Record

Hearing

1950-10-06

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

Kefauver Part 5: further testimony of Paul DeLucia (Ricca), 6 October 1950, pp. 219-242

Recalled by associate counsel George Robinson, DeLucia said he had held about $300,000 in cash before he went to prison and had about $40,000 left, and described two loans he took after his release because banks would not lend on his reputation.

Date: 1950-10-06
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.

Paul DeLucia returned on 6 October 1950 (Part 5, pp. 219-242) for further questions from associate counsel George Robinson about his finances.

He said he had held about $300,000 in cash before he entered the penitentiary and had about $40,000 left, the rest having gone into his farm. He described two loans taken after his release from Hugo Bennett, whom he said he had known since Bennett was a boy, because, he said, banks would not lend to him on his reputation.

The figures are the witness’s own account. 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 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.

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.