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OP ro ean Soe LT 2 See vial a. ee ee CR 5 ne a en eet nen pen oe. hme actually it should have been #51,07h. GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE FILE | ALBERT ANASTASIA | TOP HOODLUM COVERAGE ALBERT ANASTASTA, was FBI Number 171579 By letter dated December 31, 1954 the Newark Office advised that the trial on the income tax evasion charge against ALRERT ANASTASIA was commenced on October 1s, 1954 et Newark, New Jersey. ANASTASIA was indicted in . March, 1954 by the Federal Grand Jury on the charge of eveding payment of $11,742 in income taxes for the years 154.7 and 1948. The indictment charced that he reported & net income of $18,769 for the years 1947 and 1948, when At the start of the trial, the matter of ANASTASIA's spacious and elaborate home located at 75 Blurt7’ i Road, Fort Lee, New-Jersey, which was in the name of ALBERT /:“°! We? + and ELSA BARGNESI, was brought up. The defense attorney an admitted that BARGNESI was reg pean name of ANASTASIA!s wife, and thet? ALBERT and ELS ZBARGNESI were in fact Mr. F and Mrs. ALBER’ “ANASTASTA, Lt“was “also borne out thet two mortgage loans totaling $30,000 were secured on the home” in 1947 in the name of ALBERT and ELSA BARGNESI. lt was also borne out during the trial that a home in the name of ELSA BARGNESI had formerly been owned by them, which was located in Brooklyn and sold for $25,000 in 1946. Much of the trial concerned testimony of Mrs. ~ ANASTASIA's holdings which the defense -objected to submitting in evidence, but which was admitted in evidence. EXCLOSULE /