We're starting to, I don't want to hear no complaints.
We're actually starting 10 minutes early.
But right now we have two here.
Alright.
Test those, test.
One, two, three.
Test those tests.
Test, test, test.
One, two, three.
Is your mic on?
Test test.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Okay.
Okay, I can see us on YouTube.
Alright, sweet.
Okay.
We're live on YouTube, I see.
Now let me double-check Rumble.
Oh, you got to check on Rumble because my phone is brand new.
Or on Rumble, okay.
Yeah, check Rumble real fast.
Okay.
I got it.
Yeah, Rumble's up.
Rumble's up.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Stream is live.
What's up, guys?
Welcome to the stream, guys.
Welcome.
We got something special for you guys today.
We are live.
We're here in Las Vegas, Nevada.
We are actually here at the Mob Museum.
Okay, give them a quick little tour.
And what we're going to do today, guys, I'm going to go ahead and give you guys a tour of the museum.
I came here back Super Bowl weekend with Angie.
And actually, it was Angie that told me, hey, we need to go to this mob museum.
We came out here.
We loved it.
We're like, yo, this place is awesome.
We need to do a tour for Fred Reacts on here.
And a lot of historical stuff, a lot of like stuff.
And as you guys know, as well, we did a whole thing on the mafia.
We covered the five families, you know, we covered the Travicantes.
We covered so much of the mafia.
Covered the history, covered the five crime families, covered the Florida section, covered the outfit out of Chicago with Al Capone.
So we covered the mafia extensively.
And we're going to go ahead and put a nice little bow on all of it by giving you guys this museum right here, the Mob Museum here in Las Vegas.
So if you guys are in Vegas or ever visit Vegas, you guys should absolutely come here, man.
Highly recommend it.
Shout out to the Mob Museum for letting us come here and actually do an exclusive tour and record it because they almost never let you like record anything in here.
Or take pictures.
They don't even want you taking pictures or whatever.
So we were able to go ahead and get the hookup, reach out to their management, they let us go ahead and record this.
So definitely, you know, if you're in Vegas, man, I highly suggest you come over here.
But yeah, we're going to go ahead and take you guys through.
It takes about two hours or so to go through this tour.
I think when we did it last time.
The only rules that they gave us is that we cannot interrupt with anybody's tour.
Of course, of course.
Of course, that was only real.
Okay, of course.
We're not going to do that.
That's weird.
So yeah, so yeah, guys, this is going to be, yeah, any chats or anything that we got to get before we get in here?
Shout out to Bill's recording before we helping out.
Huh?
Check in Rumble 2 and 2.
Alright, so let's go in, guys.
Oh, nice.
And we'll get you guys this tour, man.
And the good thing, too, is that this is off the strip, guys, which is good.
Because, you know, you don't got to deal with the craziness of the strip you come out this way.
Oh, thanks.
Okay.
So, are you going to go through?
We have to start from the top.
Yeah, it starts from the third floor and then you work your way down, guys.
Yeah.
There we go.
So, and you can see here, right, you got all the all the stuff here.
But yeah, basically you start on the third floor, guys, then they're going to work your way down and they take you throughout the mob history.
So, so yeah, and I'll be reading out some of the stuff to you guys as well.
So, I do like museums, especially if it's stuff that I'm interested in.
So, we're going to start this way.
Okay, guys.
So, the birth of the mob, right?
The story of the mob in America begins in the 19th century in the poverty-ridden ethnic neighborhoods of big cities.
First came the Irish, then the Chinese, and the Italians, then the boys from Eastern Europe.
Fleeing famine, political, and religious persecution, they crossed oceans in search of a better life.
Okay, so let's go into it, guys.
So, you can see here.
This is the coolest thing ever.
This is cool to you?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Here you'll see that Mario is actually 6'5.
Yeah.
Wait until you guys are out.
Don't worry.
So, you guys can see here, immigrants forced into crowded slums, worst jobs, right?
So, many immigrants were forced to live in rickety tenement housing with as many as 12 adults sleeping in a room 13 feet across.
Rats infested the buildings and diseases such as calora and tuberculosis, which TB or calora, okay.
What is calora?
It's like it's a disease.
Well, duh, but like what does it do to you?
Like, what does it Google it real fast?
Okay, the jobs they could get offered low pay and often dangerous conditions.
And you guys know, obviously, these people came to the United States in the early 1900s and New York City was like crowded and shitty and everything else like that.
And then, so it goes, how did it come to this?
And then you can actually see.
Stay here, Bills.
Look at this shit.
See, when you have the lineup, so I don't know, but this is where if I was supposed to take a buck shot, this is what I would be.
Because that's 6'6, right there.
If you come a little bit to the back, you'll probably see like 6'5.
Wait, hold on, hold on.
Let me get it.
6'5, probably, bro.
You probably 6'5, yeah.
Yeah, she's short.
You're like 6'5, so I'm saying 6'3.
Yeah, 6'3, I got sneakers on, man.
Bro, the regular ass running shoes.
Man.
Does Bill's got a mic?
No, Bill's gonna got a mic.
They can hear you?
Okay.
Okay.
So yeah, so obviously that's like when they do the lineup, which, you know, back in the day, right, they would go ahead and just like, well, they still kind of do this now, but not as much.
They do it more with, and I can tell you guys this from experience.
Whenever we have a lineup, we just take pictures of people, six people that look apart.
It's called a six-pack, and you put them through.
But now this was back in the day.
Yeah, the zoo suits.
How did you land in the criminal justice system?
You're about to step into a police lineup.
A victim or informant will have a chance to finger you.
What choices landed you here?
So this is back in the day, man, how they used to do it when they would bring them in.
Obviously, you can't see the people, right?
You come back here.
We can go ahead and show them.
Like, you just stand here, and you already know that they're, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you just stand here.
Yeah, and they can see you, but you can't see them for obvious reasons.
That's so crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, and that's some pictures here.
There's a little like Mean Streets fostered criminal underworld.
And then as it goes here, despite the hardships they faced, most immigrants did not return to their homelands.
They worked hard and eventually improved their lot.
You hear that, FBAs?
You cry, babies?
But beneath the surface of ethnic communities, the criminal underworld to thrive, teenagers form gangs to commit petty crimes that protect themselves from our small timehoods, graduate into working for the mob.
And this is kind of how they got around this, guys.
When you came in as immigrants, they stuck together.
The Italians stuck together, the Irish stuck together, and everything else like that.
And this is kind of how the Italian mafia was formulated.
Same thing with the bloods, the crypts, etc.
of these gangs, guys, were created because of, you know, being discriminated against in the United States, so they kind of formed alliances so they could protect each other.
And then corruption, right?
So it goes here.
The mob gained a foothold in America's cities at a time when police departments were still in their infancy.
Officers received little training and low pay.
They often took bribes to cast a blind eye at the mob activities.
Some politicians also enriched themselves by doing favors for crime bosses.
And this is important to note, guys, because obviously when you're not getting paid shit and you're poor, right, you're going to be way more susceptible to corruption.
This is actually a big reason if you guys want to get into the FBI, you want to work in a law enforcement agency, even local police departments nowadays do this.
They do pretty stringent credit checks.
And the reason why is because they don't want you to be as susceptible to corruption and bribery, which happens a lot with, you know, when you're underpaid.
Well, if you watch our stream of the Chicago Mafia and what's the name of that boss?
Akaponi.
He bought all the mayors in, well, the mayor in Chicago at that time.
Yeah, he was paying them off.
Here, we can watch this right here, this little thing right here.
It's about to start again.
It's going to start again?
In nine seconds.
It's nine seconds.
Okay, you're going to get the back row?
Okay, and what I'll do is I'll actually put the mic.
Let's put the mic close so they can hear it.
Oh, Angie's going to stay.
Okay, you're going to stay there so they can hear it?
Okay.
That works.
Thanks, Angie.
It's a three-minute video.
Guys, so we're taking you through the tour.
Taking you through the tour.
See if you can zoom in a little bit.
Yeah.
So they can see.
That's the most you can zoom in?
Yeah, I'm going to go.
Go closer.
Go closer.
Coming to this country as an immigrant has never been easy.
Yeah.
America is a land of opportunity, but also of competition and hard choices.
Huge waves of immigrants landed on our shores in the late 18 and early 1900s.
Most put their faith in the system, in the police, the courts, their jobs.
Bit by bit, they worked their way out of the ghetto.
A few, however, thought they could choose a shortcut to the American dream.
Wallian's chief of police was ambushed.
No one ever proved who killed him, but people were whispering the word mafia.
Italian immigrants in the Crescent City had to beware as anti-immigrant lynch parties took the law into their own hands.
Some Italians did bring with them a secret criminal society which went back generations in Sicily.
But not all organized crime was Italian.
New York had a long history of gang warfare.
There were Irish gangs, Jewish gangs, all crammed together in the city's slums.
I was like, oh man, I see you coming.
They definitely were Jewish gangs.
Oh my gosh.
This is a box of 30,000 quarts of whiskeys now being destroyed under court order.
Go to it, boys.
In 1920, the American government went to war with alcohol.
Most people just moved their drinking underground.
We're going to talk about Prohibition a lot here.
From the mean streets of ghettos around the country, it was the opportunity of a lifetime.
Gangsters became bootleggers.
Nobodies became wise guys.
The bosses became rich and powerful, hobnobbing with society's upper crust.
The city most brazenly defiant of prohibition laws, Chicago, became known as the mob capital of the country.
America was one big speakeasy, and the underworld was supplying the booze.
Boom.
All right, so I want to show them right here with the rackets.
This is important so they can understand kind of how the mafia made money.
So, as you guys know, when we did our videos, right, we covered all the different crime families.
Each crime family had almost like their own specialties that they were good at.
The 19th century slang grew from the word for causing commotion, making a racket.
And that's why they called RICO racketeering.
Where do you think that came from?
Boom, from this.
And that was because RICO Act was created basically to go after the mob.
You can see all the different types of different types of crime.
You got money, right?
Obviously, horse racing, dog racing, offshore banking, offshore accounts, etc.
Counterfeiting money and securities.
Then you got betting and gambling.
That's huge what they do.
Matter of fact, the city of Las Vegas was built upon this.
Gambling, sex, right, strip clubs, pornography, child prostitution, etc.
Sports, obviously we know that they're big in the sports betting, right?
Fixing games, sports betting, corruption, construction and justice, buying witnesses, buying elections.
This is an oppressive.
Yeah, I mean, this is how John Gotti got off: was paying witnesses off.
Right?
And then you go, it's a garment industry, taxing all these.
Yeah, taxing all these legitimate industries, right?
And then you got the docks.
This was huge with the Jewish mafia, by the way, guys, was controlling the docks.
Okay?
This is how they got the uranium over to Israel, if you guys know what I'm saying.
Just controlling the docks.
And then food rackets, transport, right?
Trucking depots, et cetera, controlling the units.
This is how they made money, guys.
Okay, so now we're into crime starting to get organized, right?
You go from like people being, you know, poor and kind of just making their way out through the United States to now starts to get organized, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Go ahead.
And then it goes here.
During the first two decades of the 20th century, the black hand menaced American communities with kidnappings, bombings, and murders.
Meanwhile, other organized crime groups emerged to make the money through robbery, counterfeiting loan sharking, gambling, and prostitution.
The rough streets of America's cities taught harsh lessons to the boys who would become the century's most notorious mobsters.
Including Luke Luciano, Mayor Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, them boys, Cha-Ching, both of these two, and then Al Capone.
And then the mafia used to be called guys the Black Hand back in the day.
The Black Hand or La Mano Nera in Italian terrorized Italian immigrants and others.
In dozens of American cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s, black hand members, some of them associated with the mafia or Kimora organized crime groups, slant letters to people demanding money or else harm would come to them or their families.
And this is obviously like the beginnings of extortion.
And then black handers kidnapped children, bombed homes, and committed murders.
Some residents locked their children inside and patrolled their streets with guns, bad publicity, arrests, and stiff prison terms, decimated the black hand by the early 1920s as organized crime turned its attention to bootlegging.
Because, and we talked about that with the alcohol.
And actually, guys, people don't talk about this enough.
Bootlegging and the prohibition actually is what made the mafia extremely wealthy and rich.
If we were to actually account for dollars today with inflation, they made billions upon billions of dollars because everyone wanted to drink and get lit, you know, despite the fact that we were outlawed alcohol.
So, yeah.
There is just one chat, Uncle Luke, 1980s.
Yeah, what does he say?
Watch guns of New York when you guys get a chance, Myron and Lil Angie and five bucks.
Thank you, Uncle Luke.
Oh, there's another one.
Oh, that's Rumble, yeah.
Yeah, by Pointed Share 541, he says, Myron, I have applied to this great school and I have been rejected twice.
I'm fucking angry.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
The school is Academy of Mine RCM.
Oh, he is trolling.
Yeah.
He said it's our school?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's trolling.
Okay.
Thank you for the donation.
Yeah.
We already know what he's saying.
So this is interesting because I remember last time this came through, I was really interested in this.
William Flynn's wiretap kit.
Wiretapping, the monitoring of telephone conversations by a third party, first became a law enforcement tool in the 1890s.
So guys, they started wiretapping in the 1890s.
This wiretapping kit was owned by William Flynn, who directed the U.S. Secret Service from 1912 to 1917.
So that's fucking crazy, man.
Phone numbers with two digits.
Yeah, probably.
Wiretap number 30.
Yeah.
So you can see here, My Life in the U.S. Secret Service by YMJ Flynn for 25 years, chief manhunter for Uncle Sam begins in this issue.
And this is when they were wiretapping phones, 1890.
Isn't that fucking crazy?
Look, that's his wiretap kit right there.
That's crazy, bro.
The technology of the 1990s.
1890s.
1890s.
Yeah.
And just so you guys know, back right, Secret Service, right?
What do they investigate?
They investigate counterfeit currency, obviously protection of the president.
Those are the remain.
And then they do financial crimes as well.
You can see the archives in here.
Yeah.
This is really cool.
Yeah, some of the archives here.
So, and here, look, connecting the dots here, right?
So you can look at like some of where the mafia was like, you know, big operating.
So you got Boston, Providence, Newark, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Youngstown, Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo, Scranton, Dunder, Mifflin, Saratoga, Covington, Miami, Havana, right?
We know that they opened up a casino in Havana prior to the whole Fidel Castro crap.
Dallas, Hot Springs, St. Louis, Springfield.
Pueblo.
They were everywhere, bro.
The mafia was everywhere, man.
Except the north.
Look at that north all empty.
Yeah.
Well, at least early on, right?
It was called organized crime for a reason.
Individuals and gangs were connected in a highly structured criminal network or syndicate.
And then complex ties linked organizations nationwide.
So we'll go this way.
Okay, Arizona Club.
Tough little town.
So now we're into the Arizona part of the museum and guys don't forget we're here in Nevada.
Nevada is basically the West, man.
You know, right now, as we speak, it's 737 over here, but I know you guys over on the East Coast are probably 1037 over there.
So we are far out west right now, my friends.
So not surprised that we have this section of the museum as well that covers Arizona.
So we can show them some of the exhibits here.
The Chocolate Dice Game.
Chocolate.
Chocolate.
Chocolate was a popular game of change in the early 20th century.
This case from the 1930s or 40s is missing one dice.
Okay.
Oh, the type of booze.
Yeah, this is.
Look, high-stakes trade simulator.
This is one of the things I guess.
A horse racing monitor generally paid out with cigars, cigarettes, and candy.
And then here.
Look at this.
Oh, I remember this from a little bit of a fairy.
Yeah, this is a real gun right here.
Looks Roxy Klippinger's purse revolver.
Roxy and Eddie Klimberger ran Roxy's a brothel located on Boulder Highway from 1945 to 1954.
The FBI raided Roxy's in 1954 after a 10-year investigation that ultimately seemed both clipping herself to prison and results in accusations of graft lobbed at Clark County Sheriff Glenn Jones.
Oh shit.
So that was her handgun that she kept in the middle of the morning.
That's obviously a gundo, bro.
Yeah, look at how small that thing is.
And then here we go.
Helen still reports deaths of Keel brothers.
So right here, law enforcement of prohibition, it goes here.
Nevada enacted prohibition in 1918, more than a year before the 18th Amendment took effect, but Nevada support for prohibition dried up quickly.
Nevada lawmakers repealed the state prohibition law in 1923, leaving it to federal agents to enforce the Volstead Act for the next 10 years.
Many Las Vegas speakeasies were located on Block 16, coupled with moonshiners operating in nearby Bootleg Canyon in Las Vegas.
Never ran dry.
Well, I believe that.
And then bootlegging.
Hey, you can show them all the old photos here from the Prohibition era.
What is this?
A wallet?
This is early saloons in Las Vegas.
Well, that's where they drank booty.
Yeah, like a bar, yeah.
I remember at the good old saloon that Red Dead Redemption sales.
I read Dead Redemption.
Look at this.
So the 18th Amendment to the Constitution ratified January 1919, banned the manufacturer and sale of alcohol.
Congress then passed the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto to enforce the ban.
At the stroke of a pen, centuries-old customs became illegal, dividing Americans along ethnic, regional, and religious lines.
Thousands of brewers and bartenders became unemployed or destitute or criminals, which a lot of them became criminals.
And here we have some of the bootleggers.
Yeah, here are some bootleggers.
Rum runners.
Well, you want to read it?
No.
No?
Okay.
You like fresh with the reading?
Okay.
Tony Cornero, the West Coast top rum runner, smuggled Canadian whiskey into California.
Oh, which, by the way, this was huge, guys.
So during the Prohibition era, smuggling booze into the United States was huge through Canada because it was still legal there.
He parked his freighters three miles from Los Angeles and transferred the liquor to Speedboats for delivery to the shore, easily evading the Coast Guard.
And then you got here Sylvester Silver Dollar Sam Corello, Johnny Torrillo, and then Arnold Rothstein.
Stop it.
Stop it.
He was nicknamed The Brain, pioneered the smuggling of Scotch whiskey across the Atlantic, providing top-shelf booze to New York's elite.
He also imported heroin from Europe, making him America's first drug kingpin.
Rothstein mentored next generation crime bosses such as Charles Lucky Luciano, Mary Lansky.
In 1928, Rothstein was shot to death in New York's Park Central Hotel.
His killer was never arrested.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Facts.
And then we got a.
Here, actually, go ahead and get this.
This will be on the Valentine's Day masquerade thing.
It was called the Noble Experiment.
But in fact, prohibition was the business opportunity that changed organized crime in America forever.
Gangs that had been in the past sold the people prostitution or gambling now had a new product and a much bigger market.
They built partnerships, networks, and defended their turf.
And the most powerful figure in its bootlegging trade was Johnny Torreo.
Torreo had arrived from Brooklyn a decade earlier and it built up booming gambling and prostitution rackets.
When Prohibition went into effect, Torio immediately recognized the immense profits that bootlegging could bring.
He and his indispensable first lieutenant, a former bouncer named Al Capone, embarked on a campaign of uniting the gangs of Chicago and laying the foundation for an empire.
But first, they had to go through a powerful Irish gang on the north side, led by Dean O'Banion.
O'Bannon and his North Siders had been hijacking Torio's shipments of bulls.
And in 1924, Torio's hitmen assassinated O'Banion.
Two months later, O'Banion's lieutenants, Jaime Weiss and Bugs Moran, caught up with Torio.
Torio survived the hit, but decided to retire and turn operations over to Capone.
With Torio gone, Capone was free to unleash his ruthlessness.
We already know in 1926, Capone's men murdered Jaime Weiss.
Bugs Moran was now in charge of the Northside gang, and the two gangs went after each other in a bloody war of attrition with bodies piling up in the streets.
Many believe Capone tried to end it once and for all.
It was February 14, 1929.
Moran's men were baited to a warehouse in Lincoln Park with a hijack truckload of whiskey.
When they arrived, they were met by a group of men dressed as police officers.
Thinking they were about to be arrested, seven men did not protest.
Then, two or three men in planeclothes walked in.
They pulled Tommy guns out from under their coats, pointed them at the man lined up against the brick wall, this brick wall, and opened fire.
Isn't this too graphic for you two?
Eh, it's fine.
And actually, Chad, the wall is right behind this thing.
Yeah, you'll see it.
I'll show it to you guys here in a second.
And the federal government increased its scrutiny of organized crime in Chicago.
Three years later, Al Capone was behind bars for tax evasion.
Yet the legend of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre was just beginning.
And this is the actual wall, guys.
I mean, yeah, they took a portion of it out.
Like, they actually took the wall out.
Yeah, they took a portion of it out.
St. Valentine's Day matter became so infamous around the country that even the warehouse where it happened became a tourist attraction.
It's crazy.
It's a crazy exhibit.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Here you go.
Yeah, and you guys could, like, look, like, this is obviously, but this is where they took it out.
The St. Valentine's Day massacre was the event that first brought to the Midwest the use of ballistics to the scientific investigation of crime.
There you go.
Here, you got the little thing here.
It says, This is the wall against which Bugs Moran men were shot on February 14th, 1929.
The infamous wall is from SMC Cartage, a facility used by Bugs Moran's gang in 1929.
In 1967, the building was torn down and the bricks were removed and numbered, purchased by George Patey, and moved to his nightclub in Vancouver, B.C. The mob museum acquired the bricks from his family.
The buildings adjacent to went across the street from the original building, where lookouts were stationed and remained as they were in 1929.
So these were the actual bricks, guys.
Crazy.
Crazy, right?
And you can see like the bullet holes in them, too.
No one was ever tried or convicted for the seven murders that occurred on the Getson Squadron.
Yeah.
Life was different in the 20s, bro.
Here you can see the bullets and stuff.
You can see the bullets here.
Yeah.
And the.
Yeah, look at the bullets.
Myren's admiring the holes.
I am.
Oh, yeah, thank you.
And then this is like what a time.
This is what a Tommy gun looks like, just so the audience can kind of.
Yeah, we got you, chat.
We got you.
Yeah.
General John T. Thompson developed the Thompson submachine gun or Tommy gun in 1918.
It was intended for use in trench warfare during World War I, but the fighting ended before it could be deployed on the battlefield.
As a result, Tommy guns were marketed to civilians, eventually finding their way into the hands of criminals.
Two-model 1921 Tommy guns were used in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
So this is what it is.
George Beatty shipped the bricks to Canada.
Reassembled all four...
Can you do my...
Yeah.
Ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
And using the original numbering system, they constructed the wall.
Look, you can see the bullets in here.
Oh, look at this.
This is a photo of her creds.
Daisy Simpson, Lindy Hooch.
Oh, this is the hunters.
Daisy Simpson, one of the just a few women who served as prohibition agents, worked undercover in San Francisco.
One of her bus results in the dumping of 8,400 gallons of Napa Valley wine.
In 1925, she resigned after the government banned women from serving as field agents.
Based the government.
But yeah, look, this is actually pretty cool, though.
Look, this is a picture of her creds, guys.
Look, you can see here, Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service.
So this was a part of the IRS.
And then these are what creds look like.
So when I had my creds, that's what they looked like too when I used to be.
This is like the mug shot?
No, no, no.
It's like when you have your government ID.
Oh, okay.
When you identify yourself.
And then Eugene Jackson, what was he?
He was a prohibition agent as well.
He was killed by a bootlegger in 1932 in Chicago.
The agents in disguise, two of the most famous prohibition enforcement agents were Izzy Einstein and Mo Smith.
Yeah, I would imagine you got to go undercover a lot for that.
So it wasn't FBI that did it.
They had the bullets and the bullets?
The biopsies.
Oh, wow.
The biopsy records.
Okay.
Cook County.
Look at that, man.
Multiple gunshot wounds of the chest, abdomen, and extremities with laceration of the liver, mesentery, small intestine, large intestine, both lungs, penetrating wounds with fractures.
One guy had 23.
Look at this: 15, 23, 10 gunshot wounds.
9, 11, 14.
23 gunshot wounds.
They remember the Reinhardt guns.
You can see the bullets in the body right there.
This is the 23.
Yeah, we got that.
Did you know they were going after Schwimmer?
23?
Hit?
One of them boys.
Oh, come on, Benji.
Side back.
And then here, look, this is the path to repeal.
So, Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, repealing prohibition.
And then you see March 22nd, then February 1933.
And then, I guess.
Oh, no, oh, sorry, it goes from this to this.
Reveal the 18th Amendment.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they could drink booze.
So look, you've got Lepke, Luciano, Capone.
And then you can see, like, this is the feds, like, they used to call them G-Men back in the day.
Yeah, G-Men.
This is a Capani revolver.
Look.
How they can keep this in their suits, man.
I remember this gun.
Yeah, this is one of his revolvers, guys.
They found this, I think, in one of the raids.
Yeah, Kentucky legal.
Yeah, they seized it in a 2004 raid of a Kentucky illegal gambling gun.
We can go over here real quick.
See?
I think we have to go this way.
Huh?
I think we have to go.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just reading this for them.
So as you can see here, guys, right?
So now we're, so obviously we covered the prohibition era, right?
Now, the police, right, the Feds started coming back after them now, right?
And then how do you come out of threat?
And the federal agencies, the local police, face a steep learning curve.
Battling organized crime required patience, long-term commitment, and new tools.
So this is where you can really start to see the evolution of federal law enforcement and law enforcement in general going after organized crime.
Can we come this way, Bulls?
In the 1920s, it seemed an era of slick gangsters, overwhelmingly corrupt or incompetent cops, and the tables were turning by the 1930s.
The wanting days of prohibition brought powerful professional and above all else, honest G-Men.
Right?
And that's funny what they used to call them, the G-Men.
Government men.
So Ness, this is the first guy right here, Elliot Ness.
So in 1929, Ness put together an elite team of prohibition agents, later nicknamed to Untouchables, because they couldn't be bought off or bribed.
Their raids on Capone's bootlegging operations, often reported by newspaper cameramen that Ness had thoughtfully tipped off, further fueled their fame.
This is him right here.
You guys can see.
It has like a little flash thing.
And then you got Elmer Ray.
Federal agents pursued Al Capone for years, but it wasn't G-Men who finally spared him.
It was snared him.
It was T-Men, which is the Treasury.
Yeah, it was the IRS that actually got him.
So yeah, the Department of Treasury, this makes sense.
Why send the Treasury Department after a gangster wanted for murder, bootlegging, and prostitution?
Because Capone was way too willing to leave evidence of a serious crime, and the government vowed to get him by any way it could.
And then Elmer Ray headed a unit pursuing Capone for the IRS.
That's how they got him on tax evasion, guys.
And then a general in the drug wars, this was Anslinger had served as an assistant commissioner of prohibition as he proposed outlawing the purchase of alcohol.
1930, Anslinger was appointed commissioner of the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
He remained there for 32 years.
That was a DEA guys, Bureau of Narcotics.
And then, obviously, we got Hoover, right?
Which, you know, I don't know if you guys know, but he played for the other team.
That's a whole good conversation.
For nearly half a century, Edgar Hoover was synonymous with the FBI.
He was not always synonymous with fighting organized crime.
However, who led the Bureau of Investigation and success with the FBI from 1924 to 1972, bro.
Holy crap.
So he long dismissed a national crime syndicate as baloney only when mob actively became undeniable to Hoover's shift from catching bank robbers to catch mobsters.
And there's a reason for this, by the way, guys.
The reason why Hoover didn't go so aggressively against the organized crime was because Marylansky had compromising photos of him doing things that were suspect.
That is why they didn't go after the FBI didn't go after the mob as hard, because Mary Lansky had him in check.
And you can look here, look at these like old toys from back in the day.
Look, G-Men, G-Men outfit.
So they're making it cool to be a cabo, I guess.
Yeah.
Right.
And then look, it looks like this is what they had.
The vest and the Thompson sub-machine gun, Thompson reproduction.
Oh, that's like a Tommy that they made themselves or something?
I think so.
And then equal protection, and then they had a vest right here.
Mobster had always packed heat.
Increasingly, they packed hotter heat.
The Thompson Machine Gun Tommy Gun, developed for World War I and available on the eve of prohibition, escalated the violence and fear.
Law enforcement scrambled to keep up in this arms race.
Arms race.
It bolstered its own arsenal and armed itself with new laws regulating the sale and use of firearms.
Yeah, they had to get better guns.
so you can see here Let's keep pushing.
And the target, tax dodgers.
So this is how they ended up getting Al Capone, as you guys know, was through the.
through tax violations.
So when Bobsters went to prison, it rarely was for murder, robbery, or corruption.
It often was because they didn't pay their taxes.
And guys, these guys were smart.
They cleaned up their, you know, they cleaned by themselves or they went ahead and intimidated witnesses so they wouldn't testify against them.
So how are you going to get them?
You're going to get them for not paying taxes.
And that's how they actually got Capone.
He killed a bunch of people, but they couldn't get him on that.
They got him on taxes.
So.
Yeah.
After killing a bunch of people.
Isn't that crazy?
Can I get you on that, but we got you on them taxes, though.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it goes here.
So they caught him.
So they caught him.
He had the police in the politicians' pocket, and good luck finding hometown witnesses willing to testify against him.
But the team had to compile the paper trail that showed Capone reaping big profits without paying his fair share, fearing Capone would then threaten or kill two key witnesses.
Agents kept them hidden out of state until it was time for them to testify.
And the learning and learning that Capone planned to tamper with the jury, Judge James Wilkerson introduced a new set of jurors on the trial's opening day on October 17, 1931.
The jury found Capone guilty.
So that's crazy.
They actually had to get a jury the day of the trial so they wouldn't tamper with the witnesses or the jury.
Oh, look at this.
Another set of creds.
You see, see that, guys?
Right here.
Internal Department, Internal Revenue.
And then look, boom, special agent right there.
These are old IRS creds.
That's really cool.
So, look, it has...
A little bit like their batch back then?
Yeah.
Yeah, I used to have a set too.
Whose signature and picture appear above under the seal of the Internal Revenue Service is duly commissioned as special agent and has authority to perform all duties conferred upon such officers under all laws and regulations administered by the Internal Revenue Service, including the authority to investigate and require and receive information as to all matters relating to such laws and regulations.
And then you can see their date 10-1-1953.
They had to put cancel there to have it be done.
But yeah, that's cool.
And it has a signature there, too.
So yeah, all these old people wonder for taxing the invasion.
And then look, murder ink right here.
No, and it's not y'all rule, guys.
Lebke, dead or alive.
Luce Lebke did all he could to avoid being caught.
It wasn't enough.
Come on, bro.
Shout out the real murder ink.
And then you got Albert, TikTok, Tanabaum, Seymour, Blue Jaw Magoon, Samuel Red Levine, Joe Adonis, Jacob Gura Serpiro, Bugsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia.
Well, you guys already know from the last names where these dudes are from.
And I'll tell you this, it's not Italy.
Oh, this is so cool.
Watch this.
No.
And the electric chair.
Come on, Mari.
Huh?
You gotta ding.
Oh, yeah.
I'll do it gladly.
Yeah, gladly is crazy.
This guy's like gladly.
He said, Do it, gladly.
Now you have to do it.
No.
Andrews is the man to die.
So, the repeal of prohibition abruptly ended organized crime, smuggling, and speakeasy operations, but it didn't end its ambitious.
So now, guys, they got to find new ways to make money now that alcohol is legal again.
So what did they do?
They started fixing sports.
The mob goes to war.
Oh, look at this.
So here's to becoming.
The chat's saying W because you turned on the electric chair.
Oh.
Becoming a maid, man.
Jerry and the mob wasn't something you did lightly.
Getting in was tough.
Getting out, tougher acceptance involved.
Family, ethnicity, and religion.
La Cosa Nostra, which means our thing in Italian.
Initially welcomed only men of Sicilian descent, as learned in a wiretap of an induction in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1989.
Members were made in ceremonies that included burning a saint's picture and a blood oath to emerge to a code of silence.
So we talked about this right here.
So here, touch the screen, right?
Disturbing.
You guys want to join the mob?
I guess we are.
Okay, we're about to become made, guys.
I need to have the most young boys, the conciliator, and captain.
You know these men.
You've seen them around.
And if you think about it, you'll know who they are and what they're about.
It's always been in respect.
General, any of you got a problem with this one?
Anything we need to clear up?
I don't know.
We're here to bring new matters into our family and start a new beginning for you.
This thing of ours, this one's John.
It's a good, good thing, but it's the winning ball of the world.
Loyalty until death.
You know this so badly, you're so desperate to have this, that even if your mother is in bed and dying, you're correct.
She will do this.
It's an emergency.
I have to leave.
Can you dance?
Yeah.
Yes.
Sure.
What if I was to tell you someone in your family or someone close to you is an informal brand and justify those words.
If I told you it was a killer, the old world waiting.
No question.
Yeah.
Go ahead, Angie.
Yeah, as you go.
Yeah, go ahead.
She said that.
Yeah.
Well, time to cut the finger.
You gotta cut your finger?
Yeah.
Yeah, they got your fingers to make the oath.
You know, I'm thinking about the Sopranos.
I want to enter into this organization.
What is this?
Yeah, this is how you get sworn in, bro.
Oh, my God.
Now that you're a part of us, you must always remember certain things.
Never talk about our business with anybody outside of the family.
Stay the way you are.
Do not let this body head.
Stay away from the wives of other lands.
Never raise your hand or make God without your mission.
And never, never betray your brother's silence.
Any of these offenses will be your pain.
I agree.
What's been said and done here today stays here.
Congratulations.
Amen.
They can't make women, though.
That's okay.
Oh, wait, wait.
Look at this.
You can hear.
Yeah.
You can hear this.
Oh, betting on horses.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's very cool.
Oh, and this is all like the cities where the mob isn't happening.
Yep.
Yeah.
Here, let's take Miami.
Look.
This is the menu.
If we press it, we press the menu and we go to Miami.
We'll see.
Organized crime.
Miami, like Las Vegas.
Yep.
Was long considered an open city by the underworld.
A nice vacation spot for everybody.
Since all Caponi made the area his second home in the 1920s.
Wait, where did he live?
Chicago.
Oh, wait, no.
Chicago.
No, but like, he had a house in Miami.
Yes, he did.
It's on Miami Beach.
Okay.
It's on Miami Beach.
And then you go on menu.
What else do we got here?
Let's look at South Northeast.
Let's go to Boston, Massachusetts.
Providence.
They're one, right?
Organized crime, sometimes known as the office.
The New England mob, has had two traditional headquarters, North Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence.
Rhode Island, each has been periodically ruled by different bosses.
But Boston was historically taken a backseat to Providence owing to the presence of powerful underworld force in Rhode Island.
Boston was weakened by the fact that the New England crime family could not integrate the city's Irish-American gangsters, most notably James Whitey Bolger.
So you can like touch the Cleveland, Ohio.
I didn't know that.
That was like a whole bomb.
Myra, come on.
I'm clicking it.
We won Ohio or Cincinnati.
I was doing it with Cleveland.
There you go.
Prohibition was a colorful era for what was then the nation's fifth largest city.
Oh, wow.
The era was highlighted.
Must have been back then it was the fifth largest.
What's the fifth largest?
Nobody's going to Cleveland now.
That place sucks.
And then Tampa, this is the Travis Cante's right here.
Organized crime in Tampa.
Or sorry, yeah, in Tampa.
All right, let's uh well obviously, oh, hold on.
New York, New York.
You know that one.
No, that five families, yeah.
Not New Orleans.
Yeah.
Yeah, New York City is home to the five most powerful crime families in America.
Each of these families evolved from gangs in different parts of the city.
At the conclusion of the Casa Mularies War in 1931, then top Bos Salvatore Maranzano officially organized the families, but it wouldn't be until early 1960 that the five families became household names.
Bonano, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese.
Joe Valenci, a former Lucchese soldier, described the organization to U.S. Senate's McLean committee.
He called it La Costa Nosh or LCN.
This was the first time the title was used outside of mob inner circles.
I love Martin sporting life, so they rigged also sports like boxing.
Oh, yeah, of course.
I remember when we had Michael Francis, he talked about how they used to fix the sports.
It says, isn't there that Mohammed Hali was the first one not to be corrupted by the mob.
Oh, he's the first one to not let them corrupt?
Yeah.
Yeah, he wanted to beat them niggas up, that's why.
So I'm not losing no fight.
They will smuggle stop in the tomato cans.
Hey, look, I think this is Mayor Lansky's passport right here, guys.
Is it?
Yep.
Look.
Mayor Lansky, right there, boom.
1969.
He was born in Russia.
Yeah.
Yep.
Definitely a Cha Chig, yeah.
Definitely.
Yeah, he was Russian, but we really know where he is.
Yeah, look, he says that the State Department issued the passport to long-time mob mastermind, Mayor Lansky, in 1967.
He was canceled in 1969.
After Lansky received another passport in 1970, he traveled to Israel.
Intending to stay there to avoid charges of casino scheming in Las Vegas.
Yep.
Israel saved him.
So he wanted to become an Israeli citizen.
But negative publicity about his criminal past led to his application denial in 1971.
Boom.
You guys ready to go down?
Yeah, let's go.
All right.
We have to rush now, Martin.
We have to rush around.
No, no, it's only 8:50.
I mean, it's alright, 8:10.
Okay.
We still got an hour.
Sorry, guys.
So now we're going to.
We covered the origins of the mob.
We covered prohibition.
We've covered law enforcement, like starting to finally go after these guys.
So now we're going on the second floor, guys.
How are you guys liking the tour so far?
You guys liking it?
Give me ones in the chat if you guys are liking this.
Give us ones.
Or twos.
If you've got a two, tell us what you want us to fix.
What did they say once?
Sweet.
Okay.
And if it's two, then tell us what you guys want us to do better.
Maybe the sound or some shit.
Okay, mob on the rise.
After World War II, so now, guys, we're getting into the 40s and 50s.
Because we covered obviously 1800s and 1900s or early.
After World War II, organized crime grew stronger and more creative, the mob pursued illicit profits wherever they could be found.
From manipulation of labor unions to hint and ownership of Las Vegas casinos, mobsters often got what they wanted by intimidating and bribing politicians, police, and judges.
Amid relentless headlines about mob violence and corruption, the U.S. Senate launched an investigation in 1950, led by the Tennessee Senator Estes Kevauer, Kefauer.
Kefauer.
Kefauver, yeah.
The committee held hearings nationwide, including one in the courtroom down the hall.
So it's this way.
Yeah, so we'll go down this way, guys.
Yeah, I need to get some drinks, actually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
We'll find it.
Which one's on water?
I think it's right here.
Hello.
Oh, okay.
Maybe somebody will come back.
Yeah.
You're good?
No?
Oh, nice.
Okay.
Hey, what's up, man?
Yeah, can we get some waters and just adds up?
Consensions is closed.
Ah, man, is there somewhere we can get stuff?
The gift center has a bottle of water yet.
Yes, but you're hopping up the damn.
Okay.
I'm just wearing something cheaper because it's really hot here anyway.
Yeah, no worries.
We're wearing jeans, jean shorts, courts.
Yeah, yeah.
We can have the girls grab us some stuff, Bills.
Yeah, can you grab some water for everybody?
Oh, here, I'll do.
Angie, give me the thing here.
Downstairs, first floor.
Okay.
Me and Bills will keep filming, and then you guys just grab us waters and energy drinks or whatever.
You have what?
Okay.
I think it's on the first floor, yeah.
Yeah, we'll be here on the second floor waiting for you guys.
We'll keep filming.
Okay.
Excuse me.
So we're going to go into this little courtroom, guys.
Like in the courtroom, guys.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
This is the most court.
You know, I've never even done jury duty?
No, you've never done jury duty?
I always say I'm the cop of a friend.
I'm a friend of a cop and then let me go.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm too biased.
So they're going to do another showing, and we'll come back and bring it in for you guys when they got to do another courtroom.
Judge Myron in the house.
Judge Myron in the house, bro.
Judge Gaines.
You know it.
Whatever happened to forgotten, overused, influential, established, or is it people?
Damn, jail.
Okay, televised tribunal transformed politicians, monsters, and moles into celebrities.
But what became of them once the hearings ended?
Some like Mickey Cohen and Frank Costello were jailed.
Others, including most committee members, disappeared back into the woodwork.
A few retained the spotlight, including Kafar, who twice ran for president.
Okay.
Here you can see him right here.
Some more memorabilia?
I always wanted one of those hats.
Raccoon hat, right?
Yeah, I'm about to buy one.
I'm actually inspired.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, that's a Marshall's badge right there on the bottom, on the right.
Here, let's see if the movie started back up.
Yeah.
Until proven guilty.
Like two minutes is going to start.
I think we're supposed to go that way.
Well, we can...
Alright, one minute is going to start.
So we can come sit.
Yeah, give Bills a break, too.
It's probably better if we sit up front, right?
Yeah, we got to sit up front because you know the camera.
Yeah, we'll sit up front so you guys can see and you guys can hear.
Have you guys been able to hear pretty well?
Give me ones in the chat.
Have you guys been able to hear good on the sound like whenever we watch these little movies?
Oh, okay, the movies is a good question.
Yeah.
Ooh, nice and cold.
Yeah.
All right, chat.
Let me look here.
Give me ones.
I'm looking in the chat.
All right, you guys have been able to hear it pretty good?
Sweet.
Okay, good, good, good, good, good.
People have been DMing and saying thank you.
I appreciate y'all, too.
Hey, man.
Shout out to all you ninjas.
Again, sorry that we're doing this late, but as you guys know, we're West Coast time right now.
So obviously West Coast time is a little bit different.
But hey, we're bringing you this.
Guys, honestly, this museum is lit, man.
There's like more stuff to the read here.
It's just that we obviously didn't show everything.
But yeah, thank you, Bills.
Yeah.
Like they had like a full-on courtroom in this bitch.
This is the biggest courtroom I've ever been in.
Yeah.
The only courtroom I've ever seen.
So they're going to do like a little show here, and we'll be able to watch it.
There you go.
All right, chat.
Yeah, you want to take it, Bills, or you got it?
We can try it.
Yeah, the thing's going to come down.
The screen's going to come down, guys, and you'll be...
Yeah, I can take him, bro.
Al Bills, we all know he's been arrested.
Y'all pull up my records.
You got an asshole.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hooper downplayed its very existence.
Yet by 1950, organized crime was raking in over $15 billion a year, much of it from illegal gambling.
For the average American, organized crime was in its own world, very far from Main Street, U.S.A.
But then...
Captain City mob boss, John Spanagio, was found murdered and witnesses heard several shots come in from the Democratic Club, each with four bullets.
A monster inside Democratic Party headquarters and murdered there.
Suddenly, crime and corruption were right in the heart of middle America.
Virgil Peterson of the Chicago Crime Commission shined a spotlight on the connection between criminals and politicians.
Organized crime cannot exist without an alliance between those in control of rackets and those in political authority.
The inner workings of this secret empire were more closely guarded than Fort Knox.
would fight back against the racketeers, the criminals, and the corrupt politicians.
In May of 1950, a special Senate committee was formed to expose and destroy organized crime in America, led by a fiercely ambitious senator from Tennessee, Estes Keefar.
Our aim is to prove that organized crime operates on a syndicated basis across state lines in the United States, and that it is a much bigger and more sinister operation than we had ever suspected.
The Keith Aufer Committee would criss-cross the country, stopping in courtrooms and hearing rooms in 14 cities, including this very room in Las Vegas.
They would hear testimony from over 800 witnesses, suspected murderers, disgraced politicians, alleged Mongolia leaders.
Is the truth an old true?
Once the subpoenas started flying, many monsters went into hiding to avoid testifying.
Some developed sudden and mysterious illnesses the press called Keith Auveritis.
Senator, I had three major culinary crombosis and I had diarrhea for six weeks.
Some got worse.
Samuel Rummel, the lawyer for Mickey Coa, was to go before the Senate Committee in Los Angeles.
But the day before testifying, he found himself on the wrong side on the gun.
The lawyer for alleged crime boss, Nikki Cohen, was shot.
Rono was murdered so he couldn't testify.
It was a stark warning to others about talking to the COVID.
Under oath, many witnesses had sudden bouts of forgetfulness.
I don't recall.
I wouldn't remember.
I can't recall.
I don't remember.
I have no recollection.
I don't recall such a conversation.
Others pledged to tell the truth, but hid behind the Fifth Amendment.
I refuse to answer on the grounds of the main.
I got the climb answer on the grounds of my incriminating.
One man who didn't hide behind the fifth was Mo Dalens.
The former bootlegger wasn't afraid to taunt senators who enjoyed their food from time to time.
Now to get your investments started off, you got yourself a pretty good little nest egg out of Rumrunn, didn't you?
If you people wouldn't have drunk it, I want to bootleg.
Dalens may have scored a point that day, but the committee continued their unwavering pursuit of corruption by going after wives and girlfriends.
High on the list was Virginia Hill, known for dating racketeers like Bugsy Sega.
Organized crime leader Bugsy Sindle was shot to the Beverly Hills home of his mistress, Virginia Hill.
Do you think you would like to tell the committee the story of your life as it involves your financial affairs?
Well, I worked for a while.
I think that's the thing.
Then the men I was around 80 things.
When I was with Ben, that's why my family named Ben Siegel.
Yes.
He gave me some money too.
Here in Las Vegas, begging was legal, but the committee was intent on finding out who really ran the casinos.
Wilbert Clark, builder of the Desert Inn, sat in this very room across from Senator Keith Auber and his committee to testify about the world.
I thought it was going to be like a business partner.
Before you got invented crooks to finish the prosecution, didn't you look into his birds at all?
Not too much.
No, you didn't care where the money came from or how dirty and rotten.
He just wanted to finish the building.
Is that the building finished?
I didn't hear anything bad about those fellas.
Apparently, Wilbur Clark was the only person in Las Vegas who hadn't heard anything bad about his partners Mo Davis and the Cleveland Syndicate.
Prior to 1950, most center hearings were held far from the public eye, but the Keef Aubert hearings were broadcast on television in seven cities.
Oh, shit.
No wonder they didn't want to talk.
The cameras were roaring when the Key Fauper Committee pulled into New York City in March 1951.
By now, America was disgusted by the amount of corruption they had seen.
Cops, judges, politicians, paid by organized crime to turn a blind eye to illegal activity.
The long witness list included underworld celebrities like Joe Joey A. Adonis, Albert Anastasia, known as the Lord High Executioner, and the so-called Prime Minister of the Underworld, Machmia Kingpin Frank Costello.
You must have in your mind some things you've done that you can speak of to your credit as an American citizen.
And if so, what are they?
Pay my cash.
After several days of reluctant and deedious testimony, Costello had had enough.
All the respectable seniors are not allowed to reach my troop.
I'm not going to answer that question.
It just says I'm not under arrest and I'm going to walk out.
That start earned Costello 18 months in prison for contempt.
There's no assurance that mobsters and racketeers.
After the Key Fauber hearings, Americans could no longer deny that crime and corruption had infiltrated their communities.
And America fought back with crackdowns against crime and criminals in cities and towns across the country.
In Chicago, Feds are explicit.
Something also attacked the closing of many multi-million dollar wire services across the country.
Consider the light.
The committee's work, carried out in this very room and 13 other cities, brought America face to face with the mob.
It revealed the extent of organized crime and corruption, how it works, and where Americans had finally seen the underworld for what it really was.
Criminals, hooders, and thugs.
All right.
Cool.
And that's cool that the hearings in this courtroom, guys.
No, that's where they did it.
Because this used to be a courthouse.
Really?
Yeah, that's gangster.
Yeah.
Ironal to this courtroom, you see?
That's very interesting.
No rats.
There's a dead rat right there.
Oh, really?
Oh, we haven't seen it.
Yeah, so now we're going to go into here, guys.
Oh, this is Las Vegas part of it.
I think.
Yeah, this is the Vegas part of it.
As law enforcement across the nation crackdown on illegal gambling, Muslims cast their eyes toward Las Vegas.
Nevada had legalized gambling in 1931 and Las Vegas was an open sea, meaning that no syndicate dominated the town.
I made it an enticing destination for monsters nationwide who were eager to start fresh and launch new ventures.
So nice as well.
The chat said you'd be better than fresh and crisp.
Nice.
W. Your face is hilarious.
You can look here of the words in the Las Vegas strip.
The origins of Las Vegas Strip.
And to think that now the strip looks how it looks right now and it used to look like that.
All empty and just a bunch of fields.
Just ranchos everywhere.
This is crazy guys, she's definitely dead Who?
Yeah.
I don't know who that is, but okay.
Then you see here, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel started investing in Las Vegas as early as 1941, but he saw the flamingo as his path to mainstream respectability.
And then swanky flamingo reshaped strip.
The flamingo hotel set a new standard for Las Vegas casino resorts.
Its sleek modern facade and lavish appointments were a stark contrast to the old West themes of its predecessors.
Popular cultures credited Mobster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel with creating the flamingo, but Hollywood businessman Billy Wilkerson bought the land and started building the flamingo in 1945.
When Wilkerson ran short of funds, he turned to the New York mob for financial help.
Siegel, the mob's point man in Vegas, worked side by side with Wilkerson for a few months and he eventually forced Wilkerson out and seized full control of the project.
Bro, imagine that you get to build up a casino and then this dude just goes, hey bro, get the fuck out of here.
It's mine now.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
Yep.
See here a check here for $12,500.
Which, Angie, check what $12,500 is in 1945.
April 2nd, 1945.
Oh, that's my birthday.
Yep.
$1,200?
$12,000.
$12,000?
$500, yeah.
In 1945?
Yep, 1945.
For today.
Let's see.
It's $218,000.
$218,000?
Yeah, I got it.
Wow!
Wow.
$218,000, okay.
That's wild.
Look at this.
A 1950 Flamingo slot machine.
Five cents.
Still seems like a scam.
Yep.
Big scam.
Look.
Look.
Can you stop?
Can you stop?
Angela.
Please.
Justin.
The nose-nose.
The nose-nose.
Oh, my God.
Okay, Mayor Lansky, childhood friend of Bugsy Siegel, long served as a clandestine investor in the Flamingo in 1960 in exchange for a $200,000 finder's fee.
Angie, can you look up $200,000 in 1960?
Lansky brokered a $10.5 million sale of the Flamingo to Miami Beach hoteliers Morris Landsberg, Samuel Cohen, and Daniel Lifter.
Oh, all them boys.
In 1971, federal prosecutors charged Lansky, Lindbergh, and Cohen and four others with conspiring to skim $36 million of casino proceeds from 1960-1968.
I think it's 2 mil, but I don't know what this number is.
That's a lot of numbers.
Yeah, yeah, $2,125,000.
One more chat, y'all need help.
I blame you, man.
And he got killed.
What did they say?
Bugsy Siegel, look, was shot to death on June 20th, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California.
He was 41.
No one was ever arrested for the murders.
Oh, sorry.
I forgot.
Oh, what'd she say?
Nothing.
I'll look at the time stamp on the light.
Okay.
The flamingo.
I love these guns.
I wish I could have like one of the small ones.
Yeah, because you can carry them everywhere and like fit everywhere.
They're not even practical, so you got six shots.
That's all I need.
We don't need any more.
We don't need any more than that.
She said, I only need six shots.
Here's Kennedy.
John Kenny visits Las Vegas with brother-in-law actor Peter Lawford during the filming of Oceans 11 in 1960.
Here lives Marilyn Monroe, Sands Entertainment Director Jack Entrotter.
Ronald Reagan was the resident here in 1964.
Of all people, Ronald Reagan opened last night at the Last Frontier reported the Las Vegas Sun when the future president performed in February 1954.
Yeah, a lot of people don't know that.
Reagan used to be an actor, guys.
Mohamed Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated Floyd Patterson for the World Heavyweight Championship in Las Vegas 1965.
That was when my mom was born.
It's crazy.
All people.
Shout out to Cash Clay.
In 1965, yeah.
Shout out to Muhammad Ali.
What's your 7-7?
Look at this, a blue book.
This is what they kept in the 1950s.
Clark County Sheriff's Department kept us the Blue Book, a compendium of dossiers on hoodlums and criminals who are not welcome in Las Vegas.
Sheriff's Rifle.
Look at this, beyond the strip.
Oh, damn.
Look at this, Bills.
Oh, okay.
Beyond the Strip.
Oh, he says.
Loaded dice are introduced to a game and the player has a home.
That was with...
Between 1951 and 1963, 100 above-ground nuclear explosion at the Nevada testing site, northwest of Las Vegas, attracted military observance and tourists alike.
By removing the paint, throwing a beaches.
Because there really isn't anything out here, guys.
Once you leave Vegas, it's just all desert, bro.
The opposite number will appear tomorrow.
Oh.
Another way to tamper with the money.
No way.
Oh, look at this.
I didn't know that was a thing.
If three spots are added diagonally to a two, that die now.
They will put things inside the dice to make it way more so they can.
That's crazy.
That's regularly in the hood.
What?
In the hood.
I've seen my first pair load of dice, I ate them.
That's crazy.
Wow, I didn't know that was a thing.
Let's see this.
No, it doesn't.
Yeah, look, you can see it right here, altered dice.
How do you know he has something inside?
Seems empty.
This is why gambling is bad, guys.
Just don't gamble.
This is their room.
This is where we should have been at this whole time.
Get ticket.
And the Robstons.
I can't take cash out of the drop boxes.
This is crazy.
There is $10,000 in each.
Look at this.
Miami hotel owners Morris Landsberg and Sam Cohen, who bought the Flamingo in 1969, later admitted to skimming $36 million in untaxed income from the casino between 1960 and 1967.
Irish agents who raided Landsberg and Cohen's New York City officers discovered details of the Flamingo skim, many of which were based on evidence from Mayor Lansky.
The skim of the stardust?
Because it's heavily cashed, so they can go ahead and skim, right?
Here's what the skim is, guys, right here.
The idea behind the skim is simple: pocket some of the cash before it's officially counted, reducing the amount reported as taxable income or shared with investors.
From the very beginning, Mauser systematically pocketed a percentage of the gross receipts.
Methods varied, including dummying ledgers, bribing guards, and tampering with slot machines.
And then they would skim all over the place.
Skim here in the Tropicana.
After its 1957 opening, the Tropicana skim, roughly $150,000 a month, went to part-time owner Frank Costello, Sam Giancana in Chicago, and New Orleans boss Carlos Marcelo.
Angie, can you check $150,000 in 1957?
And this is a month, by the way.
When Costello was shot in 1957, a paper in his pockets listed details of the Tropicana's first three weeks, including his gross receipts, slot revenue, and outstanding IOUs from an unnamed casino.
1957?
Yeah, $150,000 in $1957.
It's $1,157.
$679,000.
$1.6 million today.
Crazy.
The number written on a scrap of paper found in Frank Costello's pocket after he was shot in Botch assassination attempt.
It also said gross casino win force $26.57, which represented the scheme from the first three weeks of the trial.
We got 20 minutes, by the way.
Operation.
Okay.
Yeah, we still got one floor more, right?
Yeah, we got another floor.
Here, Las Vegas goes straight.
The CAFAF hearings focused federal attention on Las Vegas, complicating life for mob bosses and local officials alike.
Syndicate responded by shifting to legitimate enterprise at the same time the casino resort business was evolving outside entrepreneurs built a new breed of resorts while Nevada cultivated a more corporate business climate and a more family-friendly reputation.
or by the place spinning a deadly web And there is a web flare.
Nice.
And then look, it's just spreading its reach.
You see, the web says corruption always with us.
And fell trading on you.
by an election we only kill each other Throughout American history, syndicates have been happy to sell their services to politicians of any party.
Many elections, local as well as national, have been won amid suspicions of ballast stuffing, intimidation and vote buying.
Because mob influence is widespread, it matters shadow each.
Conspiracy theorists flourish.
They link organized crime to all manner of events.
From the Kennedy assassination to unexplained disappearances, some whispers are true.
The reality often rivals fiction.
Often rivals fiction.
Rivals fiction.
Okay.
Back then, so people would think that the mob killed Kennedy.
Of course, he was in.
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't just him.
It was a bunch of people.
Oh, my God.
How do y'all know?
But we're on YouTube.
We only kill each other.
Buzzy Siegel's assurance that we only kill each other was supposedly meant to reassure Del Webb, builder of the Flamingo Hotel.
It wasn't true, and nobody knows if it helped Webb sleep peacefully, but the anecdote implicitly acknowledges the gruesome violence that was part of the mob life, extracting, wait, exacting a terrible toll on individuals and families, often on innocent bystanders.
Look at that.
We only kill each other.
Isn't that crazy he would say that?
Don't worry, bro, invest with me.
Well, they kill each other.
Oh, we got another movie thing here we can watch.
This is an actual chair, I think.
Guys.
That's why you like this museum, bro.
History of Nevada's gas chamber.
Oh, shit.
He said, oh, shit.
We can murder Jesse Bush.
He came the last person to be executed.
Also, 1979.
Okay, he got killed for he got put to death for the 1977 murder of a man named David Bullard at the El Morocco Hotel in Las Vegas.
He told investigators he had been a prolific hitman with Ty's organized crime groups.
He said he was responsible for 17, 18 murders.
Nevada's gas chamber built in 1951 was about 10 feet by 10 feet and modeled on California's gas chamber at San Quentin.
It contained two identical metal chairs that were bolted to the floor.
Hot slots and brackets.
Bishop signed a chair of cyanide gas released into the chamber depriving him of oxygen.
He died in nine minutes.
The chairs were removed from the gas chamber after 1983 and replaced with Gurdy for lethal injections.
Crazy.
Yeah.
This is insane.
These are the prison-made weapons.
So they will make weapons of anything.
Here.
Look, that's a spoon right there.
Guys, you can hear it.
a spoon and they just sharpen the edge, mop handles.
I think the horse isn't covered in blood still.
Right?
That's gotta be blood.
I ain't gonna hear you talking.
Oh, yeah, I will.
Suspense.
Is there anybody with a long range, 22?
They shoot them on the legs so they can't hold, they shoot them on the shoulders, they don't arm, they have the ribcage so they bleed nicely, and they hide a lot.
USA, 1976.
Right now, we're flying over Cleveland quarry, and the owners wouldn't let us on their property today.
So we're bringing you this bird's eye view of what police think is the source of at least some of the dynamite used in the recent Cleveland bombings.
1970s, 70s.
The Gemini lines of the Gemini.
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York.
Roy DeMayo and his crew murdered up to 200 individuals.
There, they perfected the Gemini method.
Killing and dismembering victims.
Disappeared.
Cigar.
Head of the Bonamo crime family.
Ski masks entered Joe and Mary's restaurant and shot Galante.
If I make a promise, I will keep it.
If I tell you I will be in a certain place, I will be there.
I will not break my word, King.
Philadelphia, 1980.
Angelo, the gentle Don Bruno.
Bruno's funeral procession had over 100 cars and was witnessed by thousands.
Body's
heroin racket.
Gotti's Triggerman opened fire on Big Paul outside of Sparks Steakhouse.
Longevity isn't very long.
Go to prison or you get away.
One day, a guy comes and says, he's got a job for you.
Weapons?
That's the way you want to go.
And then...
Alright, chat.
So we're going to show you guys.
Viewer discretion is advised.
We're going to show you guys next.
Alright.
So you got here, murder with a message, right?
Here, put this.
Here.
So.
William Action Jackson murdered Chicago.
And then brutal multiple-day killing.
Jackson was tortured, burned, and prodded while hanging on a meat hook.
Ouch.
Giant kind of been cooking late night snack for sausage and escrow in his basement kitchen when a person whom he trusted came to visit.
He was shot seven times in the head.
And then you got Bruno, which actually, no, we'll show you some of these things.
But as you can see here, some of these killings, like they send a message, right?
Here's some prison-made weapons.
Look at these shanks.
Yeah, this is what I was talking about, Jason, a minute ago.
Look at that.
That's a spoon right there.
And they sharpened it.
And that blade right there has gone blood still.
Yeah, some of them have blood still.
Dry blood right there.
Yep.
And then look, Calabrese folding knife, sniper rifle.
Ten minutes?
Okay.
Oh, man.
Machete.
And then here, look, a cruising legacy.
Hits make headlines.
The 1977 dumping of Al Brandla's naked body in the desert, right?
And then you go into all these things.
Look, Giuseppe, Joe the Boss, Masseria murdered New York City, April 15, 1931, with the card, right?
You can see there with the ace spades.
And you got here Charles Binaggio, murdered Kansas City, April 6th.
The men were killed in the first district of Democratic Club.
Benaggio is a local mob boss and was also statewide power in the Democratic Party.
And then you move on, look, Bugsy Siegel, as we discussed before, never cheat a monster.
Bugs Siegel learned that the hard way.
And then they felt that he was spending too much money, too much of their money, building the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, so they went ahead and killed him.
And then you go here, see more mob hits.
Look how violent some of this stuff is, right?
Right?
Look at this.
Edward J. O'Hare murdered Chicago.
Shot on his car on his way home.
O'Hare was once an associate of Al Capone in dog racing.
He worked undercover for the IRS and his credit with the tip that Capone was in the process of bribing jurors for a sex trial.
They found out he was IRS probably, and they killed him.
And then look here, you got William Moretti murdered Cliffside Park, New Jersey, October 4th, 1951, shot in Joe's restaurant while meeting with several men.
Murray had appeared before the COFRER committee and gave erratic testimony.
Boom, they killed him right after that.
And then look, Frank Costello, right here, when they attempted to murder him.
And look at this.
Sam Giamcano.
Shot in the head and neck in the basement of his home.
That's the one we talked about before, guys.
And then we got here.
Jimmy Hoffa, missing Detroit 30th, 1975, declared legally dead July 30th, 1982.
Jimmy Hoffa went missing after an appointment at the Macus Red Fox restaurant where he believed he was going to meet Mafia's Anthony Gian Cologne of Detroit and Anthony Provenzo.
His remains have never been recovered, and experts are still uncertain how he was killed.
One theory says he was shot in a suburban house, another was that his body was incinerated.
Look at this one: Angelo Bruno, shot in the back of his head while parking a car outside his home.
Long time.
You gotta be loud so they can hear you.
Yeah, okay.
Longtime leader of the Philadelphia Mafia.
He was known as the gentle Don.
We talked about this in the Philadelphia episode, the mafia episode.
Due to his aversion to violence, his killer, who thought he had permission of the commission to make the hit, was found murdered a month later.
He killed and he didn't have to kill her.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Now, this one's crazy.
William Cutlow Sr., William Cutlow survived the turmoil in the Colombo family, and then he went missing.
He became under boss in 1999, and then he disappeared after a meeting, and they presumed he was dead.
FBI recovered his body in 2008.
Took 10 years for them to find him.
And then look at that.
This one's a famous one right here.
Look, he had the cigar still in his mouth as he got killed.
Carmine Cigar Galante murdered New York City 1979, July 12th, while dining on the Grapevine shaded patio of a Brooklyn restaurant.
The unpopular boss of the Bonano family was murdered during a power struggle within the family.
The shooters were identified by Joe Pistone.
And if you guys remember Joe Pistone, that is the FBI agent that was undercover with the Bonano crime family.
And then here's some innocent victims of the mob.
Here, these were the victims actually of the Whitey Bulger situation.
You guys know Whitey Bulger was Irish.
And look, Massachusetts State Police found some of these people after.
But these are innocent victims.
We only kill each other is definitely a myth.
Which I suggest you guys definitely watch the movie Black Mass with Whitey Bulger.
Who was the actor that played Whitey in that one?
Really good actor.
I forget who it is.
Look it up for me real fast.
And then Deborah Davis.
Bulger strangled Deborah Davis to death because of a romantic relationship with an associate, Steve Fleming.
According to Fleming, she knew Bulger was an informant testimony from Windsor Hill.
Gang Associate Kevin Wicks helped recover her remains.
Johnny Depp, right?
Yep.
And then Michael Donahue, we know we shot him, I think, in a car.
And then the did he, yeah, a truck driver?
And then Deborah Hussey, right here.
Steve Fleming's common-in-law stepdaughter, Deborah Hussey, with whom he engaged in an inappropriate relationship, was strangled by Bulger while Fleming watched.
After Hussey was arrested for prostitution, Bolger worried about her ability to keep her mouth shut.
So, crazy, man, Whitey Bulger.
And then they violently killed him while he was in prison.
We gotta rush.
All right, go down to the first floor.
So guys, we might not be able to get through the whole thing because I think there's still one more floor, right?
Yeah.
So, what we'll do is we'll have to come back.
You guys are gonna have to get a part two at the museum.
Yeah, because, yeah, man, they're done for the night, man.
Now, we can also go to the other museum that is here, the one where the car of this couple, the criminal couple, Bonnie and Klein.
Yeah, what about him?
There is a Bonnie and Klein museum here in Leyes, too.
There is?
Yeah.
Still open?
Yeah.
There's no way it's open right now.
Oh, right now?
No, I don't know.
Can we still here?
Yeah.
Out here.
Here?
Oh, we got time to come in here?
This is the last bit of it.
This is the last bit.
We'll try to.
We won't be able to go through all this, guys, but we'll just show you guys some of the stuff.
100 years of made men and their associates.
And then look.
All mobsters go.
They die into witness protection, to prison, into exile, and then retire.
Yeah.
Where do old mobs go?
Look, boom, they die.
Everyone dies eventually.
The question is when and how.
Witness protection.
Prison.
Exile.
Or they retire.
I don't think they retire.
Retiring is probably like the smallest percentage, right?
Yep.
That's your guy, Angie?
Very important man here.
Oh, and Grislda Blanco, right there, guys.
As a maid woman?
Is she the only woman here?
Let's see.
I would think she'll be the only woman on this thing.
I think she is.
Oh, no, there's a woman right there.
Who's hers?
Virginia Hill.
Oh, that's the.
I think that's the Seagull guy that died being with her.
She was several suicide attempts.
She was kind of like a message.
She was the escort.
Oh, Virginia Hill?
Yeah.
Yeah, that was Bugsy Siegel's wife, her girlfriend.
His mistress.
Mistress.
Mistress.
He died in her house.
He died in her house.
Oh, look, there's another woman here.
Ping?
Ping Chang Chu.
She looked gangster.
I'm not even going to lie to you.
Sister Ping.
Sister Ping was gangster.
She was a limb?
Chinese immigrant smuggling ring in New York City.
So she operated a lucrative Chinese immigrant smuggling spring in New York.
It's crazy.
Interesting.
So these are mobsters and their associates.
Look, Robert F. Kennedy.
Senior.
This was him.
He went hard after the mob guys.
That's Jimmy Hoffa, I think.
And they're yeah.
Yeah, they hated each other.
These two.
But yeah, there's Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
We know who killed him.
Are you good?
Who's the giggling gangster killer last night?
Sam Giancana.
For the first time, law enforcement was able to prosecute individuals simply for being members of ongoing criminal organizations.
Yeah, so all these guys took like the fifth.
Crazy Joe Gallo, the giggling gangster, which is that's Sam Giancana.
Senator McClellan followed up the Rackets Committee.
So this was like kind of what put the mob under the microscope.
And Robert F. Kennedy was huge with that.
I imagine.
That's it.
Alright.
Alright, so guys, we're gonna, here, we'll walk out to the front.
Yeah.
Yeah, guys, so we got kicked out from the museum.
We literally just got kicked out because it's an iron already and they're closing up.
Well, they can still hear you, Angie.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You gotta see, I know you're talking on that camera.
Talk on both cameras.
Okay, bills.
Guys, we got kicked out from the museum.
It's 9 already.
The museum closes at 9.
So, yeah, guys, we try to show you guys as much of the museum as possible.
We covered third and second floor.
Showed you most of it.
And then there's still a first floor, which is like, you know, goes into more contemporary stuff, which we didn't get to fully show you guys.
But it was fun, man.
It was fun.
We'll keep our media passes so that we can, you know.
Yeah, I think we could, yeah, we'll email the girl next time and show them the first floor.
Okay.
So yeah.
I thought we'd two hours would have been enough, but I figured with like when you're recording, you need like three.
I figured we weren't because we were telling like the videos and stuff.
Yeah.
That takes time.
But yeah, anything else?
Oh, let's see.
Let's read chats if anything.
Okay.
I've been to this museum a few years back with my grandfather and we enjoyed it also on the plus side.
My grandfather didn't lose all his money gambling on Fremont Street.
Alright, some guy online.
Appreciate that.
Let me see here.
That's it?
We got Penrose, $2, a thumbs up.
Thank you.
You're good, Uncle Rude, a good punisher.
Oh, wait, hold on.
Give me that one.
Read that one.
Get on the moment.
What was that?
There's a Punisher one.
Punisher, since you guys are in Vegas, you should visit some champagne.
That's where a lot of these mobsters used to hang out.
It's a barn and museum combined.
Okay.
It's a barna and a majority.
And a museum, okay.
Champagne's, alright.
How far is it from here?
Can you Google?
Alright.
Well, that's it.
That's it?
Yep, that's all.
Oh, and you guys didn't see, but underneath, like in the basement.
They have a Sneake Easy down there.
Yeah.
Well, we don't drink, so we ain't going there.
But it's kind of like a mob bar, too.
Okay.
It's kind of cool to show it around, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, it's 13 minutes away.
Okay, nice.
Dan's interview, that'll be out, guys.
It's close to here.
Oh, it's close.
No, it's close.
Oh, champagne's okay.
Dan Bilzerian, that interview is going to drop probably Wednesday, guys.
Probably that's Wednesday.
So we just got to chop it up real quick because there's parts of it that we obviously can't put on YouTube.
So, anything else?
Gonna go to Champagne's?
We can go.
Do they got food there?
Or is it just the bar?
Because I know they're starving.
We have sandwiches, I think.
It's a dive bar.
It's a dive bar.
It's a dive bar?
Oh, okay.
Okay, it's not food.
Well, we're gonna go get food down the street here, guys.
We know a place.
But anyway, guys, hope you guys enjoyed it, man.
Like the video, share it with the people.
Something a little bit different.
We'll give you guys an IRL on FedReacts and you know of a museum.
And you guys know I come to Vegas all the time.
So we're gonna go ahead.
I promise you guys, we got our media passes.
We know the people here now.
So we're gonna go ahead and give you guys another episode of Fed Reacts and we'll go more in-depth with this.
We have two more chats.
Yeah, two more chats.
Okay.
Keep the stream going.
Nah, man, we gotta go into a restaurant and they're not gonna let us in with it.
Corruption Connection goes.
My check out my YouTube channel.
I'm a former NYPD and I discuss the mob and organized crime.
I'm located here in Vegas.
I told my story recently on a connect with John Mitchell, Johnny Mitchell.
Okay, what's your YouTube channel's called Corruption Connection?
I'm guessing.
Let me take a screenshot.
Yeah, we'll check you out.
We'll check you out, bro.
Anything else?
Thank you guys for watching.
Thank you guys for watching.
And we will be back.
We're going back to Miami tomorrow, guys.
And we're going to go ahead and do the debate with Andrew Wilson and Haas.
And then if we have time, we'll do FreshFit News.
That's probably going to be 8 or 9 p.m. tomorrow, Eastern Standard Time.
We'll be back.
And let us know if you want to keep, like, watch more of this stuff.
Like, do more of this stuff.
Oh, like, museums and stuff like that?
History stuff?
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah, let us know if you guys want that.
We're going to go to the Torture Museum in LA.
That was cool.
The torture?
Bring them in the torture museum in LA?
Yeah, we went to the medieval torture museum, bro.
It's fucking graphic.
But if you guys want to see weird shit like that, let us know and we'll take you.