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2. Bugsy Siegel - Wikipedia

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   In the mid-1940s, Siegel was operating in Las Vegas while his lieutenants worked on a business policy to secure all gambling in Los Angeles. [75] In May 1946, he decided that the agreement with Wilkerson had to be altered to give him control of the Flamingo. [80]

3. Flamingo Las Vegas - Wikipedia

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   Flamingo Las Vegas (formerly the Flamingo Hilton [a]) is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment . The Flamingo includes a 72,299 sq ft (6,716.8 m 2 ) casino and a 28-story hotel with 3,460 rooms.

4. Meyer Lansky - Wikipedia

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   In 1946, Lansky convinced the Italian-American Mafia to put Siegel in charge of Las Vegas, and became a major investor in Siegel's Flamingo Hotel. To protect himself from the type of prosecution that sent Al Capone to prison for tax evasion and prostitution, Lansky transferred his growing casino empire's illegal earnings to a Swiss bank account ...

5. List of films shot in Las Vegas - Wikipedia

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   Wynn Las Vegas [2] Wild Card: 2015 [citation needed] Jason Bourne: 2016 Shot inside Aria and around Sands Expo Convention Center, with a chase scene on the Las Vegas Strip in front of The Bellagio, ending at The Riviera. [3] Sarkar: 2018 The intro scenes of the film's trailer depicts the city. Most likely that the protagonist resides in Las ...

6. Havana Conference - Wikipedia

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   The most pressing items on the conference agenda were the leadership and authority within the New York mafia, the mob-controlled Havana casino interests, the narcotics operations, and the West Coast operations of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, especially the new Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Luciano, absent from the American underworld ...

7. Del Webb - Wikipedia

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   In 1946 and 1947, mob boss Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel hired Webb as the general contractor for the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. After boasting about his claim that he had personally killed 16 men, Siegel said to Webb, "Del, don't worry, we only kill each other", after seeing the panicked look on Webb’s face. [5]

8. Gus Greenbaum - Wikipedia

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   Gus Greenbaum (February 26, 1893 – December 3, 1958) was an American gangster in the casino industry, best known for taking over management of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas after the murder of co-founder Bugsy Siegel.

9. Moe Sedway - Wikipedia

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   Sedway saw the Flamingo as unique opportunity for their group to expand operations in Las Vegas. Minutes after Bugsy Siegel's murder, Sedway and Greenbaum took possession of the Flamingo. No one questioned or disputed their authority. Under Sedway and Greenbaum's partnership, the Flamingo became a non-exclusive facility affordable to almost anyone.