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Website examines "the man who invented Las Vegas," Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. Features include biography, quotes, photos, official documents, web links, information and photos of the Flamingo Hotel.
www.bugsysiegel.net
Crime Library: Bootlegger's Paradise
Writer Mark Gribben's feature article on the Jewish Purple Gang of Prohibition Era Detroit; photos and bibliography.
www.crimelibrary.com
Crime Library: Dutch Schultz: Beer Baron of the Bronx
Writer Allen May delivers a biography of Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer.
www.crimelibrary.com
Crime Library: Meyer Lansky: Mastermind of the Mob
Writer Mark Gribben states, if there was a golden age of organized crime, it began with Lansky.
www.crimelibrary.com
Crime Library: Arnold Rothstein
Writer Allan May presents a biography of New York mobster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.
www.crimelibrary.com
FBI: Freedom of Information Act: Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel
Bureau files on New York/California/Las Vegas racketeer Siegel contain 2,421 pages.
foia.fbi.gov
Biography of the New York gambler and racketeer. Topics include the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series scandal, bootlegging activity and Rothstein's 1928 murder.
en.wikipedia.org
Biography of the gangster. Topics include Siegel's underworld business ventures in Los Angeles and Las Vegas (Flamingo Hotel), and his 1947 assassination.
en.wikipedia.org
Biography of the New York gangster.
en.wikipedia.org
Biography of the New York gangster.
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Article describes the history of the Detroit bootlegging gang.
en.wikipedia.org
Crime Library: All About Mickey Cohen
Writer Mark Gribben's biographical essay on the New York street tough who became a California gambling czar.
www.crimelibrary.com
Biography of the California gambler.
en.wikipedia.org
LIFE Books: At Home With Mickey Cohen
Photo gallery and brief interview from "Mobsters and Gangsters" shows Cohen and wife LaVonne at their Brentwood, California, home in the 1950s.
www.life.com
Biography of the New York garment industry racketeer and Murder Inc. boss who was executed in the electric chair in 1944.
en.wikipedia.org