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IK 922389 DETAI ee . Ia_Backonomp’ 3. vo _ The subject resides at 50 Beverly Road, West - | - Orange, New Jersey, vith his wife, the former MARY DE GROOT MENDELS STEINBACH, his stepson, JOHN STEINBACH, and his |. daughter, LYNN ZWILLMAN, The subject's father-inolaw, | HUGENE MENDELS, resides with thems. : a The records of the Bureau of Vital Statisties, City of Newark, refleet that the subjeet was born en zo, Jaly 275 1905 at Newark, New Jeracy, the seeond of six ra children, The subjest*s parents are shown as RUBIN and - : ANNA SLAVINSKY who were both born in Russia, ; The subject was arrested six times between 1926 and 1928, charged with atrosious assault and battery and disorderly conduct. In 1930 © 1931 the subjest served eix months em one of the above eounta, All other sounts . - were dismissed when the complaints were withdrawn. - : a Before a Senate Comittee estigating erime, - the subjeet, in 1950, admitted hav deen & prominent - 7 bootlegger during Prohibition, Te my before this .-— Committee indicated that the sub jeet’s bootlegging soubine Aid an estimated $50,000,000,00 business during Prohibitica. a In UeSe vee Rutkin in 1950, SAM KESSLER, 0 Newark Lowyer, testified that in 19h} he represented the subjeet — in pert of the dissolution ef a liquor eoncern that had = | deen an outgrowth ef the Prohibition boot legsiag operations *.. This eoncera, Browne Vintners, Ine., was sold to Distillers : Seagrans ted, for approximately €7,500,000.00, ° -« “47. 5,0: Ae am aftermath of subjees's refusing to answer fortyeone quéstions put to him by the Senate Committee, : Collier's Magazine on August 25, and September 1, 1951 | contained articles concerning the subject, which stated © among other things that “Longte Zwilleen ranks with Frank Costello as one of the richest and most powerful figures to come out of the mobSecces (twiliman' a) influenee hes