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Badly degraded scan of a typed page marked NK 94-380 and U.S. v. Zwillman, with notes about information given by Mr. Livingston, votes for acquittal and conviction, net worth statements and source proof; the lower half is mostly illegible. — Open the full imageGIF, 1000 × 1293 px, 0.2 MB

FBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 07 (Final): a page of notes headed "U.S. v. Zwillman"

The last part of the FBI's released Zwillman file is a single scanned page of notes marked "U.S. v. Zwillman," recording information given by a visitor about votes "for acquittal" and "conviction." It is undated and only partly legible.

Date: undated
Kind: case-file
Source: FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under the Freedom of Information Act. A federal work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Redactions are as released by the FBI. The stored image is the first page of the part as the Vault viewer serves it.

The Vault viewer shows one page, and its OCR text layer is unreadable, so this description is read from the scan stored here. The page is marked “NK 94-380” at the top (a Newark file number, as far as the scan can be read) and is numbered 27 at the bottom. It is headed “U. S. v. ZWILLMAN” and then, in quotation marks: “Information given to me by Mr. LIVINGSTON who came in to see me of his own accord. Mr. HOLLANDER was present.”

The notes below mention a vote, those “for acquittal” who “were afraid,” “(a) Net worth statements,” “(b) Source proof,” a tally under “conviction,” and further names “for acquittal.” The lower half of the page is mostly illegible.

The page has no date and does not say who wrote it or who Livingston and Hollander were. It appears to concern the jury in the 1956 trial described in Part 03 and Part 06, but the page does not say so, and this archive treats it as unresolved. The partly legible names are not repeated.

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 01: Newark and New York files, 1935 to 1956First part of the FBI's released Zwillman file, 140 pages: 1935 memoranda on a federal judge's complaint about Newark racketeering, a June 1950 summary memorandum on Zwillman built from informants of varying reliability, and 1951 to 1956 "Top Hoodlum Coverage" memoranda. Read from a poor OCR.

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 02: "Top Hoodlum Coverage" memoranda, 1955 to 1956Second part of the FBI's released Zwillman file, 141 pages of New York and Newark memoranda headed "General Investigative Intelligence File, Abner Zwillman, Top Hoodlum Coverage," including the Newark office's note that his 1956 income-tax trial ended when the jury failed to agree.

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 03: Newark report, December 1957 to early 1958A Newark anti-racketeering report on Zwillman: his background, residences and businesses, associates he acknowledged in a 1938 interview and in 1951 testimony, and the status of his income-tax case after the 1956 hung jury. Read from a poor OCR.

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 04: Newark requests for technical surveillance, 1958Newark memoranda of 1958 asking FBI headquarters for a "confidential surveillance transmitter" in the car that carried Zwillman and for a microphone at a Newark beverage company, on the stated ground that his operations "are extremely circumspect."

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 05: microphone memoranda of January 1959 on the 1956 juryFBI memoranda of January 1959 reporting that a microphone installed in a Newark beverage company office picked up a conversation indicating that jurors in Zwillman's 1956 tax trial had been approached; the Justice Department asks the Newark office to investigate.

itemFBI Vault, Abner Zwillman, Part 06: "Bribery" and "Obstruction of Justice" memoranda, 1959FBI memoranda of 1959 headed "Bribery" and "Obstruction of Justice" about the jury in Zwillman's 1956 tax trial. The first page reports that a press release on "Abner 'Longie' Zwillman, et al." was given to the wire services on February 16, 1959. Most of the OCR is unreadable.