Record
Hearing
1951-02-09
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 9: Michigan (Boston Public Library copy)
Kefauver Committee, Detroit: testimony of Angelo Meli (9 February 1951)
Angelo Meli told the committee he lived on rents and a farm and had been in the jukebox business until 1943; asked whether a police record read to him was correct, he answered 'It must be.'
- Date
- 1951-02-09
- Kind
- hearing
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 82d Cong., Part 9: Michigan
- 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 186 to 188 of Part 9. Angelo Meli gave an address in Grosse Pointe Park, where he said he had lived “since 1941 or 1942,” and said, “I spend most of my time with a farm and collect some property rents.” Asked about a full-page advertisement for “Meli-dy Enterprises” in the 1949 dance program (exhibit 1), he said he had nothing to do with it and supposed it was “an enterprise my nephew was interested in,” naming Vincent Meli.
Asked whether he had a criminal record, he said, “I have, sir.” Counsel read arrests listed from 1919 to 1951, among them charges of carrying concealed weapons, murder, armed robbery, extortion, kidnaping and violation of prohibition, and “1951, investigation.” Asked, “Is that correct?” Meli said, “It must be,” and to the chairman, “It is there. I guess it does.” He then said: “I was in the jukebox business up until 1943.” A photograph of his house was received as exhibit 15.
The list is a record of arrests read by counsel, not of convictions. This archive does not repeat the street address Meli gave.
