Record
Hearing
1950-10-05
U.S. Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, via Internet Archive
Kefauver Part 5: statement of Frederick Pretzie, Jr., Chicago Crime Commission (5 October 1950), pp. 197-203
The Crime Commission's administrative assistant described the defeat of its bills in the 1949 legislature and the 'West Side bloc', and called 'Mooney Giancana' the youngest member of the mob and the chauffeur and bodyguard for Tony Accardo.
- Date
- 1950-10-05
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
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- 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.
Frederick Pretzie, Jr., administrative assistant of the Chicago Crime Commission, made a statement on 5 October 1950 (Part 5, pp. 197-203). He described the defeat of Crime Commission bills in the 1949 Illinois legislature and a “West Side bloc” that he linked to the Capone syndicate.
Asked where the men then called members of the mob came from, he named the old Twentieth Ward, which he said “gave you Tony Accardo,” and said Accardo had been among Al Capone’s bodyguards. At p. 202 he called “Mooney Giancana” “probably the youngest member of that mob” and “the chauffeur and body guard for Tony Accardo.”
These are a private crime commission’s characterizations given to the committee. They are not testimony from records the committee examined, and they are not findings. 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.
