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ay Wika a 7 4e . Government for deficiencies in income taxes covering a period of several = ",.+ 3 . syndicate). BERNSTEIN denied that he was ever accompanied on any of his, Liss ue phet Chicago File 58-124 AJR: BOD RUGENE BERNSTEIN, attorney, with offices at 77 Hast Washington Streat interviewed at his office 6 27, 1947, by Special Agents mber 29, 19 or : BERNSTEIN’ furnished the fro ng inrornation: BERNSTEIN was engaged to represent subjects DE LUCIA and CAMPAGNA as. toeir: oes ati. . attorney in connection with individual claims against them by the U. 8. 0S Zhe! years prior to their incarceration under the sentence for violation of the: : Anti-racketeering Statute. In connection with this matter, BERNSTEIN visited’ ~ 4 DE LUCIA on at least two or threa occasions during the period of time DE LOCIA y oe was incarcerated in thea Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia. After DE DICIA was transferred to the U. S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, BERNSTEIN | ‘a ; visited DE LUCIA on some six or eight occasions at Leavenworth. On most, bok “oe if not all, of these occasions, BERNSTEIN was accompanied to Leavenworth. by r ei ‘ RK ANTHONY ACCARDO, alias JOZ BATTERS (reported head of the Chicago underworld meta A visits to Leavenvorth by anyone ather than ACCARDO,. BERNST JIN explained that he experienced considerable difficulties in his coe preparation of the income tax cases of LE LUCIA and CAMPAGNA. BERNSTEIN ~~. = a complained that the U. S. Treasury Department furnished him with very scant = = “x ; informationas to the basis of the Government's claims for taxes and that” it 2 “ee was, therefore, necessary for BERNSTEIN to engage in considerable research | eee ae in this regard. In talking with DE LUCIA, BERNSTEIN experienced considerable “ oe difficulty because BERISTSIN did not speak DE IWWCIA's native language,: Italian, eb and inasmuch as DE LUCIA spoke very broken English. Also, DE WCIA indica ted: aoe ve ee some reluctance to confide in BERNSTBIN, and BERNSTEIN felt that DE WCIA Soe t Bee laexed confidence in hin. It wes for these reasons, according to BERNSTEIN, je Eh that he contacted JOSEPH BULGER, a Chicago attorney who was acquainted with. . re DE LUCIA, and asked BULGER to refer him to someone personally acquainted with 2%) - DE LUCIA who might be of assistance to BERNSTEIN in talking to DE WCIA. ©. #4 Thereafter, according to BERNSTEIN, he was contacted by ANTHONY ACCARDO, who > > had been referred to him by BULGER. ACCAKDO, according to BERNSTEIN, was personally acquainted vith be LUCIA and had considerable knowledge of the alg ce nature of DE LUCIA's income and the sources thereof. re a PPE RE op Prior to each ovcasien when BERNSTEIN and ACCARDO visited DE LUCIA at Leavensorth, BERNSTCIN wrote to the warden of the Penitentiary, requesting “Aah gmeanat pe > - A aoa ve a 4 = ~ 26 - - Co aes a aire ba ~ Teg 8 i+