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Crime in America recounts Kefauver hearings on interstate crime
Estes Kefauver describes the creation of the Senate Crime Committee and its nationwide probe into organized crime. He details the Mafia network, key figures like Luciano and Mangano, and wide-reaching drug and racketeering operations across cities such as Miami, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York, asserting the reality of a nationwide crime syndicate.
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American Municipal Association
Free Press
al Capones
Senate
Senate Crime Committee
Special Committee
Robert R. O’conor
Maryland
Lester C. Hunt
Wyoming
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Charles W. Tobey
New Hampshire
Miami
Fla
Tampa
New Orleans
Kansas City
Cleveland
St. Louis
Detroit
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Philadelphia
Washington
Chicago
New York
United States
The
Mafia
America
Sicily
la Mafia
Claude A. Follmer
Vincent Mangano
Joseph Profaci
Mangano
Brooklyn
Philip Mangano
Follmer
Narcotic Bureau
Black Hand
John Vitale
Thomas Buffa
Tony Lopiparo
Lopiparo
Lopip
Tia Juana
Mexico
Binaggio
Gargotta
Lopi
Marseilles
France
Havana
Cuba
Sebastiao Nani
California
Lucky Luciano
Italy
Luciano
U.S
Salvatore Lucania
Murder, Inc
Dewey