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JACOBSON, NATHAN “NATE” S.


Birth: 1915, Baltimore, Maryland
Death/Cause: 1987, Miami, Fla.

Affiliations:
J. Jay Sarno, Edward Levinson

 


 

Claim to Fame:
Debuting and bankrupting Kings Castle

 


 

Gambling Enterprises:
Caesars Palace, Bonanza (Las Vegas, NV)
Kings Castle (Incline Village, NV)
Cal-Neva Lodge (Crystal Bay, NV)

LANSKY, MEYER


Birth: 1902, Grodno, Belarus
1983, Miami Beach, Fla., lung cancer

Birth: 1902, Grodno, Belarus
Death/Cause: 1983, Miami Beach, Fla., lung cancer

Affiliations:
Benjamin Siegel, Charles Luciano, Joseph Stacher, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Abner “Longie” Zwillman

 


 

Claim to Fame:
Owning part of 90% of the world’s casinos at one point, head of the National Crime Syndicate, the Mob’s accountant

 


 

Gambling Enterprises:
Casinos and dog race tracks in the U.S. (Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, New York, Nevada, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama); Cuba; England; the Bahamas; Haiti; Lebanon; Yugoslavia

 


 

Crime Convictions:
gambling and conspiracy

STACHER, JOSEPH “DOC”


Birth: 1902, Letychiv, Ukraine
Death/Cause: 1977, West Germany, heart attack

Affiliations:
Meyer Lansky, Abner Zwillman, Benjamin Siegel, Max Kufferman, Gerald Catena, Malcolm Clarke


 

Claim to Fame:
Owning/operating numerous gambling operations in New Jersey; running casinos for Lansky in the Caribbean and Nevada

 


 

Gambling Enterprises:
Arrowhead Inn (N.Y.)
Sands, Frontier (Las Vegas, NV)
Runyon Sales Co. (coin-operated machines), book (N.J.)

 


 

Crime Convictions:
Gambling, conspiracy, violation of the penal law; tax evasion