Moe Sedway (1894 - 1952) was the faithful lieutenant of organized crime czar Meyer Lansky. Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowliński, July 4, 1902 &ndash January 15, 1983) was a gangster who with Charles Sedway had his own police record dating as far back as the early 1920s in New York. He began making trips to Las Vegas on Lansky's behalf in the early 1930s to franchise the syndicate's Trans-America Wire-Service. By 1945, along with Gus Greenbaum, Sedway ran the El Cortez Hotel with great success. Gus Greenbaum (1894&ndash December 3, 1958) was a member of the Chicago Outfit and syndicate accountant for Las Vegas casino operations The El Cortez, a Hotel and Casino is a relatively small downtown Las Vegas gaming venue a block from the Fremont Street Experience and Las Sedway was also instrumental in the financing and construction of the Flamingo Hotel when William R. Wilkerson ran into financial difficulties. The Flamingo Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Paradise Nevada and is owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. William Richard Wilkerson ( September 29, 1890 &ndash September 2, 1962) was the founder of the Hollywood Reporter, Flamingo Hotel Sedway saw the Flamingo as unique opportunity for their group to expand operations in Las Vegas. He accurately predicted that the post-war demand for "entertainment" would be enormous. According to his calculations hordes of gamblers from every state in the union would soon be flooding to Las Vegas. [1]
Sedway died in 1952. He is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.
Further reading
- Denton, Sally and Morris, Roger. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. ISBN 0-375-40130-X
- Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. London: Century, 1991. ISBN 0-7126-2426-0
- Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973. ISBN 0-7091-3966-7
- Reid, Ed and Demaris, Ovid. The Green Felt Jungle. Montreal: Pocket Books, 1964.
External links
- AmericanMafia.com - Muscling In by John William Tuohy
- Kefauver Committee - Testimony of Moe Sedway (1950)
- Moe Sedway at Find A Grave
References
- ^ Wilkerson III, W. Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records R. (2000). The Man Who Invented Las Vegas. Ciro's Books, 52-59.
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