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os NN. mere f TO FROM SUBJECT: o% p : Mr, DeLoach ; DATE: May 7 OPTIONAL FOBm He i 3040-108 mam 842 FRI Gia LEN. WIG NO, ar Toisen — UNITED STATES GOv cRNMENT DeLooch Mohr Eishop — Memorandum bn — . oh aes Gals 196R8 a ca Sulliven — \' : Totter ‘ J. H. Gale \ Mo of _ Roor ! JOHN ROSELLI NZ and others y INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION ) The Los Angeles Office has conducted extensive investigation dealing with six members of organized crime who engaged in high-stake gin rummy games at the Friars Club, Beverly Hills, California, between the years 1962 through 1966. The subjects utilized electronic cheating devices and peepholes to cheat many prominent West Coast individuals from the movie colony and business worid out of large sums of money. The case received extensive publicity with a grand jury called to hear witnesses beginning in July, 1967, and continuing until December, 1967. Six individuals were indicted for Interstate . Transportation in Aid of Racketeering - Gambling, Interstate ty Transportation of Stolen Property, and Conspiracy. a La Cosa Nostra member John Roselli is the most prominent of those individuals indicted. Roselli is also under indictment for failing to register as an alien, and his trial for this offense is already in progress at Los Angeles. Much of the Bureau's gambling case agai j based on info ion provi c= Ene. Ze ¢¢ 7 BOER — - ae 166-3200 . 1 - Mr. DeLoach - 1 ~ Mr: Gale’ ” e Division /\ Vrs Voucher —_ Secti. - ~