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' ~——" aah A _ , Office Menke. bndum * UNITED ?. GOVERNMENT To : The Attorney General a“ Misc. : Director, FBI My é SUBJECT ABNER "LONGIE" ZWILLMAN att January 21, 1960 OFFICE OF RECEIe Jae YAN 2] 1960 I thought you might be interested in the following story. The Special Agent in Charge of our Newark, New NN Jersey, Office has advised me that recently a reporter of the \ "Newark Star-Ledger" newspaper stopped by to see him and, among other things, commented on the Jury-Bribery case of Abner "Longie" Zwillman. As you know, Zwillman was found . dead in the basement of his home shortly after Agents of this f Bureau had arrested several of his closest associates. The reporter commented, "I wonder if you people pee: in the FBI realize fully what you did when you cleaned up the ~_-_ Zwillman mob.” He went on to state that in his opinion, there has been a noticeable change since the death of Zwillman, and he pointed out that for as long as he has been in Newark, each paereaner’ Christmas, cases of whiskey would arrive at the various newspaper offices in Northern New Jersey; and that while there was no indication as to its source, everyone knew that the whiskey was a present from to the newspapers and that there was considerable comment among . newspaper people over this change. Z 1- Mr. Lawrence E. Walsh , - Deputy Attorney General . > hy } f ao ETHER 9 1aiv - & “Longie" Zwillman. He stated that this year there was no whiskey Soone pe rey