Once the Kefauver hearings took place in '51, like Cabrini made reference to, what kept Hoover and the FBI from doing any kind of investigation on the mafia?
At the outset of the Kefauver hearings, Attorney General Howard McGrath, Hoover's boss, declared that the Justice Dept. had "no substantive evidence that a "national syndicate of organized crime exists." That enabled Hoover to keep his resources for the CPUSA.