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Ni 94-417 WID: JMP Dell Clothing Company, 900 Passaic Avenue, East Newark, New Jersey, which is owned by a family named ZARKOW. It has been rumored in the past that the actual owner of the Dell Clothing Company is RUGGIERO BOIARDO, who is reportedly a prominent racketeer in the Newark area. Information has been received that ZWILLMAN often met PHILIP WEISS for private discussions in the Peacock Alley of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Information was received in 1955 that the "Wall Street Journal" was checking on PHILIP WEISS concerning his attempts to purchase opentearth steel furnaces from the United States Steel Company in the name of the Barium Steel Corporation in which ZWILLMAN allegedly has a substantial interest. a Local metropolitan newspapers on or about October 5, 1954 carried accounts of ZWILLMAN's testimony before the Larner Committee in Jersey City, New Jersey on October 5, 1954. The Larner Committee had been appointed j by a local court to investigate alleged irregularities in the operations of the city government of Jersey City, New Jersey. The following is a summary of the information appearing in the newspaper articles at that time: ZWILLMAN acknowledged on the stand that he had loaned $20,000 to one LESLIE M. WEBER to assist WEBER in his efforts to negotiate a $90,000 real estate deal for control of the land on which the old Jersey City baseball park stood. This transaction dated back to 1947, however, it never actually materialized. After purchasing the property for $90,000, WEBER subsequently was paid $94,000 by Jersey City for "damages" he was supposed to have suffered. During the Senate Investigation Committee (Kefauver Hearings) during 1951, ZWILLMAN testified that a man named ean , WEBER was one of those who were trustees for him in land Sr holdings. When testifying before the Larner Committee, eerie nate 2 ZWILLMAN acknowledged that LESLIE M. WEBER was the same individual he referred to in the Kefauver Committee Hearings, but ZWILLMAN added that he had erred before the Senate Committee because of a confliction between the terms trustee and borrower. ZWILLMAN insisted that he actually had no -~ 32 -