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na ee em a October 30, 19350 MEMORANDUM TO ACTING SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE F. Xx, Fay Re; TONY ROMANO; MANNY SCBRAISERG JUICE GRAPE INVESTIGATION At 11:30 a. M. on this date Agents conferred with wr. Charles W. Irrgang et his office, 169 South Water Market. Mr. Irrgang stated thet at 7:50 P. M. on October 29, 1930 Subject Manny Schraiberg called et Mr. Irrgang's apartment at the Medinah Athletic Club and was ac- companied by two men whom Schraiberg introduced as Benny Byrne or ByTRes end Mickey Sex or Sazson, After Schraiberg had made certain that Mr. Irr- gang's apartment fas occupied only by Mr. Irrgang and his wife, he stated that the two men with him were his financial backers, and that it be under- atood that they were “big shote" in the “organization”, meaning the Al { Sepone organization. The man nemed Byrne or Byrnes undertook to act as spokes- man and stated flatly to Mr. Irrgang that their purpose in coming to see him waa to work out some arrangement in regard to marketing of juice grapes in the various terminals ao that the “organization” and the auction company eould both profit by such arrangement. Byrnes stated, according to Mr. Irr- @oang, that So .25 in pscscesicn of records which the Capone organization had obtained in a raid on the former headquarters of Joe (dello and his gang on North Michigan Avenue, which records showed that up November 1, 1929 Joe oFerrere hed said in to the Aiello orgenization a net profit of $43, 500.00, end that the records further indicated that for the entire juice grape ship- ping season of 1929 & total of between $100,000.00 and $110,000.00 had been paid in as profits by Ferrara to diello. Byrnes stated that the organization, believing that Subject Schraiberg was entirely familiar with the juice grape situetion, and based upon his representation that large profits were to be obtained in this "racket", had placed the sum of $100,000.00 in a loop bank to be used to finance the juice grape racket for the season of 1930 but that to date Schraiberg hed been .@ble to show but a small profit to the great Cisappoint- ment of the Capone gang, and that it was for this reason in particular, that is, to effect scone plan whereby larger profits could te guaranteed to the Capone organization, that Byrnes, Schraiberg ard Sax had called upon Mr, Irrgang. The lest named atated that Byrnes requested Irrgang to suggest a plan whereby the organization end Irrgang could both reep a profit from the ee ee 2S ee meen me the Abieenen ¢armivala aA Ruerpnea etatead ta Trroange S516 61 jhice er apes in ths WACO PSD Se ee er ee 8 ee that for a consideration he was prepared to gusrantee that his organization == would force every peddler engaged in the sale of Juice grapes in the Chicago | | (f COPIES DESTROYED 120 JUL 27 sed L2-2V/53-37