), also known as Joseph Farvel, was a New York mobster and a longtime associate of labor racketeer Louis Buchalter.
He was arrested at a restaurant in Little Italy, Manhattan, and charged with "consorting with known criminals for unlawful purposes" in 1965.
Kovolick fled New York to avoid an indictment to appear before a Manhattan grand jury investigating illegal gambling, bribery and corruption.
Authorities were attempting to extradite him back to New York before his disappearance, as assistant district attorney Samuel S. Yasgur filed an affidavit in Miami in February 1971.
[2] Police charged 36-year-old John Alvin Baxter with first degree murder, and he was sentenced to death.