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Who Controls Las Vegas?
1945
Las Vegas
Israel
"Icepick Willie" Alderman, Joe Rosenberg and Gus Greenbaum
1948
Las Vegas
The
Who's Who Of Las Vegas
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The History Of Las
Vegas
Las Vegas was a railroad town in
1905, then gambling was legalized in 1931, and the Hoover Dam was
completed in 1936. There were a few small sawdust joints, then Bugsy
Siegel muscled Jack Todd out of the Flamingo in 1946. The entire city
was then run by Jewish gangsters, the real expansion came when Dorfman
used the Pension Teamsters Fund. The next expansion was the 1974 Great
Bull Market, where Las Vegas went on the stock exchange.
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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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Riviera
Hotel 1955
The Riviera was originally a
group of Miami investors headed by Florida businessman Sam Cohen.
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Frontier
Casino
In 1929 Theatre magnate R.E.
Griffith, and his architect nephew, William J. Moore, saw the El
Rancho Vegas in 1941
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Flamingo Hotel
Benjamin Siegel and his
New York "partners", started here in 1946.
Other owners were Thomas
Hull, and Chester Simms; Albert Parvin and George E. Goldberg;
three Miami Beach investors from the Al Parvin group;
International and MGM Grand owner Kirk Kerkorian; Hilton; and
finally Hilton subsidiary, Park Place Entertainment.
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The Sahara
1947, owned
by Mel D. Close, Abbie Pollard Simon, and Del Webb. Sollie Irwin.
Paul and Sue Lowden purchased the Sahara from Webb in 1982.
In 1995, Bill Bennett retired from Circus Circus Enterprises, then
bought the Sahara from the Lowdens for $193 million.
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The Thunderbird Casino
In 1964, Del Webb bought the
Thunderbird, fronting for Meyer Lanskys consortium. Next, Stuart
Perlman bought it, and finally Marianne Kifer
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Vegas Gets Into
River Boats
Bernie Goldstein
fans starts the Casino Cruises, Inc., which managed the gaming
operations of the Par-A-Dice Riverboat Casino in Peoria, Illinois.
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Circus Circus Casino
Anthony Spilotro (nee Speiwietz)
aka Anthony Stuart, started the casino which was purchased by Jay
Sarno with money from the Central States Pension Fund of the
Teamsters Union.
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Royal Nevada
The Royal Nevada was owned
and built by Frank Fishman, Albert B. Moll, Herman E. Kohen, Joe
Leibman and Sid Wyman.
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Harrahs
Kirk Kerkorian,
an Armenian Jew, owned Harrahs, the Las Vegas Hilton, the MGM
Grand, and others.
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Indian Casinos
FBI Stings Las Vegas
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