John Roselli

On the record

• 1935–1940 — United States v. Compagna (2d Cir. 1944): "Circella introduced Rosselli to Bioff as the representative of the group in California; Bioff arranged to pay him a part of the money extracted from the producers in that state, though the payments were disguised by bookkeeping designed to hide the nature of the transaction."
• 22 December 1943 — An FBI memorandum of 16 September 1947 on Roselli (Vault, Roselli Part 01, scan 17, read in OCR) says he was found guilty by a jury in New York on December 22, 1943 in the case entitled "William Bioff, with aliases, et al., Anti-Racketeering, Mail Fraud," and was sentenced on December 31, 1943 to ten years and a $10,000 fine. The FBI memorandum on Gioe gives December 23.
• 1944–1947 — The same memorandum (scan 18, OCR partly garbled) says he was able to arrange a transfer from the Atlanta penitentiary to Terre Haute, Indiana. It gives no date.
• 1947 — An FBI Atlanta report of 1947 records Warden Sanford's recollection that "ROSELLI never had very much to say," and the immigration investigator's statement that Roselli was among the men interviewed at Atlanta to verify citizenship.
• 13 August 1947 — The 16 September 1947 memorandum cites newspaper clippings for his parole from federal custody on 13 August 1947.

The role field quotes the Second Circuit’s account of the testimony at the 1943 trial. It is the court’s report of how Circella introduced him to Bioff, not an organizational rank, and Roselli holds no seat on any chart in this archive. “Rosselli” is the court’s spelling; “Roselli” is the FBI Vault’s.

The September 1947 memorandum on him (scans 17 and 18 of Vault Part 01) is not filed as its own item here; it is cited above by its Vault part. Its birthplace conflicts with later FBI records, so no birth data are recorded. His Atlanta index card was not found: the Atlanta index holds a card for a different man with a similar name. No record opened for this archive gives his death.

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