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Printed page 462 of the Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 6, showing exhibit 61, a box chart headed District Operations of the Licavoli Gang and Associates, signed by Edward J. Allen, Chief of Police, Youngstown, Ohio, January 1951
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Kefauver Committee exhibit 61: Youngstown police chief's chart of the 'Licavoli gang and associates' (January 1951)

A chart drawn by Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen for the committee and printed as exhibit 61, headed 'District Operations of the Licavoli Gang and Associates (aka Purple Gang)', with Peter Licavoli as 'Nominal Leader' above a Cleveland box and four regional boxes.

Date
1951-01
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 6: Ohio-Kentucky (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 82d Cong., Part 6: Ohio-Kentucky
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright.

Exhibit No. 61, printed on page 462 of the appendix to Part 6 and shown above from the Internet Archive scan. It is signed at the lower right “by Edward J. Allen, Chief of Police, Youngstown, Ohio, January 1951.” Allen told the committee he drew it “for the purpose of this committee.”

The top box reads “District Operations of the Licavoli Gang and Associates (aka Purple Gang).” Beneath it, a box headed “Nominal Leader” names “Peter Licavoli (Detroit, Mich. - Tucson, Ariz.), Connections throughout USA.” A “Cleveland, Ohio Area” box lists James Licavoli “(cousin to Peter),” the Angersolas (Fred, John and George, “alias King”), Al Polizzi, Jerry Milano, Anthony Milano and Frank Brancato. Four boxes below are headed Mahoning County (including Youngstown), Trumbull County (including Warren), Western Pennsylvania and Buffalo, N.Y.; the Buffalo box lists, among others, “John Tronolone (Bflo., Miami, Cleveland).”

The chart is a police chief’s diagram of the people he associated with one another. Its labels (“Nominal Leader,” the “aka Purple Gang” heading) are his, and a chart label sets no rank or role on this site. None of these names is carried onto a family chart.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 6: Ohio-Kentucky (1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 6, Ohio-Kentucky: sessions in Cleveland and Washington, January to February 1951.itemKefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen (January 1951)Youngstown's police chief, Edward J. Allen, described a 1945-1948 bookmaking racket in his city, linked it to Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland figures including Pete and James Licavoli, and introduced a chart he had drawn for the committee (exhibit 61).itemKefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of James Licavoli (19 January 1951)James Licavoli told the committee he had been arrested 'many times', had 'copped a plea on extortion' in Toledo with a one-to-five-year term and a 1946 parole, and that Pete and Thomas Licavoli were his first cousins; he refused to answer questions about his business.