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SO adn it ocean an een ee ater ee = Ss = 2. x os 87 “oO OD and dominated six locals of the International +ongshoremen's Association, A.F.L. In addition, Albert had become a friend, as he admitted in 1961 to the Kefauver Committee, of Joe — ; foonis, Willie Moretti, Vito Genovese and Augi Pisano, importmt UES» . ‘ With Adonis and Abe Reles, Aibert formed Murder, Inc., the famous racket syndicate that slew sixty-three men in the New York area between 1931 and 1940. Reles later testified that Albert was tne fingerman and ordered all of the killings. | In 1939 Peter Panto, the longshoreman who orgenized a rank-and-file revolt to rid the union of racketeers was strangled and his body was buried in e lime pit. Reles, accused of several other murders, told all to save his life. He implicated the subject in this and thirty more murders. Then Reles plunsed to his death from his room in the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island in 191 md William O'Dwyer, then Brooklyn District Attorney, déaid his "perfect case" against Anastesia had collepsed. Taking refuge in the Army in 192 the subject hid out as technical sergeant training Army longshoremen at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania for the next two years. . Before he was discharged as over age in 19hh he took advantaze of a law granting quick citizenship to servicemen. After he quit the waterfront and the rough stuff he beran operating a dress factory in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The sudject bought a ‘375,000.00 yellow stucco house of phony Spanish style overlooking the Hudson at Fort Lee, -iew Jersey around the corner from the home of his old friend Adonis. There he lives behind a steel fence guarded by two @ors, and spurns subpoenas of the State Crime Commission. He has two Lincolns, his son goes to colle-e, and he and his brothers have bought Mama Anastasio, now are a 76, a home in Farrhelia, Italy where the Federal Government has betun proceedinss to denaturalize and deport hin.