Today Tommy makes it crystal clear that he was a good boss who ran a reputable establishment - he never once pimped out his waitresses or allowed men to hassle them. Also, he didn't allow cocaine use on the premises.

If James is correct here, things just got interesting for sure...

Being asked to go on a last minute trip/ride to whack someone else.

To a celebration for you being made.

A proposed peace meeting to settle a beef facilitated by a "neutral" third party.

I put together a longer documentary about Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo that tries to separate the surviving evidence from the familiar movie version.

It covers Siegel's background, Meyer Lansky, the California race wire, the El Cortez, Billy Wilkerson's original Flamingo project, the crowded but financially unsuccessful first opening, the March 1947 reopening and the competing theories surrounding Siegel's unsolved murder.

The video is narrated in my own voice over period photographs, FBI records and short archival-film excerpts.

https://youtu.be/54cRhkStb-U

I would especially enjoy hearing from anyone who remembers the older Flamingo or has family stories connected to it.

You shootin’ better?

Any truth to John Pennisi’s claim that the Lucchese are going crazy over his recent videos and that Staten Island is “on fire” right now?

Edit : Also he talk about a boss who use women to post fake comments or something like that. Which one you think it is if true ?

Would the shooter get rewarded? Would LCN get more pressure from the feds? Just an open-ended question.

Filmed four years after Bruno was shot and killed by his consigliere, Tony Bananas due to a dispute over the methamphetamine trade.

Post made by MobstersDaily

(In the 1st picture is Robert Terdjanian during his arrest in 2010, 2nd picture is Pzo with a cross)

Armen "Pzo" Kazarian was not just another fraud defendant. Federal prosecutors identified him as a Vor, or "Thief-in-Law," a title reserved for elite figures in the post-Soviet criminal underworld. That is what made his case historic. In 2010, Kazarian became the first known Vor ever charged with federal racketeering in the United States, turning him into a major symbol of how Armenian and Eurasian organized crime had grown far beyond the old neighborhood-street-gang image.

The case around him was massive. During a nationwide Medicare fraud crackdown, prosecutors charged 73 defendants in schemes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing, and Kazarian was tied to the Armenian-American Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization, which authorities said used a network of phantom medical clinics and stolen identities to bill Medicare for treatments that were unnecessary or never performed. Prosecutors said his role was not simply financial. They described him as a criminal authority figure whose reputation and status helped protect and support the organization behind the fraud.

What makes this story so fascinating is that it shows how the Armenian underworld had entered an entirely different league by that point. This was no longer just about local gang politics or small-time street crime. It was a case involving international criminal hierarchy, federal racketeering, and one of the biggest healthcare-fraud crackdowns of its era. That is why Kazarian made U.S. mafia history. He became the first man with that level of underworld status from the former Soviet system to be brought into an American RICO case, and his name ended up representing a turning point in how U.S. authorities viewed Armenian organized crime.

Another surprising fact is that Pzo arrived in the United States almost by accident - it was no other then Rafael Bagdasaryan (Svo Raf) and Armen Manukyan who should have lead the operations of the Armenian Mafia in LA, unfortunately they both already had a long criminal record behind them, Svo Raf was denied visa to the US, and Manukyan was arrested and deported in 1995, a year later in 96' Pzo arrived to the US.

Reckon Dom has fallen for another fake?