OCR transcription — Page 266
BU 92-61 — D COVER PAGE.
The Keith Theater was chartered in 1939 and was originally controlled by PHILLIP and JACOB LAVENE. MICHAEL PERNA, born in Buffalo in 1916, was an accountant for the LAVENEs for about 20 years and, in early 1953, purchased stock control of the Keith Theater from [REDACTED].
Dun and Bradstreet records describe the Keith Theater as a motion-picture house showing second-run pictures, with seating capacity of 200 to 300. On October 14, 1958, MICHAEL PERNA, President and Treasurer of the Keith Theater, advised Dun and Bradstreet that the corporation was losing money.
With reference to FRED RANDACCIO, on May 1, 1959, [REDACTED] advised that RANDACCIO had received information to the effect that [REDACTED] the Mogavero Texaco Service Station, 455 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, had been selling tires to the City of Buffalo that did not meet specifications. A source characterized RANDACCIO as the 'good will' man for the service station and believed he promoted sales for it.
On April 17, 1959, [REDACTED], a past source of reliable information, reported that FRED RANDACCIO was still regarded as the dominant figure among Buffalo gambling interests, and spent time at Madison Cab Company Garage on Rhode Island Street, in the company of STEVE CANNAROZZO, its manager. The informant believed CANNAROZZO had taken a more prominent position in gambling owing to his reported close association with RANDACCIO. The account continues on the next page.
Names hidden beneath the FBI b6/b7C redactions are not reconstructed. All third-party statements are attributed reports.
Uncorrected machine OCR. Verify names, dates,
and quotations against the original FBI scan.