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CG 92-677 On. January 15, 1962, advised SA in Chicago that he re eived- information that *- ounge, Frolics and, a> He’ ~alleged bac . By letter dated January 17, “1962, ‘Washington Fieid Office advised that on January 10, 1962 the files of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee ‘on Government Operations, U.S. Senate, relating to gambling. and org ganized crime were reviewed and they contained the According to a memorandum by a Committee inves gator dated August 3, 1861, JOSEPH ‘AIUPPA was stated to the former operator of Taylor and Company, a large dice. maker in Cicero, Illinois. He was not an active manage but was in the nature of a silent partner. He and his other four partners were all sentenced to a year in jail for inter state shipment of slot machines in 1956. He and his. partners served from June, 1957, to May, 1958, in jail and the bisiness foundered badly. The company was a large manufacturer of. dice and supplied many of the Nevada casinos. i Concerning the hearings before the Committee; “at was stated it was expected he would take the Fifth Amendment. as he had done previously before the Senate Select Committee . in Cleveland on August 18, 1958, when he was cited for contemp: usiness was sold in 1960, for $40, “C00 to Bunt and Company, which: company. carries the same general..line of. marked cards and loaded dice ana has grown considerably. since its ‘purchase ‘of Taylor and. — Company. bICc “ Aecording to another ‘memorandum - in ominittee! 'S files by a Committee investigator in July of 1958, based” ~ upon information from the Bureau of « -Prisons, AIUPPA, was. porn January 1, 1907, in ‘Illinois. He had a seventh grade. education, leaving school - to become a gardener ‘anda ore in 1918. He was a laborer from 1918 to 1922 and in 1925*be came | a. _truck. driver for.. the Midwest Cartage