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Abraham 771illesn On December 31, 195), a fifteen-year-old indictment on a contempt of court chsrge was dismissed in Federal Court in New York against Zwiliman. This indictment was the oldest of fifty indictments dismissed on this dete, On August 2], 1939, Zwillman was ed judged in contempt end sentenced to six montha for his refusal on grounds of self-inerisinetion te answer questions before the grand jury in New York. He hed dean called te name hie business associetes from 1928 through 1932, when he was alleged to have been active in the bootlegging racket. This contempt conviction was reversed on January 18° 1910, by the United States Court of Appeals, the Court ruling thet Zwiliman had a right to invoke a privilege of refusing to ensver questions on grounds of self-incrimination. The Government did not appeal this reverssl, end the case was returned for retrial, Three months later it was marked off the judictel calendar and was never recalled, In March, 195, Zwillman announced that he and a group of associates would cantribute a quarter of a million Ollars towards alum clearance in Newark. Zwillman sdvised at this time that his action was motivated only by a desire to redevelop Newark end that he hed no intent to manage the project in any way. During February, 1955, 1t was reported that Zwillem frequently had lonch with Prank Costello and Frank Erickson at the Mens Ber, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. According to en article in the "New York World Telegram and Sun," of January 10, 195), Zwillman and Stacher in 1949 were behind # proposed eleven hundred unit multimillion dollar housing project in Jersey City, New Jersey. This deal involved acceptance by the Jersey City Comission in 1919 of Leslie M. Weber as finencier in place of the Prudential Insurance Company. The project was never built, but Weber in trying to obtain $90,000 for control of the lend allegedly borrowed $20,000 from Zwillman and $5,000 from the Harlow Agency, Incorporated, a Newark, New Jersey, insurance firm controlled by Stacher. The March 1), 1956, edition of the "New York Mirror," contains a column by Victor Riese] entitled "Multi-Berreled Purpose in Saperstein Shooting." This erticle describes Louis Saperstein as a "muleter-extraordinary of union welfare funds," indicating he “dipped in" for almost one miilion