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aoa ae A closed meeting was reported to have been held at La Martinique, @ night club in iountalnside, New Jersey, on December 13, 1954, with a aan Mane oF a cy FO OA AW Sw ft L 1Approximately 25 New York and New Jersey top racketeers present. The 13 1 dnceting vag held ona Monday night when the club is normally closed. Among Bose present were the late Alber: Anastasia and his brother Anthony Anastasia; 18 1gae 20 2a New Jersey hoodlum who has made a forture in bootlegging, gamblidg, 22 ¢ jplot-reachine operations, andthe leral Uquor business. Informants have been | . ardo Cateno, who attended the 1957 Apalachin meeting, Ruggiero Bojardo, | . <gunable te ascertain the reason for this meeting or the topica of discussion, . : 27 (62-75147-31-191, p. 31; 92-2942-1, p. 17) 38 A meoting of some 35 top racketeers in eastern gambling circles | 29H 30reporte dy took ploce at the St. Moritz Jtotel in Naw York City on May 18, 1956. 31 3gThe pripeipal tanfe of discusston a5 ratd to be the Pederal income tax - 4 Zeconviction ef Frank Costalio, According to reports, it was decided that his 36 : 37u8efulness as head of the gambling syndicate was at anend, A New York hoodlum fy 39named_ Vincent Alo was supposed to have been selected to supplant Costello. { oo 1° (62~75147-34-240, p. 1) 1 In October, 1958, a ttle more than a year before the Apalachtn 42 4 . jzmeeting, a New York State troaner stopped an automobile, bearing New Jersey 45 46license plates, for speeding near the home of Joseph Barbara, Sr., at UT 8 Apalachin, New York, the site of the 1957 meeting of hoodlums. The driver , 20 was identified ag Carmine Galant, considered an important figure In the . 52 53 je 34 35 - 1 - . , 36 7 39 50 61 _— ee . . ~: i cateliatetaniteematenid ~_ es —em . * 7 + ¥