Bio of bugsy siegel
Bio of bugsy siegel
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The son of Jewish immigrants, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906-1947) began his life of crime on the streets of Brooklyn. He formed the Bugs-Meyer gang with Meyer Lansky as an adolescent, then rose to prominence within Mafia kingpin Charles “Lucky” Luciano’s national syndicate.
Siegel relocated his bootlegging and gambling rackets to the West Coast in 1937, maintaining an extravagant lifestyle in Beverly Hills.
Bio of bugsy siegel death
In 1945, he moved to Las Vegas to supervise the syndicate-funded construction of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. With mob bosses reportedly unhappy with his management, Siegel was shot to death in his Beverly Hills home.
The son of Jewish immigrants, Siegel was raised in the crime-ridden section of Williamsburg, where Irish and Italian gangs were prevalent.
As a teenager, he extorted money from pushcart peddlers on New York City’s Lower East Side. In 1918, Siegel befriended fellow hooligan Meyer Lansky, with whom he established the Bugs-Meyer Gang—a band of ruthless Jewish mobste