November 2022 issue contents - Feature
Youngstown police head brought his view of organized crime to U.S. Senate's Kefauver Committee
"On Thursday, January 18, 1951, Youngstown Police Chief Edward Joseph Allen appeared in Cleveland’s Federal Building to testify before the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Kefauver Committee). The committee hearing was attended by its chairman, Senator Estes Kefauver; Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley; Assistant Counsel Joseph L. Nellis; and Investigator John McCormick. Allen provided a diagram of criminal organizations engaged in rackets in Youngstown and discussed his understanding of group relationships and criminal activities... His 1951 testimony indicates he believed northwestern Ohio organized crime was under the control of mafiosi in the Detroit area, who he saw as superiors to Cleveland mobsters. Allen seems not to have fully understood the various competing criminal interests present in his city. Portions of his testimony are shown here to illustrate law enforcement’s view of Youngstown organized crime in the period..."
Book page count: Ten and a half pages, including a half-page of notes and two images.
Magazine page count: Six pages, including a third-page of notes and three images.
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