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   "Most of the [Las Vegas] hotel builders were Jewish Americans. Jay   
   Sarno and Nate Jacobson were associated with Caesar's Palace [Sarno   
   later created Circus Circus]; Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, and Sam   
   Tucker with the Desert Inn (and, along with Jake Factor, with the   
   Stardust after [Italian-American Tony] Cornero's death); Sidney Wyman,   
   Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib with the early years of the Dunes; Gus   
   Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Charlie Resnick with managing the Flamingo   
   after Bugsy Siegel's death; Ben Goffstein, Willie Alderman, and David   
   Berman with the booking and running of the Riviera; Milton Prell with   
   the establishment of the Sahara and then with the transformation of   
   the Tally-Ho into the Aladdin; Hyman Abrams, Carl Cohen, and Jack   
   Entratter with the ownership and operation of the Sands [concurrently   
   the president of both the Sands Hotel casino and the Temple Beth   
   Sholam synagogue]; and Ben Jaffe, Phil Kastel, and Jell Houssels (of   
   Anglo-Saxon background) with the construction and operation of the   
   Tropicana ... A few Italian-Amerians hold minor ownership shares in   
   casinos." [BALBONI, p. 27]   
   Jewish singer Eddie Fisher recalls a Las Vegas offer he had at the   
   peak of his career that he now regrets turning down: "When I was   
   working at the Desert Inn I met with a man named Billy Weinberger, who   
   told me, 'We're building a new hotel and we want to give you fifty   
   percent of it.' In return I would perform there permanently and would   
   use my influence to attract other major stars. That sounded   
   interesting.  'What's it going to be called?' I asked. 'Caesar's   
   Palace.'" [FISHER, E., 1999, p. 292]   
   Bernie Rothkopf also owned the MGM Hotel. Allen Glick was, between   
   1974-79, "the mob's front man at the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and   
   Marina hotels." [MORRISON, J.A., p. 1A] "In July, 1979 Allen Glick was   
   stripped of his Nevada gambling license and fined over $500,000 for a   
   variety of improprieties." Glick sold his interests in casinos to   
   Allan Sachs, who was, with a partner, "figureheads for the Chicago mob   
   responsible for providing skim monies" from Las Vegas gambling   
   operations. [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 336] Jerome Mack, past president of the   
   Dunes and Riviera, was a former national chairman of the Israel Bonds   
   Campaign. Jewish entrepreneur Hank Greenspon owned the Las Vegas Sun   
   newspaper and a local TV station. [See his efforts for Israel in the   
   mass media section]   
   In more recently years, Arthur Goldberg is the CEO of Park Place   
   Entertainment, a conglomeration of 29 hotel-casinos [JENKINS, P.,   
   5-30-99] worldwide (Caesar's Palace, Bally's, etc.) that is twice the   
   size of its nearest competitor. Its Stardust division is the world's   
   largest hotel company.   
   Elsewhere, Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Sands, is also the owner   
   of Venetian, a new Las Vegas complex built in 1999 at a cost of $1.6   
   billion. Adelson is "one of richest men in America," in 1998 worth   
   about $600 million. [STOLL, I., 1-7-00, p. 1] Adelson, noted the Las   
   Vegas Review-Journal, "is one of the country's largest donors to   
   Jewish groups and he has influence in the national Jewish community."   
   [RALSTON] Adelson, notes the (Jewish) Forward, "has paid for 75   
   congressmen to visit Israel with the American Israel Public Affairs   
   Committee [the pro-Israel lobbying organization]." [STOLL, I., p. 1]   
   As Joe Gelman noted in 1999, "A number of these sin-palace operators   
   are Jewish and strong supporters of Israel." [GELMAN, p. 15B] [Author   
   Gelman complains about the use of this citation here].   
   The chairman of the Mirage, Steve Wynn, is also Jewish. (The funds for   
   Wynn's first casino, the Golden Nugget, was in large part raised by   
   convicted Jewish financier Michael Milken). [JOHNSTON, D., p. 74] The   
   Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, elected in 1999, is the former   
   president of Temple Beth Sholom. He also has a reputation as a "mob   
   lawyer," defending, among others, Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and   
   Frank Rosenthal. Rosenthal, notes the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is   
   credited by some with founding the modern day Las Vegas sports book   
   but was repeatedly denied a gambling license because of association   
   with organized crime members." [ZAPLER, p. 1A]   
   All of this, in more recent years, has its mirror image in Atlantic   
   City and, increasingly, other American gambling Meccas. Kenny Shapiro,   
   for instance, was "the Atlantic investment banker for [Italian   
   American mafioso] Nicky Scarfo, the vicious killer who ruled the   
   Philadelphia Mafia, the most murderous mob family in America."   
   [JOHNSTON, D., 1992, p. 82]   
   Another influential Jewish gambling mogul today is Sol Kerzner,   
   founder and principal owner of Sun City (also known as "Sin City"), a   
   resort playground created in 1979 in a poverty-stricken area of   
   apartheid South Africa. Kerzner's modern empire has expanded with   
   extravagant casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bahamas,   
   Mauritus, France, and a Native American site in Connecticut. An   
   alleged bribery scheme involving the Jewish mayor of Capetown, David   
   Bloomberg, in 1986 held up-for a while-his United States investments.   
   "Sun City," notes reporter Jay Clarke, "started out as a 'Sin City,' a   
   place where South Africans could let their hair down because it was   
   located then in the so-called 'independent homeland' of   
   Bophuthatswana. Gambling, show-girl revenues, and prostitution were   
   the lures." [CLARKE, p. TR1]   
   "If ever there was an appropriate setting for corruption it is Sun   
   City," noted the (London) Guardian, "situated as it is in one of nine   
   homelands which represent the cornerstones of that most corrupt of   
   social systems, apartheid." [BERESFORD, p. 18] One of the Israelis who   
   made millions off the immoral socio-political system surrounding Sun   
   City is Shabtai Kalmanovitch; he worked as an "economic advisor" to   
   Bophuthatswana' s dictator. [BERESFORD, p. 18] )   
   In recent years Sun City has attempted to diversify by creating a   
   family-oriented "Lost City" adventure park adjoining the casino. "The   
   patent reason why the Lost City has been designed as a family   
   playground and entertainment centre," says the (London) Guardian, "is   
   that it entices the public into gaming. The corridors leading to the   
   main casino even feature children's versions of slot machines-game   
   machines-which could with some justification be described as nursery   
   slopes inculcating the joys (or otherwise) of adult addiction to the   
   one-armed bandits packing the main 'treasure hall.'" [BERESFORD, p.   
   18]   
   Many Jewish (and other) mob figures were also involved in the gambling   
   industry in Cuba until the communist revolution destroyed their   
   operations. "After the loss of Cuba and the clampdown on the Mafia by   
   the Kennedy Justice Department," notes Dan Moldea, "Meyer Lansky and   
   the organized crime syndicate had targeted the Bahamas as its new   
   off-shore gambling and narcotics empire." [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 128]   
      
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