Morris Dalitz

On the record

• 15 November 1950 — Wilbur Ivern Clark, president of the Desert Inn, named Morris Kleinman and Dalitz among the corporation's directors in his testimony at Las Vegas (Kefauver Committee, Part 10, pp. 52-64).
• 28 February 1951 — Dalitz testified at the Federal Building, Los Angeles: "Three of us, Mr. Kleinman, Mr. Tucker, and myself have 13 percent each, which would be 39 percent." Asked whether he was an officer, he said "I am an officer of the corporation, Senator" (Part 10, pp. 907-928).
• 28 February 1951 — Asked if he had also been known as Moe Davis, he said "Yes," adding that "Davis became sort of a nickname" (Part 10, p. 908). Asked about an interest in a club some years earlier, he said "I stand on my constitutional rights."
• July 1961 — An FBI airtel from the Director, filed in the Balistrieri file under the Criminal Intelligence Program, lists "Las Vegas Morris Barney Dalitz" among ten additional "hoodlums" selected for "concentrated all-out investigative attention," as far as the OCR can be read.

This page is limited to federal records. The Kefauver Committee heard Dalitz in Los Angeles on February 28, 1951. A summary from the Chicago Crime Commission about his earlier years in Cleveland was read into the record by committee staff, and he disputed parts of it. That summary is not repeated here and is not a finding. The FBI’s 1961 list uses “hoodlums” as its program label and states no organization or rank. No family or rank is stated for Dalitz in any record opened for this page. No federal opinion naming him was opened.

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