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This FBI file concerns a Newark RICO investigation of Nicodemo 'Nicky' Scarfo and associates connected to organized crime activity in New Jersey. The records include 1981 memoranda seeking authority for covert closed-circuit television surveillance, intelligence reporting on alleged loansharking and other criminal activity, and requests for assistance from the Philadelphia office. They also contain 1982 and 1985 evidence inventories, chain-of-custody forms, and logs of intercepted communications involving Scarfo and Lawrence Merlino. An FBI identification record for Albert Pontani lists arrests and reported dispositions from the 1940s through the 1970s.

FBI file number: 65-82 | Documents span: 1981-1985 | Released in 2 parts
Names in this file: Nicodemo Scarfo, Lawrence Merlino, Albert Pontani, Stanley S. Brotman
Subjects: RICO, organized crime, loansharking, electronic surveillance, wiretaps, New Jersey