# Charles Gargotta

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/charles-gargotta/

Recorded with Charles Binaggio on a Kansas City police list as 'found shot to death in political club at 718 Truman Road' on April 5, 1950, and described there as a 'well-known gunman and muscle-man engaged in gambling operations'; a former sheriff testified that jury intimidation prevented a murder conviction.

No court record for Gargotta was opened. The police department's description and the former sheriff's statement are testimony-record characterizations, not findings of a court. The FBI report on him that Senator Kefauver placed in the record as Exhibit 12 prints as an unreadable image of a table, so none of its entries is recorded. The killing is unsolved in the sources filed. The day is not settled by the filed records: the police list prints April 5, 1950, while committee counsel and witnesses in the same hearing volume put the killing of Binaggio and Gargotta on the night of April 6, 1950 (Kefauver Part 4, September 1950 sessions). The died field gives the year only.

## Sources

- Kefauver Committee hearings, Part 4: Missouri (1950), Exhibit 20, appendix p. 417, via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/investigationofo04unit