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bp bre LA 62-4867 LA owned a restaurant drive-in on Ventura Boulevard, in Los Angeles, and is the father of HENRY SANICOLA and FRED SANICOLA, d das business dgent for FRANK SINATRA, stated the three SANICOLAs and TOM C, engaged in a fight with Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant TOMMY BRYAN at the restaurant, severely injuring the officer so that he was hospitalized for three days. This incident occurred in December, 1947, and no prosecution was instituted allegedly because the officer had no witnesses to present in his behalf. ; In 1948, 1t was reported that SINATRA, HENRY SANICOLA and LARRY RUMMANS, proprietor of two music stores in Hollywood, had formed a corporation and intended to sell stock to raise money for the construction of a "Little Madison Squarégfiarden" boxing arena in Los Angeles. HENRY SANICOLA was to organize a stable of boxera to be managed for SINATRA. ‘The arena was not built, reasons unknown, In 1959, HENRY SANICOLA and RALPH GAMBINA were charged by the California State Athletic Commission with entering a "secret" contract with San Francisco boxing manager BERT BRODOSE, in connection with the management of heavyweight boxer RUBEN VARGAS. The commission contended GAMBINA and BRODOSE. agreed to split 333 per cent of VARGAS! purse with an additional 16$ per cent going to SANICOLA, business manager of FRANK SINATRA. In California it is illegal for a boxer to be paid less than 2/3 of his purge. The above data is from an article in the Loe Angeles Mirror-News, 10/20/59, and indicated the Commission ordered a one year suspension for GAMBINA, a veteran fight manager. A reliable source advised that in 1958, RALPH GAMBINA was extremely friendly with HENRY SANICOLA. GAMBINA hag been manager of the boxer CISCO ANDRADE. In 1947, JAMES TARANTINO managed the Hollywood Nite Iafe Magazine, described as an expose-type publication in the entertainment field. Incorporators were said to be HANK SANICOLA and BARNEY ROSS, former welterweight boxer. TARANTINO had a notor. ious record subsequently in San Francisco, and was ultimately imprisoned there. TARANTINO in 19490, admitted SINATRA financed the magazine with $15,000.00, -10-