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in testimony before the Kefauver Committee in October, 1950, ROSELLI stated that during prohibition he was engaged in a very small way in Los Angeles, buying and selling a little liqucr here and there, and that he operated.by himself. ROSELLI further testified tnat he recalls his first trip back to Chicago after moving to Los Angeles was with JOSEPH SANTONELLI, a restaurant owner; that he went back again to Chicage at the time of the DEMPSEY-TUNNEY prizefight in Chicago, and that between the years 1928 and 1933, he didn't go back to Chicago too often. He said he was pretty sick during this pericd ana was eonfined with tuberculosis in a sanitarium at Redwood City, California. He admitted that he had visited the Lexington Hotel (which was the headquarters of the AL CAPONE gang) and stated he first met AL CAPONE at the time he went back to Chicago to see the DEMPSEY-TUNNEY fight. He met CAPONE at the Metropole Hotel. He L2iieves he first met CAPONE through JO SSPOSITO, a Committeenan on the West Side cf Chicago, who was a friend of ROSELLI. He said he didn't see CAPONE every time ne visited Chicago. ROSELLI testified he is acquainted with CHARLES FISCHETTI, having met him on the West Coast on one occasion, When asked how he met these individuals, ROSELLI stated he was a young feilow with very little education; that he was trying to sell whisky; trying to do anything he possibly could to make a living, so naturally he tried to make the most of meet- ings with anybody he could ROSELLI stated that CAPONE and FISCHETTI visited the West Coast in about 1930 and ROSELLI went to the Biltmore Hotel to see them and was with them for about one day. - 23-