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Letter to the Director NK 94-417 / estified before the New York Crime Commission to the effect that JERRY CATENA and NIGCY QUTKIN were fronting the G&& Trading Co. for ZHILLMAN, ) J , inise When ZWILLMAN was (personally)interviewed,at the Public Service Tobacco Co. in Hillside, N. J., of th concern ZWILLMAN is part owners A/, _ he advised that he had known one talgeoaes for a great many years, but ste that he had not seen him in recent years and had had no association with him recently. ZWILLMAN further stated that he never had any business dealings with ROSEN in the course of his career. / (Interviewed by agents 12/52) / ' Before the Senate Crime Investi; g Committee sitting at Washington, D. C., on 8/18/51, JOSEPH Gg’ BOZZO of Paterson, N, J., testified that he was a clothing manufacturer who dabbled a bit in local politics, mostly as a rank & file worker. At that time he said "I just do the best I can for any candidate - just individual work". During his testimony, BOZZO admitted knowing several racketeers in whom the Committee was interested = namely, JOE ADONIS, WILLIE MORETTI, now deceased, and PERKONE, B0zz0 2 -/- said he had known ZWILLMAN for 15 years and that he had solicited ZWILLMAN's political aid only on one occasion, during the 1946 campaign, when BOZZO worked at trying to get suprort for HAROLD HOFFMAN, Republican Gubernatorial candidate in the primaries. ) (BOZZO'8 name was brought to the foreground during the recent 1953 N. J, Gubernatorial election when it was brought out that BOZZO had contributed $25,000 cash to the Republican Party in 1949. This was brought out during an legislative investigation inquiring into the dismissal of NELSON F. STAMLER, a former Deputy Attorney General investigating gambling activities in Bergen County, N. 3. ) ore S/MOFFMAN, a former Governor of N, J. from 1935 through 1937, who campaigned as a candidate in the primary election in 1946, advised the Senate Crime Investigating Committee that he had asked ZWILLMAN for help in 1946. HOFFMAN stated that he had been introduced to ZWILLMAN after his term of Goyernor and added that ZWILLMAN had never made any improper requests of him, | When ZWILLMAN testified before this Committee, he was vague in his anewere goncerning numerous telephonic communications between himself and FFMAN, /