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3 | NK 94-417 LTR TO DIRECTOR, FBI On Pebruary 1, 1956 MICHAEL LASCARI testified at the trial and atated that although ZWILLMAN was only an employee of the gubtic Service Tobacco Company of Hiliside he was to draw large checks on the company in 1947 and 1948 without consulting anyone. LASCARI, who said he was the Genezval or of the vending machine company, explained that he and ZWILLMAN had an "informal relationship" adding that"Mr. ZWILLMAN could do as he pleased and s0 could I". LASCARI was asked to describe ZWILLMAN's precise employment with the company and his reply was "public relations, more or less’. After this comment LASCARI was pressed for more details and he said, "Mr. ZWILLMAN supplied leads and helped to close an account when he could". ZWILLMAN contended that he could not be charged with any of the assets of the Public Service Tobacco Company because he gave his partnership share to his wife in 1941. LASCARI testified that he and ZWILLMAN occupied the same status with the company, each being an employee. LASCARI said his family owns 50% of the business. Testimony was also given that ZWILLMAN drew checks on the Public Service account to make individual unsecured loans. Internal Revenue Agent O'HARA also brought out that ZWILLMAN's efforts to buy into the Tanforan Race Track in California in 1945 was evidenced by ZWILLMAN's sending $75,000.00 to California and JERRY GEISLER, a well-known Los Angeles Attorney, represented him in the transaction. The negotiations to purchase an interest in the track never materialized. It was brought out that the late JULES ENDLER, a ZWILLMAN associate, had sworn in a deposition in 1954 that ZWILLMAN got up $112,000.00 in cash in 1946 aa his, ZWILLMAN's share of an investment in Louisville, Kentucky real estate and $140,000.00 in currency in 1946 towards the purchase of Hampshire House, a plush New York hotel, both of which deals subsequently fell through.