Senate Report 84: proceedings against Joseph Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O'Brien (1951)
Senate Report No. 84, 82d Congress, 1st Session, on the Kefauver Committee's contempt proceedings against Joseph Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O'Brien, who refused to answer questions. The report accompanies S. Res. 66 and annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
- Date
- 1951-02-08
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- S. Rept. No. 84, 82d Cong., 1st Sess. (1951); Serial Set 11486
- 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 Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O’Brien for contempt of the Senate.” It is Senate Report No. 84, 82d Congress, 1st Session, submitted by Senator Kefauver for the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, to accompany S. Res. 66, ordered printed February 8 (legislative day, January 29), 1951. It is printed in Serial Set volume 11486; the text was read from the Serial Set PDF on govinfo.
The report asks the Senate to certify the facts of Joseph Aiuppa alias Anton Palunas alias Joey O’Brien’s contempt of the Senate to the United States Attorney. The report states that the witness appeared on January 19, 1951, at Cleveland, Ohio, “in United States Court, room 312, Federal Building”, and that his refusal to answer prevented the committee from receiving testimony. It annexes excerpts of the hearing record.
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.