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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 ...
Trump World's Fair at Trump Plaza was a hotel and casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that occupied 280 feet (85.3 m) of the Atlantic City boardwalk and was 21 floors in height. It had 500 guest rooms. It opened on April 14, 1981, as the Playboy Hotel and Casino, [1] then changed its name in 1984 to Atlantis Hotel and Casino. [2]
The Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino was a proposed hotel and casino that was to be built in Atlantic City, New Jersey, between Pacific Ave, South Missouri Ave, Columbia Place and Boardwalk, during the late 1970s. Due to financial and legal difficulties, the hotel was never completed and a casino license was never issued.
Operation Bid Rig originated with investigations of public corruption among New Jersey officials in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The first phase became public in 2002 when former Ocean Township Mayor Terrance D. Weldon pleaded guilty to extorting cash from developers to influence the approval of building projects.
George Norcross III pleaded not guilty to corruption charges brought by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin.
Trump Plaza was a hotel and casino on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, owned by Trump Entertainment Resorts. Designed by architect Alan Lapidus, it operated from May 14, 1984, until September 16, 2014.
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 10:03 AM
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.