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OE eee wa yale ee *: «ex In testimony before the Kefauver Committee, ‘ROSSELLI stated that he 48 acquainted with GENE NORMILE, having met him somewhere in 1935 or 1936. He said he was talking with NORMILE and NORMILE said he was going to try to get a contract for a wire service wnich, at that time, was called the General News; that NORMILE said a new company would be formed which would be calied Nationwide, and he thought he cou'd get the contract for the West Coast. NORMILE state: if .e could get the West Coast contract, he would litte to have ROSSELLI associated with him and give ROSSELLI an incerest. ROSSELLI said that NORMILE thought that ROSSELLI would have the abiitty to get some customers and that it would not cost ROSsts. if very much. ROSSELLI said he heJd no access to the b59ku, but he received a certain interest each month. ROSSELAT recalled tnat NORMILE set up his office in the Bank o° America Building at Sixth and Spring in about 1936; that ROSSELLI did refer whatever customers he could to NORMILE; that ROSSELLI went to the ofrice occasionally and received anywhere from 2 per cent to 10 per cent of the profit. However, he said he was not on the payroll. ROSSELLI said he would refer bookmakers to NORMILE and said he didn't really have to sell the oookmaker, but he was more concerned in talking somebody into not stealing the service, He said he persuaded them merely by talking to them. He admitted he probably had a reputation for being a tough guy during the prohibition time and this reputation stayed with him. He said the local wire service never got along without local corruption. ROSSELLI sa*td he had received monthly checks amounting to from $500.00 to $2,000.00 per month and that this amounted to from 2 per cent to 10 per cent of NORMILE's monthly profit. -36-