Cheat Sheet 43, FBI Files: Nazis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Civil Rights

Cheat Sheet 43, FBI Files: Nazis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Civil Rights

Each week accompanying the segments of the FBI files on Raymond Patriarca and expert analysis on the documents released, GoLocal provides a “cheat sheet” of some of the key elements from the documents.

Make no mistake about it, the files are layered with information about a time where the scope and reach of the Patriarca crime family permeated nearly every aspect of life in New England.

 

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PAGE 3 The Donut Center (see PAGE 15 too)

 

PAGE 11 $80,000 worth of fraudulent American Express money orders

 

PAGE 22 More support for the American Nazi Party

“REDACTED praised ROCKWELL and pointed out that ROCKWELL is going to beat the Jews at their own game, namely, the stock market. He stated that ROCKWELL is considering issuing ‘a declaration nationalizing colored people.’ In this way he believes that the stock market will be vitally affected and the Jews will lose considerable money.”

 

PAGE 23 Patriarca wants to buy a hotel in Florida

 

PAGE 25 Patriarca - ties to the Dunes Hotel, Sam Giancana, and Chicage Union Boss Murray Humphreys.

 

PAGE 27 PATRIARCA is the biggest man in the ‘East,’ as far as the rackets are concerned 

 

PAGE 60 “HENRY TAMELEO advised that he ‘grabbed the kid’ and got the story. He called his ham in New York and criticized him for making a promise that there was $1,250,000 which later dropped to $250,000, and is now $180,000. He told his contact that he did not even know the people, so that he should not have talked that way.”

 

PAGE 63 “…JOHN BARBIERI who was recently murdered in Massachusetts just over the Rhode Island state line, was involved in the ‘hot car market.”

 

PAGE 64 Patriarca getting ownership in the Fall River Fishing industry.

 

PAGE 67 Patriarca had to give “either ‘OK’ or deny the ‘hit’ on this individual, depending on the circumstances.”

 

PAGE 69 “It appeared that a casino in Las Vegas (probably named the New Frontier) had been purchased by a syndicate who were willing to lease the gambling operation of the casino out for $1,200,000 per year. The gambling operation would cost $5 million and REDACTED indicated that they would have to get one quarter of a million dollars.”

 

PAGE 70 Patriarca and his crew discuss race and blacks voting

 

PAGE 72 People in Worcester got robbed for $80,000.

 

PAGE 73 “PATRIARCA stated that the Rhode Island State Police and the Providence, R.I. PD are fighting with one another.”

 

PAGE 86 “…advised that HENRY TAMELEO asked permission for ROMEO MARTIN of Boston, Mass. to burglarize the home of a man who married millionairess. This woman allegedly has $100,000 in jewelry in a hide, and ROMEO was not sure whether the man she married was in any way connected with PATRIARCA.”

 

PAGE 88 “REDACTED also advised PATRIARCA that he was offered the Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut territories for the distribution of TV juke boxes. The company is being backed by FRANK SINATRA and DEAN MARTIN, in addition to top hoodlum REDACTED…”