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' 4 } MEMO, SAC: September 18, 1946 Re: BENJAMIN “BUGS” SIEGEL my views on the matter and the investigation which I contemplated. I told him that I would submit such a memorandum, bu} would je it on the theory that we would investigate the false vintocen Reno, since the case will ultimately come back to that in any even’ also since at this time I do not have the camplete transcript of the hearings before pr the C.P.A. Commissioner, and, therefore, I am not in a positio; analyte possible false statements at the hearing. I advis that pending the Bureau's decision on this matter we would go the C.P.A. Commissioner, and ask him exactly what he based his decision on to determine, if possible, he based his decision on some statement of the defendants which we could prove is false. During this conversation I asco ED: there was any information in the Bureau files of a derogatory nature concerning AMERICAN Dist f aid thet the only information he had was that cer Sep GRICAN DISTILLERS. I told him I was aware b 2c ° » Dut that one of the ¢ had spoken to an architect in Los Angeles, who stated tha’ fand his associates had come to this architect asking him to draw plans for the Flamingo Hotel project, but when he learn AVERICAN DISTILLERS' money was going into it, he declined said that he would have a search made of the Bureau files an: here was any derogatory information it would be fur- nished to us. I cul ED «+ vention to COLLIER's magazine for bie September 21st, Page il, where there is an article titled "Blackjack over Nevada” which contains some information concerning BUGS SIEGEL, A. E. OSTHOLTHOFF 62-2017 h7e