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This FBI file concerns the Italian-American Civil Rights League and references connected to organized-crime and extortionate-credit investigations in New York. The released records include 1971 and 1972 material on federal grand-jury indictments, firearms recovered during a state-police search, and authorization for consensual body-recorder monitoring in a Brooklyn loan-sharking inquiry. A 1987 exchange among the Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia field offices records database checks and efforts to verify information about the league, including references to Anthony Salerno. The 1987 inquiry was closed after offices reported no usable corroboration or investigative interest, while numerous pages are withheld or heavily redacted.

FBI file number: NY 179-503 | Documents span: 1971-1987 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Anthony Salerno, Denis E. Dillon, Caesar Vitale
Subjects: Italian-American Civil Rights League, organized crime, loan sharking, FBI field office inquiries, grand jury investigations, electronic surveillance