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Viewer page 14 of the FBI Vault's Jake Guzik file: an office memorandum of March 16, 1954 from SAC, Chicago, file 94-519 Sub 8, to the Director, subject John Guzik with aliases including Short Pants, The Little Man and The Little Mayor of Cicero, Top Hoodlum Coverage
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FBI Chicago summary on Jack Guzik for the Top Hoodlum Program, March 1954 (Vault Jake Guzik)

A Chicago summary under 'Top Hoodlum Coverage' lists Guzik's aliases and relays, from newspaper reports, events since 1950: testimony that he and Accardo netted $278,666 from a policy wheel in 1949, the 1951 Senate contempt citation, and his reported acquittal on January 11, 1952.

Date
1954-03-16
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault, Jake Guzik (Final), pp. 12-18
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Chicago file 94-519 Sub 8
Rights
A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

A Chicago office memorandum to the Director (file 94-519 Sub 8), under the heading “Top Hoodlum Coverage,” dated March 16, 1954 (p. 14; the day is partly legible, and a follow-up of March 30, 1954, p. 18, cites the Chicago letter of that date and adds no new information). A memorandum of October 15, 1952 (p. 12) precedes it in the file.

The heading lists his aliases, among them “Harry Stone Guzik,” “Jack Guzick,” “Short Pants,” “The Little Man” and “The Little Mayor of Cicero.” The summary then relays newspaper reports since 1950: that Attorney Eugene Bernstein told the Kefauver Committee that Guzik and Tony Accardo netted $278,666 from the Erie and Buffalo Policy Wheel in 1949; that on March 27, 1951 he refused to answer pertinent questions put to him by the Kefauver Committee in Washington after being served with a subpoena in Florida; that the Senate then voted to cite him for contempt; that he pleaded not guilty in September 1951; and that he was acquitted of the contempt charge on January 11, 1952. It also describes a Chicago Crime Commission letter of December 1952 about a reported conference of Chicago and Miami figures.

The summary rests on newspaper articles and informant material; the newspaper texts themselves are not relied on, and the events are the FBI’s relay of them. Material in the same pages about a family member’s separate arrest, an unverified anonymous letter, and a home address is deliberately not recorded. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).

itemFBI Vault file on Jake GuzikThe FBI Vault's release of the Bureau file on Jake Guzik, 114 scanned pages, including a 1944 teletype, a memorandum on his aliases and career, and a 1956 report relaying newspaper accounts of his death.itemKefauver Part 12: testimony of Jacob Guzik (March 1951), pp. 384-394Guzik refused to answer every question on grounds of incrimination. Counsel put to him a 1949 partnership return titled 'Guzik and Accardo' reporting a $278,667 share from the Erie-Buffalo Co.; the figures are counsel's.itemSenate Report 198: proceedings against Jacob Guzik (1951)Senate Report No. 198, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Jacob Guzik, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 109 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.