Kefauver Part 5: testimony of Paul DeLucia, alias Ricca (executive session, 9 September 1950), pp. 1-52

Answering 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.

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.

Paul DeLucia was examined in executive session on 9 September 1950 (Part 5, pp. 1-52), after a subpoena for ten years of his records. Asked his other names, he gave “Ricca and Salvi.” He said he had served in the penitentiary from the last day of 1943 to 1947, that he kept records only from 1947 and had burned the earlier ones, and that he owned a farm of about 1,100 acres in Kendall County, Illinois, and houses in River Forest and Long Beach.

Asked about Al Capone and Frank Nitti (pp. 14-15), he said he met them in 1928 or 1929 and was a friend, not an employee. At p. 17 he said he knew Murray Humphreys “to see” but “never had anything to do with” him. Asked whether Nitti killed himself (p. 49), he answered: “That is right.”

These are the witness’s own answers to counsel. The volume’s contents list and the archive’s overview of Part 5 are on the Part 5 page. 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.