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b> bID in the local press, but no specific instances have been brought out other than that admitted by former Governor HAROLD HOFFMAN. A Democratic Governor was elected in 1953 after HAROLD HOFFMAN, who was Director of the Unemployment Security Division, a big political job in New Jersey, was suspended for alleged irregularities. During his suspension HOFFMAN died from a heart attack. It has been alleged that ZWILLMAN paid the entire bill for the funeral expenses of former Governor HOFFMAN. In early 1955 it was reported that ZWILLMAN indirectly controlled the insurance agency operated by LOUIS SAPERSTEIN and that the contribution by the liquor industry in the form of premiums for welfare and insurance represented a lucrative source of revenue for both SAPERSTEIN and ZWILLMAN. Considerable publicity was given to the mishandling of insurance matters by SAPERSTEIN and others. SAPERSTEIN was sentenced to five years for contempt in connection with insurance kickbacks to union representatives. SAPERSTEIN started to talk, resuiting in the indictment of other members of the racket element in New York; namely, GEORGE SCALISE and SOL SILENTO. In March of 1956 in Newark SAPERSTEIN was shot four times in the head but lived. News releases at the time speculated that SAPERSTEIN's implication of others in the insurance racket was the cause of his shooting. In June of 1948 EDWARD A. KLEINMAN, who reportedly operated a handbook at the Stevens Hotel, Miami Beach, was the right-hand man of LONGIE ZWILLMAN.