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riprrjjiii Region ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Oct. 12, 1983 17A Indictments Could Kill Midwest Mob, Former FBI Agent Says 11 nun i Compiled From Newt Service iim it ff) 'MrJ mA Lombardo Cerone Aiuppa (KN, 'V-r rm be a leader of organized crime in the city; John Cerone, 69, described as an underboss; and Joseph Lombardo, 54, described as a mob captain who was convicted earlier last year with then-President Roy L. Williams of the Teamsters and Allen M. Dorfman who was killed soon after the trial of conspiracy to bribe then-Sen.

Howard W. Cannon of Nevada. Also indicted from Chicago were Anthony Chiavola 64, and Anthony Chiavola 35, both police officers in Chicago, and Angelo LaPietra, 52, who was not further indentified. Those from Kansas City indicted were Carl A. DeLuna, 56, a reputed underboss, who was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison, a $90,000 fine, and ordered to restore $90,000 to the Tropicana Hotel for a skimming conviction in July; Carl J.

Civella, 73, the reputed crime leader in Kansas City who awaits sentencing in the Tropicana case; and Peter Tamburello, 51, who was acquitted in the Tropicana case. Among others charged was Frank P. Balistrieri, 64, identified by the FBI as leader of organized crime in Milwaukee. He was convicted Sunday in federal court there on five gambling and tax charges involving a sports betting ring uncovered by the "Strawman" investigation. The Las Vegas figures charged were Anthony Spilotro, 45, described in the indictment as an overseer for the Chicago group's interests, and Carl Thomas, 51, described as an overseer for the Kansas City interests.

Thomas was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison, a $90,000 fine, and ordered to make $90,000 in restitution to the Tropicana. Also indicted were two sons of Kansas City, met with Frank Balistrieri. In April or May, 1974, it is charged, Balistrieri met with Glick "to discuss Glick's proposal to purchase Recrion Corporation," which then owned the Stardust and Fremont casinos. On June 15, 1974, the indictment continues, Glick agreed to an option arrangement wherein Joseph and John Balistrieri had the right to buy half of Glick's Argent Corp. for $25,000, although the company was worth many millions.

On June 24, 1974, the indictment alleges, Frank Balistrieri advised Glick that "he had an obligation arising from assistance to Glick in obtaining a pension fund commitment in the amount of $62.75 million." The indictment charges that in April 1978, DeLuna who was described recently by government attorneys as one of the most feared organized crime figures in Kansas City met with Glick in a law office in Las Vegas and told him to sell his gambling interests. It says that on Nov. 26, 1978, at a meeting in Kansas City, Nicholas and Carl Civella, DeLuna, Thomas and Agosto, then the man inside the Tropicana hotel for the Civellas, discussed Glick's future as head of the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick did sell. Nevada Gaming Commission records in Carson City show that in 1979, Glick's companies were fined $500,000 over the slot machine skimming episode, and he was ordered to sell his interests by Dec.

31, 1980. He sold to Trans-Sterling which the records show is owned by Allan Sachs and Herbert Tobman. While the indictment charges that the conspiracy continues to date, neither Sachs nor Tobman nor their company are mentioned in it. able to trace, but the total involved was believed to be much larger, according to federal officials. A federal grand jury in Kansas City returned the indictment on Sept.

30, the day it ended three years of service. But the indictment was sealed to avoid influencing the jury in Milwaukee where Balestrieri was being tried on charges of running an illegal betting ring. He was convicted Sunday. The casinos involved in the new indictments are the Stardust Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and the Fremont Hotel in downtown Las Vegas. The conspiracy began in March 1974 and continues to the present, the indictment charges, although the overt acts listed ended in 1980.

The casinos were controlled in those years by the Argent which was owned by Allen R. Glick, who was 32 years old in 1974 when he went to Las Vegas from San Diego and began the borrowings from the Central States Pension Fund of the Teamsters union that financed his casino purchases. The indictment asserts that throughout his ownership, which ended in 1980, Glick was a "front" for organized crime leaders who arranged for him to borrow from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. Glick was not indicted, nor was he named as an unindicted coconspirator. Federal officials had no comment on his role in the investigation, nor in the trials to come.

Earlier this year, Glick testified under a grant of immunity in a bribery conspiracy' trial involving organized crime. The grand jury charges that the conspiracy to violate Nevada's gaming control laws began shortly before March 20, 1974. On that date, DeLuna and the late Nick Civella, the reputed longtime leader of organized crime in KANSAS CITY A $2 million casino skimming indictment that names the reputed mob bosses of Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City could be the key to "destroying the structure of organized crime" throughout the Midwest, a former FBI agent says. The indictment against 15 people, the result of a five-year FBI investigation code-named "Strawman," was unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City.

The 15 were accused of skimming almost $2 million from Las Vegas casinos before gambling proceeds were counted for tax purposes. U.S. Attorney General William French Smith said the indictments, returned Sept. 30, had been "one of the most far-reaching indictments that a federal grand jury ever returned," linking groups in numerous cities to hidden ownership of Las Vegas casinos. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's inquiry already has brought convictions of five men on charges of skimming gambling revenue from the Tropicana Hotel and Casino.

"If these indictments hold up, you've gone a long, long way toward destroying the structure of organized crime in Chicago and throughout the Midwest," said William Roemer, a retired FBI agent who has traced organized crime for 30 years. But G. Robert Blakely, an organized crime expert formerly with the Justice Department and now teaching law at Notre Dame University, said, "It's always been premature to predict the demise of the Mafia." Those indicted from Chicago were: Joseph J. Aiuppa, 76, who is alleged to Civella DeLuna La Pietra Milton Rockman, 75, of Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the brother-in-law of the late John Scalish, longtime mob boss in Cleveland, was also indicted. Named as conspirators were Nick Civella, James V.

Torrello, Dorfman and Joseph V. Agosto, all of whom are dead. In addition to the main conspiracy indictment in which all were named, the grand jury handed up a separate tax evasion indictment against the Kansas City men, DeLuna, Carl Civella and Tamburello. The indictment accuses the reputed crime leaders of using their influence to get Teamsters' union pension fund loans that enabled them to become secret owners of Las Vegas casinos. They then looted the casinos by removing winnings through skimming operations that gathered large tax-free sums that the conspirators distributed among themselves, the government charges.

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