Gang story Bugsy Siegel

A little later than 8 p.m. on the evening of June 20, 1947, Benjamin Siegelbaum, 41, sitting on his back from the window at his villa in Beverly Hills, opened the TV to watch the news of “Los Angeles Times”, but he couldn't see the news of the day: a rain of bullets, 30 calibre came out of an M1 carbine and got rid of this world. Two in the head, others in the body, and some in expensive furniture. He was born on February 28, 1906, in Williamsburg, New York, a child of a pair of poor Jewish immigrants, Max Siegelbaum, and Jenna Goldstein.

He died in the middle of a career without doubt that his greatest work had begun in 1829, when Spanish traveler Antonio Armio on a mule discovered that the Mojave desert suitable for insects and snakes had a range of subjects (vegas), oase that painted that vast, dry world in green. That's why Armio baptized Las Vegas. It was founded as a city on May 15th 1905, with 352 square km and a DNA of “Sin City” In 1931 they legalized the casino games, and Benjamin Siegelbaum, then called Ben Siegel, who hated the nickname Bugsy (Lout), passed this desert with his Cadillac V16 came up with an idea - a vision that would establish his empire there. Max's second child and Jennie, a straight teenager, left school and joined a gang of gangsters working on Lafayette Street Street, Lower East Side in Manhattan.

From the ordiner thief started climbing his tax collector to a little mobster, Moe Sedway. Soon another climb began, befriended Meyer Lansky, chief of the Jewish mafia, and thus began his criminal sag between those ranks. A smuggler, a paid killer, a drug dealer, faster to pull the trigger than to think, gained fame not only for his bloody records but also for his appearance: tall with blue eyes, charismatic, charming, liked good clothes, vanilla. He bought a house in Scarsdale, became known in New York City night life, and forged friendships with famous Hollywood names: George Raft, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Carrie Grant, Jean Harlow, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and the ruling Louis Mayer and Jack Warner. In 1929 she married Esta Kracower, a childhood lover. Two daughters were born from this marriage. They divorced in 1946.

Extravaganty Bugsy had dozens of properties and had spent entire wealth at parties in his Beverly Hills residence. During World War II, he promised one of his biggest sheep to kill Benito Musolini, Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels. In the 1930 ' s, in the middle of the desert, he saw himself as the largest monarch of business ever imagined. A huge hotel with dozens of game tables, better alcohol, the most sophisticated food and permanent performances by the most popular stars.

A hotel called Flamingo in honor of his girlfriend Victoria Hill, whose long legs resembled a flamingo. The cost would be high, but it convinced Lansky and other partners to invest in this magical work of desert. The jobs started in 1945, the estimated $1m cost and Bugsy Siegel as designer, chief, absolute mandater with delirant caprico and numerous modifications of plans. In October 1946 the initial amount rose to 4 million and shortly thereafter to 6 million. The bad humor and distrust penetrated investors' skin, but Flamingo with his red neon figure opened the gates on December 26th, 1946, had finished only the casino, salon, theatre and restaurant.

A disaster came about Bugsy, because that night it blew up in a Bible storm. In two weeks the casino had lost $27,000. It reopened on March 11th of that year with Meyer Lansky present and began to profit, but the mafia investors' group had handed their verdict. Not only had he been through the cost seven times from the original but for something worse. Bugsy had appointed as administrator during construction Victoria Hill, who with long hands had stolen $2 million and hidden them in a fiscal paradise. According to the police report 4 of the nine bullets fired that night were on a statue of the god Baku, on a piano and left on the wall. Five more were on Bugsy. The next day he appeared on the page of “Los Ángeles Herald:Express”, but not by the behavior of the fitman, in a post with a name label tied to the right foot, like any other morgue corpse. There was only one plaque on the flamingo that was not always cleansed.

What remained of the original hotel collapsed in 1993. Bugsy is buried in the cemetery of “Hollywood Forever”, in the middle of that California he drowned in blood. Lansky, Dutch Schultz, Frank Costello, Vito Genoese, Albert Anastasia, Joe Adonis and Salvatore Marazano, the famous gangsters died badly. Al Capone from syphilis, after being released, Lucky Luciano from a heart attack. It was the end of an era, but not of the mafia, which over time is recycled, transformed, clothed, moved to other heights, taught technology, and continues to kill.

(Post scriptum: After Bugsy's death and always in the hands of the mobster Las Vegas grew into geometry progress. Flagingo was the golden seed of an unimaginable harvest, much less in the wilderness. There Frank Sinatra and Rat Pack, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford and, of course, Elvis Presley reigned for years. In the hotels of this city, they loved, slept, and were drugged, studied A - class prostitutes, and their tutors discovered a way to stop time. Light and sound distracting, the flow of dollars broke down cathedrals and built other larger ones, imitated Venice and pirate boats, volcanoes, Russian mountains. Las Vegas, the biggest amusement park on the planet. If someone wants to go to Bugsy Siegel's grave and tows: 122 casinos, 1700 game tables, 180,000 preservative cars, 500 churches, high suicide rates, they get huge sums, but they lose 42 million people to gambling lords. And it's likely this ruthless gangster returns the answer: “I didn't make a mistake!” / Source: Noticias24 The world..