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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
, Miami, Florida
September 26, 1967
JRe: ARMAND CERAMT;
ANTHONY C.IARLES SWEET
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In July, 1967, Sweet purchased the Bel Air Hotel,
2140 Peachtree Road, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia, for the pro-
posed opening of the Atlanta Racquet Club. Cerami has identi-
fied himself as a partner with Sweet in the proposed racquet
club.
Records of the Florida State Beverage Commission,
Miami, Florida, reflect that Tony Sweet and Armand Cerami
are officers in seafood restaurants located at Key West,
Miami, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Theyoperate the restau-
rants doing business as Tony's Fish Market, Key West, Inc.,
Tony Sweet Enterprises, Miami, and Tony Sweet's Fish Market,
Inc., Ft. Lauderdale. Sweet is President and Cerami is
Secretary-Treasurer in each of the corporations,
Anthony Charles Sweet, also known as Tony Sweet,
states he was born September 27, 1916, at Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Records of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, contain no record of
Anthony Sweet being born on September 27, 1916, at Lawrence,
Massachusetts. There is a record of one Anthony Sawicki being
born on September 27, 1916, at Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Parents of this individual were listed as Julius Sawicki and
Ursula Muleronek Sawickl, both born in Lithuania-Russia.
. Records of the Identification Division of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation reflect that Anthony Charles Sweet,
FBI No. 317988 C, was arrested by the Sheriff's Office, Miami,
Florida, on October 17, 1951, for operating a gambling house,
On June 13, 1953, he was arrested for violation of the Florida
Spate Beverage laws.
Re: ARMAND CERANI
ANTHONY CHARLES’ SWEET
On August 17, 1964, Sweet was charged by the Florida
State Beverage Commission "with refilling ten bottles of
associated liquors" at Tony's Fish Market, Miami. He was fined
$500.00 on stipulation to the offeng:. ;
Armand Diaz Cerami was born February 20, 1920, at
Hackensack, New Jersey. He reportedly was graduated from t
University of Mexico in 19/2 with a degree in Business Admi
tration. He was in the military service from 19/12 to 1945,
and received a medical discharge on June’25, 1945, due to psycho-
neurosis. ;
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Sources have reported that Cerami was known to major
hoodlums and gambling figures in the Miami area. He reportedly
was a‘collector" of large gambling debts incurred by individuals
through association with members of the gambling-hoodlum group.
On April 16, 1963, Cerami advised Agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation that he was a personal associate of Charles
Tourine, also known as Charlie White. He admitted that he ar-
ranged to have Tourine take over his apartment in New York City
and also procured a Cadillac car for Tourine at dealer's cost.
le admitted that while traveling in Europe in the summer of
1962, he met with Tourine in Italy. He said this meeting was
accidental. Tourine has been identified as a member of the
organized criminal element and is reported to be a member of
the La Cosa Nostra,
The records of the Identification Division of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation reflect that Armand Cerami,
FBI No. 2031382, was arrested in 1940 and charged with steal-
ing a car at Lexington, Kentucky, and driving it to Washington,
D. C. On January 14, 1941, he was placed on three years proba-
tion for this offense. Records of the Miami Beach Police De-
partment show that on May 30, 1958, Cerami was arrested at
Ypsilanti, Michigan, and charged with breaking and entering of
a telephone booth. He was fined $100.00 and costs.
° On July 28, 1964, Grami was arrested by the Miami
Beach Police Department and charged with aggravated assault
on John Bryan Gray, a suitor of Cerami's divorced wife. On
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Re: ARMAND CERAMI
ANTHONY CHARLES SWEET
January 23, 1965, Cerami appeared Lefore
in Miami
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expenses and damages.
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civil suit
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