', while four alleged ringleaders convicted in federal court that week waited in the Wayne County jail.
- [South Bend News-Times, 17 December 1929, page 1: Chicago police link Burke in gang massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1929-12-17-p1/): United Press front-page report from St. Joseph, Michigan, in the South Bend News-Times of 17 December 1929: the man known locally as Fred Dane is identified as Fred R. Burke, and Calvin Goddard is to test the machine guns found in his home.
- [South Bend News-Times, 7 February 1930, page 1: Detectives hunt kidnaped broker](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1930-02-07-p1/): A United Press item from New Haven on the search for Max Price, a broker kidnapped on 28 January 1930; two of nine people arrested were 'said by New York police to be members of the notorious purple gang in Detroit'.
- [South Bend News-Times, 11 June 1930, page 1: Chicago masses forces after the reporter's death](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1930-06-11-p1/): The South Bend News-Times front page of 11 June 1930 carries a dispatch from Chicago on the hunt for the killer of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle.
- [South Bend News-Times, 20 August 1930, page 8: Cleveland gang murders enemy](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1930-08-20-p20/): A United Press item from Cleveland: police saw a 'resumption of gang activities for control of this city's corn sugar industry' in the shooting of a man thought to be Frank Alessi, an associate of the slain Lonardo brothers.
- [South Bend News-Times, 11 December 1930: New York judge quits bench as probe continues](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1930-12-11-p18/): A United Press dispatch on the New York inquiry into the magistrates' courts reports that "Mme. Stephanie St. Clair," called "the policy queen of Harlem," appeared at the investigation and said she had been "framed" by the police and wanted to tell of money she paid to detectives and police officials.
- [South Bend News-Times, 19 December 1930, page 2: Gunman sues city for return of car](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-south-bend-news-times-1930-12-19-p2/): A United Press item from Detroit: Joe Bernstein, 'reputed purple gang leader', sued the city for the return of his armored car, one of three seized in ten days after the 'Buckley grand jury' ordered seven armored cars confiscated.
- [Springfield Weekly Republican, 14 October 1926, page 5: Police expect rum gangs to continue machine gun warfare](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-springfield-weekly-republican-1926-10-14-p5/): Page 5 of the Springfield Weekly Republican, 14 October 1926: Associated Press reports from Chicago on the 11 October shooting in front of Holy Name Cathedral on North State Street.
- [Springfield Weekly Republican, 2 January 1930, page 1: secrecy over the Coast Guard inquiry](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-springfield-weekly-republican-1930-01-02-p1/): Associated Press report from New London, dated 30 December 1929, that the Coast Guard's inquiry into the Black Duck shooting began in secrecy, with a separate inquiry to be held at Providence.
- [Springfield Weekly Republican, 25 September 1930, page 5: Chicago grappler is believed victim of gangland guns](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-springfield-weekly-republican-1930-09-25-p5/): Page 5 of the Springfield Weekly Republican, 25 September 1930: an Associated Press item from Chicago that says police raided the Lexington Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, a place it calls a Capone haunt, while searching for Frank Nitti.
- [St. Paul Daily Globe, 17 October 1890, page 1: Died of His Wounds](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-st-paul-globe-1890-10-17-p1/): A New Orleans dispatch of 16 October reports that Chief of Police David C. Hennessy, shot down by three men shortly before midnight, died at 9 o'clock that morning at the Charity Hospital; the paper says the assassination was supposed to be the work of Italians.
- [St. Paul Daily Globe, 15 March 1891, page 1: New Orleans lynching account with a 'Roster of Avengers'](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-st-paul-globe-1891-03-15-p1/): A front-page account of the killings in the Parish Prison, followed by a section titled 'Roster of Avengers: List of the Signers of the Memorable Call to Arms' naming the citizens who signed the call to the mass meeting. The signers are not repeated here.
- [The Sun (New York), 17 October 1890, page 1: report on the shooting and death of Chief of Police Hennessy](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1890-10-17-p1/): Front-page New Orleans report on the shooting of Chief of Police David C. Hennessy near midnight and his death the next morning; it says two groups of men lay in wait, that he fired back, and that arrests of Italians followed, and repeats allegations about societies called the 'Mafia' and 'Stoppaglieri.'
- [The Sun (New York), 7 March 1891, page 5: 'Mafia secrets may come out' (Hennessy trial dispatch)](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1891-03-07-p5/): A New Orleans dispatch dated 6 March on the Hennessy trial then under way says the whole story of the 'Mafia' might come out unless a prisoner became too insane to speak; it also states that 'there has not been a bit of evidence adduced' of a Mafia.
- [The Sun (New York), 14 March 1891, page 1: Enraged at Their Verdict](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1891-03-14-p1/): A dispatch of 13 March reports the jury's verdict in the case of nine Italians accused of killing Chief Hennessy: not guilty as to six, no agreement as to three, with the crowd denouncing the jury and secret meetings at which lynching was 'openly advocated.'
- [The Sun (New York), 15 March 1891, page 1: lynching of eleven prisoners in the New Orleans jail](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1891-03-15-p1/): Front-page report dated New Orleans, 14 March, that a mob 'led by lawyers and merchants' killed eleven of the nineteen Italians charged with the murder of Chief Hennessy; the deck headlines state that the action was approved by the leading exchanges.
- [The Sun (New York), 15 March 1891, page 2: The slaughter at the prison](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1891-03-15-p2/): Page 2 of the New York Sun of 15 March 1891, continuing its report from New Orleans of the armed mob that broke into the Parish Prison and shot prisoners held in the Hennessy case.
- [The Sun (New York), 16 April 1903, page 2: how Morello and Petto were arrested](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1903-04-16-p2/): Page 2 of the Sun of 16 April 1903 carries a long account of the barrel-murder inquiry, crediting Secret Service Chief Flynn, Inspector McClusky and Detective Sergeant Petrosino, and describing the arrest of Morello and Petto at the Bowery and Delancey Street.
- [The Sun (New York), 21 April 1903, page 1: man found in barrel known](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1903-04-21-p1/): The Sun's front page of 21 April 1903 identifies the man found in the barrel as Benedetto Madonia, a stone mason of Buffalo, and credits Detective Sergeant Petrosino and Inspector McClusky's staff with the identification. A scan is stored here.
- [The Sun (New York), 20 February 1910, page 1: Lupo to prison for 30 years](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sun-1910-02-20-p1/): The Sun's front page of 20 February 1910 reports that eight men were found guilty on all six counts of counterfeiting and sentenced, Lupo to thirty years and Morello to twenty-five, and quotes Judge Ray on the verdict.
- [Sunday Star, 14 April 1929, page 2: Police quizzed in gang massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sunday-star-1929-04-14-p2/): Associated Press report in the Sunday Star, Washington, of 14 April 1929 on the coroner's inquest session at which the police chiefs of Cicero and Melrose Park were questioned about their departments' guns, under the direction of Maj. Calvin Goddard.
- [Sunday Star, 26 January 1947, page 1: Capone, Prohibition mobster, attains his wish to die in bed](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sunday-star-1947-01-26-p1/): Associated Press death report on the front page of the Sunday Star, Washington, 26 January 1947: Capone died at 7:25 p.m. on 25 January at his villa on Palm Island, Miami Beach.
- [Sunday Star-News, 26 January 1947, page 1: Scarface Al Capone dies](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-sunday-star-news-1947-01-26-p1/): Front page of the Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, N.C., 26 January 1947, carrying the Associated Press report of Capone's death at Miami Beach the night before.
- [Union Daily Times, 29 April 1926, page 1: Machine gun used in killing of the hanging prosecutor](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-union-daily-times-1926-04-29-p1/): The Union Daily Times front page of 29 April 1926 carries an Associated Press story on the investigation into the shooting of Assistant State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin.
- [Union Daily Times, 12 October 1926, page 1: Gangsters kill three more victims in Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-union-daily-times-1926-10-12-p1/): The Union Daily Times front page of 12 October 1926 carries an Associated Press report from Chicago on the machine-gun attack near Holy Name Cathedral.
- [The Washington Daily News, 7 December 1927, page 22: papers served in the Hoff suit against Tunney](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1927-12-07-p22/): United Press sports item that Gene Tunney's manager was served papers in an action by Max (Boo Boo) Hoff of Philadelphia, who sought a percentage of the champion's earnings.
- [The Washington Daily News, 7 September 1928, page 3: Philadelphia and the alcohol "racket"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1928-09-07-p3/): United Press report that Philadelphia's district attorney called the city a chief distributing center for diverted alcohol, with a grand jury that had returned 182 indictments and testimony naming Max Hoff as a buyer of machine guns.
- [The Washington Daily News, 10 September 1928, page 4: the Philadelphia grand jury in its fourth week](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1928-09-10-p4/): United Press and staff reports on the Philadelphia grand jury inquiry into bootlegging and police graft, including a detective captain's suspension and testimony naming Max Hoff as a buyer of machine guns and vests.
- [The Washington Daily News, 13 September 1928, page 3: Monaghan on Christmas gifts to police](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1928-09-13-p3/): United Press report that Philadelphia's district attorney told the grand jury of $250,000 in Christmas presents to policemen in 1926 attributed to Max Hoff, whom the report calls the alleged head of a bootleg ring.
- [Washington Daily News, 30 November 1928, page 5: McManus, two others to be indicted today](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1928-11-30-p5/): A United Press dispatch from New York on the expected indictments in the killing of Arnold Rothstein, who, the story says, was fatally shot in the Park Central Hotel on November 4, 1928.
- [Washington Daily News, 15 February 1929, page 1: Fear seals the lips of those who saw Chicago killers](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-02-15-p1/): The Washington Daily News front page of 15 February 1929 carries a United Press story from Chicago saying fear kept witnesses and gang figures silent after the killing of seven men.
- [Washington Daily News, 15 February 1929, page 4: Fear seals the lips of those who saw Chicago killers](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-02-15-p4/): Page 4 of the Washington Daily News, 15 February 1929: the continuation of the front-page story on the Chicago garage killings, naming the seven dead, with a news-agency photograph of the crowd outside the garage.
- [Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929, page 11: Capone gang claims attempt to link it in massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-02-22-p11/): United Press report in the Washington Daily News, 22 February 1929, on the dismantled "firing squad" auto found in Capone's territory and the claim that it had been planted.
- [Washington Daily News, 26 March 1929, page 2: Massacre is traced to Al Capone's avengers](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-03-26-p2/): United Press story of 26 March 1929 setting out a newspaper reconstruction of why the seven men in the Chicago garage were killed.
- [The Washington Daily News, 18 May 1929, page 9: Capone in Moyamensing](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-05-18-p9/): Associated Press report from Philadelphia the day after Al Capone's sentence, with the mayor's statement, Capone's account of an Atlantic City meeting, and word that he would be moved from Moyamensing to Holmesburg.
- [Washington Daily News, 15 November 1929, page 8: news digest entry on the Lonardo acquittal](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-11-15-p8/): A one-sentence entry under 'Justice' in a daily news digest: the widow of the murdered 'Big Joe' Lonardo, once bootleg sugar king of Cleveland, was acquitted of killing 'Black Jack' Todaro.
- [Washington Daily News, 3 December 1929, page 8: Imprisonment Costs Capone His Rule of Chicago Rackets](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1929-12-03-p8/): A Newspaper Enterprise Association feature by Bruce Catton on the Chicago rackets while Al Capone was in prison, with a photograph captioned "'Bugs' Moran, above, rising star of Chicago gangdom." The claims in it are the writer's.
- [The Washington Daily News, 18 March 1930, page 4: Capone leaves Graterford](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1930-03-18-p4/): United Press report that Al Capone, his term served, was removed secretly from the Eastern Penitentiary to Graterford on 17 March 1930 and slipped out of Graterford Prison before sundown.
- [Washington Daily News, 30 August 1930, page 2: English police hunt for 'Legs' Diamond](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1930-08-30-p2/): A United Press item from London: New York police had asked Scotland Yard to find and hold Jack "Legs" Diamond, the Home Office had decided not to let him land, and the captain of the Baltic said he was not aboard.
- [The Washington Daily News, 12 November 1930, page 2: Hoff's second suit against Tunney](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-daily-news-1930-11-12-p2/): United Press item that Gene Tunney faced a $400,000 action by Max (Boo Boo) Hoff, Philadelphia promoter, for a share of his pre-championship earnings.
- [Washington Times, 14 October 1927, page 3: Brothers die in rum war](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1927-10-14-p3/): An International News Service dispatch from Cleveland: the brothers Joseph and John Lonardo, described as sugar dealers who supplied bootleggers, were killed in a barber shop the night before.
- [Washington Times, 5 November 1928, page 1: Gambler near death, won't squeal](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1928-11-05-p1/): A front-page dispatch by Theodore B. Goetz from New York on Arnold Rothstein, who lay near death in a hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen while police searched for the man who shot him.
- [Washington Times, 6 November 1928, page 1: Rothstein dies, mum to end](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1928-11-06-p1/): The Washington Times front page of 6 November 1928 carries an International News Service story from New York reporting that Arnold Rothstein died of a gunshot wound without naming his assailant.
- [Washington Times, 7 November 1928, page 28: Police seek 2 in Rothstein slaying](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1928-11-07-p28/): An International News Service dispatch from New York on the search for the men who were in room 349 of the Park Central Hotel when Arnold Rothstein was shot, and on the arrangements for his burial.
- [Washington Times, 15 February 1929, page 2: 40 arrested in weird gang killings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-02-15-p2/): Page 2 continuation in the Washington Times of 15 February 1929: the coroner's jury is empanelled, federal prosecutors will attend the inquest, and the seven dead are listed as police gave them.
- [Washington Times, 18 February 1929, image 3: Al Capone blameless in Chicago massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-02-18-p3/): International News Service interview by James L. Kilgallen, Miami Beach, 18 February 1929, in which Al Capone denies knowing anything of the Chicago garage killings.
- [Washington Times, 22 February 1929, image 3: Arrests near in gangland massacre](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-02-22-p3/): International News Service report of 22 February 1929 that the dismantled remains of a car like a detective-squad Cadillac were found after a fire in a rented North Side garage, and that officials predicted arrests.
- [Washington Times, 13 March 1929, page 2: Gang massacre now believed solved](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-03-13-p2/): International News Service report of 13 March 1929 relaying a reconstruction, attributed to an attache of the Cook County state's attorney's office, of who carried out the Chicago garage killings.
- [Washington Times, 29 July 1929, page 4: Detroit gangster slain; 'Purple Gang' clue seen](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-07-29-p4/): An International News Service item: police inspectors said Irving Shapiro, 25, shot dead in Detroit, was affiliated with the 'Purple Gang', which had made enemies by levying on drinking places for protection from hijackers.
- [The Washington Times, 22 August 1929, page 11: "Al Capone Goes Literary"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-08-22-p11/): Short Philadelphia dispatch placing Al Capone in the Eastern Penitentiary in August 1929 as "Prisoner No. 5527," reading a life of Napoleon after minor surgery.
- [Washington Times, 17 December 1929, page 3: Gentleman chief of bank gang linked with 7 killings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-12-17-p3/): International News Service report of 17 December 1929 that Chicago police named Fred R. Burke, wanted for killing a St. Joseph, Michigan, policeman, as leader of the garage killers, pending Calvin Goddard's tests of guns found in his bungalow.
- [The Washington Times, 30 December 1929, page 2: the Black Duck shooting off Newport](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1929-12-30-p2/): Dispatch from New London, Connecticut on the Coast Guard's shooting of the rum boat Black Duck off Newport, Rhode Island, on 29 December 1929, in which three men were killed and the helmsman wounded.
- [Washington Times, 12 February 1930, page 3: Detroit gang to surrender](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-02-12-p3/): An International News Service item: an attorney promised the surrender of four 'purple gangsters', Raymond, Isadore and Joe Bernstein and Jules Jaffe, after detectives testified that Inspector Henry J. Garvin had altered 1927 arrest reports.
- [The Washington Times, 17 March 1930, page 1: "Al Capone Goes Free Today"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-03-17-p1/): International News Service report that Pennsylvania's governor signed Al Capone's release papers at 11:25 a.m. on 17 March 1930, as Capone was due to leave the Eastern Penitentiary.
- [Washington Times, 9 June 1930, page 1: "Bugs" Moran and 5 Pals Missing](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-06-09-p1/): An International News Service dispatch from Chicago reporting a shooting, a police search for George "Bugs" Moran and five others, and a dated list of killings between May 31 and June 9, 1930.
- [Washington Times, 23 July 1930, page 1: Gang guns kill radio man](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-07-23-p1/): An International News Service report that Michigan's governor flew to Detroit to take charge of the inquiry into the shooting of radio announcer Gerald 'Jerry' Buckley in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel.
- [Washington Times, 29 August 1930, page 4: Irish bar 'Legs' Diamond](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-08-29-p4/): A short International News Service item from London: the Irish Free State ordered that Jack ("Legs") Diamond, said to be aboard the liner Baltic, be refused permission to land at Queenstown; the ship's captain could not find him aboard.
- [Washington Times, 14 October 1930, page 1: Still silent on identity of hotel gunmen](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-10-14-p1/): A front-page International News Service dispatch by James L. Kilgallen: Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in Polyclinic Hospital, would not say who the two men were who shot him five times in room 829 of the Hotel Monticello.
- [The Washington Times, 18 December 1930, page 3: "N. Y. Vice Fires Flare Anew"](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-washington-times-1930-12-18-p3/): A short International News Service dispatch from New York on the inquiry into the lower courts reports that Stephanie St. Clair, "Harlem policy queen," asserted after leaving Isidor J. Kresel's office that she had paid tribute regularly to magistrates.
- [Waterbury Evening Democrat, 16 October 1890, page 4: Chief of Police Murdered](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-waterbury-evening-democrat-1890-10-16-p4/): A few lines in a column of miscellany on page 4 report that New Orleans Chief of Police D. C. Hennessy was shot from ambush the night before and fatally wounded, and that there were reasons for believing an Italian fired the fatal shot.
- [Waterbury Evening Democrat, 17 October 1890, page 1: The chief of police of New Orleans shot down](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-waterbury-evening-democrat-1890-10-17-p1/): The Waterbury Evening Democrat front page of 17 October 1890 carries a New Orleans dispatch reporting that Police Chief David C. Hennessy was shot near his home.
- [Wilmington Evening Journal, 13 March 1909, page 1: Slain by the Black Hand: Petrosino killed in Palermo](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-wilmington-evening-journal-1909-03-13-p1/): The Wilmington Evening Journal front page of 13 March 1909 carries a United Press dispatch from Rome reporting that New York police detective Joseph Petrosino was shot dead in Palermo.
- [Wilmington Morning Star, 28 January 1947, page 1: Rites for Capone still remain as secret of family](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/clip-wilmington-morning-star-1947-01-28-p1/): Associated Press item on the front page of the Wilmington Morning Star, 28 January 1947: funeral plans remain a family secret, and burial is expected in Chicago.
- [Abe Axler](https://mobfiles.org/people/abe-axler/): Named in 1929 wire reports among four Purple Gang 'ringleaders' convicted in federal court at Detroit, listed in a 1932 Bureau letter among the gang's 'ring leaders', and reported by the Bureau's Detroit office as murdered in November 1933.
- [Abe Bernstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/abe-bernstein/): Listed in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter among Detroit men 'known to be ring leaders of the Purple Gang', and called 'the original head of the Purple Gang' in the Detroit FBI office's survey of 1939.
- [Abraham Reles](https://mobfiles.org/people/abraham-reles/): Prosecution witness in the Brooklyn Murder, Inc. cases, called "concededly an accomplice" by the New York Court of Appeals in 1941. A police official testified to the Kefauver Committee about holding him at the Half Moon Hotel and about his fall from a window there.
- [Adam C. Richetti](https://mobfiles.org/people/adam-c-richetti/): Charged with Floyd and Miller in a federal conspiracy indictment concerning Frank Nash's custody; the FBI says he was convicted in Jackson County of the murder of an officer at Union Station, sentenced to be hanged, and executed on 7 October 1938.
- [Alphonse Capone](https://mobfiles.org/people/al-capone/): Named by the FBI Vault as Alphonse Gabriel Capone (1899–1947), sentenced in 1931 for tax evasion. The National Archives lists him as former Alcatraz inmate, register 85.
- [Aladena Fratianno](https://mobfiles.org/people/aladena-fratianno/): Called "an FBI informant" by the Ninth Circuit, which describes his testimony on the organization of La Cosa Nostra at the 1980s Los Angeles RICO trial. The FBI Director told the Senate in 1983 that he was a protected government witness.
- [Albert Anastasia](https://mobfiles.org/people/albert-anastasia/): Kefauver Committee witness in New York, described in a 1950s FBI memorandum as a waterfront racketeer. New York police testified in 1963 that he was the last predecessor of Carlo Gambino and was shot to death in a barber shop in 1957.
- [Albert L. "George" Bates](https://mobfiles.org/people/albert-bates/): Alcatraz register no. 137. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom, and a red header recording his death in the prison hospital on 4 July 1948.
- [Alfred Mineo](https://mobfiles.org/people/alfred-mineo/): Killed with Stephen Ferrigno by shotgun fire on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx on November 5, 1930, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings, which names him "Manfredi Maineo."
- [Alfred Polizzi](https://mobfiles.org/people/alfred-polizzi/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that he had left Cleveland in 1945 for Coral Gables, and denied the accusations that he belonged to the Mafia or the 'Mayfield Road gang'; Angelo Lonardo testified in 1988 that 'Al Polizzi' had been 'the boss of Cleveland'.
- [Allen Dorfman](https://mobfiles.org/people/allen-dorfman/): Convicted in 1972 of conspiring to accept a bribe affecting the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, where the Second Circuit described him as special consultant. The Seventh Circuit records that he was found guilty of conspiring to bribe a senator and was murdered before sentencing.
- [Alphonse D'Arco](https://mobfiles.org/people/alphonse-darco/): Former Lucchese captain who testified for the government against Vittorio Amuso and Vincent Gigante. The Second Circuit described him in 1999 as "once the acting boss of the Lucchese" family.
- [Alphonse Indelicato](https://mobfiles.org/people/alphonse-indelicato/): One of three men killed in May 1981 whom the 1982 New York indictment called "captains" of the Bonanno family seeking "to wrest control of the family." FBI teletypes of 1981 report that only his body had been found.
- [Alvin Karpis](https://mobfiles.org/people/alvin-karpis/): Alcatraz register no. 325. The warden's notebook page, under the name Alvin Karpavicz, records receipt from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a life sentence for conspiring to kidnap and transport, and a transfer back on 24 February 1958.
- [Angelo Bruno](https://mobfiles.org/people/angelo-bruno/): Named by the Third Circuit as head of the Philadelphia enterprise charged in a 1972 to 1978 RICO case, and in its 1990 account of the trial record as boss from about 1960 until his murder in 1980. Killed on March 21, 1980, FBI records and testimony state.
- [Angelo Lonardo](https://mobfiles.org/people/angelo-lonardo/): Convicted in Cleveland in 1983 and sentenced to life without parole plus 103 years; described by the Justice Department as underboss of the Cleveland LCN, he later testified for the government and, in 1988, before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
- [Angelo Meli](https://mobfiles.org/people/angelo-meli/): Testified at the Kefauver Committee's Detroit hearing in 1951 that he lived on rents and a farm and had been in the jukebox business until 1943; named in a 1958 McClellan investigator's marriage chart and, by a newspaper account the FBI summarized, among five Detroit 'dons' in 1963.
- [Aniello Dellacroce](https://mobfiles.org/people/aniello-dellacroce/): Described by the Second Circuit in 1989 as the Gambino family underboss whom a Bonanno member consulted at Gambino headquarters less than half an hour after the 1979 Galante murders.
- [Anthony Joseph Accardo](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-accardo/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 and refused to answer. His 1960 tax conviction was reversed in 1962. FBI Chicago teletypes of the early 1970s call him one of a three-man leadership team directing organized crime in Chicago.
- [Anthony Casso](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-casso/): Described in a 1996 district court finding, with Vittorio Amuso, as the boss and underboss of the Lucchese family. The Second Circuit records evidence that he handled the family's finances while he and Amuso were fugitives.
- [Anthony Ciulla](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-ciulla/): The Government's principal witness in the 1979 Boston horse-race-fixing trial of Howard T. Winter and others. The First Circuit's 1981 opinions turn in part on FBI reports of his interviews and his grand jury testimony about race fixing in Detroit.
- [Anthony Cornero](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-cornero/): Named as President, Secretary and Treasurer of Stardust, Inc. in a 1955 Ninth Circuit opinion on an SEC investigation of its stock sales. The opinion does not say the company's project was in Las Vegas.
- [Anthony Joseph Giacalone](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-giacalone/): Subject of a Detroit FBI anti-racketeering file opened in December 1957; the FBI history says Canadian authorities arrested him on racketeering charges in 1966, and an FBI affidavit printed by the Sixth Circuit says James R. Hoffa told witnesses he was going to meet him on 30 July 1975.
- [Anthony Indelicato](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-indelicato/): Commission case defendant. The Second Circuit wrote that the government established he was a Bonanno family member approved by the Commission for promotion to capo after the Galante murders, and reversed his substantive RICO conviction.
- [Anthony M. Scotto](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-m-scotto/): President of ILA Local 1814 in Brooklyn and the ILA's vice president for legislative affairs from 1975 to 1979, according to the Second Circuit, which in 1980 affirmed his convictions on counts including RICO.
- [Anthony Milano](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-milano/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that he ran the Brotherhood Loan Co. and the Mayfield Importing Co., had served about fifty-four months at Leavenworth for counterfeiting in 1911-1912, and did not know 'what Mafia mean'; Angelo Lonardo's 1988 statement calls him 'the underboss' at a 1940s initiation.
- [Anthony Provenzano](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-provenzano/): Officer of Teamsters Local 560 in New Jersey. Convicted of Hobbs Act extortion (affirmed 1964) and of RICO offenses (affirmed 1980); named by the Government in the Local 560 civil RICO case and the 1988 Teamsters complaint. A 1989 opinion records that he had died since the 1988 complaint was filed.
- [Anthony Rabito](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-rabito/): A defendant in the 1982 Southern District of New York case, in which the court upheld a wiretap on his telephone. In 2007 the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District announced a superseding indictment that, as the release describes it, charged him as the Bonanno family's "acting consigliere."
- [Anthony Salerno](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-salerno/): Defendant in the Commission case. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he was acting boss and then boss of the Genovese family from the late 1970s until 1985. His pretrial detention reached the Supreme Court in 1987.
- [Anthony Spilotro](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-spilotro/): Charged in Las Vegas and in the Kansas City casino-skimming case, where the Government alleged he represented Chicago co-conspirators. The Ninth Circuit describes a 1977 and 1978 FBI investigation of him and the Gold Rush jewelry store, and FBI Las Vegas records place him at the Upper Crust Pizzaria in 1980. An FBI Chicago communication of 1993 calls him a known Chicago LCN member murdered with his brother in June 1986.
- [Anthony Strollo](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-strollo/): Known as Tony Bender. Valachi testified in 1963 that Bender became the new lieutenant over his group after 1931; New York police testified that Thomas Eboli succeeded him.
- [Anthony Urso](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-urso/): Named in a 2006 U.S. Attorney's release as the man who led the Bonanno family from January 2003 to January 2004, and as convicted. The only records opened are Justice Department releases.
- [Anthony Zerilli](https://mobfiles.org/people/anthony-zerilli/): Convicted with others of the Travel Act offenses over hidden interests in Vegas Frontier, Inc., which operated the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas in 1966 and 1967; the Ninth Circuit affirmed in 1974. No opened record states a family or rank for him.
- [Antonio Caponigro](https://mobfiles.org/people/antonio-caponigro/): Named by the Third Circuit as Angelo Bruno's consigliere, killed after Bruno's death. FBI testimony of 1988 gives an account of his part in the events of 1980.
- [Antonio Corallo](https://mobfiles.org/people/antonio-corallo/): Commission case defendant. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he was boss of the Lucchese family. Twenty years earlier he was convicted in the Jerome Park Reservoir kickback case.
- [Antonio Magaddino](https://mobfiles.org/people/antonio-magaddino/): Of Niagara Falls. John C. Montana testified that he drove to the Apalachin area on November 14, 1957 with "Anthony Maggadino," and the Second Circuit lists Antonio Magaddino among four men apprehended in the fields near Joseph Barbara's house that day.
- [Arnold Rothstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/arnold-rothstein/): New York gambler shot on the night of Sunday, November 4, 1928 in a room of the Park Central Hotel; he died at Polyclinic Hospital on November 6 without naming the person who shot him. This page rests on 1928 newspaper pages; no federal record about him has been found.
- [Arthur B. McBride](https://mobfiles.org/people/arthur-b-mcbride/): Cleveland newspaper circulation man who, by 1950 testimony and committee exhibits, organized Continental Press Service in 1939 after Moses Annenberg gave up the race-wire business, and later passed it to the Ragens and to his son Edward.
- [Arthur "Doc" Barker](https://mobfiles.org/people/arthur-doc-barker/): Alcatraz register no. 268. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence and a red header recording his death in the institutional hospital on 13 January 1939 from gunshot wounds received while attempting to escape.
- [Basil Banghart](https://mobfiles.org/people/basil-banghart/): Received at Alcatraz from Joliet in January 1943 for mail robbery and conspiracy; named by the FBI and the National Archives as a member of the Touhy gang captured in Chicago on 29 December 1942.
- [Benedetto Madonia](https://mobfiles.org/people/benedetto-madonia/): The man whose body was found in a barrel on East Eleventh Street, New York, on 14 April 1903, identified a week later as a stone mason from Buffalo. No record filed here names anyone convicted of his killing.
- [Benjamin Ruggiero](https://mobfiles.org/people/benjamin-ruggiero/): Convicted of RICO conspiracy at the 1982 New York trial and sentenced to fifteen years; the Eleventh Circuit says the evidence showed he "was a member of the 'crew' captained by Napolitano." The Seventh Circuit records that he "described himself as a member of the Bonanno crime family of New York" and pleaded guilty in the Milwaukee extortion case.
- [Benjamin Siegel](https://mobfiles.org/people/benjamin-siegel/): Named in FBI memoranda of 1946 and 1947 as a director of the Nevada Project Corporation, owner of the Flamingo Hotel, and in the Kefauver Committee's Las Vegas record. An FBI letter records that he was shot at Beverly Hills on June 20, 1947. No federal record opened for this page states a family or rank.
- [Bernard Paul "Barney" Coy](https://mobfiles.org/people/bernard-coy/): Alcatraz register no. 415. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Atlanta on 31 July 1937 under a sentence for conspiracy and bank robbery, and a typed header recording the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May.
- [Bonnie Parker](https://mobfiles.org/people/bonnie-parker/): Named with Clyde Barrow in a federal stolen-car warrant of 20 May 1933 and in Identification Order No. 1227; killed with him by officers near Sailes, Louisiana on 23 May 1934, as the FBI states.
- [Carl Civella](https://mobfiles.org/people/carl-civella/): In the Eighth Circuit's 1985 opinion on the Tropicana skim, Carl James Civella was convicted in the Western District of Missouri on a conspiracy count, interstate transport counts and Travel Act counts and sentenced to thirty years; the opinion lists him among those who met about the Tropicana.
- [Carl DeLuna](https://mobfiles.org/people/carl-deluna/): Convicted in the Tropicana skimming case and sentenced to thirty years, affirmed in 1985; the Eighth Circuit also records the Government's account that he kept records for the Kansas City group in the Argent case, and that he pleaded guilty during that trial.
- [Carlo Gambino](https://mobfiles.org/people/carlo-gambino/): Named in 1963 by Valachi and by New York police as boss of the family that bears his name, after Anastasia's death. A 1962 FBI report relays an informant who called him a "boss." He was taken from the Apalachin roadblock in 1957.
- [Carlos Marcello](https://mobfiles.org/people/carlos-marcello/): A New Orleans-area figure in federal records from 1951 to 1989: a Senate committee witness who declined to answer, a deportation case at the Supreme Court, a removal to Guatemala in 1961, and the Brilab prosecution that ended in a RICO conspiracy conviction affirmed in 1983.
- [Carmine Galante](https://mobfiles.org/people/carmine-galante/): Murdered with two associates on July 12, 1979 on the terrace of a Brooklyn restaurant. The Second Circuit wrote that his "violent elimination ... as boss of the Bonanno family" related to the Commission's role in resolving leadership disputes.
- [Carmine Persico](https://mobfiles.org/people/carmine-persico/): Convicted in the Colombo family RICO case and in the Commission case. In the Commission appeal the Second Circuit wrote that the government established he was boss of the Colombo family.
- [Casper Holstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/casper-holstein/): A Harlem figure whose kidnapping in September 1928 was reported across the country. The records filed here are newspaper pages from 1928 to 1930. They call him a wealthy sportsman, clubman and philanthropist and an Elks leader; one Seattle paper calls him a "reputed ace of Harlem gamblers." None of them is a court or federal record.
- [Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-arthur-floyd/): Named with Richetti and Miller in a federal conspiracy indictment concerning Frank Nash, and identified by the FBI as one of the Union Station gunmen; the FBI says he was shot by agents and local officers near East Liverpool, Ohio, on 22 October 1934. Whether he fired was an FBI finding not tested in court.
- [Charles Binaggio](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-binaggio/): Described on a Kansas City police list entered in the Senate record as a 'prominent political leader' reportedly involved in nation-wide gambling operations, and recorded there as found shot to death in a political club on 5 April 1950; a former police commissioner testified about two meetings with him in 1949.
- [Charles Gargotta](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-gargotta/): Recorded with Charles Binaggio on a Kansas City police list as 'found shot to death in political club at 718 Truman Road' on April 5, 1950, and described there as a 'well-known gunman and muscle-man engaged in gambling operations'; a former sheriff testified that jury intimidation prevented a murder conviction.
- [Charles Gioe](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-gioe/): Convicted in 1943 in the motion-picture extortion case and sentenced to ten years; paroled from Leavenworth on 13 August 1947, retaken in July 1948, and in 1951 discharged by the Atlanta court as a reinstated parolee.
- [Charles Lanham](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-lanham/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years; his Leavenworth identification photograph is No. 22071.
- [Charles Leiter](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-leiter/): Listed in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter among the Purple Gang's 'ring leaders', named in the Detroit FBI office's 1939 survey as one of Abe Bernstein's two lieutenants 'in the old Purple Gang', and listed in a 1948 Miami memorandum.
- [Charles Luciano](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-luciano/): Convicted in a New York State vice prosecution in 1936; the state's highest court called him "the head of this enterprise." Valachi testified in 1963 that Luciano took over as boss after Maranzano's killing. An FBI file records his parole on condition of deportation in 1946.
- [Charles Matranga](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-matranga/): Named in 1890-91 records on the Hennessy case: a State Department registration abstract lists him; the 14 March 1891 verdict acquitted him; and the 1891 papers describe a Matranga faction in a stevedoring rivalry, claims that are the papers' and not court findings.
- [Charles Panarella](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-panarella/): Named in a 1985 opinion in the Persico case as the intended beneficiary of a charged bribe of an IRS agent. No opened federal record places him in Las Vegas or states a family or rank.
- [Charles Siragusa](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-siragusa/): Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent who testified to the Kefauver Committee on 27 June 1951 about his work with the Italian police on Lucky Luciano and on the Mafia's income from narcotics.
- [Charles Smith](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-smith/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years, named in the indictment as Charles Smith, alias "Red" Smith.
- [Charles M. Wall](https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-wall/): Testified at Tampa on 29 December 1950 about his gambling background; committee counsel called him an 'elder statesman' of Tampa gambling, and the state's attorney gave his own opinion that Wall was the 'head and brains of the underworld.' Wall said he left gambling in the county in 1939 or 1940.
- [Christopher Furnari](https://mobfiles.org/people/christopher-furnari/): Commission case defendant. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he served as consigliere of the Lucchese family. His FBI file holds 1984 serials from the Bureau's construction-industry investigations.
- [Ciro Terranova](https://mobfiles.org/people/ciro-terranova/): Named in the 1963 Senate hearings by staff counsel as on Masseria's side in the 1930–31 war, and by Valachi, from what he was told, as one of the men at the Coney Island restaurant where Masseria was killed.
- [Clarence Carnes](https://mobfiles.org/people/clarence-carnes/): Alcatraz register no. 714-AZ. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 6 July 1945 at age 18 under sentences for kidnapping and escape from a U.S. marshal's custody, a 1946 federal murder conviction in San Francisco with a recommendation for mercy, and a transfer to the Medical Center at Springfield, Missouri, on 15 January 1963.
- [Clyde Barrow](https://mobfiles.org/people/clyde-barrow/): Wanted by the Division of Investigation under the stolen-car law from May 1933; named in Identification Order No. 1227; killed with Bonnie Parker by officers near Sailes, Louisiana on 23 May 1934, as the FBI states.
- [Connie Hurley](https://mobfiles.org/people/connie-hurley/): Las Vegas race-wire operator described in Kefauver Committee testimony and exhibits as Continental's local representative there in 1946-1949.
- [Danny Greene](https://mobfiles.org/people/danny-greene/): Killed by a remote-controlled car bomb in Cleveland on 6 October 1977; the Sixth Circuit, affirming the RICO convictions of James Licavoli and others, described him as the leader of a rival criminal organization in West Cleveland whom Licavoli decided in 1976 to have killed.
- [Dave Beck](https://mobfiles.org/people/dave-beck/): President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters when he testified before the McClellan Committee in March 1957 and declined to answer questions about union money. The committee's 1958 interim report found that he "took, not borrowed, more than $370,000 in union funds."
- [David C. Hennessy](https://mobfiles.org/people/david-c-hennessy/): New Orleans Chief of Police, shot near midnight on 15 October 1890 and dead the next morning; the 1890 newspaper pages here report the shooting and the arrests, and the State Department's later correspondence calls the prosecution the case of the murder of 'Chief D. C. Hennessy.'
- [David Robinson](https://mobfiles.org/people/david-robinson/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years, named in the indictment as David Robinson, alias "Chippy" Robinson.
- [Dominick Napolitano](https://mobfiles.org/people/dominick-napolitano/): Charged in the 1982 Southern District of New York case as a member of "the Bonanno Family of La Cosa Nostra." The Eleventh Circuit says the trial evidence showed Benjamin Ruggiero was a member of "the 'crew' captained by Napolitano," that he did not appear for trial, and that he "later was found murdered."
- [Dominick Trinchera](https://mobfiles.org/people/dominick-trinchera/): Killed in May 1981 with Alphonse Indelicato and Philip Giaccone. The en banc Second Circuit names him among the Bonanno soldiers through whom the Commission planned the 1979 Galante killing, and says he was later "promoted to the rank of capo."
- [Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz)](https://mobfiles.org/people/dutch-schultz/): Named Arthur Flegenheimer, alias "Dutch" Schultz, in a Division of Investigation wanted notice of 1934 that states his indictment in the Southern District of New York on January 25, 1933 for violation of the federal income tax law. The FBI states he was shot at the Palace Chop House in Newark on October 23, 1935 and died the next day. No record filed here states a family or rank.
- [Earl Weiss](https://mobfiles.org/people/earl-weiss/): Indicted in Chicago in June 1926 for possessing and transporting liquor under the National Prohibition Act; killed by gunfire near Holy Name Cathedral on 11 October 1926. The charges against him were dismissed after his death.
- [Eddie Fletcher](https://mobfiles.org/people/eddie-fletcher/): Named in 1929 wire reports among four Purple Gang 'ringleaders' convicted in federal court at Detroit, and reported by the Bureau's Detroit office in November 1933 as murdered with Abe Axler.
- [Edward J. McBride](https://mobfiles.org/people/edward-j-mcbride/): Owner of Continental Press Service in 1948-1950 by his own testimony and a federal court's description; a law student who said control of the business rested with his uncle, Thomas F. Kelly.
- [Edward Lato](https://mobfiles.org/people/edward-lato/): Sentenced in Providence in 2012 to 108 months for racketeering extortion conspiracies. The Justice Department calls him an admitted capo regime in the New England La Cosa Nostra.
- [Edward P. Jones](https://mobfiles.org/people/edward-p-jones/): A Kefauver Committee witness of December 1950, then living in Mexico City, who testified that he shared in the profits of the Maine-Idaho Club policy wheel in Chicago, agreed that he had been convicted of an income-tax violation on its income, and described being kidnapped in Chicago.
- [Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson](https://mobfiles.org/people/ellsworth-bumpy-johnson/): Alcatraz register no. 1117. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 14 April 1954 under a 15-year narcotics sentence from the Southern District of New York, a transfer to Atlanta in December 1958 and a transfer to Lewisburg on 26 January 1963.
- [Felix Antonio Alderisio](https://mobfiles.org/people/felix-alderisio/): Convicted in Denver in 1965 of conspiring to transmit threats in interstate commerce. His case reached the Supreme Court in Alderman v. United States (1969) over government surveillance of his Chicago place of business.
- [Francis Featherstone](https://mobfiles.org/people/francis-featherstone/): A Government witness in the Westies prosecutions. The Second Circuit recites trial evidence that he had become the group's second-in-command by the mid-1970s; a state murder conviction against him was set aside after an investigation showed he was not involved.
- [Francis Maritote](https://mobfiles.org/people/francis-maritote/): Convicted in 1943 in the motion-picture extortion case; the Second Circuit says he was given a sinecure with a Chicago exhibitor. Received at Atlanta in March 1945 under a ten-year sentence and transferred to Leavenworth that July.
- [Francis P. Salemme](https://mobfiles.org/people/francis-salemme/): Indicted with Bulger and Flemmi in January 1995, convicted of racketeering in 1999 and of obstruction in 2008, and convicted in 2018 of the 1993 murder of a federal witness. The First Circuit and the U.S. Attorney describe him as boss of the New England LCN in the early 1990s. Court and DOJ records only.
- [Frank Balistrieri](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-balistrieri/): Convicted in Milwaukee of conducting an illegal gambling business, affirmed in 1985. The Eighth Circuit records the Government's theory that he helped Allen Glick obtain a pension-fund loan for the Stardust and Fremont, and he pleaded guilty during the Argent trial.
- [Frank J. Calabrese, Sr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-calabrese-sr/): Named by the Seventh Circuit in 2012 as boss of the Calabrese Street Crew (the South Side/26th Street Crew). Convicted at the 2007 Family Secrets trial and sentenced to life in prison.
- [Frank Costello](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-costello/): Kefauver Committee witness in 1951, convicted of contempt of the Senate and of income-tax evasion, and stripped of his citizenship in 1959. New York police testimony in 1963 said that "at least he was second in command at one time."
- [Frank Cullotta](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-cullotta/): Recorded by name in FBI Las Vegas surveillance logs of June and July 1980 at the Upper Crust Pizzaria and My Place, in a case captioned as a RICO murder matter. An Illinois appellate court records his 1982 agreement with the FBI. No opened record states a family or rank for him.
- [Frank Eppelsheimer](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-eppelsheimer/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years and a $4,000 fine. He was held at Alcatraz as No. 309 from 1936 to 1938; his notebook page lists his codefendants.
- [Frank Fitzsimmons](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-fitzsimmons/): Teamsters president after James R. Hoffa. The President's Commission on Organized Crime states that he was not indicted during his tenure and died in office in 1981.
- [Frank Hackethal](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-hackethal/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years; his petition to the Supreme Court was denied. His Leavenworth photograph, No. 22070, is filed under the spelling Heckethal.
- [Frank Locascio](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-locascio/): Tried with John Gotti and convicted; the Second Circuit wrote in 1993 that the government established at trial that his function as underboss was to advise Gotti.
- [Frank Milano](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-milano/): Brother of Anthony Milano; the restaurant where Joe Porrello was shot in 1930 was his, by Associated Press accounts, and Cleveland's public safety director told the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that he had been living in Mexico for years.
- [Frank Nash](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-nash/): A federal prisoner who escaped from Leavenworth on 19 October 1930, was recaptured at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on 16 June 1933 and was killed at Union Station, Kansas City, on 17 June 1933 while being returned to Leavenworth. The FBI's photograph caption describes him as a member of the 'Keating-Holden-Nash gang.'
- [Frank Nitti (Frank R. Nitto)](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-nitti/): A Bureau of Investigation letter in his FBI Vault file lists him as Frank R. Nitto, alias Frank Nitti, a member of the Al Capone Gang, indicted for income tax evasion on March 14, 1930.
- [Frank Rosenthal](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-rosenthal/): An FBI Las Vegas airtel of January 27, 1975 records that he was made Executive Consultant to the Chairman of the Argent Corporation on October 22, 1974 and oversaw casino operations at the Hacienda, Stardust and Fremont. The Eighth Circuit describes the Government's evidence that he supervised the skimming.
- [Frank Scalice](https://mobfiles.org/people/frank-scalice/): Named in 1963 as an underboss of the Gambino family, predecessor of Joseph Biondo. New York police testified that he was a homicide victim in the Bronx.
- [Paul John "Frankie" Carbo](https://mobfiles.org/people/frankie-carbo/): Alcatraz register no. 1568. The warden's notebook page records receipt from the Southern District of California on 24 May 1962 under a 25-year sentence for obstructing interstate commerce by extortion, and a transfer on 6 February 1963 whose destination the page and the catalog give differently.
- [Frank B. "Fritz" Mulloy](https://mobfiles.org/people/fritz-mulloy/): Alcatraz register no. 330. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a two-year sentence and $10,000 fine for conspiracy, and a transfer back on 25 September 1937. The catalog remark "KCUS MASSACRE" is not expanded.
- [Gabriel Mannarino](https://mobfiles.org/people/gabriel-mannarino/): Of New Kensington, Pa. The Second Circuit lists him among the men taken to the Vestal barracks after the Apalachin roadblock of 1957. The McClellan Committee staff list calls him a former owner, with his brothers, of the Sans Souci in Havana.
- [Gaetano Badalamenti](https://mobfiles.org/people/gaetano-badalamenti/): Defendant in the Pizza Connection case, arrested in Madrid on April 8, 1984 according to the FBI, convicted of a narcotics conspiracy and of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, and sentenced to forty-five years with release ordered after thirty.
- [Gaetano Gagliano](https://mobfiles.org/people/gaetano-gagliano/): Named in the 1963 Senate hearings as the underboss who took over the Reina gang after Reina's killing and recruited Valachi. The only record opened is the subcommittee staff's description of its chart.
- [Gaetano Lucchese](https://mobfiles.org/people/gaetano-lucchese/): Named in 1963 by Valachi and by New York police as boss of the family that bears his name. Police testimony said he took Frank Costello's place when Costello went to jail.
- [Gennaro J. Angiulo](https://mobfiles.org/people/gennaro-angiulo/): Convicted under RICO after an eight-month trial built on the FBI's 1981 surveillance of 98 Prince Street in Boston. The First Circuit, stating the trial evidence, calls him the underboss of the Patriarca Family. Boston police testimony of 1963 also names him.
- [Gennaro Langella](https://mobfiles.org/people/gennaro-langella/): Convicted in the Colombo family RICO case and in the Commission case. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he was underboss of the Colombo family.
- [George E. Browne](https://mobfiles.org/people/george-e-browne/): President of the stagehands' and projectionists' union from 1934, in the Second Circuit's account; convicted with Bioff in 1941, and with Bioff the government's principal witness against the Chicago defendants in 1943.
- [George Kelly (Illinois Sports News)](https://mobfiles.org/people/george-kelly-illinois-sports-news/): Owner of the Illinois Sports News scratch sheet in Chicago from January 1947, by his own 1950 testimony; earlier a road man for James Ragen's Continental Press.
- [George "Machine Gun" Kelly](https://mobfiles.org/people/george-machine-gun-kelly/): Alcatraz register no. 117. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping; the National Archives records his birth year and middle initial two ways.
- [George Moran](https://mobfiles.org/people/george-moran/): The subject of a three-part FBI file. A 1946 memorandum for the Attorney General calls him "formerly the leader" of the Chicago North Side gang; newspapers of 1925 to 1930 reported him charged in the Torrio shooting in 1925 and missing in 1930, and a 1929 feature said the February garage killings had been aimed at him.
- [Gerardo Catena](https://mobfiles.org/people/gerardo-catena/): Named by Joseph Valachi in 1963 as the underboss under Vito Genovese, and by the Attorney General as Genovese's substitute in New Jersey. He was in the car stopped with Genovese at the Apalachin roadblock in 1957.
- [Giuseppe Morello](https://mobfiles.org/people/giuseppe-morello/): Arrested in April 1903 in the barrel-murder inquiry and watched by the Secret Service; convicted of counterfeiting in February 1910 and sentenced to twenty-five years. The Second Circuit, affirming in 1911, wrote that his 1903 arrest for the murder 'proved nothing.'
- [Gregory Scarpa, Sr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/gregory-scarpa-sr/): Designated an FBI informant in 1962 in the Bureau's Top Echelon program, according to the FBI's own memoranda, and found by a federal court in 1997 to have informed again from 1980 to 1992. After a 1990s Colombo family trial the government disclosed his informant role. He did not testify in these cases.
- [Gus Greenbaum](https://mobfiles.org/people/gus-greenbaum/): Named in testimony before the Kefauver Committee in 1950 as one of the El Cortez Hotel owners about 1945 and as a member of the group that bought the Flamingo after Siegel's death. An FBI report records an informant's statement about him in 1946.
- [Gustav B. Dietmeyer](https://mobfiles.org/people/gustav-dietmeyer/): A defendant in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery, found guilty on two of four counts in 1924 and sentenced to 25 years; the Seventh Circuit held that the evidence showed him active in preparing the robbery. His Leavenworth photograph is No. 22069.
- [H. Paul Rico](https://mobfiles.org/people/h-paul-rico/): FBI special agent in Boston who, federal courts found, recruited Stephen Flemmi as an informant in the 1960s and, with Dennis Condon, handled Joseph Barboza.
- [Harry J. Anslinger](https://mobfiles.org/people/harry-anslinger/): U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, in the National Archives' caption of his Bureau of Narcotics portrait. He testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 and, as a former commissioner, to the Senate narcotics hearings of 1964.
- [Harry Campbell](https://mobfiles.org/people/harry-campbell/): Alcatraz register no. 322. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 6 August 1936 under a life sentence for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person, and a transfer back on 28 April 1942.
- [Harry Fleisher](https://mobfiles.org/people/harry-fleisher/): Named in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter among the Purple Gang's 'ring leaders' and as wanted by Michigan authorities; convicted in 1936 in the Eastern District of Michigan of an internal revenue conspiracy and held at Alcatraz as No. 320 from 1936 to 1939.
- [Harry Sawyer](https://mobfiles.org/people/harry-sawyer/): Alcatraz register no. 297. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 27 April 1936 under a life sentence for conspiracy under the Kidnapping Act, and a transfer back on 24 May 1943. The catalog remark gives the true name as Sandlovich.
- [Harvey Bailey](https://mobfiles.org/people/harvey-bailey/): Alcatraz register no. 139. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a life sentence for kidnapping and holding for ransom, and a transfer back on 8 September 1946.
- [Henry Hill](https://mobfiles.org/people/henry-hill/): Indicted with James Burke at Tampa in 1970 in a federal extortion case, according to the FBI file. In 1983 the Second Circuit described him as the principal government witness in the Boston College point-shaving trial, testifying under an immunity agreement.
- [Henry Tameleo](https://mobfiles.org/people/henry-tameleo/): Appellant with Raymond Patriarca in the 1968 First Circuit decision on the Marfeo conspiracy, and one of four men convicted in 1968 of the Deegan murder, convictions later vacated. He died in prison in 1985, a federal court found.
- [Herbert Blitzstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/herbert-blitzstein/): Described by the Ninth Circuit in 1986 as "an associate of Anthony Spilotro" and an officer of Gold Rush, Ltd. in its account of an FBI investigation; the same court in 2001 summarizes testimony that he was killed in Las Vegas in January 1997.
- [Howard T. Winter](https://mobfiles.org/people/howard-t-winter/): First-named of twenty-one defendants in the 1979 federal horse-race-fixing prosecution in Boston, United States v. Howard T. Winter et al.; the verdict transcript records the jury finding him guilty on count two, and the First Circuit affirmed his conviction in 1981. The opinions do not call him a member or leader of any group.
- [Ignazio Lupo](https://mobfiles.org/people/ignazio-lupo/): Convicted with Giuseppe Morello of counterfeiting in 1910 and sentenced to thirty years; paroled in 1920, his sentence was conditionally commuted by President Harding in 1921, the commutation was revoked in 1936, and the Fifth Circuit upheld his return to Atlanta in 1937.
- [Ilario M.A. Zannino](https://mobfiles.org/people/ilario-zannino/): Convicted in Boston on two gambling counts and one extortionate-credit count from the 1981 North End surveillance case, with a 30-year sentence affirmed in 1990. The First Circuit, on the trial evidence, calls him a "Capo Regime" in the Patriarca Family.
- [Indalecio Pertierra](https://mobfiles.org/people/indalecio-pertierra/): A Cuban congressman whom FBI reports of 1947 describe as reportedly controlling the gambling at the Jockey Club at Oriental Park and the Gran Casino Nacional, and as the man behind Luciano's Cuban visa, which he denied. Every statement about him in these records is 'reportedly' or an informant's.
- [Irving Milberg](https://mobfiles.org/people/irving-milberg/): Named in 1929 among four Purple Gang 'ringleaders' convicted in federal court at Detroit; a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter says he had been in jail since September 1931 in the murder case for which Harry Keywell received a life sentence.
- [Jack Cerone](https://mobfiles.org/people/jack-cerone/): Convicted in the Kansas City prosecution for skimming Las Vegas casinos, affirmed in 1987. The Eighth Circuit's opinion says the Government charged that Aiuppa was boss of the Chicago group, with Cerone as its underboss.
- [Jack "Legs" Diamond](https://mobfiles.org/people/jack-legs-diamond/): Called a New York gangster and racketeer in 1930 wire stories. In August 1930 the Irish Free State ordered that he not be allowed to land from the liner Baltic. On October 12, 1930 he was shot five times in a room of the Hotel Monticello on West Sixty-fourth Street, New York, and would not tell police who shot him. This page rests on 1930 newspaper pages.
- [Jack William Tocco](https://mobfiles.org/people/jack-tocco/): Charged in the 1996 Detroit indictment as 'Boss of the Detroit Cosa Nostra Family' since about 1979, and convicted in 1998 of two RICO conspiracy counts and a Hobbs Act conspiracy count; the Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions and twice vacated his sentence.
- [Jackie Presser](https://mobfiles.org/people/jackie-presser/): Teamsters general president when he appeared under subpoena before the President's Commission on Organized Crime in April 1985. Indicted in 1986, with two others, on charges of paying "ghost" employees at Local 507.
- [Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro](https://mobfiles.org/people/jacob-shapiro/): Defendant with Louis Buchalter in the federal fur dressers antitrust cases. His 1936 Sherman Act conviction was affirmed in 1937; he became a fugitive, surrendered on April 14, 1938, and was sentenced again on June 17, 1938. The FBI states he was sentenced on May 5, 1944 to 15 years to life for conspiracy and extortion.
- [Jake Guzik](https://mobfiles.org/people/jake-guzik/): His FBI Vault file describes him as business manager of some of the Capone underworld enterprises. The Seventh Circuit affirmed his 1930 income tax conviction in 1931.
- [Jake Lansky](https://mobfiles.org/people/jake-lansky/): Meyer Lansky's brother, whom FBI reports place in Havana in 1952 'looking after' his brother's interests and, in a 1958 informant report, as 'overseer of operations at the hotel casino' of the Hotel Nacional.
- [James J. Bulger](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-bulger/): Sentenced in 1956 for bank robbery and held at Alcatraz from 1959 to 1962; an FBI informant from 1975, a federal court found; a fugitive from late 1994 until June 2011; convicted in 2013 of racketeering, with the jury finding he played a role in eleven murders.
- [James Coonan](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-coonan/): Lead defendant in the 1987 federal racketeering indictment of the group the Second Circuit calls the Westies, a Hell's Kitchen organized crime group; the court of appeals describes him as its leader. Sentenced in 1988 to seventy-five years.
- [James Episcopia](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-episcopia/): A defendant in the 1982 Southern District of New York case against Napolitano and Ruggiero. FBI reports in the Vault record his conviction on December 12, 1983 for methaqualone conspiracy and distribution and a five-year sentence imposed by Judge Robert W. Sweet on November 17, 1986.
- [James Licavoli](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-licavoli/): Convicted with five others of RICO violations in Cleveland; the Sixth Circuit, affirming in 1984, stated that the evidence established he was 'a leader of organized crime in Cleveland' who in 1976 'decided that he needed to have one Danny Greene killed'.
- [James M. Ragen, Jr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-m-ragen-jr/): Named general manager of Continental Press in 1940, according to 1950 testimony; convicted in the Consensus Publishing tax case in 1940, a conviction reversed on appeal; sold his interest in Continental to Edward J. McBride in 1947.
- [James M. Ragen, Sr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-m-ragen-sr/): Chicago race-news executive who, by 1950 testimony and a Senate report quoted in it, ran Annenberg's General News Bureau and then took over the wire service with Arthur McBride in 1939; convicted in the Consensus Publishing tax case, a conviction the Supreme Court reinstated in 1942; shot in June 1946, according to the Kefauver Committee's chronology.
- [James Martorano](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-martorano/): A defendant in the 1979 Boston horse-race-fixing prosecution, United States v. Howard T. Winter et al.; the First Circuit affirmed his conviction in 1981 and the denial of his motion for a new trial.
- [James McElroy](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-mcelroy/): A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment, tried with James Coonan before Judge Whitman Knapp and sentenced to sixty years, according to the Second Circuit's 1995 opinion.
- [James R. Hoffa](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-r-hoffa/): Teamsters president. Convicted in 1964 of jury tampering in Tennessee and of defrauding the Teamsters Pension Fund in Illinois; President Nixon commuted his sentence in December 1971 on condition that he not manage a union before 1980. The FBI took jurisdiction after his disappearance on 30 July 1975 and says the investigation remains active.
- [James Ryan ("Silent Jim")](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-ryan/): Alcatraz register no. 189. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 under a 20-year sentence and $10,000 fine for post-office robbery, and a transfer back on 28 April 1942.
- [James C. "Tex" Lucas](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-tex-lucas/): Alcatraz register no. 224. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 24 January 1935 under a sentence for national bank robbery and the Dyer Act, and a 1938 federal first-degree murder verdict and life sentence. The National Park Service says he attacked Capone in 1936.
- [James V. La Duca](https://mobfiles.org/people/james-v-laduca/): Of Lewiston, N.Y. Called before the McClellan Committee in 1958, he declined on Fifth Amendment grounds to say whether he attended the Apalachin meeting. The committee's staff list and a 1963 Buffalo police witness describe his ties by marriage to the Magaddino family.
- [Jim Colosimo](https://mobfiles.org/people/jim-colosimo/): Named in a 1947 FBI memorandum and in the FBI's Capone history essay as the man whose Chicago gang Torrio took over after Colosimo was killed on May 11, 1920.
- [Joseph Doto (Joe Adonis)](https://mobfiles.org/people/joe-adonis/): Under oath before the Kefauver Committee in December 1950 he gave his name as Joseph Doto and said he was known as Joe Adonis; he declined to answer most questions, and the committee reported him twice for contempt of the Senate. The FBI's 1943 and 1944 files on a kickback case at the Brooklyn Army Base name him among the subjects. No record filed here states a family or rank.
- [Joe Bernstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/joe-bernstein/): Listed among the Purple Gang's 'ring leaders' in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter; 1930 wire reports call him a 'reputed leader' of the gang, the alleged victim in an assault case and the owner of a seized armored car.
- [John C. Montana](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-c-montana/): President of the Van Dyke Taxicab Co. of Buffalo and a former Buffalo councilman. He testified to the McClellan Committee in 1958 about his trip of November 14, 1957, and his Apalachin conviction was reversed in 1960. Joseph Valachi testified in 1963 that he had been a lieutenant under Stefano Magaddino.
- [John J. Connolly, Jr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-connolly/): FBI agent in Boston from 1973 to 1990 who handled James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi as informants. Convicted in 2002 of racketeering, obstruction and a false statement; the First Circuit affirmed in 2003.
- [John Dillinger](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-dillinger/): Bank robber wanted by the Division of Investigation under the stolen-car law in 1934; shot by Bureau agents outside the Biograph Theatre in Chicago on 22 July 1934, as the FBI states.
- [John Gotti](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-gotti/): Charged in 1991 as head of the Gambino family and convicted in 1992, largely on recordings made at the Ravenite Social Club; the Second Circuit affirmed. The FBI's history page says he took over after Castellano's murder and died in prison in June 2002.
- [John H. Balistrieri](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-h-balistrieri/): Convicted in Milwaukee with his father, Frank Balistrieri, and his brother Joseph of conspiracy to extort and attempted extortion arising from an FBI sting; the Seventh Circuit affirmed in 1985. In the Argent skimming trial in Kansas City the court entered a judgment of acquittal for him.
- [John LaRocca](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-larocca/): Of Pittsburgh. A McClellan Committee investigator named him in 1958 among five men added to the list of Apalachin attendees and said he was in business in Pittsburgh with Gabriel Mannarino and Michael James Genovese. A Los Angeles police captain testified to stopping a car in which he was a passenger in 1956.
- [John Lazia](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-lazia/): Described in 1950 Senate hearings, by a Treasury narcotics agent and by a witness agreeing with counsel's question, as a leader of Kansas City's underworld and a figure in its gambling; he was killed in 1934, as the agent testified.
- [John Monaghan](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-monaghan/): District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1928 and 1929, as the newspaper reports call him. He led the 1928 grand jury inquiry into bootlegging and police graft and prosecuted Al Capone's 1929 weapons case.
- [John Morris](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-morris/): FBI supervisor in Boston, named by a federal court among John Connolly's supervisors and as chief of the organized crime squad, who the court found told Flemmi and Bulger they would not be prosecuted for anything on the 98 Prince Street tapes.
- [John Nardi](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-nardi/): Killed by a car bomb in Cleveland in May 1977, by the account of the FBI's Cleveland chief in 1988 Senate testimony; a 1986 federal court summarized the government's proffer that he and Danny Greene were killed in car bombings in 1977.
- [John Ormento](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-ormento/): Convicted in 1962 in the federal Canada-to-New York narcotics conspiracy and sentenced to forty years as a multiple offender. He appears in the courier's testimony in the 1959 Genovese trial, and the Commissioner of Narcotics named him among the Bureau's convictions in 1964.
- [John Paul Chase](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-paul-chase/): Convicted at Chicago in 1935 of killing a Division of Investigation agent at Barrington, Illinois; held at Alcatraz from 1935 to 1954, as his warden's notebook page records.
- [John Roselli](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-roselli/): Introduced to Bioff as "the representative of the group in California," in the Second Circuit's account of the testimony; convicted in 1943 in the motion-picture extortion case, sentenced to ten years, and paroled on 13 August 1947.
- [John Scalish](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-scalish/): Named as a defendant in the Apalachin conspiracy case, whose convictions were reversed in 1960; the subject of a Cleveland FBI file opened after the 1957 meeting; and described in 1988 Senate testimony by Angelo Lonardo and the FBI's Cleveland chief as boss of the Cleveland family until his death in 1976.
- [John Torrio](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-torrio/): The FBI's Capone history essay says Torrio led the gang after Colosimo's death and handed control to Capone in 1925. His FBI Vault file holds a 1947 background memorandum and a 1946 extortion case.
- [John Tronolone](https://mobfiles.org/people/john-tronolone/): A Cleveland defendant in the 1987-88 Genovese family trial in New York, acquitted on the Teamsters election charges and not found to have conspired to murder John Simone; described in a 1986 government proffer and in 1988 FBI testimony as the Cleveland family's consigliere.
- [Joseph A. Fortier](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-a-fortier/): The United States Treasury Department representative at the American Embassy in Havana who, in the FBI's 1946-47 reports, looked for Luciano from October 1946, believed his own report led to the Bureau of Narcotics' action, and interviewed Luciano at the Tiscornia immigration center.
- [Joseph Agosto](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-agosto/): Described by the Eighth Circuit as the Government's principal witness in the Tropicana skimming trial, and by a Senate subcommittee staff summary of FBI affidavits as the Kansas City "outfit" principal management agent in Las Vegas.
- [Joseph Aiello](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-aiello/): Killed by machine-gun fire in front of 205 N. Kolmar Ave., Chicago, on October 23, 1930, according to a Chicago police entry printed as Exhibit 10 of the 1963 Senate hearings. Valachi testified that Aiello sent $5,000 a week to the Maranzano side and was the one man that side lost.
- [Joseph Aiuppa](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-aiuppa/): Refused the Kefauver Committee's questions, was convicted in a federal migratory-bird case affirmed in 1968, and was convicted in the Las Vegas skimming case affirmed in 1987, where the Government charged him as boss of the Chicago group.
- [Joseph Barbara, Sr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-barbara-sr/): The host of the gathering of November 14, 1957 at Apalachin, N.Y. The federal courts describe it as held at his home and estate; the McClellan Committee staff list calls him president of the Canada Dry Bottling Co. of Endicott.
- [Joseph Barboza](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-barboza/): Chief prosecution witness in the 1968 federal trial of Raymond Patriarca and others. Federal courts later found that his testimony in the Deegan murder case was perjured and that his FBI handlers knew it. He was murdered in 1976, a federal court states.
- [Joseph Biondo](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-biondo/): Named in 1963 by New York police as the Gambino family's underboss and the successor of Frank Scalice. Valachi called him "Joe Bandy."
- [Joseph Bonanno](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-bonanno/): Named by Valachi in 1963 as the boss "in the other part of Brooklyn." The government's 1987 civil RICO complaint alleged that he founded the Bonanno family and remained its boss until October 21, 1964.
- [Joseph Catalanotti](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-catalanotti/): A former Detroit resident deported in 1957 whom Detroit police testified 'later turned up in Cuba during the tail end of the Batista regime,' and whom a Bureau of Narcotics sheet says was 'deported to Italy again 1959 from Cuba.'
- [Joseph Catania](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-catania/): Shot six times near 647 Crescent Avenue in the Bronx on February 3, 1931, and died in Fordham Hospital, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings. Valachi testified that Maranzano would not make peace until "Joe Baker" was killed.
- [Joseph Colombo](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-colombo/): FBI memoranda of 1970–71 call him "boss" of the Colombo La Cosa Nostra "family"; agents arrested him on federal gambling charges on April 2, 1971. FBI testimony in 1988 refers to his shooting at an Italian-American rally in 1971.
- [Joseph Paul "Dutch" Cretzer](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-cretzer/): Alcatraz register no. 548. The warden's notebook page records receipt from USP McNeil on 27 August 1940 under sentences for bank robbery, escape and second-degree murder, and a typed header recording the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May.
- [Joseph Ferriola](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-ferriola/): Named by the Seventh Circuit in 1997 as boss of the Ferriola Street Crew, a unit of the Chicago Outfit, from 1979 to 1989. Convicted with Jack Cerone in a 1971 Travel Act gambling case.
- [Joseph Lombardo](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-lombardo/): Convicted with Roy Williams, later president of the Teamsters, of conspiring to bribe a U.S. Senator (affirmed 1984), in the Las Vegas skimming case (affirmed 1987), and at the 2007 Family Secrets trial, where he was sentenced to life.
- [Joseph Lonardo](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-lonardo/): Killed with his brother John in a Cleveland barber shop in October 1927; wire reports of the time call the brothers sugar dealers or commission merchants, later reports call him 'Big Joe' Lonardo, and his son Angelo testified in 1988 that he had been 'the former boss of the Cleveland family'.
- [Joseph Macheca](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-macheca/): Named in 1890-91 records as one of the nine tried for the Hennessy killing, acquitted by a unanimous jury on 13 March 1891, and listed among the eleven killed at the Parish Prison on 14 March; the papers' claim that he headed a society was a prosecution theory not proved in court.
- [Giuseppe Magliocco](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-magliocco/): Named in 1963 as Joseph Profaci's successor in Brooklyn. The Attorney General told the subcommittee that the Commission had not confirmed him and probably would not.
- [Joseph Masseria](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-masseria/): Head of one side in the 1930–31 New York gang war, as the 1963 Senate hearings describe it. Joseph Valachi called him "the boss we were fighting" and testified, from hearsay, that his own people killed him in a Coney Island restaurant. A police record read into the same hearing dates the killing April 15, 1931, at 2715 West 15th Street.
- [Joseph Massino](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-massino/): Convicted with Rastelli in the Local 814 case. The government's 1987 civil complaint called him the Bonanno family's underboss; a 2006 U.S. Attorney's release calls him "Bonanno family boss," and the Second Circuit in 2010 "the then-incarcerated official boss."
- [Joseph Messina](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-messina/): Charged in the 1982 New York case. The indictment, as the Eleventh Circuit summarizes it, named him and Dominick Napolitano as the two "captains" whom the three men killed in May 1981 sought to displace. He did not appear for trial.
- [Joseph P. Balistrieri](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-p-balistrieri/): Convicted in Milwaukee with his father, Frank Balistrieri, and his brother John of conspiracy to extort and attempted extortion arising from an FBI sting; the Seventh Circuit affirmed in 1985. In the Argent skimming trial in Kansas City the court entered a judgment of acquittal for him.
- [Joseph Petrosino](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-petrosino/): New York police detective in the 1903 barrel-murder inquiry, shot dead in Palermo on 12 March 1909. The records here are newspaper pages of 1903 to 1912, Library of Congress photographs, and a question quoted in a 1911 federal appeal; who killed him is not established in any of them.
- [Joseph Pinzolo](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-pinzolo/): Found shot dead in suite 1007 of the Brokaw Building, 1487 Broadway, on September 9, 1930, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings. Thomas Lucchese, the lessee, was arraigned and not indicted.
- [Joseph Pistone](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-pistone/): FBI Special Agent who worked undercover as "Donnie Brasco." A federal court wrote in 1998 that "In 1976, FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone assumed the identity of Donnie Brasco ... and infiltrated the Bonanno Crime Family" for some six years; he testified at the 1982 New York trial, at a Milwaukee trial, and before the Senate in 1988.
- [Joseph Profaci](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-profaci/): Named by Valachi in 1963 as the boss in Brooklyn "when I left the streets in 1960." New York police agreed that the Magliocco family was known originally as the Profaci family. He was stopped near Apalachin in 1957.
- [Joseph Stacher](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-stacher/): Named in an FBI Los Angeles report of 1963 as the person the Las Vegas Office believed the Sands Hotel's owner of record "now appears to be a front for," with the Gerardo Catena group. The Second Circuit records the Government's belief in 1961 and 1962 that he held undisclosed interests in Las Vegas gambling.
- [Joseph Valachi](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-valachi/): Testified in public before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in September and October 1963 that he had been a member of "Cosa Nostra" since 1930. A federal docket in Atlanta records his 1962 guilty plea to second-degree murder at the U.S. Penitentiary.
- [Joseph Zerilli](https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-zerilli/): Named in 1951 Kefauver testimony as a partner with William Tocco in the State Products Co., described in a 1958 McClellan Committee list as an associate of Pete Licavoli, and named in 1963, by a newspaper account the FBI summarized, among five Detroit 'dons'.
- [Kathryn Thorne Kelly](https://mobfiles.org/people/kathryn-kelly/): Committed for life on 12 October 1933 by the federal court at Oklahoma City for the kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel. The Tenth Circuit affirmed in 1935, and in 1959 reversed an order that had vacated her sentence and her mother's.
- [Kenneth Shannon](https://mobfiles.org/people/kenneth-shannon/): A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment who pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge; separately convicted in state court in 1989 of second-degree murder for driving Billie Bokun to and from the 1985 shooting of Michael Holly. His federal habeas petition was denied in 1997.
- [Kevin Kelly](https://mobfiles.org/people/kevin-kelly/): A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment who was a fugitive at the first trial, was tried separately before Judge Whitman Knapp, and was sentenced to fifty years; the Second Circuit affirmed in 1991.
- [Leo J. Fox](https://mobfiles.org/people/leo-j-fox/): FBI special agent in the Havana office who wrote the Bureau's reports of 12 February and 22 March 1947 on Luciano in Cuba and confirmed his identity at the Oriental Park race track on 8 February 1947.
- [Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson)](https://mobfiles.org/people/lester-gillis/): Wanted by the Division of Investigation for the killing of Special Agent W. Carter Baum near Little Bohemia Lodge in April 1934; died after the gun battle at Barrington, Illinois on 27 November 1934, as the FBI states.
- [Lewis J. McWillie](https://mobfiles.org/people/lewis-j-mcwillie/): Told the FBI in June 1964 that he managed the Tropicana Casino in Havana from September 1958 to May 1960 and was a pit boss at the Capri Hotel-Casino until 2 January 1961, and that after Castro took over 'American ownership was forced out of the gambling business.'
- [Louis "Lepke" Buchalter](https://mobfiles.org/people/louis-buchalter/): Defendant with Jacob Shapiro in the federal fur dressers antitrust cases. His 1936 Sherman Act conviction was reversed on appeal in 1937; he failed to appear in 1937, surrendered to J. Edgar Hoover on August 24, 1939, pleaded guilty to a federal indictment and was sentenced to fourteen years, and was handed to New York for a state trial. The FBI states he was executed at Sing Sing on March 4, 1944.
- [Louis Campagna](https://mobfiles.org/people/louis-campagna/): Convicted in the Hollywood extortion case affirmed in 1944, and a witness before the Kefauver Committee in 1950. A 1959 FBI memorandum relays a source's claim that he was "the man" in Chicago before 1955.
- [Louis Kaufman](https://mobfiles.org/people/louis-kaufman/): "The local agent of the New Jersey local" of the stagehands' union, in the Second Circuit's words. His conviction in the motion-picture extortion case, on evidence of a $15,000 payment from Warner Brothers' New Jersey subsidiary in 1936, was affirmed in 1944.
- [Louis Rothkopf](https://mobfiles.org/people/louis-rothkopf/): Named by Cleveland's public safety director in 1951 among the city's leading Prohibition bootleggers; a Cleveland record printed by the Kefauver Committee lists the aliases Lou Rhody and John Zarumba and a 1937 internal revenue case.
- [Luigi Manocchio](https://mobfiles.org/people/luigi-manocchio/): Sentenced in 2012 to 66 months for a racketeering and extortion conspiracy against Rhode Island adult entertainment businesses. The Justice Department calls him an admitted former boss and underboss of the New England La Cosa Nostra.
- [Mabel Walker Willebrandt](https://mobfiles.org/people/mabel-walker-willebrandt/): Assistant Attorney General in the 1920s, named on the government's briefs in Prohibition cases in the Supreme Court and addressed by the Bureau of Investigation's Director in the 1929 Capone contempt inquiry. A 1929 photograph records her successor being sworn in.
- [Manuel Capestany](https://mobfiles.org/people/manuel-capestany/): A Cuban senator whose letter in Cuban immigration records, as the FBI reported in 1947, guaranteed Luciano 'as a person of democratic ideals' with the means to avoid becoming a public charge.
- [Marshall Caifano](https://mobfiles.org/people/marshall-caifano/): Named in the Ninth Circuit's 1966 opinion as "John Marshall," one of eleven men in Nevada's 1960 "black book" who was asked to leave the Tropicana and the Desert Inn. A footnote quotes a California report giving his birth name as Marchello Caifano.
- [Marvin Franklin Hubbard](https://mobfiles.org/people/marvin-hubbard/): Alcatraz register no. 645-AZ. The warden's notebook page records receipt from USP Atlanta on 7 December 1944 under a 30-year sentence, and a typed header recording the 2 to 4 May 1946 prison break and that his body was found on 4 May.
- [Max Hoff](https://mobfiles.org/people/max-hoff/): Philadelphia fight promoter whom the city's district attorney, as wire reports of 1928 relayed, accused of heading a bootleg ring and giving gifts to police. No charge or conviction of Hoff appears in the records filed here.
- [Meyer Lansky](https://mobfiles.org/people/meyer-lansky/): A 1952 Justice Department release in the FBI Vault states that he "allegedly has gambling interests in Hollywood, Miami, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Las Vegas, Nev." He told the Kefauver Committee he had "the race track, and a casino, Nationale" in Havana from 1937 until the war, and FBI reports place him in Havana gambling until the revolution. An FBI Miami report records his March 1971 indictment on a charge of conspiring to skim profits from the Flamingo Hotel Casino.
- [Michele Miranda](https://mobfiles.org/people/michele-miranda/): Shown as consigliere on the 1963 subcommittee chart; New York police testimony agreed that he was the organization's counsel, consulted on big decisions. He was among those taken from the Apalachin roadblock in 1957.
- [Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen](https://mobfiles.org/people/mickey-cohen/): Alcatraz register no. 1518. The warden's notebook page records receipt on 28 July 1961 by direct commitment under a 15-year sentence for attempting to evade and defeat income tax; he was released on appeal bond, returned on 14 May 1962 and moved to Atlanta on 26 February 1963.
- [Milton Rockman](https://mobfiles.org/people/milton-rockman/): Convicted in the Kansas City trial of the Las Vegas casino skim; the Eighth Circuit recited the government's charge that he 'was an associate of the Cleveland group' and received the Cleveland group's share. A New York jury acquitted him in 1987-88 on the Teamsters election charges.
- [Miran Edgar Thompson](https://mobfiles.org/people/miran-thompson/): Alcatraz register no. 729-AZ. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 15 October 1945 under a life sentence for kidnapping and violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, a 1946 federal murder trial in San Francisco, and execution at San Quentin on 3 December 1948.
- [Moe Sedway](https://mobfiles.org/people/moe-sedway/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee at Las Vegas in 1950 that he was vice president of the Flamingo Hotel, and named with Siegel among the five directors of the Nevada Project Corporation in an FBI memorandum of 1946.
- [Mont Tennes](https://mobfiles.org/people/mont-tennes/): Named in Chicago newspaper reports of October 1916 as head of a syndicate selling race information through the General News Bureau, during Judge Landis's federal inquiry into gambling by Automatic telephone.
- [Morris Dalitz](https://mobfiles.org/people/morris-dalitz/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that he held 13 percent of the Desert Inn and was an officer of its corporation. An FBI airtel of July 1961 lists him at Las Vegas among hoodlums selected for concentrated investigation.
- [Morris Kleinman](https://mobfiles.org/people/morris-kleinman/): Called by Cleveland's public safety director in 1951 'the king of the bootleggers in the northern district of Ohio'; a Cleveland police record printed by the Kefauver Committee gives a 1933 income tax evasion sentence and calls him a principal owner of the Desert Inn.
- [Moses L. Annenberg](https://mobfiles.org/people/moses-l-annenberg/): Named in the 1939 Consensus Publishing tax indictment and dismissed before trial; the Supreme Court called him "the dominant figure" in several horse-race betting corporations, and 1950 testimony traces the Continental Press wire service to the business he gave up in 1939.
- [Murray Humphreys](https://mobfiles.org/people/murray-humphreys/): The FBI summary that opens his 25-part Vault file says his activities centered on the domination of labor unions and that he had served one sentence since 1916, 18 months in Leavenworth for income tax evasion.
- [Nicholas W. Calabrese](https://mobfiles.org/people/nicholas-calabrese/): Named in the 2005 Family Secrets indictment of the Chicago Outfit. A 2007 U.S. Attorney's release, citing an FBI affidavit, says he admitted being a "made" member of the Outfit, agreed in 2002 to cooperate, and entered the Witness Security Program. A separate opinion in the 2012 Family Secrets appeal cites his testimony.
- [Nicholas Santora](https://mobfiles.org/people/nicholas-santora/): A defendant in the 1982 Southern District of New York case against Napolitano and Ruggiero. In 2007 the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District announced a superseding indictment that, as the release describes it, charged him as the Bonanno family's "acting underboss."
- [Nick Circella](https://mobfiles.org/people/nick-circella/): Leavenworth inmate 60609, photographed in February 1944. In the Second Circuit's account of the motion-picture extortion testimony, Circella kept a Chicago night club and, with Bioff, was given a union office as Browne's personal representative.
- [Nick Civella](https://mobfiles.org/people/nick-civella/): Charged in the 1981 Tropicana skimming indictment and dead before the trial. A Senate subcommittee staff summary of FBI affidavits identifies him as head of the Kansas City "outfit." The Eighth Circuit affirmed his 1980 conviction for conspiring to bribe a prison warden.
- [Nicodemo Scarfo](https://mobfiles.org/people/nicodemo-scarfo/): Convicted in federal court of a firearms offense (1981), of extortion in the Penn's Landing case (1987), and of RICO offenses with sixteen co-defendants (1988). The Third Circuit, on the trial evidence, calls him boss of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra. Court records only.
- [Norman Rothman](https://mobfiles.org/people/norman-rothman/): Named in FBI memoranda of 1955 and 1957 as the man Santo Trafficante, Jr. was 'closely associated with' on his frequent trips to Havana.
- [Oliver Daugherty](https://mobfiles.org/people/oliver-daugherty/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years; his Leavenworth identification photograph is No. 22067.
- [Owney Madden](https://mobfiles.org/people/owney-madden/): Named in a 1930 syndicated newspaper series as one of the men behind the boxer Primo Carnera's management, "since his release from Sing Sing," and in a witness statement on the FBI's Fur Dressers Case page, in 1915 New York newspaper reports of his manslaughter trial and conviction, in a 1921 report of a shooting, and in three passages of the Kefauver hearings where other witnesses name him. No federal case, FBI file or court opinion about him has been found.
- [Paul Castellano](https://mobfiles.org/people/paul-castellano/): The Second Circuit describes him as boss of the Gambino family, named in the Commission indictment and murdered before trial. He and Thomas Bilotti were shot and killed outside Sparks Steak House on December 16, 1985.
- [Paul De Lucia (Paul Ricca)](https://mobfiles.org/people/paul-ricca/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1950 that he was also known as Ricca and Salvi. Convicted in the Hollywood extortion case; his 1928 naturalization was revoked by a decree the Seventh Circuit affirmed in 1958.
- [Peter Licavoli](https://mobfiles.org/people/peter-licavoli/): Refused on self-incrimination grounds to answer most of the Kefauver Committee's questions at Detroit in 1951; named by relatives and investigators in 1951, 1958 and 1963 records, and drawn as 'Nominal Leader' on a Youngstown police chief's 1951 chart.
- [Peter Morello](https://mobfiles.org/people/peter-morello/): Shot dead in his office at 362 East 116th Street on August 15, 1930, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings. Valachi testified, from what he was told, that the Maranzano group killed him.
- [Phil D'Andrea](https://mobfiles.org/people/phil-dandrea/): Convicted in 1943 in the motion-picture extortion case and sentenced to ten years; transferred from Atlanta to Leavenworth in July 1945 and paroled on 13 August 1947. A 1947 FBI memorandum records his 1931 arrest for carrying a revolver into the federal court during Al Capone's trial.
- [Phil Kastel](https://mobfiles.org/people/phil-kastel/): Testified in New Orleans on 25-26 January 1951 as president and general manager of the Beverly Club in Jefferson Parish, agreed that he and Frank Costello were in a 50-50 joint venture in the Bayou Novelty Co., and declined to say whether the club had a casino; the committee reported him for contempt.
- [Philip Giaccone](https://mobfiles.org/people/philip-giaccone/): Killed in May 1981 with Alphonse Indelicato and Dominick Trinchera. The en banc Second Circuit calls him "another Bonanno family capo" in its account of the evening of the 1979 Galante killing.
- [Philip Lombardo](https://mobfiles.org/people/philip-lombardo/): Named in the government's 1986 detention proffer against Anthony Salerno, as the district court summarized it, as the "Boss" of the Genovese family in 1977. The only record opened is that proffer.
- [Philip Mangano](https://mobfiles.org/people/philip-mangano/): Named in 1963 with Vincent Mangano as a predecessor of Carlo Gambino. New York police testified that he was found dead of gunshot wounds in a Brooklyn swamp.
- [Philip Rastelli](https://mobfiles.org/people/philip-rastelli/): Galante's rival for leadership of the Bonanno family; the Second Circuit wrote that after the 1979 murders the Commission reorganized the family under him. He was convicted in the Local 814 moving-industry case.
- [Philip Testa](https://mobfiles.org/people/philip-testa/): Named by the Third Circuit as underboss of the enterprise Angelo Bruno headed, and as Bruno's successor as boss in 1980. Killed by a bomb at his house in early 1981; FBI testimony gives March 18, 1981.
- [Phillip Keywell](https://mobfiles.org/people/phillip-keywell/): Sentenced in 1930 to life imprisonment in the Michigan state prison for the murder of Arthur Mixon, as an Associated Press item and a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter both report.
- [The Provenzano brothers](https://mobfiles.org/people/provenzano-brothers/): Named in March 1891 newspaper pages as one side of a New Orleans stevedoring rivalry with the Matrangas; Giovanni and Pietro Provenzano were held in the Parish Prison on a wounding charge, and Joseph Provenzano is named in a later report. The accounts are the papers' and prisoners' statements, not court findings.
- [Raymond Bernstein](https://mobfiles.org/people/raymond-bernstein/): Described in a 1932 Bureau of Investigation letter as 'the third member of the Purple Gang doing a life sentence' in the murder case involving Irving Milberg and Harry Keywell, and in a 1939 FBI letter as sent to Marquette prison for the 'Collingwood Massacre'.
- [Raymond J. Patriarca](https://mobfiles.org/people/raymond-j-patriarca/): Son of Raymond L. S. Patriarca. Charged in 1990 under RICO with Travel Act predicates; the Government said he was the former boss of the family named after his father, and the court listed him as its alleged "Boss." Federal court records only.
- [Raymond Patriarca](https://mobfiles.org/people/raymond-patriarca/): The subject of 1968 and 1979 First Circuit opinions about his conviction for conspiring to use interstate facilities to commit murder to further an unlawful gambling enterprise, and about FBI surveillance of his Providence office. An FBI airtel of 1961 lists him at Boston among selected "hoodlums." No opened record ties him to Las Vegas.
- [Raymond Renard](https://mobfiles.org/people/raymond-renard/): Charged in the 1924 indictment over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery, he testified for the Government. The Seventh Circuit called him "an admitted convict" who "admitted his guilt in the instant case"; the National Archives description says he made a deal for clemency.
- [Robert F. Stroud ("Birdman of Alcatraz")](https://mobfiles.org/people/robert-stroud/): Alcatraz register no. 594-AZ. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 19 December 1942 under a life sentence for murder; the Leavenworth file records the same sentence and a 1922 receipt. The National Archives and the Bureau of Prisons give different destinations for his 1959 transfer.
- [Roger Touhy](https://mobfiles.org/people/roger-touhy/): Named by the FBI as the leader of a gang that escaped from an Illinois penitentiary in October 1942 and was captured in Chicago on 29 December 1942. A federal draft-registration case against him is at the National Archives.
- [Roy Gardner](https://mobfiles.org/people/roy-gardner/): Alcatraz register no. 110. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 4 September 1934 for robbery of the mails and a transfer back on 8 August 1936.
- [Roy L. Williams](https://mobfiles.org/people/roy-l-williams/): Teamsters international vice-president in 1979 and, according to the President's Commission, IBT president from 1981 to 1983. The Seventh Circuit affirmed his convictions for conspiring to bribe United States Senator Howard Cannon.
- [Salvatore Battaglia](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-battaglia/): Convicted with Dave Evans of a Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy against the Riley Management Corporation; the Seventh Circuit affirmed in 1968 over Judge Swygert's dissent.
- [Salvatore Gravano](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-gravano/): Charged in 1991 as consigliere of the Gambino family; he pleaded guilty and testified against Gotti and Locascio. The Second Circuit later called him "the former Gambino family underboss" when describing him as a witness.
- [Salvatore Maranzano](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-maranzano/): Head of the other side in the 1930–31 war, according to the 1963 Senate hearings. Valachi testified that Maranzano declared himself "the boss of all bosses." A 1931 Bureau of Investigation report concerns papers found in the Park Avenue office where he was killed.
- [Salvatore Santoro](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-santoro/): Commission case defendant. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he served as underboss of the Lucchese family under Corallo.
- [Salvatore Testa](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-testa/): Son of Philip Testa. A partner in an illegal sports-betting business in 1983 and killed on September 14, 1984, according to the Third Circuit's account of the 1988 RICO trial record.
- [Salvatore Vitale](https://mobfiles.org/people/salvatore-vitale/): Indicted with Joseph Massino in the Southern District of New York on October 4, 1984. Vincent Basciano's 2006 conviction included the solicitation of his murder, and he was called as a witness at Basciano's 2011 trial.
- [Samuel A. Carlisi](https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-carlisi/): Named by the Seventh Circuit in 1997 as the leader and financial backer of the Carlisi Street Crew. He died while his appeal was pending, and the court ordered his conviction vacated.
- [Sam Carollo](https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-carollo/): Appears in the 1951 Louisiana hearings as a man 'deported here recently' and as the father of Anthony Carollo; an exhibit says he was deported to Italy in 1947 and is 'believed to be in Mexico.' The record spells the name Sam, Sylvestro and Corolla and does not say they are the same man.
- [Sam Fleisher](https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-fleisher/): Brother and co-defendant of Harry Fleisher in a 1936 internal revenue conspiracy case from Detroit; held at Alcatraz as No. 327 from 1936 to 1937, and listed in a 1948 FBI Miami memorandum among men said to be members of the Detroit Purple Gang.
- [Sam Giancana](https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-giancana/): Called "a top figure in the underworld in Chicago" by McClellan Committee staff in 1959, when he refused to answer. The Church Committee identified him as the "Sam Gold" of the CIA's Castro operation and recorded his murder on June 20, 1975.
- [Sam Tucker](https://mobfiles.org/people/sam-tucker/): Named by Cleveland's public safety director in 1951 among the city's leading Prohibition bootleggers; a Desert Inn partner by Thomas McGinty's 1951 testimony; one of 'the Jewish Boys' in Angelo Lonardo's 1988 testimony.
- [Samuel S. Granito](https://mobfiles.org/people/samuel-granito/): Convicted under RICO and of conducting an illegal gambling business in the 1981 North End surveillance case. The First Circuit, stating the trial evidence, names him one of two "Capo Regimes" beneath Gennaro Angiulo.
- [Samuel Monaco](https://mobfiles.org/people/samuel-monaco/): Reported missing in New Jersey on September 10, 1931, the day of Maranzano's killing; his body was found in Newark Bay at Bayonne on September 13, according to the 1963 testimony of New Jersey's assistant attorney general. Valachi called him "Sam Monica."
- [Sam Richard Shockley](https://mobfiles.org/people/samuel-shockley/): Alcatraz register no. 462. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 23 September 1938 under a life sentence for bank robbery and kidnapping, a 1946 federal murder trial in San Francisco, and execution at San Quentin on 3 December 1948.
- [Santo Trafficante, Jr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/santo-trafficante-jr/): The subject of a Tampa and Cuba record from 1950 to 1979: Kefauver rumor, FBI memoranda on his Havana casinos and his 1959 detention, Tampa police testimony, a 1964 tax-lien opinion, the Church Committee's passages, and the House committee's report, which calls him the 'La Cosa Nostra leader in Florida' and concludes it is unlikely he plotted the President's death.
- [Santo Trafficante, Sr.](https://mobfiles.org/people/santo-trafficante-sr/): Named in 1950 Tampa hearings only through counsel's questions and secondhand testimony; an FBI memorandum of 1953 gives his birth and naturalization data. No testimony by him is filed, and no role is entered.
- [Stefano LaSalle](https://mobfiles.org/people/stefano-lasalle/): Named by Valachi in 1963 as the Lucchese family's underboss. The New York police witness said the department went along with that rating while having very little information on him.
- [Stefano Magaddino](https://mobfiles.org/people/stefano-magaddino/): Named first in a 1968 Western District of New York gambling indictment that was dismissed after the government conceded illegal FBI bugging in the Buffalo area; the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal in 1974. Joseph Valachi testified in 1963 that he was the boss in Buffalo.
- [Stephanie St. Clair](https://mobfiles.org/people/stephanie-st-clair/): Reported by wire services in December 1930 as "the policy queen of Harlem," appearing at the New York inquiry into the magistrates' courts and saying she had paid police and magistrates. Both records are newspaper reports of what she said.
- [Stephen Ferrigno](https://mobfiles.org/people/stephen-ferrigno/): Killed by shotgun fire on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx on November 5, 1930, with Manfredi (Alfred) Mineo, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings. Valachi testified that he had watched Ferrigno's apartment for the Gagliano-Maranzano side.
- [Stephen J. Flemmi](https://mobfiles.org/people/stephen-flemmi/): FBI informant from 1965, a federal court found, and with James Bulger a leader of the Winter Hill Gang in the First Circuit's words. Indicted in 1995; in 2003 he pleaded guilty to twelve murders and other crimes, the First Circuit states.
- [Stephen Ryan](https://mobfiles.org/people/stephen-ryan/): A defendant convicted in 1924 in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery and sentenced to 25 years; his Leavenworth identification photograph is No. 22072.
- [Theodore Roe](https://mobfiles.org/people/theodore-roe/): A Chicago witness before the Kefauver Committee in October and December 1950, who testified that his business was "Operating a policy wheel" in partnership with the Jones brothers and that he had begun working for them in the later 1920s. Everything on this page is his sworn testimony or a staff exhibit drawn from his records.
- [Theresa Capone](https://mobfiles.org/people/theresa-capone/): Filed and swore to a 1938 habeas corpus petition in the federal court at Chicago on behalf of Alphonse Capone, then at Alcatraz, as "his mother and duly authorized agent."
- [Thomas Bilotti](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-bilotti/): Shot and killed with Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House on December 16, 1985. Gotti was charged with, and convicted of, his murder as a racketeering act.
- [Thomas E. Dewey](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-dewey/): Lawyer listed of counsel for the United States, under United States Attorney George Z. Medalie, in the 1933 income-tax prosecution of a defendant named Wexler in the Southern District of New York. A 1946 FBI teletype records that as Governor of New York he granted Charles Luciano parole on January 3, 1946, on condition of release to immigration custody.
- [Thomas Eboli](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-eboli/): Named in 1963 by the Attorney General and New York police as the man substituting for Vito Genovese in New York. A 1985 FBI teletype states that he was acting boss of the Genovese family in July 1972 and was murdered in Brooklyn on July 16, 1972.
- [Thomas F. Kelly](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-f-kelly/): General manager of Continental Press Service in Chicago in 1950, by his own testimony; he described working for James Ragen and Moses Annenberg's news bureaus from the 1920s.
- [Thomas J. Pendergast](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-j-pendergast/): Sentenced in the Western District of Missouri on 22 May 1939 for attempted income-tax evasion, after pleading guilty; Judge Otis described him as a private citizen who had exercised 'a dominating influence in city, county and state politics for a quarter of a century,' and the Supreme Court reversed his 1941 contempt conviction on limitations grounds.
- [Thomas J. McGinty](https://mobfiles.org/people/thomas-mcginty/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 that he had served six months on a prohibition conspiracy charge, had been a partner in the Mounds Club, and was a partner in the Desert Inn at Las Vegas with Wilbur Clark, Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman and Sam Tucker.
- [Tom Reina](https://mobfiles.org/people/tom-reina/): Shot dead as he left 1522 Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx on February 26, 1930, according to the New York police record read into the 1963 Senate hearings. Subcommittee staff named him as the boss of a gang whose killing opened the 1930–31 war.
- [Tomasso Petto](https://mobfiles.org/people/tomasso-petto/): Arrested with Giuseppe Morello on 15 April 1903 in the barrel-murder inquiry and photographed in police custody; the records filed here state no charge, trial or sentence for him.
- [Venero Mangano](https://mobfiles.org/people/venero-mangano/): Convicted of extortion in the window-replacement case; the Second Circuit, viewing the evidence for the government, called him a senior member of the Genovese administration. A 1996 district court finding describes him with Gigante as the family's boss and underboss.
- [Vernon C. Miller](https://mobfiles.org/people/vernon-c-miller/): Identified by the FBI as the leader of the gunmen at Union Station on 17 June 1933 and named with Richetti and Floyd in a federal conspiracy indictment concerning the custody of Frank Nash; the FBI says his body was found near Detroit on 29 November 1933. No conviction of Miller exists in the records filed.
- [Vincent Alo](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-alo/): Convicted of obstructing an SEC investigation into the ownership of Tel-A-Sign, Inc. stock, affirmed in 1971. An FBI report of 1963 lists him among New York-area individuals known to the Sands Hotel's owner of record. No opened record links him to a Las Vegas casino.
- [Vincent Basciano](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-basciano/): The Second Circuit refers to his January 2004 assumption of the role of acting boss of the Bonanno family; a 2006 U.S. Attorney's release says he "assumed control" after Anthony Urso.
- [Vincent Cafaro](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-cafaro/): Arrested with Anthony Salerno in March 1986, cooperated covertly with the FBI from October 1986, withdrew in October 1987, and testified to the Senate in April 1988, without immunity, that he had been a "made" member of the Genovese family since 1974.
- [Vincent Drucci](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-drucci/): Named in Associated Press reports of 1925 and 1927: held in the inquiry into the Torrio shooting, and shot dead by a Chicago detective after his arrest on the eve of the April 1927 election.
- [Vincent Gigante](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-gigante/): A federal judge found in 1996 that Gigante became boss of the Genovese family "in title as well as in fact" after Salerno's 1985 arrest, and that he feigned mental illness. He was convicted in 1997; the Second Circuit affirmed.
- [Vincent Mangano](https://mobfiles.org/people/vincent-mangano/): Named in 1963 with Philip Mangano as a predecessor of Carlo Gambino. New York police testified that he had been missing since 1951 and was declared dead in 1961.
- [Virginia Hill](https://mobfiles.org/people/virginia-hill/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee in New York on 15 March 1951 as Mrs. Virginia Hill Hauser. FBI memoranda of 1946 and 1947 in the Siegel file record surveillance of her and Benjamin Siegel and give a background summary written after Siegel was shot at her Beverly Hills residence.
- [Vito Genovese](https://mobfiles.org/people/vito-genovese/): Convicted in 1959 of a narcotics conspiracy that the Second Circuit found he helped direct. Joseph Valachi named him in 1963 as head of "my family" and called him "a boss of all bosses under the table."
- [Vito William Giacalone](https://mobfiles.org/people/vito-giacalone/): Investigated by the Detroit Organized Crime Strike Force from 1990 or 1992, he pleaded guilty in 1998 to a RICO conspiracy count of the 1996 Detroit indictment; the Sixth Circuit directed forfeiture of $1,234,700 against him in 2000.
- [Vittorio Amuso](https://mobfiles.org/people/vittorio-amuso/): Convicted of racketeering and murder-related charges; the Second Circuit affirmed in 1994. The indictment charged him as boss of the Lucchese family, and a 1996 district court finding describes him and Anthony Casso as the family's boss and underboss.
- [Volney Davis](https://mobfiles.org/people/volney-davis/): Alcatraz register no. 271. The warden's notebook page records receipt from Leavenworth on 26 October 1935 under a life sentence for conspiracy to transport a kidnapped person, and a transfer back on 30 March 1947. The National Park Service names him as a softball pitcher in 1938.
- [William Bioff](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-bioff/): Browne's "personal representative" in the stagehands' union, in the words of two 1944 court opinions. Convicted in 1941 of extortion from motion-picture producers, he then testified for the government against the Chicago defendants in the 1943 trial.
- [William Bokun](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-bokun/): A defendant in the 1987 Westies racketeering indictment, convicted in 1988 of racketeering and a cocaine conspiracy; the jury found the 1985 murder of Michael Holly proven as a predicate act. His thirty-five-year sentence was reinstated by the Second Circuit in 1995.
- [William P. Colbeck](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-colbeck/): First-named defendant in the federal case over the 1923 Staunton, Illinois mail robbery, convicted in 1924 and sentenced to 25 years. The National Archives description of the case file says the defendants were "members of a gang called Egan's Rats" led by Colbeck; a 1950 Senate committee exhibit says he was killed in St. Louis in 1943.
- [William Daniel Jones](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-daniel-jones/): Named by the FBI as a member of the Barrow group from November 1932 who was captured in Houston in November 1933. The only filed photograph of him is a snapshot the FBI publishes.
- [William G. (Butsy) O'Brien](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-g-obrien/): Named in Kefauver Committee staff exhibits as the head of Intra-State News, a Miami wire service, and among the wire-service witnesses the committee could not serve in 1950.
- [William J. Flynn](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-j-flynn/): Operative in charge of the U.S. Secret Service New York District, whose daily reports of 1903 to 1910 record the watch on Morello and Lupo, the barrel-murder arrests, and the 1909 counterfeiting case; a government witness at the 1910 trial.
- [William Molasky](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-molasky/): St. Louis shareholder in the Consensus Publishing Company and the Pioneer News Co.; convicted in the 1940 Consensus tax case, a conviction reversed on appeal; testified to the Kefauver Committee in 1950.
- [William Moretti](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-moretti/): Testified to the Kefauver Committee on 13 December 1950 that he went to Cuba to see Lucky Luciano, 'A good friend of mine,' with Vincent Mangano and Gerry Catena, and stayed about five or six days.
- [William Tocco](https://mobfiles.org/people/william-tocco/): Testified at the Kefauver Committee's Detroit hearing in 1951, where he named Joe Zerilli as a partner in the State Products Co. and said he had been a bootlegger during Prohibition; an FBI teletype of 1962 calls him William 'Black Bill' Tocco.
- [Bonanno family](https://mobfiles.org/families/bonanno/): The chart is still empty. Thirteen person pages, from Joseph Bonanno to Basciano, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: court opinion, the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, FBI record, or DOJ release.
- [Buffalo family](https://mobfiles.org/families/buffalo/): The chart is empty. Four person pages quote what federal records say about Stefano Magaddino and the men around him in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, sorted here by kind: court opinion, sworn testimony, police testimony, committee staff, FBI file, and two newspaper pages of 1921.
- [Colombo family](https://mobfiles.org/families/colombo/): The chart is still empty. Five person pages, from Profaci to Persico, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, Attorney General's statement, or FBI file.
- [The Commission](https://mobfiles.org/families/commission/): The five seats are still empty. This page quotes what the Second Circuit, a district court, the Attorney General and Joseph Valachi said about the Commission as a body, gives the Commission case's district docket as a related opinion prints it, and links the defendants' person pages.
- [Gambino family](https://mobfiles.org/families/gambino/): The chart is still empty. Twelve person pages, from the Manganos to Gotti, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: court opinion, the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, FBI file, or chart exhibit.
- [Genovese family](https://mobfiles.org/families/genovese/): The chart is still empty. Twelve person pages, from Luciano to Gigante, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: court finding, the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, chart exhibit, Attorney General's statement, or FBI file.
- [Lucchese family](https://mobfiles.org/families/lucchese/): The chart is still empty. Ten person pages, from Reina and Gagliano to Amuso, quote what federal records say about each figure's place in the family, and this page sorts those statements by kind: court finding, the government's proof as a court summarizes it, charge, testimony, or chart exhibit.
- [Milwaukee family](https://mobfiles.org/families/milwaukee/): The chart is empty. Five person pages quote what federal records say about Frank Balistrieri, his sons, and the FBI sting that reached Milwaukee from New York, sorted by kind: court opinion, the government's charge as a court summarized it, FBI file, and a defendant's own description as a court reported it.
- [Pittsburgh family](https://mobfiles.org/families/pittsburgh/): The chart is empty. The Justice Department refers to a RICO trial of "the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family" without dates or names. The other records on file are 1958 Senate committee testimony and staff summaries about Pittsburgh-area men at or linked to Apalachin.
- [Chicago](https://mobfiles.org/regions/chicago/): The city and its suburbs as the filed records place them: newspaper pages from 1920 to 1930 that print a street, a building or a suburb, the two 1929 pages on the garage killings, and the Kefauver Committee's Illinois hearings.
- [Cleveland](https://mobfiles.org/regions/cleveland/): Cleveland in public records: 1927-1930 wire reports on the Lonardo and Porrello killings; the Kefauver Committee's Cleveland hearing of 1951; FBI files on John Scalish and James Licavoli; the Sixth Circuit's account of the 1977 killing of Danny Greene; the 1982-83 Gallo and Lonardo case file; and Angelo Lonardo's 1988 Senate testimony.
- [Detroit](https://mobfiles.org/regions/detroit/): Detroit in public records: Bureau of Investigation letters on the Purple Gang and the Alcatraz pages of four men from a 1936 Detroit liquor-tax case; 1928-1930 newspaper pages; the Kefauver Committee's Detroit hearing of 1951; McClellan Committee testimony; the FBI's Giacalone file; and the Sixth Circuit opinions on the 1996 indictment.
- [Kansas City](https://mobfiles.org/regions/kansas-city/): Kansas City in federal records: the June 1933 shooting at Union Station in the FBI's essay, Vault file, court papers and Alcatraz pages; the 1939 tax sentencing of Thomas J. Pendergast; the Kefauver Committee's 1950 Missouri hearings; and the Eighth Circuit opinions on the Las Vegas casino skims carried back to Kansas City.
- [Las Vegas](https://mobfiles.org/regions/las-vegas/): Las Vegas in federal records: the FBI's 1946 inquiry into the Flamingo Hotel and its file on Benjamin Siegel, the Kefauver Committee's Las Vegas session of 1950, the Eighth Circuit's accounts of the Tropicana and Argent skimming cases tied to Teamsters pension-fund financing, and the Anthony Spilotro cases.
- [New England](https://mobfiles.org/regions/new-england/): Providence and Boston in federal records: the 1963 Senate testimony on Raymond Patriarca, the FBI's 1962 to 1965 microphone in Providence, the 1968 Patriarca and Deegan cases, the 1981 surveillance of 98 Prince Street and the Angiulo RICO trial, the 1989 Medford recording, and the Bulger, Flemmi, Salemme and Connolly cases.
- [New Orleans and Louisiana](https://mobfiles.org/regions/new-orleans/): New Orleans in public records: the 1890 shooting of Police Chief David C. Hennessy and the March 1891 killing of eleven prisoners at the Parish Prison as printed in twenty-nine newspaper pages and State Department correspondence, and, from 1951 to 1989, the Kefauver Committee's Louisiana hearings and the federal records on Carlos Marcello.
- [Philadelphia](https://mobfiles.org/regions/philadelphia/): Philadelphia and South Jersey in federal records: the 1928 grand jury pages on Max Hoff, Al Capone's 1929 arrest and ten months in Philadelphia prisons, the Kefauver Committee's 1950 sessions, the Bruno-era RICO case, the Scarfo prosecutions of the 1980s, Atlantic City and Local 54, and the Merlino and Ligambi cases.
- [South Florida](https://mobfiles.org/regions/south-florida/): Tampa, Miami and Havana in federal records: the Kefauver Committee's Florida hearings of 1950-51, FBI Vault memoranda and court opinions on Santo Trafficante, Jr. and Meyer Lansky, the Church Committee and House assassinations committee reports on Havana gambling, and federal records of Al Capone's Palm Island house.
- [Atlanta and Alcatraz, 1932–1939](https://mobfiles.org/capone/alcatraz/): Federal custody from the Atlanta commitment to the release of November 1939: the Alcatraz warden's notebook page for No. 85 (received 22 August 1934, parole denied 3 September 1935, Terminal Island January 1939), the Bureau's transfer memo, the 1936 stabbing report, the habeas and vacate petitions, and the conflicting release records.
- [Death, 1947](https://mobfiles.org/capone/death/): The FBI's history page states that Capone died on Palm Island of a stroke and pneumonia on 25 January 1947; the National Archives catalog gives 01/25/1947 at Miami Beach. The Bureau's 1947 and 1964 file entries and seven newspaper pages of January 1947 are filed beside them.
- [Al Capone](https://mobfiles.org/capone/): The public record on Alphonse Capone in six sourced spokes: the rise, Prohibition, the 1929 garage killings, the 1931 tax trial, Atlanta and Alcatraz, and his death in 1947. Each spoke is built from FBI, National Archives, court, Treasury and newspaper records filed in this archive.
- [Prohibition, 1929–1931](https://mobfiles.org/capone/prohibition/): The federal record of the dry years as it touches Capone: the 1929 contempt case, which the Bureau later called its first Capone conviction, a 1930 Bureau report on juice-grape tribute, the concurrent tax cases against Guzik, Nitto and others, the 1931 Prohibition indictment file, and the Attorney General's reference to the conspiracy charge.
- [Rise, 1899–1930](https://mobfiles.org/capone/rise/): Capone's years before the tax case, as the filed records give them: the FBI's history essay and the 1947 Torrio memorandum on Colosimo, Torrio and the move to Chicago, wire pages of 1926 and 1928, the 1929 Philadelphia gun case, the 1930 public-enemies list, and the gang rosters the Bureau kept.
- [Saint Valentine's Day, 1929](https://mobfiles.org/capone/saint-valentines-day/): The 14 February 1929 killings at the S. M. C. Cartage Company garage, 2122 North Clark Street, Chicago, from the newspapers of 1929, the coroner's inquest as reported, Calvin Goddard's ballistics testimony, and the federal records that touch it.
- [Tax trial, 1931](https://mobfiles.org/capone/tax-trial/): United States v. Alphonse Capone, Nos. 22852 and 23232, Northern District of Illinois: the indictments, the withdrawn plea, the 17 October 1931 verdict, the 24 October judgment, the appeal, and the Treasury investigation behind them, each from the record.
- [About Mob Files](https://mobfiles.org/about/): What this archive is, who keeps it, and the rule that a fact needs a public-domain source.
- [Apalachin, 1957](https://mobfiles.org/apalachin/): The 14 November 1957 gathering at Joseph Barbara's home in Apalachin, New York, from the Second Circuit's opinion, the trial judge's ruling on the roadblock, the McClellan Committee's hearing, and eleven FBI Vault pages. The sources disagree on how many attended, and the court found no evidence of the meeting's purpose.
- [Black Hand, 1890-1920](https://mobfiles.org/black-hand/): Federal and newspaper records of the Black Hand era: the Secret Service reports and newspaper pages on the 1903 barrel killing, the 1909-10 counterfeiting case against Giuseppe Morello and Ignazio Lupo and its 1911 appeal, Joseph Petrosino's death in Palermo in 1909, Lupo's pardon and its revocation, and federal prosecutions of threatening letters as a mail crime from 1909 to 1920.
- [The Castellammarese War, 1930–31](https://mobfiles.org/castellammarese-war/): The New York gang war of 1930 and 1931 as the federal record tells it: Joseph Valachi's 1963 testimony, the New York police records of each killing read into the Senate hearings, a Chicago police entry, New Jersey's records of the bodies found in Newark Bay, and the FBI's own later statements.
- [Donnie Brasco and the Bonanno cases](https://mobfiles.org/donnie-brasco/): FBI agent Joseph Pistone's undercover years as "Donnie Brasco" and the federal cases that followed, from open federal records: the 1982 New York trial and its appeals, the FBI's 1980-1982 teletypes and reports, sworn testimony, the Commission briefing, and the later Massino and Basciano cases.
- [Faces](https://mobfiles.org/faces/): Photographs of figures in American organized crime, and of the hearings, arrests and prisons around them, from federal records and Library of Congress items marked no known restrictions. Each face links to its record.
- [Front pages](https://mobfiles.org/front-pages/): Same-day or next-day front pages, nearly all dated 1930 or earlier, from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, shown as a record of how the news was covered and not as the source of facts. Each links to its scan, headline and rights basis.
- [Gambling and the wire](https://mobfiles.org/gambling/): Off-track betting and the race wire in primary records: the 1916 Landis inquiry, Annenberg and Continental Press in court opinions and Kefauver Committee testimony, the wire-company cases, Costello's Louisiana slot machines, the Justice Department's gambling laws of 1950 to 1961, and Library of Congress photographs.
- [Harlem numbers](https://mobfiles.org/harlem/): Records of the numbers or policy game and of Black operators in Harlem and Chicago, as public records state them: 1928 to 1930 newspaper pages on the Casper Holstein kidnapping and on Stephanie St. Clair, the 1940 Hines opinion on Dutch Schultz's policy combination, Kefauver testimony on the Chicago policy wheels, the 1964 narcotics hearings, and two later court opinions.
- [Havana](https://mobfiles.org/havana/): Havana in federal records, 1933 to 1961: the FBI's file on Lucky Luciano in Cuba in 1946-47, Meyer Lansky's own Kefauver testimony and the FBI's later Lansky reports, the Trafficante memoranda and the Bureau's 1959 summary, the 1963-64 Senate narcotics hearings, the Church and House committee reports, a Warren Commission exhibit and two court opinions.
- [The Hollywood extortion case](https://mobfiles.org/hollywood/): The motion-picture extortion case, 1941–1952, in federal records: the Bioff and Browne prosecution, the 1943 convictions of the Chicago defendants, the 1947 paroles and the congressional inquiry that followed, and the habeas litigation that ran until 1952.
- [Informants](https://mobfiles.org/informants/): Testimony and statements by informants, limited to what a hearing, a trial, or an agency record actually contains.
- [Irish gangs](https://mobfiles.org/irish-gangs/): Court opinions, case files, FBI files, prison photographs, Senate hearing passages and 1915 to 1930 newspaper pages on six groups and figures: the Westies of Hell's Kitchen, Chicago's North Side gang, the Winter case in Boston, Owney Madden, the St. Louis defendants the National Archives calls Egan's Rats, and the killing of Danny Greene.
- [The Kefauver Committee, 1950–1951](https://mobfiles.org/kefauver/): The Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 1950 to 1951: its printed hearings by city, its contempt reports, its Final Report, records at the National Archives, and photographs.
- [Labor racketeering](https://mobfiles.org/labor/): Federal records of organized crime in American unions: the 1953 Detroit report and the McClellan Committee, the Hoffa prosecutions and the 1971 clemency grant, the Teamsters Pension Fund, the 1988 Teamsters civil RICO case and its Consent Decree, the New York waterfront, the Fulton Fish Market, the carpenters and the Javits Center, and the reports of the 1970s and 1980s.
- [Laws](https://mobfiles.org/laws/): The federal statutes, constitutional amendments, Senate resolutions and court opinions that shaped organized-crime prosecution, from the Mann Act of 1910 to RICO and the money-laundering law, each filed from the Statutes at Large, the printed hearings or the opinion text.
- [For AI assistants](https://mobfiles.org/llm-info/): How to cite Mob Files: use a finished record, follow it to the government source, and do not treat a stub as fact.
- [Narcotics and the federal cases](https://mobfiles.org/narcotics/): The Bureau of Narcotics and the federal narcotics cases against organized-crime figures, from open federal records: the 1959 Genovese conviction, the Agueci and Galante heroin cases, the 1963–64 Senate narcotics hearings, the French and Pizza Connection years, and the laws that framed them.
- [New York, 1930s](https://mobfiles.org/new-york-1930s/): Federal and court records of New York organized crime from 1928 to 1946: the fur dressers antitrust cases against Louis Buchalter and Jacob Shapiro and Buchalter's 1939 surrender, the income-tax case against Dutch Schultz and the FBI's memoranda after his 1935 killing, the 1933 Wexler tax case, Luciano's 1946 deportation, and 1928 to 1930 newspaper pages on Rothstein and Diamond.
- [Federal prisons](https://mobfiles.org/prisons/): Records of the federal penitentiaries that held men from the organized-crime record: Alcatraz warden's notebook photographs and case-file descriptions, Leavenworth and Atlanta files and photographs, Lewisburg, Terminal Island, and the Bureau of Prisons' own history pages.
- [Privacy](https://mobfiles.org/privacy/): Mob Files has no accounts, no analytics cookies, and no ads. The map loads OpenStreetMap tiles.
- [Prohibition, 1920–1933](https://mobfiles.org/prohibition/): One hundred and nine filed records on national Prohibition: the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, Bureau of Prohibition papers, Coast Guard and Library of Congress photographs, five Supreme Court opinions, and the repeal documents of 1933.
- [Public Enemies, 1933–1936](https://mobfiles.org/public-enemies/): A side section, not organized crime: the bank robbers and kidnappers the Bureau of Investigation pursued in 1933 to 1936, through their wanted notices, federal court files, Alcatraz records and FBI files.
- [Scenes](https://mobfiles.org/scenes/): Places, rooms and events around American organized crime, in Library of Congress photographs marked no known restrictions: the Tombs and Sing Sing, Prohibition raids and rum runners, the waterfront, courthouses, and the Senate hearing rooms of the 1950s and 1960s.
- [Terms](https://mobfiles.org/terms/): The records are public. The notes around them are CC BY 4.0. Violent documents are shown as documents.
- [Timeline, 1890–2011](https://mobfiles.org/timeline/): A dated timeline of American organized crime, 1890 to 2011. 164 events, each cited to a federal record, a court opinion, a statute, or a newspaper page, with a link to the filed page where this archive has one.
- [Valachi, 1963](https://mobfiles.org/valachi/): The 1963 and 1964 Senate hearings on organized crime and narcotics: Joseph Valachi's sworn testimony, the police and staff charts shown to the subcommittee, the Attorney General's statement, and the court, prison and FBI records on Valachi.
- [Weapons and evidence](https://mobfiles.org/weapons/): Weapons, ballistics and evidence of the 1920s and 1930s from open federal records: Thompson submachine guns in museum collections, Bureau of Investigation letters on stolen National Guard rifles, FBI artifacts, and the National Firearms Act of 1934.
- [Women in the record](https://mobfiles.org/women/): Women named in federal hearings, court files, FBI records and 1930 newspaper pages, each stated only as far as the filed record goes: witnesses, defendants, a prosecutor, a petitioner, and people the FBI wrote about.
- [Records](https://mobfiles.org/items/): One page per primary source: the citation, the link, the identifier, and the rights.
- [Newspaper clippings](https://mobfiles.org/clippings/): A clipping is its own record: paper, date, page, headline, source, and rights basis.
- [People](https://mobfiles.org/people/): One page per figure, built from the records, not from a legend.

## Unfinished sections

These pages are marked noindex. They name what the section will hold. They do not yet assert a history.

- [Chicago Outfit](https://mobfiles.org/families/chicago-outfit/)
- [Five Families](https://mobfiles.org/families/five-families/)
- [Famous trials](https://mobfiles.org/trials/)
- [Families](https://mobfiles.org/families/)
- [Regions](https://mobfiles.org/regions/)
- [Map](https://mobfiles.org/map/)
- [Search](https://mobfiles.org/search/)