How The Mafia Built Las Vegas: The Untold Story | Historical Documentary
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Las Vegas was a desert outpost — a lonely stop on the road to nowhere. But in the mid-20th century, it was transformed into a glittering empire of neon, vice, and money. Behind that transformation was not chance, nor visionaries, but the Mafia.
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From the smoky backrooms of Chicago and New York to the rising casinos of the Strip, mobsters funneled millions into the desert. They built resorts where gangsters rubbed shoulders with Hollywood stars, politicians, and businessmen. They skimmed fortunes from the tables, fixed deals in shadows, and turned Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world.
This is the untold story of how organized crime carved a city from the sand — of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, of hidden investors and silent partners, of blood spilled as easily as champagne poured. It is the story of power and corruption, of greed and glamour, and of how the Mafia built Las Vegas into the kingdom of sin that defined an era.
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The Nevada gaming commission and their hired guns were likely too much even for the Mafia to tackle. They decided wisely to obey the rules or die.
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@jeremyhackworth672Immediately after mobster Bugsy Siegel was assassinated in Beverly Hills on June 20, 1947, David "Davie the Jew" Berman from Minneapolis took over control of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. He took it over alongside his associates Gus Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Israel "Icepick Willie" Alderman. [1, 2, 3]
Berman, a trusted syndicate figure and confidant of Meyer Lansky, arrived at the Flamingo with Greenbaum and Sedway a mere 20 minutes after Siegel’s murder to announce that they were in charge.
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@EdwardHunter-d8cYour channel is great, you should definitely start doing docs on 50s-90s mafia, there’s so many great stories and figures to do videos about, just a suggestion
@jaxonschitoskeyThe corporations are killing Vegas, just as surely as the mob brought it to life.
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@francisbuchanan4348Tha ks for being a real person giving real history!
@BobbybillybillbobThe best mobster/gangster channel on YouTube period!
Professional and accurate man.
Please keep up the great work.
These are the greatest documentaries I've ever seen on the subject.
Are you going to do one on bugsy seigal and the valentine massacre ?
Great content as always! I sorta feel like Bugsy wouldn't have gotten asassinated if he was Italian. The Flamingo was in a hole at the start, but it made it's money back within a couple yrs, after his death. I sometimes wonder how Meyer Lansky felt/thought about the whole thing?
@BBigg-kh7pzWhen Vegas was as cool as the Rat Pack.
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What a superb work. I'd recommend reading "One Nation Under Blackmail" by Whitney Webb to go even deeper into the intelligence connections of many of the characters discussed in this video.
@korrseraphIs this video based on the book entitled. "How the Mafia created Las Vegas"?. I remember reading this book 10 years ago and this is how the book started.
@hectorsanchez1377Now it’s Dubai
@Sarah-yj6ylThis is why the nfl is rigged!!!
@steamsteamyWow guess war never changes
@ThejelloboigottiDespite everything ill always love vegas
@Hi-lb8cqWe need more videos like this on vegas
@Hi-lb8cqBeautiful!
@MasonRivera_1Ok I lived in Vegas for 32 years and still learnt alot I did not know!!! This was a very good documentary!!!! Thank you for making this
@cyndilounana5187Las Vegas doesn’t translate ” the meadows “ , a Vega is a tobacco plantation , for example : “ una Vega de tabaco “ , spanish speaker here 😊
@MaceomanShout out to my Pueblo ppl
@McKeeNJackson1:06:55 I believe that’s where the term “86” comes from.. 8 miles out 6 foot deep..
@dopeitssamGreat docu.
@AdamMendoza007I've watched so much on the Mob in Vegas. This was in my opinion the best that's ever been done. You hit all the important parts and also included details not usually covered. So well done, thank you!
@luxelifeslotsSuch an Interesting narration
@OldFiles1Real Vegas native let’s see if he knows his shit …
@ashcrockett8407Bro! I made a comment before watching this video. Dude you connected some major dots I had never considered. Damn, you're good and I appreciate what you do! Don't stop! Salute!
@restoreme7858When I was 15 years old I was so enamored by mob and crime stories I couldn't have a conversation without mentioning Luciano, Capone, Lansky, Banano, Costello, Weiss, Seigel, Luchese, Genovese, Mad Dog and other noted criminals. When I saw shootouts and murder scenes in movies, I knew exactly where the idea spawned from. I found this story to be one of the most fascinating. Bugsy was my man! The man who turned a spot in the desert into one of the world's most visited and most money generating attractions in history. Yet he is not recognized as the founder of what it is today. A shame!
@restoreme7858I grew up knowing the maffia was Italians , this video shows they were Jewish.
@easterneuropeaninthemiddle3073Lol it’s still called the Golden Gate Hotel brother.
@Vin_92I grew up in Vegas. Everyone knew it was mob heavy
@trogdortheburninator3621Great video.
Interesting comment in reference to President Kennedy attempting to help Frank Sinatra (who was in Nevada’s black book banning persons from operating casinos as confirmed by the Supreme Court ) to restore his ability to run a casino ….. admitting that even the President was not above the law.
Compare that to the Supreme Courts’s decision to provide Trump with immunity from accountability for breaking the law. How times have changed.
The story that's been told a thousand times you mean
@HeathenTruckerGreetings from California! ✌🏽
@JBones07Vegas is a dead fish now.
@franreid8203I asked in the murder inc video if you covered this, and here it is. Thanks
@terrymccann7844Vegas Is One Of Satans Strongholds
@FrmThaMontNicely done, and refreshing hearing an actual human narration instead of AI
@radstormCasinos are now in the hands of legitimate corporations! MY ASS! Search out the former New York Stock Exchange listed United Fruit Co. and their interesting actions toward Guatemala back in 1954. Hint. The Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell who also had lawyers in the U.S. government overthrew the government of Guatemala to protect their banana plantations from going to peasant farmers. It was a bloody scene.
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