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orem 7 QLCTN OTT Ln POR eee sinter onaaes, of seduction and causing the pregnancy of sn unmarried young woman. Sinatra wes in the roadhouse stage of his career and Moretti or Moore wss his friend of some years. The complzining witness developed a husband in: sbout one month so that the charge was reduced to adultery which naturally was beneath the notice of the worldly Bergen County Grend Jury. No indictment was found end Sinatra was discharged.” (62-83219-4, "New York Journal American,” pie 51.) e Weatbrook er in hia column in the "Times Herald," issue of October lh, 1947, set forth thet James Tarantino, editor and publisher of the magazine "Hollywood Nite Life," Holiywood, California, was a friend and protege of Frank Stnatra. Pegler described Tarantino as “a swipe and hustler who used to hang around Jacobs Beach, a stretch near Madison Square Gerden where the fighters, manegers and racketeers gather." r Pegier stated in the above article that George Evans, Sinetra'a press sgent and manager had denied that Sinatra had anything to do with Tarantino. In contradiction to this Pegler reported that on February 4, 196, Frank Sinatrats name was sipned first as a member of a "Citizens Committee" in a telegram to the prosecuting attorney of Los fngeles County, California, demending police protection for Tarantino and his wife and child who had been "threatened end harassed by political gangsters." Pegler also reported that Sinatra had caused the meeting of the "Citizens Committee." It has been reliably reported that Tarantino specializes in sensationalism and takes orders from Michael "Mickey" Cohen the well known Los éngeles, California gangster, and that he was friendly with the late notorious gangster "Bugey™ Blegel.e (62-61516-A, "Washingtén Times Hered dy “F0/37/L7) a 35 EOPIVE SERVICE Sfarc In February, 1944, Limited inquiries were made by thie Bureau concerning Frank Sinatrats Selective Service Status. This action was predicated upon a statement in an snonymous _ letter alleging that Sinatra had paid 40,000 to obtain a ur -13-