Senate Report 562: proceedings against Martin Accardo (1951)

Senate Report No. 562, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Martin Accardo, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 180 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.

Date

1951-07-24

Kind

hearing

Source

GovInfo, United States Congressional Serial Set

Retrieved

2026-10-12

Docket

S. Rept. No. 562, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951); Serial Set 11488

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 Martin Accardo for contempt of the Senate.” It is Senate Report No. 562, 82d Congress, 1st Session, submitted by Senator O for the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, to accompany S. Res. 180, ordered printed July 24, 1951. It is printed in Serial Set volume 11488; the text was read from the Serial Set PDF on govinfo.

The report asks the Senate to certify the facts of Martin Accardo’s contempt of the Senate to the United States Attorney. The report states that the witness appeared on June 21, 1951, at Miami (subpoena returnable at “the Federal Building, 300 Northeast First Avenue, Miami, Fla.”), and that his refusal to answer prevented the committee from receiving testimony. It annexes excerpts of the hearing record.

Part 16 of the hearings places the June 21 and 22, 1951 Miami sessions in room 401, Dade County Courthouse; the report’s subpoena names a federal building address instead.

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 16: Florida.