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4 A THE SUNDAY RECORD, JANUARY 11. 1970 Compiled By Ed Flynn, Staff Writer, Who's Win on The ROatfoaTape A f1 Ruggiero Boiardo Ruggiero (Richie the Boot) Boiardo is a reputed top Mafia leader in New Jersey and an elder in organized crime at the age of 80. He lives on a plush Livingston estate and reportedly is the overlord of a $20-million-a year numbers racket. According to 1963 FBI transcripts, Anthony Little Pussy) Russo, a reputed captain in the Genovese family, tells of a conversation in which Boiardo boasts that he killed Anthony (Tony Bender) Strollo, a Mafia leader who has been missing from his Fort Lee home since 1962. Boiardo, father of Anthony (Tony Boy) Boiardo, is appealing a two- to three-year prison sentence on a gambling conviction.

Frank S. Farley State Sen. Frank S. (Hap) Farley of Atlantic County, dean of the Upper House at 68, is reported in taped conversations to be controlled by Herman (Stumpy) Orman, reputed gambling kingpin of Atlantic CITY. FBI summaries of Mafia conversations allege that Farley was able to fix criminal cases and give protection to the rackets, and that he interceded in behalf of a convicted gambler who faced arrest for being at the Atlantic City track.

The senator denies the charges, saying that he never had any dealings with a Mafia member. A special legislative committee cleared Farley a year ago of any wrongdoing or breach of t. The panel was investigating possible ties between legislators and organized crime. Angela DeCarlo Angelo (Gyp) DeCarlo, a capo (captain) in the Mafia family of the late Vito Genovese, is one of four men on trial in federal court in Newark on charges of extortion. DeCarlo, 67, of Mountainside, is the central figure in the underworld conversations which the FBI recorded by electronic surveillance DeCarlo's home, referred to as "The Barn," a dilapidated two-story building featuring a steam room behind a restaurant.

Some of the tapes were revealed last summer as part of what is now called the "DeCavalcante Papers." The hidden devices were placed in "The Barn" and in the Kenil-worth office of Samuel (Sam the Plumber) DeCavalcante between 1961 and 1965. The tapes also disclose that DeCarlo was involved in gambling in Union and parts of Essex and Hudson counties. John V. Kenny Former Jersey City Mayor John V. Kenny, leader of the powerful Hudson County Democratic organization for two decades before his retirement last month, is said to control the appointments of Dominick R.

Capello and David B. Kelly as successive superintendents of the New Jersey State Police. It is alleged in the transcripts that both appointments were made at the behest of DeCarlo. Kenny, 76, clashed with Robert B. Meyner in last November's gubernatorial election and backed Republican William T.

Cahill. One of his rare setbacks came in 1967 when Secaucus voters declined to accept a Kenny-backed harness racetrack. "We have the right to name candidates," Kenny declared after helping Cahill into the governor's office. i5L I II I iff' SSsilipftlililllsW 1 1 feillWMMlt I 1. 7 I AXGELO De CARLO Harold Konigsberg Harold (Kayo) Konigsberg, 42, formerly of Lodi, a top loanshark and muscleman for the Mafia, is quoted in the transcripts asbraggingto DeCarlo how he made a 20 per cent profit on a $750,000 loan.

A former prizefighter, Konigsberg was named in Life magazine in 1968 as the man who removed a body from the Bayonne home of Rep. Corne lius Gailagher. Konigsberg, who was acquitted of a Hudson County murder in 1961, reportedly told federal agents he had murdered the 12 persons whose bodies were found in a mass Mafia grave in Jackson Township three years ago. MS COL. DAVID B.

KELLY GERARDO CATENA Dominick A. Spina Dominick A. Spina referred to as "Dick" in the tapes is Newark's director of police. DeCarlo alleges that Spina carries messages be-t the Mafia and the mayor. Spina, 58, was acquitted in 1968 by an Essex County judge of charges of willful failure to enforce anti-gambling laws.

The grand jury which indicted him later issued a presentment calling for his removal on grounds he was incapable or unwilling to perform his duties. He was the target of an attempted assassination in 1968 when a shotgun blast shattered his living room window just as he bent down to attach a collar to his dog. Spina was in charge of police during Newark's 1967 riots in which 26 persons were killed. FRANK S. FARLEY Gerardo Catena Gerardo (Jerry) Catena of South Orange is reputed to be the topMafia boss in New Jersey.

Catena became nationally known in 1963 when the late Robert F. Kennedy, then U.S. Attorney General, testified at the Valachi hearings that Catena and Thomas Eboli of Fort Lee had assumed command of the powerful Mafia family of the late Vito Genovese, who was then in prison. Catena reportedly was an associate of the late Willie Moretti of Hasbrouck Heights and Frank Costello. Catena reportedly attended the 1957 underworld meeting at Appa-.

lachin, N.Y. Catena, who was 68 on Thursday, manages the Run-yon Vending Sales Co. of New-; ark. DOMINICK SPINA Grossi Calmly and philosophically, venerable Anthony J. Grossi fielded the difficult questions.

Unlike other political personages in Passaic and Bergen counties burnt by taped Mafia allegations, the ex-State Senator gracefully and unemotionally denied he had any association with organized crime. The state Public Utilities Commissioner and Passaic County Democrat chairman rejected vague references $120 Gets For those with $120 and a taste for the underworld, Replica, Inc. of Elizabeth will make available this week a copy of the FBI transcripts on Angelo "Gyp" De Carlo. The plot is exciting, if the reader can stay awake long enough to follow the thread, and the dialogue is explosive "rtMW'i! HAROLD KONIGSBERG David B. Kelly Col.

David B. Kelly, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, is mentioned in the tapes as having possibly gained his post through the influence of former Jersey City Mayor John V. Kenny at the suggestion of Angelo DeCarlo. In a conversation on Sept. 9, 1963, DeCarlo tells an associate that Kelly is in Washington and that when he returns the underworld will find out what was going on in federal enforcement.

DeCarlo later complains associates he cannot control Kslly. Kelly has denied any association with the Mafia, calling DeCarlo a congenital liar. Kelly, 55, who succeeded Dominick R. Capello, says he knew Capello was being controlled by the mob when he was. head of the state police.

Their names up briefly in a 1961 conversation when a question was raised about moving into Passaic and DeCarlo brought out the Saul brothers' influence. Harry died in an automobile accident in the early 60s. His brother has not been on the Passaic scene in recent years. Joseph De Benedictus Joseph DeBenedictus, a Newark Democratic ward leader and according to the tapes reputed shylock, was reported to have met with Gov. Richard J.

Hughes in 19G2. At that time DeBenedictus was supposed to have reminded the governor that he raised $12,000 for his campaign. At the same time, the governor allegedly agreed to have his picture taken with Newark mayoral candidate Hugh Addonizio. In a conversation, DeBenedictus claims that Bergen County Sheriff Joseph F. Job could get favors from a Union County judge whom the mob liked.

JOSEPH ZICARELLI Joseph F. Job Bergen County Sheriff Joseph F. (Joe) Job is reported in the taped conversation of Joseph DeBenedictus, a Newark Democratic ward leader, as being able to get favors from an unnamed Union County judge whom the mob looked upon as a friend. Job has denied the allegation. Job, a former U.S.

marshal, won reelection on the Republican ticket last year. He guided the campaign of President Nixon in Bergen County in 1968 and has a friendship with the President dating back to 1948. After Nixon's victory, there was speculation Job would get an Administration post. A former professional baseball player, the 53-year-old sheriff lives in Rutherford. plied Grossi.

"I'm (surprised by all this. There hasn't been any organized gambling in Passaic County for at least 25 years. And no overtures have been made to me since I've been in power." Irving Saul, considered a payoff man by De Carlo, has disappeared from the Paterson scene. His brother Harry was a business man and alleged gambler who was killed in a traffic accident in the early 1960's. RUGGIERO BOIARDO Joseph Zicarelli Joseph (Joe Bayonne) Zicarelli of Cliffside Park, ac-cording to the transcripts, talked to an underworld associate Jan.

16, 1963 who reported a message to DeCarlo to the effect that Treasury agents were, in the area and that they would be there for two days. Zicarelli, who reportedly controls gambling and the rackets in Hudson County, was linked in a Life magazine article two years ago with Rep. Cornelius Gallagher. In the "DeCavalcante Papers," Zicarelli, 57, was also tied to gangland murders. He is presently awaiting trial on charges of assault, conspiracy to kidnap, and murder.

JOSEPH F. JOB wouldn't permit any infiltration." Grossi was the ony state senator from Passaic County when De Carlo, on trial in Newark this week for extortion, is alleged to have said: "Harry Saul's brother Irving is the payoff man up there. Harry had the senator, the prosecutor and everybody. "There once was a man named Saul, but I don't even remember his first name," re Tony Boy Boiardo: "I tell you the Boot (Ruggiero Boiardo) was down in Florida, and he grabbed Jerry and said, give me the word, and I'll call up and knock them down." De Carlo: "Where do these guys come in with us? How do these guys in the other mob come in here, and want to know what's going on? I only wish Vito Genovese was out of prison, even for two months. "If Vito was out, Angelo Bruno would never have been made a boss.

The reason, Jerry favored it is that Bruno 'He's A "He's a friend of ours." This comment is the highest praise Angelo (Gyp) De Carlo and associates pay As explained in the FBI transcripts of their conversations, the remark means the fellow is a full-fledged Mafia blood brother, or is closely allied with the mob. As members, and sharers of the giant mob profit picture, De Carlo and associates weren't above looking toward new secret organizations to infill rate. Repeatedly In the recorded A JOHN V. KENNY Hugh J. Addonizio Mayor Hugh J.

Addonizio of Newark referred to as "Hughie" in the tapes is described by a mob leader as being able "to give us the city." In the tapes, DeCarlo tells associates how mob funds will be raised for a forthcoming Addonizio campaign. According to the FBI, De-Carlo felt confident at the time that the money would be well spent, since gambling raids would be made only by the (city's) gambling squad. Addonizio pleaded innocent last month to a federal indictment charging him with conspiracy to collect kickbacks from city contractors and with income tax evasion. Addonizio, 55, is in his second term as mayor after serving 14 years in Congress. DOMINICK CAPELLO Anthony Grossi For Grossi, a political lion for nearly two decades, the taped allegations were just another blow in a career that is now facing overwhelming Republican strength.

As always, he survives. "They're weasels. gotta be smart, you gotta be careful with them. He says to me you know I hit a couple of guys with the O. K.

You know we can't hit guys without the O. K. "I said, 'Who the hell are you ever to hit without the De Carlo gives the theme of the new published volume unintentionally with this comment about poorly planned travel to a Paterson crap game. "We'll grab them and break their legs for them," he said in his executive role. Ours' and share in the order's secret rites was too much to be missed, according to mobsters.

They had a practical reason for paying dues. As De Carlo said: "In two or three years time we'll have two secret organizations. This is the Mafia-Mason lodge. "They go for the benefits you get out of it. They know very well that almost every judge and every prosecutor is a mason." Fields Tough Questions Others made by mobster Angelo "Gyp" De Carlo in 1961 that a gambler had him in tow and that Passaic County was wide, open.

"By 'wide open' the mob probably meant is couldn't penetrate Passaic County because we wouldn't let them," said the aging Democratic patriarch. "They knew that then Paterson Mayor Edward J. O'Byrne, County Prosecutor John G. Thevos and myself HUGH J. ADDONIZIO Dominick R.

Capello Dominick R. Capello of Hackensack referred as "Cappy" in the tapes is alleged to have taken bribes while Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police to allow Mafia gambling operations in Hudson and 'Monmouth counties. Charges that a former top officer in the State Police had been bribed by the Mafia was first reported in Life magazine in 1967, although Capello was not named. Capello has denied any link with organized crime. Capello, 60, retired as head of the State Police in 1965 after 26 years in the department.

He made an unsuccessful bid as the Democratic candidate for sheriff of Bergen County in 1966 and was later appointed Bergen County Treasurer. He left that post JManuary 1. David T. Wilenlz David T. Wilentz, 74, national Democratic committeeman and former Middlesex Democratic chairman, has denied charges in the tapes that he protected top gamblers and gambling operations in i home county.

Wilentz is often credited with engineering the Demo-c a i nomination of Gov. Hughes, who is exepected to succeed Wilentz as national committeeman. As a young attorney general in the 1930s and in his first murder case, Wilentz successfully prosecuted Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kid-nap -murder of the son of Charles A. Lindbergh. Stamato And lommelti Frank Stamato and Peter Iommetti, partners in a leading north Jersey refuse firm, Stamato Iommetti of Para-mus, are mentioned briefly in iue inpes in cuuueciiun wiui attempts to get a central Jer-sey 1 1 to withdraw from collecting at the Ford Motor Co.

plant in Metuchcn. During the conversation, recorded in 1962, it was alleged that the central Jersey collector was a friend of Iom-metti's and that Stamato was reputedly associated with Gerardo (Jerry) Caten, a top Mafia boss. Iommetti has denied any association with the mob, and Stamato, a Lodi resident, is reported vacationing. Daniel And Peter Polidoro The late Daniel Polidoro of East Paterson is mentioned in You DeCarlo Papers Literary They Ain't the tapes as succeeding Irving Saul as the top bookmaker in Passaic County. Polidoro, who was indicted with Gabriel (Johnny the Walk) DeFranco in Passaic, died under mysterious circumstances a year ago in Wanaque.

Polidoro's son, Peter, 33, of East Paterson, is free on bail as a material witness in the gangland slaying of Robert Harris of Montclair, described as a kingpin, in the northern Jersey numbers rackets. Polidoro, former president of a Paterson sportswear firm, was found guilty last year in Paterson Municipal Court of failing to pay Social Security contributions for his employes. 'Polidoro's father was found guilty in 1961 of bookmaking conspiracy charges. Harry, Irving Saul Brothers Harry and Irving Saul reportedly controlled gambling operations and payoffs in Passaic County in the 1950s. Harry, according to DeCarlo, controlled legislators and prosecutors, while Irving was the payoff man.

in many parts. But, literature the De Carlo papers aren't. De Carlo: "All right, see if he can make it Sunday. If he can't make it Sunday, Johnny Kenny is coming in then, and I'll get him to call Cappy. This Joe Zicarelli is supposed to get him, Cappy, anytime he wants." FAMILY SUNDAY AT THE buys all his a i off Jerry." If the quotes are somewhat cryptic, understand that the De Carlo papers' reader has to bring to his work the dedication scholars brought to de-ciphering the Dead Sea scrolls.

Even the FBI was baffled early by inside and Italian expressions. i a "Tommy Ryan (Thomas Eboli) sent word to Gene Catena that his capore-gime wants to see me." (A caporegime is an underboss.) Later, about the Bioardos, Newark father and son Mafio-sos, De Carlo says: The Highest Praise Friend Of conversations at De Carlo's ramshackle hideout on Rte. 22 in Mountainside the G-men overheard him talk about his efforts to join the masons. Surprisingly, De Carlo and at least three other Jersey racketeers wormed their way into the Free and Accepted Order of Masons. De Carlo and his pals Joined the fraternal order through the Garibaldi Lodge in New York City, giving a Brooklyn address.

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