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ar CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES Organized Crime - In February, 1951, MOE SEDWAY, deceased, who was associated with the ownership and operation of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, stated that ROSSELLI was the chief representative of the "syndicate" on the west Coast in 1951. He said that JACK DRAGNA wis formerly the "leader of the mob," but now ROSSELLI 18 ou the top because ROSSELLI took a penitentiary sentence and did not complain. - Tt In testimony before the Kefauver Crmiittee in October, 1950, ROSSELLI said he first met AL CAPONE at the time he went to Chicago to attend the DEMPSEY~TUNNEY prizefight and believes he met CAPONE at the Hotel Metropole through JOE ESPOSITO, a committeeman on the west side of Chicago who was 4 friend of ROSSELLI, CAPONE and CHARLES FISCHETTI visited the West Coast in about 1930 and ROSSELLI went to the Biltmore Hotel to see them and was with them for about one day. The morgue file of the "Los Angeles Examiner, " a daily newspaper, contained a memorandum which bore no date, but which was probably written in about the early or middie 1930's, which states that ROSSELLI had been in Los Angeles eight or ten years and had been in a number of ventures or enterprises, but had never been on the inside of things; that is, had never been used by the main gambling and political bosses of the city, although it had -30-