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Holmes Man Linked to 2 Bank Burglaries
By Morris Kaplan
July 20, 1972
Two teams of burglars hired a Holmes Protection Company maintenance man to disconnect the alarm systems at two banks here, enabling them to get away with $315,000 in cash and jewelry, the Federal Government charged yesterday.
In one case, the burglars were recommended by a city policeman, the Government said.
The policeman, 27‐year‐old Robert Bollella of 238 Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, was one of eight men arrested on a four‐count indictment charging that on Dec. 13, 1971 they stole $115,000 in cash from a vault of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company branch at 81‐20 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights, Queens.
United States Attorney Robert A. Morse identified the patrolman as a member of Chief Inspector Michael J. Codd's confidential investigating unit, which checks on departmental irregularities and dishonest patrolmen.
Patrolman Boilella, who joined the force in 1966, allegedly received a $7,000 fee for introducing the Holmes alarms expert to the accused burglars. He was suspended from his post as clerk to the investigating unit.
In a second three‐count indictment handed up in Federal Court in Brooklyn yesterday, four Brooklyn residents were charged with burglarizing a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank at 9313 Third Avenue, in the Bay Ridge section, shortly after midnight last April 28. The burglars stole about $200,000 in cash and jewelry from safe‐deposit boxes, Mr. Morse said.
Named as a co‐conspirator but not a defendant in both indictments was the Holmes employe who was identified as Robert Henry Denisch. Sources close to the investigation refused to disclose his address, but it was learned that he lives on Staten Island. Patrolman Bollella was not named in the second indictment.
Mr. Denisch reportedly collected a total of $64,000 for “defeating” the bank alarm systems. According to an assistant United States attorney, Peter R. Schlam he received $50,000 and $14,000, respectively, for his services. He was purportedly “introduced” to the Brooklyn burglars by “an unidentified man.”
The United States Attorney's office said that after jimmying a rear door at the Manufacturers Hanover branch, Mr. Denisch knocked out of commission the alarm protecting the night depository vault.
Five Hours With Torches
His companions then allegedly took five hours with acetylene torches to punch a hole in the vault and extract the $115,000, the total of Friday night deposits. Patrolman Bollella allegedly received $7,000, or one‐half share of the loot, for introducing Mr. Denisch to Salvatore Montello, 41, of 810 Wisconsin Avenue, North Bay Shore. L. I.
Named also on the indictment were Louis Montello, 52, of 54 Stevenson Place, Deer Park, L.I., a brother of Salvatore Montello; Dennis Condon, 28, of 186 Fifth Street, Brooklyn; John Ripon, 27, of 276 New Hampshire Avenue, North Bay Shore; James Santa Maria, 26, same address; Ronald De Conza, 30, of 72 North Ocean Avenue, Ronkonkoma, L. I., and Anthony Fasanella, 38, of 134 Grandview Drive, Mastic, L. I.
Judge Edward R. Neaher held them in $10,000 bail each, except for Louis Montello, who was released in his own recognizance.
The indictment covering the Chase Manhattan burglary named Harry McGuire, 28, of 88 Bay 17th Street; Anthony Casso, 32, of 1246 Mill Avenue; Joseph Dalamenico, 29, of 1348 77th Street, and Biaggio Carolco, 38, of 753 East 37th Street, all in Brooklyn.
Upon conviction, each of the four men could receive prison sentences of 35 years. Judge Neaher held Mr. McGuire in lieu of $25,000 hail and fixed hail of $10,000 for the three others, to await trial.
SALE OF PAROLES CHARGED TO EIGHT
By Michael Knight
Dec. 22, 1972
Eight persons, including or ganized‐crime figures and a state parole officer, were in dicted yesterday for allegedly buying or selling paroles for sums of up to $20,000.
In announcing the results of a two‐month investigation, Burton B. Roberts, the Bronx Dis trict Attorney, said yesterday that negotiations to sell paroles, to at least 20 inmates of the Bikers Island adult correctional facility had been entered into in the last two years.
He said the negotiations in volved a major narcotics dealer, four members of the Carlo Gambino crime family and three jailed former police detectives.
‘I've never seen a case like this, to my knowledge, in the state of New York,” Mr. Roberts said. He added that the investigation would be continued, to determine whether the alleged conspiracy extended to higher levels.
In asking Judge Hilda Schwartz in Slate Supreme Court in the Bronx to set bail of $25,000 for the parole officer, Gene Squitieri, 41 years old, of Long Beach, L. I., Mr. Roberts said that Mr. Squitieri, who works at Rikers Island, was “the hub of a conspiracy for the release of organized crime narcotics figures and well‐heeled inmates.”
Later Mr. Roberts said in a news conference in his office in the Bronx County Building, at the Grand Concourse and 161st Street, that Mr. Squitieri, a parole officer for 15 years, was in a position to sell paroles because he was in charge of writing parole reports and recommendations, assigning cases to particular members of the Parole Board and then pre senting arguments for parole.
$10,000 Payment Alleged
Also indicted in the case, which Mr. Roberts dubbed “the Bronx Connection” or “the House on Morgan Avenue,” was a city correction officer, Richard Curro, 38 of 2566 Morgan Avenue, the house used as a meeting place for the alleged bribery, conspiracy and extortion.
Mr. Curro was arrested on Nov. 13, after a Rikers Island inmate, Lester Butler, came for ward to say that he had been offered a parole if he would pay Mr. Curro $10.000. Mr. Roberts charged yesterday that Mr. Curro had acted as a “bag man” for Mr. Squitieri.
Mr. Roberts said that some of the alleged 20 parole‐buying cases had fallen through, and that in others there was insuf ficient, evidence to indict. Yesterdays indictments centered on six cases presented the grand jury.
He added that he would ask the State Correction Commis sioner, Russell G. Oswald, to review all 20 suspect paroles.
In one case, Mr. Roberts, charged that Olive MacDonald, 31, of Mount Vernon, had paid. Mr. Curro $10,000 for the parole, after 60 days, of Wil liam Terrell, reputedly a major New York heroin dealer, who, was jailed in 1971 for assault. Terrell was not indicted and Miss MacDonald, who was, is still being sought.
Case Involves Policemen
In another case, Joseph Denti, 36, of 1639 Bayshore Drive, the Bronx, a reputed member of the Gambino crime family, was indicted on charges that he had paid Mr. Curro $5,000 for the early parole of Thomas Marino, 74, of 286 19th Street, Brooklyn, who was identified as a bodyguard to the late Lucky Luciano and a captain in the Gambino family. Marino was not indicted.
Two other organized‐crime figures were also indicted, charged with paying $4,000 for the early release of three for mer detectives who had been jailed on charges of officials misconduct in stealing money and narcotics from addicts, Mr. Roberts said that the three former policemen, Angelo Marino, Adam Nicholas and Thomas Basalari were probably unaware of the bribery attempt and thus were not indicted.
He said that the two men, Anthony Casso, 32, and Victor Amuso, 38, former members of the Gallo “family” and now allegedly with the Gambino family, were arrested before the deal was completed.
Mr. Amuso was arrested outside the Morgan Avenue house while carrying $3,000, a switch blade knife and stolen parole documents, Mr. Roberts said. Both men were held on $75,000 bail.
Also indicted was Thomas Ciccone, 26, of 2073 West Fifth Street in Brooklyn, who allegedly paid $2,000 for an early parole on a burglary charge, was arrested on another charge eight clays after being released, and then allegedly joined the operation as a “steerer,” referring inmates to Mr. Cum.
Ciccone allegedly arranged the release of another inmate, Samuel Krieger, for a fee of $7,500. Krieger was not indicted. Another inmate, not identified, was alleged to have offerd $20,000 for parole, but is still in jail.
The eighth man indicted was Anthony Maiello, 23, of 2316 Croton Avenue, the Bronx, who paid $3,000, Mr. Roberts said, for being paroled after 60 days of a one‐year forgery sentence.
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Holmes Man Linked to 2 Bank Burglaries
By Morris Kaplan
July 20, 1972
Two teams of burglars hired a Holmes Protection Company maintenance man to disconnect the alarm systems at two banks here, enabling them to get away with $315,000 in cash and jewelry, the Federal Government charged yesterday.
In one case, the burglars were recommended by a city policeman, the Government said.
The policeman, 27‐year‐old Robert Bollella of 238 Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights, was one of eight men arrested on a four‐count indictment charging that on Dec. 13, 1971 they stole $115,000 in cash from a vault of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company branch at 81‐20 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights, Queens.
United States Attorney Robert A. Morse identified the patrolman as a member of Chief Inspector Michael J. Codd's confidential investigating unit, which checks on departmental irregularities and dishonest patrolmen.
Patrolman Boilella, who joined the force in 1966, allegedly received a $7,000 fee for introducing the Holmes alarms expert to the accused burglars. He was suspended from his post as clerk to the investigating unit.
In a second three‐count indictment handed up in Federal Court in Brooklyn yesterday, four Brooklyn residents were charged with burglarizing a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank at 9313 Third Avenue, in the Bay Ridge section, shortly after midnight last April 28. The burglars stole about $200,000 in cash and jewelry from safe‐deposit boxes, Mr. Morse said.
Named as a co‐conspirator but not a defendant in both indictments was the Holmes employe who was identified as Robert Henry Denisch. Sources close to the investigation refused to disclose his address, but it was learned that he lives on Staten Island. Patrolman Bollella was not named in the second indictment.
Mr. Denisch reportedly collected a total of $64,000 for “defeating” the bank alarm systems. According to an assistant United States attorney, Peter R. Schlam he received $50,000 and $14,000, respectively, for his services. He was purportedly “introduced” to the Brooklyn burglars by “an unidentified man.”
The United States Attorney's office said that after jimmying a rear door at the Manufacturers Hanover branch, Mr. Denisch knocked out of commission the alarm protecting the night depository vault.
Five Hours With Torches
His companions then allegedly took five hours with acetylene torches to punch a hole in the vault and extract the $115,000, the total of Friday night deposits. Patrolman Bollella allegedly received $7,000, or one‐half share of the loot, for introducing Mr. Denisch to Salvatore Montello, 41, of 810 Wisconsin Avenue, North Bay Shore. L. I.
Named also on the indictment were Louis Montello, 52, of 54 Stevenson Place, Deer Park, L.I., a brother of Salvatore Montello; Dennis Condon, 28, of 186 Fifth Street, Brooklyn; John Ripon, 27, of 276 New Hampshire Avenue, North Bay Shore; James Santa Maria, 26, same address; Ronald De Conza, 30, of 72 North Ocean Avenue, Ronkonkoma, L. I., and Anthony Fasanella, 38, of 134 Grandview Drive, Mastic, L. I.
Judge Edward R. Neaher held them in $10,000 bail each, except for Louis Montello, who was released in his own recognizance.
The indictment covering the Chase Manhattan burglary named Harry McGuire, 28, of 88 Bay 17th Street; Anthony Casso, 32, of 1246 Mill Avenue; Joseph Dalamenico, 29, of 1348 77th Street, and Biaggio Carolco, 38, of 753 East 37th Street, all in Brooklyn.
Upon conviction, each of the four men could receive prison sentences of 35 years. Judge Neaher held Mr. McGuire in lieu of $25,000 hail and fixed hail of $10,000 for the three others, to await trial.
SALE OF PAROLES CHARGED TO EIGHT
By Michael Knight
Dec. 22, 1972
Eight persons, including or ganized‐crime figures and a state parole officer, were in dicted yesterday for allegedly buying or selling paroles for sums of up to $20,000.
In announcing the results of a two‐month investigation, Burton B. Roberts, the Bronx Dis trict Attorney, said yesterday that negotiations to sell paroles, to at least 20 inmates of the Bikers Island adult correctional facility had been entered into in the last two years.
He said the negotiations in volved a major narcotics dealer, four members of the Carlo Gambino crime family and three jailed former police detectives.
‘I've never seen a case like this, to my knowledge, in the state of New York,” Mr. Roberts said. He added that the investigation would be continued, to determine whether the alleged conspiracy extended to higher levels.
In asking Judge Hilda Schwartz in Slate Supreme Court in the Bronx to set bail of $25,000 for the parole officer, Gene Squitieri, 41 years old, of Long Beach, L. I., Mr. Roberts said that Mr. Squitieri, who works at Rikers Island, was “the hub of a conspiracy for the release of organized crime narcotics figures and well‐heeled inmates.”
Later Mr. Roberts said in a news conference in his office in the Bronx County Building, at the Grand Concourse and 161st Street, that Mr. Squitieri, a parole officer for 15 years, was in a position to sell paroles because he was in charge of writing parole reports and recommendations, assigning cases to particular members of the Parole Board and then pre senting arguments for parole.
$10,000 Payment Alleged
Also indicted in the case, which Mr. Roberts dubbed “the Bronx Connection” or “the House on Morgan Avenue,” was a city correction officer, Richard Curro, 38 of 2566 Morgan Avenue, the house used as a meeting place for the alleged bribery, conspiracy and extortion.
Mr. Curro was arrested on Nov. 13, after a Rikers Island inmate, Lester Butler, came for ward to say that he had been offered a parole if he would pay Mr. Curro $10.000. Mr. Roberts charged yesterday that Mr. Curro had acted as a “bag man” for Mr. Squitieri.
Mr. Roberts said that some of the alleged 20 parole‐buying cases had fallen through, and that in others there was insuf ficient, evidence to indict. Yesterdays indictments centered on six cases presented the grand jury.
He added that he would ask the State Correction Commis sioner, Russell G. Oswald, to review all 20 suspect paroles.
In one case, Mr. Roberts, charged that Olive MacDonald, 31, of Mount Vernon, had paid. Mr. Curro $10,000 for the parole, after 60 days, of Wil liam Terrell, reputedly a major New York heroin dealer, who, was jailed in 1971 for assault. Terrell was not indicted and Miss MacDonald, who was, is still being sought.
Case Involves Policemen
In another case, Joseph Denti, 36, of 1639 Bayshore Drive, the Bronx, a reputed member of the Gambino crime family, was indicted on charges that he had paid Mr. Curro $5,000 for the early parole of Thomas Marino, 74, of 286 19th Street, Brooklyn, who was identified as a bodyguard to the late Lucky Luciano and a captain in the Gambino family. Marino was not indicted.
Two other organized‐crime figures were also indicted, charged with paying $4,000 for the early release of three for mer detectives who had been jailed on charges of officials misconduct in stealing money and narcotics from addicts, Mr. Roberts said that the three former policemen, Angelo Marino, Adam Nicholas and Thomas Basalari were probably unaware of the bribery attempt and thus were not indicted.
He said that the two men, Anthony Casso, 32, and Victor Amuso, 38, former members of the Gallo “family” and now allegedly with the Gambino family, were arrested before the deal was completed.
Mr. Amuso was arrested outside the Morgan Avenue house while carrying $3,000, a switch blade knife and stolen parole documents, Mr. Roberts said. Both men were held on $75,000 bail.
Also indicted was Thomas Ciccone, 26, of 2073 West Fifth Street in Brooklyn, who allegedly paid $2,000 for an early parole on a burglary charge, was arrested on another charge eight clays after being released, and then allegedly joined the operation as a “steerer,” referring inmates to Mr. Cum.
Ciccone allegedly arranged the release of another inmate, Samuel Krieger, for a fee of $7,500. Krieger was not indicted. Another inmate, not identified, was alleged to have offerd $20,000 for parole, but is still in jail.
The eighth man indicted was Anthony Maiello, 23, of 2316 Croton Avenue, the Bronx, who paid $3,000, Mr. Roberts said, for being paroled after 60 days of a one‐year forgery sentence.