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NK 94-417 WID: JMP | every weekend, ‘This was the extent of the conversation between LEW and and was very uneasy about | such mysterious WRYB"Or doing Business, About four weeks later the General Manager of Kermouth Manufacturing Company, who is also th resident or nen of that company, came to igi tice in i He expressed an interest pump for a diesel mar f ich is assigned to aned a drawing p 6 representative ot Kermouth Manufacturing : Company. Negotiations fell through, and later wrote _ : to the General Manager of Kermouth Manufactur y asking oie for return of the drawing, He received ly from Kermouth that the drawing had not been received. (MMMM scerta ined that Kermouth Manufacturing Company in a subsidiary of the Berium Steel Company, 20 Wall Street, New York, and that Berium Steel Company is wholly controlled by Republic Industries, 20 Wall Street, New York, also that Republic Industries is 2 parent company for many other subsidiaries. Recently as noticed in the newspapers that various subsidiaries ic Industries have received heavy loans from ; the R.F.C. He has aiso learned that it is common knowledge a . on Wall Street that J, A. SISTA, President of Republic Industries, is an unsavory chara x and has been involved in illicit business manipulations. are that ZWILLMAN gave orders to a represen e of the A.F. of L. and t must have some control in that union in Newark, Also, bserved that ZWILLMAN gave orders to the President of Republic Industries, and therefore must be a powerful figure. He gathered the impression t G. LEW, of the A, F, of L. is a henchman of ZWILLMAN, had noted in a local newspaper an article which set fo the results of the questioning by the Kefauver Committee of ABNER ZWILLMAN, in which it was stated that ZWILLMAN admitted operating 1100 cigarette vending machines, and also admitted that he was a former bootlegger, but oc. an “ fey further data regarding his money matters. eels that there ig little doubt but what ZWILLMAN Operates a giant gambling establishment, and has his finger in union activities, In testifying before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in 1951, ZWILLMAN admitted that he centrolled the Federal Automatic Company which had about 600 or 700 washing machine units located in apartments in northern New Jersey. - 30 -