Paul John "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.
- Died
- 1976-11-09
- Aliases
- Frankie, Paul Gianfranco Carbo (catalog remark, "TN:")
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state. The identification photograph is a Bureau of Prisons record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
On the record
- 1962-05-24 — The warden's notebook page (NAID 236734838) records "CARBO, Paul John" received from "S. Calif," age 57, date of birth 8-10-04, offense "Willfully Obstructing, Delaying & Affecting I/S Commerce By Extortion," date of sentence 12-2-61, sentence "25 Years."
- 1963-02-06 — The page's handwritten red header reads, as read from the scan, "Transferred to McNeal 2-6-63." The catalog description of the notebook record and of the case file (NAID 117695843) gives a transfer on 02/06/1963 to US Penitentiary, Marion. This page records both.
- 1976-11-09 — The catalog description gives a death date of 11/09/1976 at Miami Beach, Florida; its remark reads "TN: CARBO, PAUL GIANFRANCO; FL DEATH INDEX," and it flags the birth date with "(?)."
The notebook page lists “Aliases: ‘Frankie’” in its social summary. Its criminal-history box is a staff account of his record and of evidence at trial and is not reproduced here. The case file, about 1,000 pages, is described in the catalog but is not digitized. The role and family fields are left empty because no record cited here states either. Offenses are given as the notebook form prints them; the “Reason for Transfer” boxes are staff opinion and are not used.
Records
itemAlcatraz warden's notebook page for Paul John Carbo, No. 1568Bureau 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.itemPaul John Carbo's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 1568 (National Archives catalog entry)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.itemAlcatraz (Federal Bureau of Prisons history page)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.