Record

Hearing

1950-09-09

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

Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Louis Campagna (executive session, 9 September 1950), pp. 53-74

Campagna produced a ledger and tax returns under subpoena, said he went to prison in 1943 and came home on parole in 1947, and described an 800-acre farm at Fowler, Indiana, bought in 1942, and a second farm at Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Date: 1950-09-09
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.

Louis Campagna answered a subpoena for financial records on 9 September 1950 (Part 5, pp. 53-74), producing a ledger and tax returns prepared by his auditor.

He said he went to prison in 1943, came home in 1947 and was on parole. He described a farm of about 800 acres at Fowler, Indiana, bought in 1942 for about $100,000, and a second farm at Berrien Springs, Michigan, and said he had lived in his Berwyn home since 1928 or 1929. Asked about Claude Maddox (pp. 63-64), he said he had known him “a few years” and had heard that Maddox had a saloon in Cicero, which he called hearsay.

These are the witness’s answers to committee counsel. Quotations follow the Internet Archive’s OCR of the printed volume. Page numbers are the printed running heads and can be off by one near a page break.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 5: Illinois (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 5, Illinois: testimony taken from September 1950 to January 1951, including Paul DeLucia, Louis Campagna, Anthony J. Accardo, and Joseph Aiuppa.itemKefauver Part 5: testimony of Paul DeLucia, alias Ricca (executive session, 9 September 1950), pp. 1-52Answering a subpoena for ten years of records, DeLucia gave the names Ricca and Salvi, said he had kept records only from 1947 and burned the earlier ones, and said he knew Al Capone and Frank Nitti from 1928 or 1929 as a friend, not an employee.