He Built Las Vegas. They Shot Him in the Eye And took over the Flamingo!

He built Las Vegas from desert and mob money. The night his hotel turned a profit, they shot him through the window. Benjamin Siegel had the vision, the connections, and the loyalty of the most powerful men in American organized crime. He had a childhood friendship with Meyer Lansky that dated back to the streets of Williamsburg. He had dinner with Hollywood royalty. He had a seat at the Commission. And on June twentieth, nineteen forty-seven, a gunman in a Beverly Hills garden fired nine rounds through a living room window. Nobody was ever charged. Twenty minutes later, the men who ordered his death walked into the Flamingo Hotel and took it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 New mob history every week → Subscribe Now ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📂 WATCH MORE: ▶ Carlo Gambino: The Silent Don Who Ran New York for Twenty Years → [   • The FBI Bugged His Home for 20 Years. The ...  ] ▶ Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Built the Commission → [   • Lucky Luciano: The Genius Gangster Who Org...  ] ▶ Roy DeMeo: The Most Dangerous Hitman in Mob History → [   • The Real Story of Roy DeMeo: The Gambino F...  ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dark Street Files explores the true stories behind America's most dangerous crime families — the hits, the betrayals, the power struggles, and the figures who shaped organized crime history. New episodes every Sunday and Thursday. Subscribe so you never miss a case. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #mafiahistory #TrueCrime #organizedcrime #mobdocumentary #americanmafia #bugsysiegel #lasvegasmafia #truecrimestories SOURCES: Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life by Robert Lacey (Little, Brown, 1991) Havana Nocturne by T.J. English (William Morrow, 2008) FBI Declassified File: Benjamin Siegel — vault.fbi.gov