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Kefauver panel eyes West Coast rackets crackdown
U S Senate crime probe led by Estes Kefauver storms California and Nevada for eight days of hearings. The inquiry targets big time rackets, tax evasion links, and gambling empires, with figures like Mickey Cohen and Jack Dragna named. Nevada officials face scrutiny as Desert Inn financing emerges. Ahern and Cahill join to pursue Mafia ties and unsolved murders.
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San Francisco
U. S. Senate
Estes Kefauver
Crump
California
Nevada
Kefauver
Charles Tobey
New Hampshire
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Harold G. Robinson
California Commission On Organized Crime
William H. Standley
Senate
Federal Bureau of Internal Revenue
The
Crime Commission
Mickey Cohen
Los Angeles
Cohen
Rudolph Halley
Saat
Jack I. Dragna
Crime Mission
Congress
Ac Tees
James Iley
Fletcher Bowron
Contra Costa County
William N
Big Bill) Pechart
David N. Kessel
Mountain City Consolidated Copper Co
Patrick Mooney
Internal Revenue Service
Amblers
Glifford Jones
William R. Moore
Nevada Tax Commission
Wilbur Clark
Desert Inn
Cleveland
Kentucky
Ace
Dily
Los
Nick de John
Chicago
Frank Aherns
Thomas Cahill
de John
Charles Binaggio
Kansas City
Ahern
Cahill
San