Excerpt from Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Vol. 6: Hearings Before a Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res, 202 The committee met, pursuant to call of the chairman, at 10:15 a.m., in room 318, Federal Building, Senator Estes Kefauver (Chairman), presiding. Present: Senator Kefauver. Also present: Rudolph Halley, chief counsel; Joseph L. Nellis, assistant counsel; John McCormick, investigator. The Chairman. The committee will come to order. I think in the beginning of our hearing in this session, in Cleveland and this area, it might be well to first state the purposes or to restate the purposes of this committee. This committee is operating under authority of Senate Resolution 202. The purpose is to investigate organized crime in interstate commerce, to make recommendations to the United States Senate and to the Congress for amendments to laws or any new laws that might prevent or help prevent the use of the vehicle of interstate commerce in furtherance of organized Nation-wide crime that operates across State lines. The Federal jurisdiction is, of course, only in connection with interstate commerce. It is not the province of this committee and, of course, it is manifestly not possible for the committee to endeavor or proper for the committee to try to ferret out and to go into local situations. We may be interested, but it is not in our jurisdiction to try to find out who is involved in criminal activities of purely a local nature or to try to clean them up. That is, as it should be, the province of the local enforcement officers, and it is only when the people in the local enforcement are interested that local matters can be solved; and, of course, they can be whenever the local people demand it. I might also review what we have done to date. We have tried to have hearings and we have had many hearings in what we consider some of the nerve centers of organized crime in the United States. We do not mean by the fact that I call a city a nerve center that that particular city may be contaminated or that crime might be rampant in any particular place that we have a hearing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Vol. 8: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-Second Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 202 (81st Congress); Louisiana, January 25, 26; February 7, 1951 The committee convened at 9: 30 a. M. Thursday, January 25, 1951, Senator Estes Kefauver (chairman) presiding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Vol. 18: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-Second Congress; July 6, 7, 11, 19, 20; August 15, 16, 17, 1951 Mr. Saunders. I think about 20 days, or something like that, which I took at that articular time. I was off. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Vol. 4: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-First Congress, Second Session; Missouri, July 6, September 28, 29, and 30, 1950 Also present: Rudolph Halley, chief counsel; Harold G. Robinson, associate counsel; and Alfred Klein, assistant counsel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.