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‘ , ao t © 4) COND Pon ee 4 C t ( Office Memurindum «+ oNITED Sin. GOVERNMENT A [3bfse DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: SAC, WKEW YORK (9-19 subfile 10) ABNER GuTLLMAN, was GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE FILE TOP HOODLUM COVERAGE iV According to an article in the NY Daily News J’. on 12/31/55, Federal Judge REYNIER J. WORTENDYKE, Jr., an on 12/30/55, at Newark, New Jersey, denied # motion for Be dismissal of an indictment charging ZWILLMAN with 2 evading $46,000 in income tax for 197 and 1948, and trial was slated for 1/10/56, The article stated that the motion was based on a rumor that grand jury members and others had discussed the case at a party attended by federal prosecutors ten days before the indictment was voted. According to an article in the NY Morld / Telegram and San of 1/10/56, ZWILLMAN an of his “~~. prohibition era bootlegging aids, JOSEP ACHER, were behind a 1949 housing project deal in Jersey City, New Jersey. A probe of whether ZWILLMAN gave false testimony in connection with aninquiry into that deal, was Suggested by SAMUEL A. LARNER, a Newark, New Jersey Attorney, appointed by Superior Court in 1953, to look into Jersey City finances. . ee The deal involved the acceptance by City Commission in 1949 of a man named LESLIE Mé-WEBER as a substitué for the Prudential Insurance Company on a contract for construction of a proposed 1100-unit multi million dollar house project on the site of the old city ball park. ; The p€oject was never built but Mr. WEBER, - in tryingsto pod iidte a $90,000 deal for control of gu the lang tesfiritd that he borrowed $20,000 from <~ - 2 € = . 7 a @p (e ww, 2 * -_ i-New York 19 subfile 10) £2: 3 6°85: of FHD :mam ; (3) "7 FEB 6 1956 f . , Wo / Hib a Gio