Kefauver Part 1: testimony of Ben and Seymour Eisen, Hollywood, Florida, and Exhibits 7 and 8 (26 May 1950)

Two accountants who worked on the books of the Club Boheme and the Greenacres Casino in Broward County produce tax returns and ledgers; counsel reads the partners' names from a 1948 return and a folder of Jake Lansky's returns is received as Exhibit 8. Pp. 4-26.

Date

1950-05-26

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.

Ben Eisen and Seymour Eisen of Hollywood, Florida, testified at the Miami hearing of 26 May 1950 (the exhibit passages are at pp. 7-8 and p. 18 of Part 1). They had worked on the books of the Club Boheme and the Greenacres Casino in Broward County and produced tax returns and ledgers for the committee.

Counsel Rudolph Halley read from a 1948 partnership return for the Club Boheme the names Frank Shireman, Samuel L. Bratt, Claude Litteral, Meyer Lansky, Jack Lansky and George Sadlo, with a total distribution of $205,470.77. A folder of Jake Lansky’s federal income-tax returns for 1936 to 1949, with Louisiana and New York returns, was received as Exhibit No. 8. At p. 18 Seymour Eisen said that Jack and Meyer Lansky never discussed with him why Frank Erickson did not take part in the Club Boheme.

The names are read by counsel from the return, and the OCR does not show a complete answer to the questions on the percentage distributions. A name on a partnership return is not a finding about the person.