Kefauver Committee exhibits 31 and 32: records of Louis Rothkopf and Morris Kleinman (January 1951)
Two record summaries placed in evidence during Alvin Sutton's testimony and printed on page 455: exhibit 31 for Louis Rothkopf, 'also known as Lou Rhody, John Zarumba', with a 1937 internal revenue case; exhibit 32 for Morris Kleinman, with a 1933 income tax evasion sentence.
- Date
- 1951-01-17
- 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.
Exhibits 31 and 32, printed on page 455 of the appendix to Part 6 and shown above from the Internet Archive scan. They were received during Sutton’s testimony; the schedule of exhibits describes 31 as “Cleveland record of Louis Rothkopf, alias Lou Rhody” and 32 as “Record of Morris Kleinman, Cleveland, Ohio.” Exhibit 33, the record of Samuel A. Tucker, is listed but not printed.
Exhibit 31: “Name.—Louis Rothkopf. Also known as.—Lou Rhody, John Zarumba.” Area of operations Cleveland and Los Angeles. Criminal record: Cleveland, 1937, “Internal revenue laws,” disposition “4 years.” Under “Activities and general information” it says he “is reported to have been arrested several times in Cleveland for robbery and murder” and that “He and Morris Kleinman were partners in the operation of a gambling club near Cleveland.”
Exhibit 32: “Name.—Morris Kleinman.” Area of operations Cleveland and Las Vegas. Criminal record: Cleveland, 1933, “Income tax evasion,” disposition “3-year sentence.” It says that “Kleinman, Morris Dalitz, and Sam Tucker are the principal owners of the Desert Inn, Las Vegas,” and that he “is reputed to be a top man in gambling circles.”
These summaries are compilations with intelligence-file references in parentheses; “reported,” “reputed” and “said” mark hearsay, and arrests are not convictions. Sutton testified that Kleinman’s tax conviction was in 1931; exhibit 32 prints 1933. The committee’s contempt reports on the two men are Senate Report 208 and Senate Report 209.
