United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce

Mobster Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee.

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States. The committee became popularly known as the Kefauver Committee because of its chairman, Senator Estes Kefauver.[1] The term capo di tutti capi was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission.[2]

  1. ^ Friedman, The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World, 2005, p. 151.
  2. ^ De Stefano, An Offer We Can't Refuse, p. 41

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