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ee ne ned LTR TO DIRECTOR, FBI NK 94-417 Testimony during the trial brought out that ZWILLMAN made a $17,500.00 investment in the Durabrick Sales Corporation, a manufacturer of cement bricks. ZWILLMAN was a 97% stockholder in this venture, which turned out badly. pavip-TIEB of 1480 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, New Jersey, a mason contractor, testified that it was he who had interested ZWILLMAN in investing money in the brick company. He said ZWILLMAN gave him $35,000 half of which he later returned to ZWILLMAN. Later Mr. LIEB corrected himself to say that the money for this brick company actually came from the E & § Trading Company & scrap metals firm of which ZWILLMAN was a 97% stockholder. He added that when he, LIEB, said that ZWILLMAN made the investment he actually meant the E & S Company made it. The press reported under date of February 9, 1956 that the West Orange house in which the ZWILLMANS 7 ENDEL was deeded to Mrs. ZWILLMAN by her father EUGENE E, MENDELS subject to a $46,000.00 mortgage held by ZWILLMAN. $20,000.00 in repair work was allegedly done in the house in 1947 and 1948. During the trial various methods were used to bring out the actual manner in which ZWILLMAN conducted his financial affairs. During the trial the government went back through the depression years to show that actually ZWILLMAN's father-in-law was & trustee for ZWILLMAN and not his partner. Testimony was given to show that EUGENE E. MENDELS, who 18 now 82 years of age and seriously i111 with heart trouble, was a banker and broker until the 1929 crash and that he worked for the W.P.A. during the depression, In 1942 he signed an affidavit saying that he had been dependent on the ZWILLMANS since his daughter married ZWILLMAN in 1939, MENDELS, who is too11 to appear in Court, made a bedside deposition on January 20, 1956. In this deposition 7