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| category | tags | summary | born | died | location | ||
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| PROMIS Scandal |
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Prominent Florida mobster whose Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through Jimmy Hoffa loans and linked to Bobby Baker networks. | 1902 | 1983 | Grodno, Russian Empire (now Belarus) |
Meyer Lansky was a prominent Florida mobster. His Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas was financed through a Jimmy Hoffa loan. Edward Levinson, a Las Vegas gambler, was a lieutenant of Lansky. Through Bobby Baker, Levinson became acquainted with Clint Murchison, Sr..1
Footnotes
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎