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‘ , aoe t © Owe rom ne 4 C ’ «, . Office Menu wnaum e UNITED Sina.. GOVERNMENT Ve at DIRECTOR, FBI Dare: SAC, NEW YORK (9);-419 subfile 10) To ABNER Gut tuman, was FBI # 346333— GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE FILE TOP HOODLUM COVERAGE According to an article in the NY Daily News on 12/31/55, Federal Judge REYNIER J, WORTENDYKE, Jr., on 12/30/55, at Newark, New Jersey, dented a motion for dismissal of an indictment charging ZWILLMAN with evading $46,000 in income tax for 1947 and 1948, and trial was slated for 1/10/56. The article stated that the motion was based on @ rumor that grand jury members and others had discussed the oase at a party attended by federal prosecutors ten days before the indictment was voted. According to an article in the NY World / Telegram and San of 1/10/56, ZWILLMAN an of his “~_ a prohibition era bootlegging aids, JOSEP, ACHER, were behind a 199 housing project deal in Jersey City, New Jersey. A probe of whether ZWILLMAN gave false testimony in connection with aninquiry into that deal, was suggested by SAMUEL A. LARNER, & Newark, New Jersey Attorney, eppointed by Superior Court in 1953, to look into Jersey City finances. ‘ The deal involved the acceptance by City Commission in 1949 of a man named LESLIE “WEBER as a substitié for the Prudential Insurance Company on a contract for construction of a proposed 1100-unit multi million dollar house project on the site of the old city ball park. = ThE pio ject was never built but Mr. WEBER, - in trying. to peso tiate a $90,000 deal for control of the lang goo ttribe that he borrowed $20,000 from : SE eB | = Bee Hina, RECORDED. 7 jy 2 ODgD.7 a 1-New York @,¥i9 subfile 10) 42-362 8S 3 FHD :mam (3) 17 FEB 6 1956 Hol ow Fina 61850