and did you ever get any money from meyer lansky? i never got money from any of those that i know about. none of those fellas. none of the none of these that i've been reading about. none that i knew. they never gave me anything. none of. of you? no. i don't even speak to that. i mean, i met that charlie once or twice. i don't even talk to him yet. i like him. no. you still about the horse racing? the only thing now, i wouldn't. i don't bet anything now i'm afraid i'll win. and then they'll say, i made more money than i did. i don't know. you mean you just don't want to win anymore? i don't want any more leaving the hearing. the brunet beauty is in a temper while waiting for her car, giving a performance that discloses she's not at all pleased, but her serenity is restored as she exits. the crime hearing's biggest sensation comes from frank costello, reputed king of the underworld. he provides a startling bit of dramatic reality. woman mr. costello, deal with bad. it testimony all about the fact that maclachlan yesterday now the mr.

away from new york, from now on in 1945, you saw the arrival of the new york mob, represented by meyer lanskyand his associate bugsy siegel, and they plowed their money into buying the el cortez hotel and they used it almost like a training ground. >> billy wilkerson, who was the publisher of the hollywood reporter, was already building the flamingo hotel ben siegel basically muscled wilkerson out of the picture and ended up finishing the flamingo with money from meyer lansky when the flamingo opened in 1946, they had spent $6 million to build this hotel and of that, there are stories that siegel stole a million benjamin siegel's financiers. let's just call them that, were convinced he was pocketing the money june 20th, 1947 siegel was assassinated in beverly hills, california and not 15 minutes later, other people were at the flamingo saying, we're in charge bugsy is out. >> we're in and the flamingo becomes one of the iconic hotels on the strip and from then on, it was full speed ahead for the mob. >> the flamingo hotel was the first hotel to really go after big, big name entertainment the