Record
Hearing
1951-01-19
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 6: Ohio-Kentucky (Boston Public Library copy)
Kefauver Committee, Cleveland: testimony of Max Marmorstein (January 1951)
Cleveland real estate operator Max Marmorstein appeared to answer testimony given at the committee's Miami hearing about his office in the Ninth-Chester Building, and said he had lent Thomas McGinty $25,000 in 1949 for a hotel McGinty said he was building in Las Vegas.
- Date
- 1951-01-19
- 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.
Printed pages 355 to 367 of Part 6. Max Marmorstein, of the Ninth-Chester Building, Cleveland, a real estate man, asked to answer testimony given at the committee’s Miami Beach hearing by Daniel Sullivan of the Greater Miami Crime Commission, who had said that Marmorstein’s office telephones were removed in 1943 “because they were connected with gambling operations” and that the building was the headquarters of Empire News. Marmorstein said he bought the building after 1945 and denied the account; a longer statement from him is printed in the appendix.
Questioned by chief counsel Rudolph Halley, he said that in the fall of 1949 he lent Thomas McGinty money on his note, $25,000, and that McGinty told him he was building a hotel in Las Vegas. Asked whether McGinty could build a hotel for that sum, he said McGinty “asked me if I could give him more, but I said I couldn’t.” His answers are testimony.
