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NONAL Fotm MOL 10 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - / Memorandum i, TO: ur. Sing DATE: October 9, 1963 ‘ -, wl Street FROM: C. A. Evans by AG etamliaal — lf . / Gandy SUBJECT: PRANK SINATRA. ,) Ms ANTI-RACKETEERING 4 pret aiid Based on information which we have supplied the Department concerning Sinatra's connection with the underworld, the Organized ) Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department assigned Departmental Attorney Dougald D. McMillan to review all available information on | Sinatra to determine whether prosecution could be initiated against Sinatra. McMillan has been in contact with Thomas R. Sheridan, Chief of the Criminal Division, United States Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, and also a special assistant to the Attorney General. McMillan left his file on Sinatra with Sheridan in which he had apparently compiled all available data on Sinatra from FBI, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Federal Bureau of Narcotics reports. Sheridan, on an extremely confidential basis, made this file available to our Los Angeles Office for reviewing, indicating that he did not desire that the Department or McMillan become aware of this. \W u In reviewing this file, Los Angeles noted a possible Fra a Against the Government violation in connection with apparently /false Ye Statements made by Sinatra in an affidavit given to IRS, Los in 1959. . In this statement Sinatra denied the presence of § iancana at a party in the Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey; in July, 1959. However, in our investigation of Sam Giancana Cer - er RECOMMENDATION OF SAC, LOS ANGELES 22. CéGT- 2 ane SAC, Los Angeles recommends that this possible violation be brought to the attention of Mr. Sheridan and his opinion as to prose- cution secured. SAC, Los Angeles points oyt if investigation is 2 bees ase | | —" (6) my . g°GCT 13 i922 Spent se -so~l sf met