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Edward Bader, a politician and owner of a construction business, became mayor of Atlantic City through Nucky Johnson's lobbying. He built the Atlantic City Convention Hall in 1920, and a few years later, a crime conference took place in the new hall. It settled territorial disputes between the Italian mafia andeJewish mob, while also boosting ...
Before the rise of German American political boss Louis "Commodore" Kuehnle and Scots-Irish American treasurer Nucky Johnson, Atlantic City's government was run by a three-man group, including: Atlantic County Clerk Lewis P. Scott (1854-1907) and Congressman John J. Gardner (1845-1921), and Mays Landing sheriff and Atlantic City undersheriff Smith E. Johnson.
In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million ($5 million in 2023) [2] for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. She declined the offer, and Guccione started construction of the hotel-casino in 1978 around the Coking house, but ran out of money in 1980 and construction stopped.
Resorts International was a hotel and casino company. From its origins as a paint company, it moved into the resort business in the 1960s with the development of Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and then expanded to Atlantic City, New Jersey with the opening of Resorts Casino Hotel in 1978.
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Monday that a search of his home last week by prosecutors involved “a private family issue,” not a crime. The Democratic mayor held a news conference at ...
Feds want disgraced ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez jailed for at least 15 years in ‘gold bar’ corruption case Ben Kochman, Priscilla DeGregory January 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
George Norcross III pleaded not guilty to corruption charges brought by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin.