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  Nevada Online Encyclopedia: Dalitz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Morris Barney Dalitz was born on December 24, 1899, in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Michigan, where his father operated a growing laundry business.
Dalitz became the leader of a group called the "Mayfield Road Gang" operating between Cleveland and Detroit and Ann Arbor.
Dalitz continued from the earliest days of his bootlegging to convert his profits into legitimate businesses: more laundry businesses, the Detroit Steel Company, and even a railroad.
www.nevadahumanities.org /encyclopedia/dalitz.htm   (438 words)

  
 The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada
Moe Dalitz and his Cleveland buddies rescued the underfinanced and incomplete Desert Inn, which celebrated one of its early anniversaries with the "cutting" of a giant birthday cake.
Dalitz was attempting to keep his laundries from organizing and, according to author James Neff, at one point hired Mafia thugs to make his point.
Dalitz dabbled in Cuban casinos, where his friend and bootlegging ally Meyer Lansky had invested many millions, but was more impressed with what was happening in the Silver State.
www.1st100.com /part2/dalitz.html   (2070 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
The FBI investigated Moe Dalitz for racketeering, bank fraud, and numerous other criminal activities.
From the early 1930s to 1968, Dalitz maintained associations and /or contacts with notorious hoodlums throughout the country.
Dalitz later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, acquiring interests in hotel properties.
foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/dalitz.htm   (190 words)

  
 The 49’ers Bring Their Wagons into Vegas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
And Moe would become recognized as Moe Sedway and become one of the major architects of the dream that Siegel had created for Vegas as a Mecca for organized crime.
Dalitz had rose to power in the area around Detroit and had the good sense to make friends with crime lords in both Chicago and New York.
Dalitz was one of the crime figures that stayed in the background and had an influence on an entire generation of organized crime and its expansion.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/organized_crime/37403/1   (495 words)

  
 RePortersNoteBook.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dalitz was the boss of a criminal organization in Detroit known as the "Purple Gang," whose principal activity was smuggling whisky across the Detroit River from Canada into the United States.
Dalitz was one of the original owners of the Flamingo, which opened in 1946.
Moe Dalitz himself was killed four years later, in 1989, in a gang shootout which also left seven other people dead.
network54.com /Forum/145962/thread/1100807596/1100817669-The+...+Whom-   (7025 words)

  
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Clark and Dalitz formed an impressive team: the happy-go-lucky Clark, with his name on the casino's marquee, shaking hands and befriending the rich and famous, and Dalitz, the eagle-eyed behind-the-scenes operator.
Dalitz's general manager, Allard Roen, was instrumental in realizing the golf course and also played a pivotal role in the foundation of the Nevada Resort Association, running most of the group's early meetings.
Residential living is the current buzz along the Las Vegas Strip, but few remember that Dalitz and his associates at the Desert Inn pioneered upscale resort living with the Desert Inn Estates, a collection of about 50 homes that surrounded their namesake golf course.
www.lvbusinesspress.com /articles/2005/05/09/news/news11.prt   (769 words)

  
 Morris "Moe" Dalitz FBI Files
Dalitz and Cleveland investors, including Sam Tucker, Thomas McGinty, and Morris Kleinman opened the Desert Inn.
Dalitz was a key backer of Pat McCarran, one of Nevada's most powerful U.S. senators.
Dalitz contributions to charitable causes lead to him being named Humanitarian of the Year by the American Cancer Research Center and Hospital in 1976.
www.paperlessarchives.com /dalitz.html   (228 words)

  
 Las Vegas Weekly Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
When he heard that, Dalitz warned me not to do it on a Friday night since people from L.A. would be coming up for the weekend and absolutely not on Sunday night, since all the losers would be heading back down the two-lane highway, mad as hell.
Dalitz was still on the premises, I was informed that he was in the counting room.
Moe told them who I was and why he had invited me to Las Vegas, since he thought I might be useful in promotion and publicity on the new project, the Showboat, to be located on Boulder Highway.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /features/valentinepart2.html   (2821 words)

  
 Electric Nevada
Yablonsky acknowledges Dalitz "was a guy who had a certain amount of charm and grace," but also says "he was what you might call the point man for the mob."
Dalitz, he says, was probably "the one who influenced Jimmy Hoffa into the Teamster loans, [which] built a lot of the early casinos, and also [provided] the basis for the skim, and the mob having their foothold there."
Not only was Laxalt tight with Moe Dalitz, says Yablonsky, but he also became good friends with Allen Dorfman, the Chicago mob's man in charge of the Teamster's Central States Pension Fund.
www.electricnevada.com /pages96/mob1.htm   (1358 words)

  
 Bill Roemer on Las Vegas Mobsters
Operating under the direction of Moe Sedway (one of the original partners listed in the "Nevada Project Corporation" which supplied Siegel with his funding), the Flamingo became an instant money maker and soon the high rollers across the country arrived to frolic in the dry desert air.
Moe Dalitz was a canny mobster, who agreed with the wiley Meyer Lansky that the glory days would soon be coming to an end.
Dalitz sold the Desert Inn to Howard Hughes in 1967, thus paving the way for ambitious entrepreneurs cut out of the Hughes cloth, to over-run the town during the junk bond, merger and acquisition frenzy that consumed Wall Street in the 1980s.
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Waxey Gordon and Dutch Schultz in NYC and New Jersey, Moe Dalitz om Cleveland.
Dalitz brought so much booze over Lake Erie it was dubbed "the Jewish Lake." Detroit's Purple Gang shipped booze across the Detroit River.
His missionary work brought in the Purple Gang from Detroit and the Moe Dalitz forces operating in Cleveland.
www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/faculty/waddell/eight.html   (1212 words)

  
 Las Vegas Mercury: Backstory: Making the deal
Moe Dalitz: Some of his backroom deals were for good causes.
Taylor, who was running the place for Moe Dalitz at that time," McMillan said.
We have accepted your terms." If the word came from the Desert Inn, it meant Dalitz was at the center of it.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2005/MERC-Feb-24-Thu-2005/25907620.html   (851 words)

  
 Las Vegas Weekly Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Dalitz was the CEO of Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, a hotel, casino and country club in a place in southern Nevada called Las Vegas.
Dalitz told me all about this growing community only 300 miles from L.A.: its great climate, potential tourist attractions like the Hoover Dam, year-round golf courses, and then he began to tell me about a new project he was involved with away from the Strip on Boulder Highway.
Matt Gregory worked for Moe Dalitz and a number of other movers and shakers during the Golden Age of Las Vegas.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /features/valentine.html   (2072 words)

  
 The Vegas Guy  Special Report - Week of 08/26/2001
To "old school" casino owners like Steve Wynn, Moe Dalitz was considered the most talented businessman Vegas ever had, and since he was never convicted of a single crime, he died old and comfortable, honored by the city for his vast humanitarian projects.
Dalitz was like the Santa Claus of the Ohio River, doling out money to civic clubs, hospitals, schools, churches, synagogues, and virtually anyone who came to him with a genuine hard-luck story.
And then, in 1994, the state of Indiana decided to take a lesson from Moe and set up what is the most heavily taxed, heavily regulated string of casinos in America, just a little farther down the Ohio River, where the old decaying river towns were in sore need of an economic boost.
www.joebobbriggs.com /vegasguy/vg20010827.html   (1824 words)

  
 The Timeshare Beat: Nothing Gold Can Stay; the Last Days of The Desert Inn
Dalitz had interests in several legitimate businesses, such as laundry and linen supply companies, But he was also reputed to be the owner of illegal casinos in Ohio.
By the time Dalitz died in 1989, he was widely respected in Las Vegas, even loved, for his charitable contributions and his honesty.
It is said by many, and there is no reason to doubt it, that Moe Dalitz's handshake was better than any written contract.
www.thetimesharebeat.com /yourworld/des-inn.htm   (1473 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Another man, Frank Milano, of the Mayfield Road Mob, was muscling in on the Porrellos' operation by joining with Dalitz to provide the favored Canadian liquors.
He oversaw Cleveland's move into Las Vegas, with Moe Dalitz taking over the failing Desert Inn from Bugsy Siegel.
Dalitz also led the development of other casinos, a major hospital and other Las Vegas projects, many of which were financed by the mob-controlled Teamsters union.
bosses.clevelandmob.com   (1165 words)

  
 Media Mayhem
Other investors in Castle were Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman and Sam Tucker of the Cleveland mob.
Dalitz and company founded Las Vegas, opening the Desert Inn in the 1940s.
Among Dalitz's partner's in Vegas and San Diego was Irwin Molasky, cousin of Allan Molasky.
mediamayhem.blogspot.com /2004/01/in-banks-we-trust.html   (262 words)

  
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 Las Vegas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Desert Inn was largely owned by Moe Dalitz and others of the Cleveland mob.
Dalitz looked like he was ready to solve the problem the way a problem was handled during the bootleg wars of Prohibition, but Lansky suggested a meeting to try to iron out the problems.
Representing the Stardust interest was mobster Tony Cornero, one of California's pre-war gambling-boat operators, while Dalitz and his right-hand man, Morris Kleinman, were present for the D.I. Winging in from New Jersey was Longy Zwillman.
carpenoctem.tv /mafia/vegas.html   (1153 words)

  
 Stardust
The Stardust Hotel and Casino project was taken over by Moe Dalitz and opened to the public at 3000 Las Vegas Boulevard South on July 2nd 1958.
Suspicions, accusations, and controversy about the Stardust's mob owners over the years including Moe Dalitz, Sam Giancanna, and Allen Glick were squelched when Sam Boyd purchased the Stardust in 1985.
In 1958, the Stardust opened under ownership of Moe Dalitz and Rella Factor.
www.lasvegasmikey.com /stardust.htm   (481 words)

  
 Las Vegas Mercury: Backstory: One different thing after another
Laxalt responded, "For a Nevada politician to refuse a contribution from Moe Dalitz would be like running for office in Michigan and turning down a contribution from General Motors."
Well, yes and no. Whether Dalitz wished to shake free from his past or was trapped by it, he was considered a respectable businessman in Las Vegas.
Whether Laxalt should have viewed Dalitz as the Las Vegas equivalent of General Motors matters less than the issue of public perception.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2003/MERC-Mar-06-Thu-2003/20806153.html   (803 words)

  
 Las Vegas Jews, Jewish Las Vegas
In 1970 Moe Dalitz, "a leading member of the Cleveland crime syndicate," and controller of the Stardust and Desert Inn Las Vegas casinos, was awarded the City of Peace Award of the State of Israel "in recognition of distinguished service to the people and state of Israel." [ROCKAWAY, p.
Although Dalitz had conducted himself respectably since moving to Las Vegas in the 1950s, he was a former bootlegger and illegal gambler who had been publicly grilled in the U.S. Senate.
Dalitz and Roen were partners in developing La Costa, but inactive.
www.jewishtribalreview.org /lasvegas.htm   (9447 words)

  
 The Timeshare Beat: Upscale community battles hotel
Dalitz might have had a reputation as a big-time mobster, but residents say he catered to them and took pride in the Desert Inn, which in 1952 was one of the nation's premier golf courses and Nevada's first country club community.
Dalitz is long gone and so are the days of pampering.
Desert Inn residents quickly noticed a decline in their amenities as ownership was passed on to the Howard Hughes Corporation, ITT Corp. and finally to Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc..
www.thetimesharebeat.com /archives/2000/ts/tsapr41.htm   (1236 words)

  
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Wilbur Clark opened the Desert Inn in April 1950 with additional funding from Moe Dalitz.
Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, and others bought Clark out in 1964.
Dalitz continued to operate the Desert Inn until March 1967.
www.geocities.com /buzz_king/desert.htm   (272 words)

  
 The Vegas Guy - Week of 01/29/2002
When Ohio gangster Moe Dalitz tried to evict him, Hughes bought the place--and then hired Moe Dalitz to help him run it.
Sometimes I wish Bugsy, and Moe, and Tony, and Gus, could be sent back from the inferno just for one day to see what happened to their crooked little casinos.
I can imagine them going onto the various casino floors and being amazed, first, by the number of slot machines--"What is this, a women's joint?"--and then by the number of badly-dressed tourists--"You need to throw some of these bums out"--and finally by the lack of Italian accents.
www.joebobbriggs.com /vegasguy/vg20020212.html   (1389 words)

  
 The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada
Much of the controversy centered on Morris "Moe" Dalitz, the most prominent member of the group that took control of the Desert Inn from its financially strapped founder, Wilbur Clark.
      Yet Dalitz also was the example Cahill chose to defend his practice.
Everywhere his personnel went, in investigating Dalitz' background, they were told that Dalitz had been involved in selling bootleg whiskey and smuggling it from Canada.
www.1st100.com /part2/cahill.html   (1965 words)

  
 Straus' Place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Another major political supporter of Laxalt was the late Moe Dalitz, famous as the head of the notorious Cleveland Four during Prohibition and one of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas.
In his two campaigns for the Senate, Laxalt received $50,000 in direct campaign contributions from Dalitz and several of Dalitz's associates who were named by Department of Justice organized crime investigators as organized criminals (Wall Street Journal, June 20, 1983: 1).
When the Wall Street Journal investigated Laxalt's ties to Moe Dalitz, Laxalt said, "He's been so decent to me over the years, there's no way - I don't care what the political considerations would be - I would turn my back on him" (Ibid.: 18).
www.strausplace.com /article.php?sid=654   (4072 words)

  
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Molasky and Si Junior were active in the Cohn deals that led to Cohn's first indictment in the United Dye case.
In 1958, Cohn put Newhouse into the Sunrise Hospital deal as a partner of Moe Dalitz and other media personalities on his pad.
For example, the Torbitt docu ment emphasizes Cohn's relationship to the Bonano crime family and the Moe Dalitz group in Las Vegas.
karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Jfk-conspiracy/PLY41018.TXT   (823 words)

  
 OD Board - Following The Money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
According to knowledgeable Israeli sources, the following names are at or near the top of the list of perpetrators, whose covert funding of the Likud has brought the Mideast to the brink of disaster.
Cleveland mobster Moe Dalitz, who opened up Las Vegas with Lansky, teamed up with Mervyn Adelson to create the Rancho La Costa resort in California.
Adelson and Dalitz spent a decade suing Penthouse magazine over an article claiming that this Adelson investment had become the favored hangout for American gangsters, where murders were planned in luxury and confidence.
www.originaldissent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4596   (5034 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Desert Inn chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Clark's Cleveland associates, led by Moe Dalitz, provide the additional funding.
The money comes from the Teamsters Union's Central States Pension Fund, then said to be controlled by mob interests.
The Dalitz group takes three-quarters interest in the DI.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/apr/28/518674441.html   (622 words)

  
 A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S. Funding of Sharon's Likud
They include heirs of the Meyer Lansky/ Moe Dalitz mafia syndicate; Michael Milken's junk-bond "monsters," corporate predators, and looters; and the sponsors of terrorists such as Meyer Kahane and the Armageddon-theme racial and religious provocateurs.
The former husband of TV journalist Barbara Walters and former chairman of Lorimar-Telepictures, Adelson is an investment manager in Los Angeles.
Merv Adelson's former attorney, Yaakov Ne'eman, became Israel's Finance Minister under Prime Minister Netanyahu, and is one of Netanyahu's closest advisors on law, donations and investment subjects.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2003/3003likud_usgangsta.html   (4689 words)

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