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Senate Report 201: proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis (1951)

Senate Report No. 201, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 112 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.

Date
1951-03-30
Kind
hearing
Source
GovInfo, United States Congressional Serial Set
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
S. Rept. No. 201, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951); Serial Set 11487
Rights
A work of the United States Congress. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105.

The printed caption is “Proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis for contempt of the Senate.” It is Senate Report No. 201, 82d Congress, 1st Session, submitted by Senator Kefauver for the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, to accompany S. Res. 112, ordered printed March 30 (legislative day, March 26), 1951. It is printed in Serial Set volume 11487; the text was read from the Serial Set PDF on govinfo.

The report asks the Senate to certify the facts of Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis’s contempt of the Senate to the United States Attorney. The report states that the witness appeared on December 12, 1950, and again on March 12, 1951, and that his refusal to answer prevented the committee from receiving testimony. It annexes excerpts of the hearing record.

This is the second contempt report on the same witness; the first is Senate Report 25.

A committee report asking the Senate to certify a contempt is the committee’s account and request, not a court judgment. The refusals it describes are not admissions, and the outcome of the proceeding is not covered by this record. The committee’s closing report, filed separately, has a section on the status of the contempt cases.

The printed hearing volume that lists this witness: Part 7: New York-New Jersey.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 7: New York-New Jersey (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 7, New York-New Jersey: sessions in Washington and New York, July 1950 to March 1951.itemSenate Report 25: proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis (1951)Senate Report No. 25, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 43 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.