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Abraham 2willesn On December 31, 195), a fifteen-year-old indictment on a contempt of court charge was dismissed in Federel Court in New York against Zwiliman. Thie indictment was the oldest of fifty indictments dismissed on this dete, On August 21, 1939, Zwillman was ed judged in contempt end sentenced to six months for his refusal on grounds of self-inerisination te answer questions before the grand jury in New York. He had dean called to name his business associetes from 1928 through 1932, when he was alleged to have been active in the bootlegging racket. This contempt conviction was reversed on Jenuary 12° 1940, by the United States Court of Appeals, the Court ruling thet Zwillman had a right to invoke a privilege of refusing to answer questions on grounds of self-incrimination. The Government did not sppeal this reversal, end the case was returned for retriel, Three months later it was marked off the judiciel calendar and was never recalled, In March, 195, Zwillman announced that he end @ up of associates woulé contribute a quarter of a million ollars towards slum clearance in Newark. Zwillman sdvised at this time thet his action was motivated only by a desire to redevelop Newark end that he hed no intent to manage the project in any way. During February, 1955, 1t was reported that Zwilleam frequently had lunch with Prank Costello and Frank Erickson at the Mens Ber, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. According to an article in the "New York World Telogram and Sun," of January 10, 195), Zwillman and Stacher in 1949 were behind a proposed eleven hundred unit multimillion dollar housing project in Jersey City, New Jersey. This deal involved acceptance by the Jersey City Commission in 19:9 of Leslie M. Weber as finencier in place of the Prudential Insurance Company. The project was never built, but Weber in trying to obtain $90,000 for control of the lend allegedly borrowed $20,000 from Zwillman and $5,000 from the Harlow Agency, Incorporated, a Newark, New Jersey, insurance firm eontrolled by Steacher. The March 1), 1956, edition of the "New York Mirror," contains a column by Victor Riese) entitled "Multi-Berreled Purpose in Saperstein Shooting." This erticle describes Louis Saperstein as a "muleter-extraordinary of union welfare funds," indicating he "dipped in" for almost one million -19 6