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bY Df May 27, 1968 1 = Mr. DeLoach - Mr. Rosen Director, FBI 1 JOHN ROSELLI 1 ANTI -RACKETEERING On May 23, 1968, John Roselli was convicted after a jury trial in United States District Court, Los Angeles, California, on six counts charging him, as Filippo Sacco, with failure to register as an alien and failure to advise the oe Attorney General of his changes of address for the years 1963 - through 1967. oot John Roselli is the west corgst representative of ; Sam Giancana's Chicago La Cosa Nostra family. He is a former lieutenant of Al Capone. Roselli was convicted in the infamous Bioff-Browne case and was sentenced to prison for ten years in 1944 for plotting the extortion of millions from film producers and a studio union. He has been a lifelong companion and representative of such hoodlum figures as Frank Costello, Al Capone, Murray Humphreys and others. = Extensive investigation by this Bureau into the activities of this hoodium developed evidence that Roselli was actually born in Italy as Filippo Sacco and had forged birth records indicating his birth as John Roselli in Chicago; Illinois. uf w- 2 aN Roselli's trial lasted an entire month. Roselli admitted his identity as Sacco but in his defense contended he had derivative citizenship based on the marriage of his mother to a naturalized United States citizen. With information we had obtained at Boston, Massachusetts, and in Italy, this purported marriage was proved to be bigamous and invalid and as such did not pass derivative citizenship to Roselli. L~ John Roselli has also been indicted on seven counts pertaining to his interstate gambling activities as a result of our investigation into extensive cheating at the plush « Friars Club at, Beverly Hills, California ,- He is scheduled to cro to trial on these additional charges in early June, 1968. This conviction is regarded as a eubstantial achievement n thia'Buread’&s‘qontinuing war a eading hoodiums in this MAILER A MAY 28 1963 SEE NOTE PAGE 2. piv TELETYPE UNIT LIV