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ed ering * a ere Ae AS ‘ [A NRA rns enn MEMO, SAC: . September 4, 1946 Re: BENJAMIN "BUGS" SIEGEL March 26th. The casino and restaurant were started before Waroh 26th, but there is ample evidence that the hotel building rted until pie some time in April, probably April 10, 1946. f ala SIEGEL and his associates are claiming that and the casino are all one building; that they so claimed vero lal the C.F.A. representative at Reno on April 29th and took the position that since they had atarted their construction of the casino before March 26th they were not bound by the C.P.a4. orders. , I advise question was put oC “In your discussion w and in your discussion concerning the erection o ng, Was at all times to be oo d as one building?" replied: "yas", at another poin was asked: sements go all the way around and 8 entire structure?” Tg answered: “Yes, they do". I tol that T belisve that those two statements were at variance with the true facts in the case. J pointed out that naturally we cannot make a perjury case until we conduct the necessary investigation; that intent as well as the fact that the statements were false wanted to know if we had documentary evidence disproving thos I told him that we had the building permits which were issued at Las Vegas and that the building perm Further, that we had interviewe bre ents. and he advised us thet he had been hirsd tc Ggpeleues coe Guilding; namely, the casin aur reference estimony, I advise tha ad given confusing answers to questions and it would require a further s of the test to indicate that he had made any deliborate false statements; tha & apparently very car i @ answers he h reference to the testimony T hat he had testified generally long the same lines as testified. po . o a a | th a2 art. a ee a who has a good reputation at Las Vegas, would probably ruth of the ossibly assist materially in making our case. I also vevie ilialii: another C.P.A. hearing was coming b up September 5th and that eo C.P.A. is able to enforce its stop oe order we possibly would not want to go ahead with a prosecution on the ; false statement theory because this might appear to be harasament; that the stop order in itself would accomplish a great deal in that i oo ee hare feene hat this will probably be a difficult ec dike: with him, but stated that it was my theory tha give us