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NK 94-17 Letter to the Bureau referred to as the Larner Committee in Jersey City, N. J. SAMUEL A. LARNER is an attorney, appointed by the court, to investigate alleged irregularities in the operations of the city government of Jersey City. In particular, ZWILLMAN 4s to be questioned concerning the purchase of land formerly used by the Jerssy City International League Baseball Team, which was purchased by an individual named LESLIE M, WEBER, supposedly on money loaned to him by ZWILLMAN, ZWILLMAN has,on many occasions in the past, allegedly been connected in various ways with politictans in Jersey City. Such associations have been set out in previous memoranda, ASSOCIATES In referenced letter of January 28, 1954, it was pointed out that one JOSEPH G. BOZZO of Paterson, N. J., when testifying before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee on August 18, 1951, admitted that he knew numerous of the racketeers in whom the Committes were interested, At the same time, BOZZ0O stated that he had known ZWILLMAN for some fifteen years, and that he had solicited ZWILLMAN's political aid on only one occasion, which was during the 1946 New Jersey campaign when B0ZZ0 worked to get support for HAROLD HOFFMAN, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the primaries. Subsequentiy, BOZZO's name was brought into the foreground during the recent 1953 New Jersey guternatorial election when it was brought out that BOZZ0O had contributed $25,000.00 cash to the Republican Party in 199. FAROLD HOFFMAN, who was Governor of New Jersey from nine- teen thirty-five through nineteen thirty-seven, advised the Senate Crime Investigating Committee that he had asked ZWILLMAN for help in 1946. He also stated that he had not met ZWILLMAN until after he had left the governorship in 1937 and added that ZWILLMAN had never made any improper requests of him. When ZWILLMAN testified before this same Senate Committee, he was vague in his answers concerning numerous telephone calls between himself and HOFFMAN. It can bs noted that ZWILLMAN's name has been frequently injected into local political campaigns but no