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Other individuals raported as associates of ZWILLMAN in the past were former Newark City Commissioner MEYER ELLENSTEIN and other well-known political figures; namely, Coionel WILLIAM KELLY, the Chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee, and JOHN MANNING, the U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue, Newark, New Jersey. Information was received that one reason why ZWILLMAN was able to operate as he did in Newark in the period around 1946 was because of his contact with Colonel KELLY, the Democratic leader in Essex County. KELLY was alleged to make up the political siate at the time of the elections and ee ee a a or whatever money he needed. then go to ZWILLMAN IT It has been reported that ZWILLMAN made a substantial contribution to the campaign fund of JOHN V. KENNY, former Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, who deposed FRANK HAGUE from that position. In 1950 HAROLD KRIEGER, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Jersey City, New Jersey, whose law firm reportedly represented many iocai labor unions, was allegedly a friend of ZWILLMAN. While testifying before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee on Auguet 18, 1951, JOSEPH B. BOZZO of Paterson, New Jersey, admitted that he knew numerous of the racketeers in whom the Senate Committee was interested. In this testimony BOZZO stated that he had known ZWILLMAN for some 15 years and that he had solicited ZWILLMAN's political aid on only one occasion, which was during the 1946 New Jersey campaign when BOZZO worked to get support for HAROLD HOFFMAN, the Republican Gubernatorial candidate in the Primaries. In news releases BOZZO's name was subsequently brought into the foreground during the 1953 New Jersey Gubernatorial election when it was brought out that BOZZO had contributed $25,000 cash to the Republican Party in 1949. HAROLD HOFFMAN, who was Governor of New Jersey from 1935 to 1937, advised the Senate Crime Investigating Committee that he had asked ZWILLMAN for heip in 1946. He aiso stated that he had not met ZWILLMAN until after he left the Governorship in 1937 and added that ZWILLMAN had never made any improper requests of him. When ZWILIMAN testified before this same Senate Committee, he was vague in his answers concerning humerous telephone calls between himself and HOFFMAN. Though ZWILLMAN and HOFFMAN were admittedly associated, the actual closeness of the relationship is unknown, ZWILLMAN's nane has been frequently injected into local political campaigns -2]-