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4 E1950 Cltew. 4-16-69} 4 ~y (Mount Clipping in Spoce Below) Se Tn dt 9 PASSASSination,” Sinatra claimed | fq ere EE en - —— (hem TVET met Pa area. er R , Ti Kk Yesterday's withesses includ-j BS SINT IRACCTFACK | jes Frank Sinatra, wo artive Se ee hop et OT in a blaze of publicity and Vicars #® |Mass., who once served as vice- & ae The craggy-faced Patriarca, “thowever, took the Fifth Amend- ; ; ; ; ment and i eused to answer on/Murder conspiracy sentence inj quired a rackets record that in- ¥ ‘grounds it might tend to * (incriminate him-when asked if «5 \Someme*on his behalf might Deal Denied at Quiz a president of the defunct track. |. WASHINGTON (UPI) — Re-have had business dealings with] ness, ipated New. England Mafia|Sinatra. chieftain Raymond S. Patriarca! Patriarca said he has seen|Tacetrack case, refused to say today denied he had invested|Sinatra only on television or in ]$215,000° in Berkshire Downs ce Track near Hancock, and claimed he has ‘never met Singer Frank Sinatra] og the movies. When asked whether he had invested his Own money said: “IT $215,000 in my life, had nothing ta do with it.” :|promptiy tongué-lashed the; Committee for “character as- ‘sassination.” Later in the day another wit- Gennaro Angiulo, who figured in the Berkshire Downs whether or not he knew Sinatra “on the grounds it might in- criminate me.” He was born in 1908 to hard- ¢ in| working immigrant parents w Berkshire Downs stock, Patvi-lipieg ie steer ‘hire nheht a by never had‘the time he reached 17 he had 0 let alone}neen arrested and’ convicted for have it invested . . . I never violating prohibition laws in | Connecticut. Patriarca is serving a federal{' In the next 13 years he ae- an Atlanta penitentiary. He envoked ¢he Fifth Amend- ment more than 35 times, often be cau Se he said the testimony could be used in a pending Rhode Island ¢rial in which Joseph “the Baron’ ‘Barboza will testify against jhim. ; Barboza's claims that he had. jheard Sinatra held an interest in two hotels for Patriarea was refuted Tuesday by the enter- itainer,. who criticized — the qommities for allowing, Barbozg to subject him to “character had cluded masterminding a jail- break, breaking-and-entering and white slavery. In 1938 he was sentenced to from three to five years for armed robbery but only served §4 days before winning a pardon, It was at this point that he be- came a key member of the Cosa Nostra and when the padrone, Philip Buccola, retired to Sicily, Patriarca seized control of the New England crime family. He reportedly turned the or- ganization into an empire that grossed an estimated $700 mil; Kor-a-year. {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state,4 fel Date: 7/19/72 Edition: F Star Author: Editor: Title: Character: OF Ciassification: a7 Fp 7 _ Submitting Office: OS SANFO LES C} Being Investigated 1 i] Hy