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Bugsy Seigel
Siegel starting things off at
the Flamingo Hotel. Joseph Sacher headed the nearby Sands Hotel; Sacher "was second only to Lansky in the Syndicate. Years
later he fled the U.S. and went into exile in Israel."
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Moe Sedway
Moe Sedway arrived in 1941, a mafor
Jewish mob boss.
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Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky a Polish immigrant was
considered the head of the Mafia.
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Las Vegas Was Started By Jews
Las Vegas has long been a hotbed of underworld influence and a
worldwide attraction for gambling and prostitution. The conception of Las Vegas as a leisure Mecca,
it's most famous underworld personages have
always been Jewish mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky.
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Jake The Barber
Max Factor's brother,
Jake Factor, controlled the Stardust.
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Nate Jacobson
Nate Jacobson was associated with Caesar's Palace
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Jay Sarno
Another Jewish American, Jay Sarno
controlled the Caesar's Palace Sarno
later created Circus Circus; Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, and Sam
Tucker with the Desert Inn
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Jake Gottleib
Sidney Wyman, Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib
controlled the Dunes; Gus Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Charlie Resnick
with managing the Flamingo after Bugsy Siegel's death;
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Benjamin Miller Of The
Sahara
He started as a booking agent, titled Mr. Entertainment Agent extraordinaire, virtually invented the lounge show and brought
everyone from Mae West to Elvis to Las Vegas,
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Bennie Katleman
In 1951, Moore left the Last Frontier
when the stockholders decided to sell the resort to
Jake Kozloff,
91 Club owner Guy McAfee, Beldon Katleman and
Maurice Friedman
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The Hollywood Angle
The New York crowd brought inBilly
Weinberger, whose job was to recruit Holywood Acts.
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Bernie Rothkopf
Bernie Rothkopf also owned the MGM
Hotel. Allen Glick was, between 1974-79, "the mob's front man at the
Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and Marina hotels."
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The Chicago Mob
They provided the new cash through the Central States
Pension Fund.
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Jimmy Hoffa
These guys took the pensions of millions of truck drivers.
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Arthur Goldberg
Arthur Goldberg is the CEO of Park Place
Entertainment, a conglomeration of 29 hotel-casinos worldwide,
it's Stardust division is the world's
largest hotel company.
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Hank Greenspun
Jerome Mack, past president of the Dunes and Riviera, was a former
national chairman of the Israel Bonds Campaign. Jewish entrepreneur
Hank Greenspon owned the Las Vegas Sun newspaper and a local TV
station.
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Morris Schlaf
The Oasis is also partly owned by Jewish
Austrian businessman Martin Schlaf - a close friend of Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon.
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Izzie Moskowitz
Gambling mogul Irving Moskowitz owns
the Hawaiian Gardens and is a heavy supporter of right-wing
activities in Israel.
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Charlie 'The Nose' Meyerson
Charles Meyerson, Julie Weintraub and Ash Resnick,
worked in Wynn-controlled casinos.
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Phil Ruffin
In 1997,
Wichita businessman Phil
Ruffin purchased the Frontier for $167 million and agreed to a
five year contract ending the strike. Ruffin's deal included an
additional $3.5 million that went for the payment of wages owed to
striking workers.
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Sheldon Adelson
Elsewhere, Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Sands, is also the
owner of Venetian, a new Las Vegas complex built in 1999 at a cost of
$1.6 billion.
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Steve Wynn
The chairman of the Mirage, Steve Wynn, is also Jewish.
The funds
for Wynn's first casino, the Golden Nugget, was in large part raised
by convicted Jewish financier Michael Milken.
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Kenny Shapiro
All of this, in more recent years, has its mirror image in Atlantic
City and, increasingly, other American gambling Meccas. Kenny Shapiro,
for instance, was "the Atlantic investment banker for [Italian
American mafioso] Nicky Scarfo, the vicious killer who ruled the
Philadelphia Mafia, the most murderous mob family in America."
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Sollie Kerzner
Another influential Jewish gambling mogul today is Sol Kerzner, founder
and principal owner of Sun City from South
Africa. Kerzner's modern empire has expanded with extravagant casinos in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bahamas, Mauritus, France, and a Native
American site in Connecticut.
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From Vegas To Cuba
Many Jewish mob figures were
also involved in the gambling industry in Cuba and the Bahamas as its new off-shore
gambling and narcotics empire." [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 128]
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Louis Arthur Chesler who "served as Lansky's point man ...
Among Chesler's criminal specialties was the handling of stolen
securities."
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Allen Dorfman
Allen Dorfman, who was "murdered in 1985 to prevent him from talking
about mob investments ... He was in the same league as Glick, Shenker,
and Malnik."
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Moe Dalitz
In 1970 Moe Dalitz, "a leading member of the Cleveland crime
syndicate," and controller of the Stardust and Desert Inn Las Vegas
casinos
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Lew Wertheimer
Al and Lew Wertheimer founded an
illegal gambling den in Hollywood called the Clover Club.
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Mall of America Owners
Nader, Eskandar,
Raphael and Bahman Ghermezian, are Jews who own the Mall of America. They
are planning $300 million in real estate developments
over the next four years in the Las Vegas area
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Jackie Entratter
In 1959,
Riviera was sold to a group headed by Ed Levinson of the Fremont Hotel, and Carl Cohen and Jack
Entratter of the Sands Hotel. n 1984,
Riviera filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Arthur Waltzman
was named president in July in an effort to get the Riviera back
on her feet.
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Mickey Rose
We may also note the case of Mike Rose, the Jewish CEO of Holiday
Corporation (Holiday Inn, et al), who "steered [the company] into
gambling when it bought into Harrah's in 1980, causing Holiday's
president and two directors to resign.
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IRWIN MOLASKY
The Developer's Developer From high-rise
bank buildings and hospitals to horse racing and motion picture
making, the projects of this construction king continue to flourish in
Las Vegas and the West,
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Bernie Goldstein
The King Of Riverboat Gambling,
Bernard Goldstein has pushed riverboat gaming in a number of states
and was instrumental in lobbying for the original legislation for
riverboat gaming in Iowa.
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Oscar Goodman
Las Vegas has always been a Jewish-created fantasy. Below, both
Steve Wynn and Oscar Goodman are Jewish.
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Leonard Steinberg - English Jew
"Leonard Steinberg, the founder and chairman of sports betting and
casino group Stanley Leisure is now moving into Las Vegas and New
Orleans.
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El Rancho Las Vegas
On April 3, 1941, the
opened on 57 acres of land with a simple sign lifted on stone pillars
advertising the new
resort
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The Desert Inn
From 1957 through 1959,
said Molasky, Allard Roen and Moe Dalitz, both associated with the Desert
Inn.
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The Aladdin
Milton Prell, Hyman Abrams, Carl
Cohen, and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operation of the
Sands, and Ben Jaffe, Phil Kastel, and
Jell Houssels
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William Miller was born in 1904 in Pinsk,
Russia, the son of David and Lena, Jews who wanted to get to America
and bought the Sahara
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Tropicana
Owned by the Chicago mobsters. Lederer, Sam Giancana, Frank Costello, Morris Mac Schwabel,
and Joseph Jacob Frankel.
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Dunes Casino
The Dunes Casino opened in 1955, owned Morris Shenker, fronting
for the Chicago Outfit.
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Steve Wynn And The Beliago
Though Wynn was never accused of wrongdoing, several of his associates
in the hotel were mob-connected
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The Krave Club
Abe Sanker, known as "the high priest
of gay parties," opened the Krave Nightclub, on the Las Vegas Strip.
It caters to voyeurs in a sexually charged fashion and fetish fantasies."
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