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<Seewmre ammppem ntcerD rat March 31, 1955 GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE INTELLIGENCE FILE ALBERT ANASTASIA - TOP HOODLUM COVERAGE ALBERT ANASTASIA, was FBI Number 171579 ‘ By letter dated December 31, 1954 the Newark Office advised that the trial on the income tax evasion charge against ALBERT ANASTASIA was commenced on October 1b, 1954 et Newark, New Jersey. ANASTASIA was indicted in . March, 1954 by the Federal Grand Jury on the charge of evading payment of $11,742 in income taxes for the years 1947 end 1918. The indictment charced that he reported a net income of $18,769 for the years 1947 and 1948, when actually it should have been #51,07h. At the start of the trial, the matter of : ANASTASIA'S spacious and elaborate home located at 75 Blutt7 Road, .Fort Lee, ew-Jersey, which was in the name of ALBERT /-7 « and ELSA BARGNESI, was brought up. The defense attorney” — aamitted that BARGNESI was rae pescen name of ANASTASIA's wife, and thet) ALBERT and ELS, ZBARGNESI were in fact Mr. fF and Mrs. ALBERD” ANASTASTA. Lt“was “also borne out thet two mortgage loans totaling $30,000 were Secured on the home in 1947 in the name of ALBERT and ELSA BARGNESI. it was also borneout during the trial that a home in the name of ELSA BARGNESI had formerly been owed by them, which was located in Brooklyn and sold for $25,000 in 1946. Much of the trial concerned testimony of Mrs, ANASTASIA's holdings which the defense -objected to submitting in evidence, but which was admitted in evidence, . Testimony was brought out that in 1943 ALBERT KASTASIA had told Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Officials that he never earned more than $145 a month between 1928 end 1942. This statement, given to INS, further LP -Ge wer. ENCLOSURE /