The Sinatra Files (30 page)

Central Intelligence Squad, NYC PD [Police Department], advised that on the evening of March, 28, 1960, Generoso Salvatore Del Ducca was stricken with a heart attack at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla. At the time he was stricken he was seated at a table in the company of Frank Sinatra. A [listening device] revealed that various prominent hoodlums attended his funeral in NYC on 4/4/60.

NOTE: It’s not clear if the below entry relates to the same incident
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at which time they discussed the current illness of
(not identified), who had suffered a recent attack which resulted in his being hospitalized.
that Frank Sinatra was responsible for causing
to drink more heavily than he ordinarily did and was having him run around with a lot of young broads, which had resulted in
sustaining this attack. Informant stated that though
[has] always been a drunk, he hated to see Sinatra cause more trouble than he had already caused.

On 9/15/61 the Miami Office advised that
(protect identities) and
were carefully scrutinizing the ownership of Puccini’s Restaurant, Miami, Florida. It had been
reported to each of these sources that this restaurant was backed by Frank Sinatra. It was reported that arrangements were being made to make a test case to determine if a duplex apartment building adjoining the restaurant could be opened as a casino for illegal gambling. The Beverage Commission planned that the restaurant would be permitted to open and then action would be taken against the management.

advised that he learned from
500 Club at Atlantic City, NJ.
but Joe Fischetti, a well known hoodlum, and Frank Sinatra had an interest in the Club. Sinatra also had an interest in a number of substantial crap games operating in the Philadelphia area, and was presently entering into an enterprise in Las Vegas which involved the building of a $10,000,000 gambling casino.
was confident that Fischetti and other underworld figures would have an interest in this undertaking.