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: i Chicago File #58-194 . ey RJO'Cramd @ Morand Brothers Beverage Company, 818 South May Streets ROMANO had - wreitten a letter to the Bureau of Paroles and Pardons urging that Subject - 1 on setenber 24, 1947 Soectal TT | © nterviewed MICHAEL J. RO ice President and General Manager . CAMPAGNA be granted a parole. ROMANO furnished the following information.” ae koe vow DF ROMANO has been acquainted with LOUIE "Little New York" CAMPAGNA for soma twenty years. ROMANO's acquaintanceship with CAMPAGNA has been purely of - @ social nature and he has never had any business dealings of any nature Dat Cet py : Paes with him. ROMANO has been in the Italian District where the Morand Brothers plant is located for some twenty~five years, and he is acquainted with a number of so-called "Italian hoodlums". Of his ow personal knowledge ROMANO .;7 |: # ay has never seen nor heard of anything that CAMPAGNA has done of an Ailegal or criminal natures ROMANO is well acquainted with CAMPAGNA has shown a8 a father and husband. ROMANO himself has three child hae ‘ol ship with ressed with the good qualities __ bee a oh hoe rau and statea that he feels that a family without a father is tremendously hamii- , capped and that it was more from this standpoint than any other that he acc to rss CAMPAGNA's request to send a letter to the Parole Board. ton About six or eight months ago ROMANO was at the CAMPAGNA home in Berwyn, a - Tllincis and the family was discussing how nice it would be to have LOUIE back with them again, and it was at this time that Mrs. CAMPAGNA specificall ceded ae cas eae ~ aaa a ee asked ROMANO if he would write a letter urging parole. ROMANO stated that he ae was thus put "on the spot" more or less because of his many years of pleasa social acquaintanceship with the CAMPAGNAS and that he, therefore, agreed t write such a letters ROMANO stated that he did not know how CAMPAGNA had made his money but {magined that it was from gambling or some other devious means by which the _ so-called hoodlums make their money, but that this did not matter to him; f that he considered CAMPAGNA a fine fellow, inasmuch as he was a good father j to his three stepchildrens - , E ~owner, is one of the larger liquor distributors in Chicago; customers are taverns and restaurants, ROMANO professed tofbelieve that ~ . there is no underworld syndicate which has any control over ‘he tavern - >4 POMANO stated that the Morand Brothers Beverage Company, of brhich he is part — . oe vay hoe ’ hat their main vans industry in the city, and stated that he did not expect any increase dn | his i moe — "t eee 24 - 1 . coe Low : ogo . Pars . . : . Lt a ee a ee as an — Aca wr a a wt ee . a we eee . an wg tS * ea > . . at es er < é a7 re ee ee ae ee ar Paes cee a Fs Ales et poe Wa. rane awe ee AAT ee tan ae ll