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a\ "The Supreme Court today refused to review the government's unsuccessful efforts to cancel the citizenship of Albert Anastasia, reputed head of the old Brooklyn Murder, Inc., mob, ; . "Federal Judge William F, Smith in Newark, New Jersey., ruled Anastasia had obtained his natural- ization by fraud and ordered it canceled, This opened the way for deportation of Anastasia to his native italy, but the United States Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed Judge Smith,. . "The appeals court ruled that a naturalization examiner might with greater diligence have discovered ~ Anastasia's fraud upon the naturalization court and so the government was not deceived into granting his citizen- Ship in 1943, “Appealing to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department said the Philadelphia court's action was erroneous and ‘undermines the very foundation! of de~ naturalization law. "In its appeal, the Justice Department said the Philadelphia appeals court opinion holds the government bound by neglect or lack of judgment of a single minor employee and specifically holds the decree of a court to be immune from correction for fraud, "Such a holding, the appeal added, has contin- uing importance in all fields of governmental activity _. Since it makes the rights of the government as a whole dependent on the error of any subordinate employee. Even if the examiner were in fact aware of the fraud, his fault cannot bind the government or the denaturalization court So as to render Anastasia immune from the consequence. of... his own fraud,” In an article appearing in the "New York Daily News" dated May 18, 1956, the photograph of Albert Anastasia appeared with the caption, “Gangland figure, Albert Anastasia (second from right and covering his face with a handkerchief) leaves brother's funeral service. with his group of mourners,"