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Joe Friday tackled the Los Angeles crime syndicate

Posted on June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

William H. Parker, a hardnosed police chief in midcentury Los Angeles, did not want organized crime in his city. In…


Forty years ago, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno turned on his Mob family

Posted on December 8, 2017June 29, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Some mobsters left their legacy by the gun, some by the knife, but Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno is best known…


Seventy years ago today, Bugsy Siegel’s storied Mob life came to an abrupt end

Posted on June 20, 2017December 15, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

It is important to our Museum and to me as the resident historian that criminals and their criminal acts are…


Fat Herbie’s rise and fall

Posted on January 10, 2017October 22, 2020 by Brenda Hengel

Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…


A late Mob hit in Las Vegas

Posted on January 9, 2017January 5, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

First of two parts. Part Two looks at Blitzstein’s criminal activity in Las Vegas. By the mid-1990s, death had claimed…


Gangster-built Golden Nugget turns 70

Posted on August 30, 2016November 8, 2016 by Brenda Hengel

By the late summer of 1946, Guy McAfee was the best-known big shot in Las Vegas. McAfee, 58, had spent…


Virginia Hill: ‘Queen of the Mob’ was no one’s pushover

Posted on March 21, 2016May 14, 2019 by Brenda Hengel

Third in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. On March 24, 1966, passersby walking on a footpath beside…


Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history

Posted on March 16, 2015July 2, 2015 by admin

Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history Fifteen years ago, a writer named Susan Berman…


TV viewers witnessed verbal sparring between Mickey Cohen and Bobby Kennedy

Posted on March 10, 2015July 2, 2015 by admin

Mickey Cohen was outrageous, brazen, cunning, and dangerous. He lived his life in the headlines as Hollywood’s darkest celebrity. By…


Mickey Cohen ran high-stakes gambling in L.A.

Posted on March 5, 2015July 2, 2015 by admin

“In rich and hedonistic Los Angeles, where many of the Golden Age movie moguls participated in high-stakes gambling on a…


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