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This FBI anti-racketeering and criminal intelligence file concerns Sidney R. Korshak, a Chicago-born attorney with a Los Angeles office who was reported by Bureau sources to have associations with organized crime figures and Nevada casino interests. The released material includes Bureau and field-office memoranda, airtels, file-transfer records, and requests for background information and photographs, chiefly from 1961 and 1963. It discusses reported links to the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, as well as earlier source reporting about gambling, oil, and labor-racketeering connections dating to 1954 and 1955. FBI headquarters instructed the Chicago and Las Vegas offices to review their files and send material to Los Angeles, while emphasizing that any inquiry into Korshak had to be handled discreetly because he was a prominent attorney.

FBI file number: 92-5053 | Documents span: 1954-1963 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Sidney R. Korshak, Jake Freedman, Murray Humphreys, Jake Arvey, James R. Hoffa, Bernice Korshak, Maggie Daly
Subjects: organized crime, labor racketeering, Las Vegas casinos, Riviera Hotel, criminal intelligence