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a MEMO, SAC: September 4, 1946 Re: BENJAMIN "BUGS" STESEL March 26th, The casino and restaurant were started before March 26th, but there is ample evidence that the hétel building rted until pie some time in April, probably April 10, 1946. 1 tol that SIEGEL and his associates are claiming that and the casino are all one building; that they so claimed befor the C.P.A. representative at Reno on April 29th and took the position t since they had started their construction of the casino before March 26th they were not bound by the C.P.a. orders. I advise question was put tol "In your discussion w: and in your discussion concerning the erection o ng, Was at all times to be o: as one building?" replied: “yas". at another poin was asked: sements go all the way around and 6 entire structure?” answered: “Yes, they do". I tol: that I believe that those two statements were at variance wi’ 9 true facts in the case. J pointed out that naturally we cannot make a perjury case until we conduct the necessary investigation; that intent as well as the fact that the statements were 7a1--(libiaiion bre wanted to know if we had documentary evidence disproving those B mts. I told him that we had the building permits which were issued at Les Vegas and that the building perm: Further, that we had interviews and he advised us thet he had b mn hired ts Du: ‘3 yo the casi reference a: 7 advise ad given confus answers to questions ies it would require a further 8) of the test. to indicate that he had made any deliberate false statements; <n ileal: apparently cars wers he reference to the testimony -ieiieibidalinliiay hat he had testified generally along the same lines asi atified., ewe bne that this will probably be a difficult ¢ with him, but stated that it was my theory the’ nine has a good reputation at Las Vegas, would pr. give us ith of the ossibly assist materially in making our case. I also ccviee iia another C.P.A. hearing was coming b up September Sth and that @ CeP.A, is able to enforce its stop eg order we possibly would not want to go ahead with a prosecution on the . false statement theory because this might appear to be harasament; that the stop order in itself would accomplish a great deal in that tie up approximately $500,000 worth of SIEGELis funds. I told -~2-