Moe Dalitz

The Midwest was...

He had Moe Dalitz, came out of Ohio.

Minnesota would have been...

Yiddy Bloom, the Bloom brothers were there.

He's been replaced by Ramon Grau San Martin, who takes a keen interest in keeping all the criminals happy during the conference, which welcomes a dazzling array of criminal talent from all corners of the US.

There is Albert Anastasia, New York's lord high executioner of the mob, plus Jewish gangster Moe Dalitz.

Dalitz?

Dick-

But, uh, yeah, man, fa- fascinating fact.

It's funny, him, him as the, uh, as the antagonist in Godfather I and then a character based off Meyer Lansky as the antagonist in, in Godfather II.

[laughs] Yeah, I mean, I've been spending the last 30 seconds trying to think of a good rhyme for Moe Dalitz.

I can't really-

But Meyer Lansky saw the success of these honestly run pl- uh, places.

And, uh, he thought, he, he told, he said to, you know, to Bugsy Siegel, which was his, uh, close associate, Moe, um, Moe Greenway, uh, Gus, no, Gus Greenbaum, and, uh, one other gentleman.

He said, "You know what? I want you to go to Las Vegas, and, uh, why don't you, why don't you buy one of those resorts and see if you can make a go of it.

See if there's anything in there that we might be interested in." So they did.

Wilbur Clark is the one that first started to build it.

Like everybody else, he ran out of money, and that's a story no- not necessary to go into.

But he ran out of money, and his only resource was to get the money from Moe Dalitz at this point, who was another gangster from Cleveland who was really big in, in the gambling industry in Las Vegas.

And, um, and Wilbur Clark was the beard.