Record

Hearing

1950-07-15

U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive

Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Walter Clark, sheriff of Broward County, on the Lansky clubs (27 May and 15 July 1950)

Senator Kefauver asks the Broward County sheriff about Jake Lansky and the Colonial Inn and Greenacres; Clark says Lansky did not get in touch with him and that he did not know of Lansky's record or partners. Pp. 128-132 and 452-455.

Date: 1950-07-15
Kind: hearing
Source: U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A hearing print of the United States Senate, published by the Government Printing Office. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The Internet Archive item marks it not in copyright.

Walter Clark, sheriff of Broward County, testified at Miami on 27 May and 15 July 1950; his testimony runs pp. 126-134 and 452-475 of Part 1, and the Lansky exchanges are at pp. 128-132 and 452-455. Senator Kefauver asked whether Jake Lansky, who was operating Greenacres and had operated the Colonial Inn, had got in touch with him when he opened; Clark answered no. On 15 July the Senator asked whether Clark knew Lansky’s record and partners, and Clark answered that he knew Jake Lansky but did not know of the long record or the partners.

The characterization of Jake Lansky’s record is the Senator’s question, which Clark says he did not know. A 1957 FBI Miami report, filed in this archive, says that after the Kefauver hearings Clark was removed from office by Governor Fuller Warren; that statement is the FBI’s, not Clark’s.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 1: Florida (1950)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 1, Florida: sessions in Miami and Washington, May to September 1950.itemKefauver Part 1: testimony of Daniel P. Sullivan, Crime Commission of Greater Miami, on Broward County gambling (13 July 1950)The operating director of the Crime Commission of Greater Miami presents charts on gambling in Dade and Broward counties and Miami Beach hotels, placing the Colonial Inn, Club Greenacres and Club Boheme and naming the 'S. & G. Syndicate' as a bookmaking group. Pp. 152-174.

itemFBI Miami report on Meyer Lansky: Hollywood, Florida winters and the 1950 Broward County indictment (19 July 1957)An FBI Miami field-office report says Lansky usually wintered in rented homes at Hollywood, Florida, visited Havana often, and was one of twenty-two indicted by a Broward County grand jury on 24 August 1950 'due to his connection with' three gambling clubs.