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\ SAC August 20, 1946 Hotel would come up to the hearing with high-price lawyers and technical . experts. I asked him if the builders of the Flamingo Hotel were not already on notice that his organization was conducting an investigation, and he ad= mitted that they had already appeared at the first hearing with high-price lawyers and technical assistants. GE...» proposed that we hold off our investigation mtil after the CPA hearing Septenber 5. He said that if both the CPA and the FBI investi~ % gate this matter we might both fail, but that if CPA alone investigates it the b chance of CPA failing is less. However, he stated that if the CPA fails to make its case then they will turn the matter over to use I told him thet he himself stated that we would be going over the same investigation, end I pointed out that if that Is true that if the CPA fails then the FBI fails, He admitted that this was true. The only thing tre tMiMMM.o.14 reveal as te the future investigation The thing the mould reveal as te the future investigation of the CPA was that they planne annee to take ph tographe of the work as it now stands on the Flamingo Hotel and to try te get technical assistance. He said that they might not be able to get this technical assistance and then he did not kmow what the results of their case might bee He said that they thought they might try to get additional plans used by the construction company. S ww ° I then askeAQQBBMBBR c ho thought that the OPA could make a case that would "stick." He replied that he did think so, otherwise, they w would net proceed with further investigation. Neturally he qualified this by stating that it depends on what evidence is secured, that if the same evidence is secured that he feels can be secured the stop order of the CPA can be made final, We asked QE: ot, recourse the builders have in the />. event the stop order is made final, amd they stated that they can appeal to &- the Chief Compliance Officer of the CPA after which they oan have recourse to the Federal courta for a restraining order. hen asked if thore was anything else that I wanted, and I told him that we had not received anything that we came for, that what we wanted was the full facts on this entire matter, I told him thet apparently he had no intention of furnishing that to us and his attitude was that he would have to secure the authority for him to furnish this information to u from his superiors in Washing tone He stated that this was correct. - ~ xs ; et ELAR t * ‘ x. he 62-28: Are a A AE