Moe Sedway
Moe Sedway actually Morris Sidwirtz or Sedwits (* 1894 in Poland, † 1952) was an American mobster who is attributed to the Kosher Nostra today.
Life
1901 the family emigrated from Poland to the United States Sedwits. 1914 Moe received U.S. citizenship. The family moved to New York City, where he remained until 1938.
In 1919 he was arrested in the vicinity of a craps game and therefore spent about a year in a reformatory. Sedway entries in the files of the police of New York City grew in the early 1920s.
His acquaintance with Meyer Lansky began when this along with Bugsy Siegel car rental in Cannon Street founded, which also served to camouflage their own smuggling activities during the U.S. alcohol prohibition. Sedway - in tow seal - should also work closely with this later in Las Vegas; Meyer Lansky eventually became the supreme commander of Sedway.
In the 1930s it was to win his particular task customers for the "Trans - America race wire service", which made it possible, even remotely offering sports betting of actual competition venues, as the results were communicated in a timely manner.
His business took him to Las Vegas. In 1935, he was accused of conspiracy, but not convicted; he was ultimately New York as a place of residence and moved to Los Angeles. In 1940 he had been arrested for gambling in San Diego; In 1941, he remained constantly in Las Vegas. Together with Gus Greenbaum he was in 1945 the operator of the El Cortez Hotel. Sedway also took over the financing and construction of the Flamingo Hotel after William R. Wilkerson ran into financial difficulties. He looked at the Flamingo object as a favorable opportunity in Las Vegas to get a foothold and expand there.
Immediately after the death of Bugsy Siegel took Seway and Greenbaum Flamingo in possession. They opened boomed the Flamingo for less exclusive guests and the Flamingo. The first year alone earned the two a profit of around 4 million U.S. dollars.
Jack Dragna, the local boss of La Cosa Nostra in California, was no friend of this expansion, the mobster Meyer Lansky below to Las Vegas. He sent his " enforcer " ( the " Flecked " ) Jimmy "The Weasel " Fratianno out to assert his rights. Sedway was physically attacked and even the higher-ranking Doc Stacher, in principle, the right hand of Lansky was physically attacked. Actually, the National Crime Syndicate Las Vegas had provided as an open city, which was not associated with any clan or group as a territory. As Lansky therefore Tommy Lucchese approached it, it first came to no solution. But Lansky was not looking for the conflict, but offered Jack Dragna an interest in the Flamingo on, but he refused.
Sedway was also involved in other types of gambling projects; including at the Hollywood Yacht Club, where he was the partner of Julian Kaufman.
1950 Sedway was the " Kefauver Committee ", which was led by Senator Estes Kefauver, interviewed.
Discount
Moe Sedway was buried in the cemetery Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood (Los Angeles ( County) ). He left a widow: Bea Seadway, with whom he had children.