Record

Hearing

1950-10-17

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

Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Mrs. Charlotte Campagna, Berwyn, Illinois (17 October 1950)

Questioned in Chicago about who raised money to settle a federal tax claim against her husband, Louis Campagna, while he was in Leavenworth, Mrs. Campagna declined to answer, standing on her constitutional rights. Pp. 515-517.

Date: 1950-10-17
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.

The contents of Part 5 list “Campagna, Mrs. Charlotte, Berwyn, Ill. 515-517, 645-651.” She testified at the afternoon session of 17 October 1950 in room 267 of the U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. The text was read from the Internet Archive’s OCR of the volume.

Counsel’s questions concerned a federal tax claim against her husband, Louis Campagna, while he was in Leavenworth, and who had provided money to an attorney to settle it. She answered: “I am going to have to stand on my constitutional rights and refuse to answer any of this for fear of incriminating myself. I am sorry I can’t help you” (printed page 516). She had no counsel, and Senator Kefauver and counsel Rudolph Halley told her she could have time to consult one; she said, “I think I should have counsel.”

Counsel’s statements about the size of the settlement and how it was paid are questions, not findings or testimony. The hearing prints her home address; this page does not.

itemKefauver Part 5: further testimony of Mrs. Charlotte Campagna (18 October 1950)Recalled the next morning, Mrs. Campagna said she had decided she did not need counsel and would cooperate, and that she did not know who had paid money toward her husband's tax settlement: "Up to this day I don't know who did it." Pp. 645-651.

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.