Bugsysiegel.net - http://www.bugsysiegel.net
Website examines "the man who invented Las Vegas," Benjamin Bugsy Siegel. Features include biography, quotes, photos, official documents, web links, information and photos of the Flamingo Hotel. |
Crime Library: Bootlegger's Paradise - http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/gang/purple/1.html
Writer Mark Gribben's feature article on the Jewish Purple Gang of Prohibition Era Detroit; photos and bibliography. |
FBI: Freedom of Information Act: Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel - http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/siege.htm
Bureau files on New York/California/Las Vegas racketeer Siegel contain 2,421 pages. |
LIFE Books: At Home With Mickey Cohen - http://www.life.com/Life/lifebooks/mobsters/gallery2/
Photo gallery and brief interview from "Mobsters and Gangsters" shows Cohen and wife LaVonne at their Brentwood, California, home in the 1950s. |
Wikipedia: Arnold Rothstein - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rothstein
Biography of the New York gambler and racketeer. Topics include the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series scandal, bootlegging activity and Rothstein's 1928 murder. |
Wikipedia: Bugsy Siegel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel
Biography of the gangster. Topics include Siegel's underworld business ventures in Los Angeles and Las Vegas (Flamingo Hotel), and his 1947 assassination. |
Wikipedia: Dutch Schultz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Schultz
Biography of the New York gangster. |
Wikipedia: Louis Buchalter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Buchalter
Biography of the New York garment industry racketeer and Murder Inc. boss who was executed in the electric chair in 1944. |
Wikipedia: Meyer Lansky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
Biography of the New York gangster. |
Wikipedia: Mickey Cohen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Cohen
Biography of the California gambler. |