Villainous Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 (edited) A BRIEF HISTORY OF JEWISH ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE WEST COAST (LAS VEGAS) The Roots The Big Seven One - of the major crime organizations in America stemmed from Jewish and Italian gangs working out of New York City. Young Maier Suchowlansky and Benjamin Siegelbaum, better known in later years as Meyer Lansky and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, hailed from Brooklyn, New York. The Jewish gangs' traditional rivals were the Italians, who had established "the Mafia," the most powerful crime organization in the country. While Italian and Jewish gangs operated independently of one another and kept within their ethnic roots, Lansky, Siegel, and Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano were the exception. These powerful men of different ethnic backgrounds initiated a multi-ethnic gang years before Prohibition served to unify and ethnically integrate organized crime. Lansky, Siegel and Luciano formed a gang, the Bugs and Meyer Mob, in Manhattan's Lower East Side. By 1929 they were one of "the Big Seven" largest and most influential bootlegging operations in the Northeastern United States. Bootlegging, Robbery, Gambling and Murder - As most gangsters did in the early 20th century, the Mafia and the Bugs and Meyer Mob earned their living through bootlegging, robbery, gambling and murder. The gangsters' actions went more mainstream after the passing of the 18th Amendment in 1918. With Prohibition banning the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages, gangs had an easy entrance to public support by providing liquor through bootlegging and the black market. Because so many Americans criticized and condemned Prohibition, they supported the gangs' approach, and Prohibition thus served as the catalyst for the extreme growth in power and scope of organized crime. When the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933, the Bugs and Meyer Mob lost their main source of income. However, in anticipation of the end of Prohibition, members of one-time competing crime factions came together to form a loosely bound organization, entitled "the Syndicate." Lansky and Luciano were two of the Syndicate's bosses. In truth, many of Las Vegas’s early gambling resorts were initially conceived and built by forward-thinking businessmen, primarily from Los Angeles, not by men with ties to organized crime. These businessmen included Thomas Hull, a hotelier; R.E. Griffith, who owned a chain of movie theaters; and Guy McAfee, a former LA police sergeant. However, it didn’t take long for significant players in organized crime families from the eastern United States – many of whom already ran extensive illegal gambling operations – to realize the opportunity that existed in Nevada, the only U.S. state where gambling was legal. Once Siegel’s involvement in the Flamingo opened the floodgates to organized crime’s entry into the Las Vegas casino industry, the stream of “connected” casino owners and operators would flow practically unabated for nearly two decades. Their ties to large East Coast crime families gave mobsters the access to capital for building hotel-casinos in the scope of the Flamingo as well as the connections to enforce the private system of justice needed to protect their interests: Anyone caught stealing from or otherwise cheating the Desert Inn, Flamingo, Stardust, or any of the number of casinos with mob ties would face more serious repercussions from the casino ownership than from the actual law in Las Vegas. In Las Vegas - After Siegel, who had once famously noted of Syndicate members, "We only kill each other," was murdered in 1947, Gus Greenbaum, Davey Berman, and Morris Rosen, three of the Syndicate's chief authorities, took over the Flamingo. The hotel's success prompted the Syndicate to pour more money into building Strip resorts, and by the 1950s, the Strip was lined with hotel-casinos, many, if not all, funded by Syndicate money. From the 1940s through the 1970s, Las Vegas and its lavish resorts were made possible in large part by the mob, who not only funded resort development, but offered indispensable knowledge in casino management. Men who had little-to-no criminal records fronted the resorts. Behind the scenes, so-called "Miami hotel men" took undeclared, thus untaxed, money from the establishment's profits. As the Syndicate's "chairman," Lansky was the Syndicate's accountant. He was responsible for collecting, and then dividing, the skim. THE THEORY ON AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZED CRIME TODAY The Nevada/New York/Miami Families - Unlike Italians, American Jewish crime is decentralized, having never opted for a commission or heirarchy. In modern times, organized crime is cultivated, enforced and led in territories by families, most often claiming ownership over such territory from the "Jewish Golden Era" of the 1960s, post Vegas- and the onset of Cuban capital investments. The grandchildren of these men, have continued the legacy of enforcing a Diasporic Jewish hold over Las Vegas, New York and Miami despite the massive and successful Cosa Nostra wipeout by Rudy Giuliani in the early 2000s. With a Zionist, Diasporic ideology in the bedrock of their adhesion, Jewish organized crime has become incredibly intertwined with legal business, become one of the largest global "grey" powers, according to Reuters International, 2021, attributed with the exportation of small arms and Israeli contraband, including weapon accessories and acid-wash, high grade MDMA. The conference of Jewish families over Vegas realized what few did, long before cartels in Mexico caught on: the American capitalist machine is the greatest producer of guns. Nevada, as a state lauded for check-less gun shows, of high caliber guns restricted in most states, with automatic capabilities, doesn't require the import of guns. Using false names and countless "ghosts", buyers who circulate IDs, Vegas is now invading Los Santos with American grade, American grade products. With approximately 2.5 - 3 million guns being sent down south to Mexico, Colombia and further down the Latin Pipeline, Vegas has sought to build a truly American pipeline, using their proximity to Los Santos to bleed trucks over the border - loaded with imports, goods - and much more. Las Vegas, The Weiss Family - From an older generation, an age where aforementioned men were of certain relevance, the Weiss family has developed into a major force of judgement, arbitration and order in Vegas. As time went on, and Vegas built into the city it's known to be now, the Weiss family focused their efforts on import and export, using the cross-over town in the middle of the desert as a hub for continental exchange. As Nevada's gun laws are extremely lax, an upsurge of firearms being found at the border, leaving Nevada has increased since Alexander Weiss has been rumored to take over for his ailing father. The Weiss Family invested heavily into commercial real estate in Las Vegas, surfing the casino wave until their assets were substantial enough to establish a kosher food and goods manufacturing and distribution service. Suddenly, Alexander Weiss sets out to do what his family has prepared for three generations: empire, and everything in between, and in the city state of Las Vegas, to maintain Princedom, and unite the Jewish families under him to bring Vegas to San Andreas State, in force. ISRAELI ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES ORGANIZED CRIME (OC) - Vegas has longstanding roots in Israel, but in recent years there has been a sharp increase in the reach and impact of Israeli organized crime networks. Seeking a competitive advantage in numerous fields, such as narcotics and prostitution, Israeli crime groups have shown their ability to engage in violent attacks on each other with little regard for innocent bystanders. The Israeli National Police (INP) and the courts have engaged in a fierce operation against organized crime leaders, including the creation of a new specialized anti-OC unit, but they remain unable to cope with the full scale organizations and it's hierarchies. Organized crime in Israel has now bypassed global levels, with direct impact in the United States. The United States government has been trying their best to keep the Israeli organized crime groups out of the USA, establishing multiple travel restrictions for known mob figures. Some of them, who manage to bypass these restrictions, end up in the country to pave the way for the Jews all across the country. Israeli organized crime groups now play a major role in the global drug trade, feeding both a local market and an transit point to Europe and the United States. In 2004, Zeev Rosenstein was arrested in Israel for possession of 700,000 ecstasy tablets in his apartment in New York. The drugs were later on identified as part of the distribution of ecstasy tablets in the US. He was ultimately extradited to the United States in 2006. Zeev Rosenstein was freed from his sentence just eight months before his sentence was over, spending alleged seventeen years in prison with five years coming from a plea deal over conspiracy to commit murder. Two other crime figures, Meir Abergil and Israel Ozifa, are also facing U.S. extradition charges on charges that include smuggling 100,000 ecstasy tablets into the United States. Given the voliume of transport and trade between the United States and Israel, it is not surprising that Israeli organized crime groups have also gained a foothold in America. Over the last decade, media reports have detailed a number of high-profile cases involving Israeli OC, ranging from large-scale drug deals to murder. The ongoing Central District of San Andreas grand jury investigation against the Abergil family, where a RICO conspiracy case was initiated in December 2007, best demonstrates the full extent of such criminal activity. Investigators have linked Yitzhak Abergil and his entire network to crimes such as: embezzlement, extortion, kidnapping and money laundering. Yitzhak Abergil is currently under arrest in Israel and facing extradition for related charges linking him to the murder of Israeli drug dealer Samy Attias on U.S. soil. The organization fuses criminal, capitalist, and Jewish mystic ethos in its ways of approaching business and inner and outside conflicts. The synagogue plays an important role, being considered by the Jews as a place of reconciliation, both spiritual and legal, unreachable by the authorities, where agreement and deals are signed by the prominent members of the organization. Members of the organization follow strict guidelines and are to do the most to avoid inner circle issues. TODAY Jewish influence has been relatively untouched in Las Vegas, with its enterprises entering the legitimate sphere in the late 20th century. Because of this, many Israelis have taken refuge in the city. Although Israeli organized crime is often separate from American Jewish organized crime, the two spheres are known to operate closely, and sometimes exclusively together in regard to expansion, territory, ethic and enforcement. From the JDL MC, the Vegas Mob, the New York Ashkenazis, and Miami - the Jewish American organized crime sphere is vast, and Vegas' portrayal will be true to American Judaism, in building realistic fraternity between fellow Judeans. ABOUT USOUT OF CHARACTER Vision Statement The Vegas Conference was founded in April 2021, by a collective of like-minded individuals with the common objective of providing genuine Organized Crime (OC) through the lens of American Jewish mobsters, with regards of the already established criminal environment in Los Santos. In the May of the same year, our faction's reach and internal hierarchy were reorganized in that of an Organized Crime Network (OCN), surpassing ethnic boundaries in conformity with more current, real-life, organizations, incorporating a large scope of criminal activities through different and associated criminal entourages, cliques and crews. The Vegas Conference prides itself as a faction that is exigent when it comes to a realistic and genuine character portrayal. As it should be, our purpose as a faction is to provide up-to-the-mark roleplay to the community, putting a higher bar of expectations when it comes to criminal roleplay as a whole. We're doing our part in solidifying the community's trust in illegal roleplay. We encourage diverse, feet to the ground, characters to interact and associate with us. We welcome characters from vastly different layers of life, criminal or legal. As a principle, your character's development is important to us, and, as a faction, or rather a community, we will provide the necessary guidance to our members so they can improve. For more information, contact @Villainous or join our Discord at https://discord.gg/vNhRcNcFcn CK RIGHTS OBTAINED UPON /FINVITE ACCEPT, AND SUBJECT TO EXECUTION AT DISCRETION OF FACTION LEADERSHIP. 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Villainous Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 (edited) 8 Las Vegas residents arrested on federal drug trafficking, gun trafficking charges By Ricardo Torres-Cortez Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 “Eight Las Vegas area residents face federal charges of drug trafficking and illegal possession of guns” - the office of the U.S. attorney for the district of Nevada announced today. The collaboration between Metro Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, named “Operation Nora,” also netted 30 firearms and ammunition, in addition to heroin, meth, cocaine and crack. The officials in charge from respective organizations were Patrick Gorman, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF and Sheriff Joseph Lombardo with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Vast majority of the suspects have been charged up to this date. The total take from the operation was around thirty weapons, ammunition and narcotics. Around two and a half pounds of narcotics (Heroin, meth, cocaine and crack cocaine amongst the seized amount) were seized in the bust. “This is a major win for law enforcement,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in a statement. “Metro will continue working hard to stop criminals from bringing drugs and violence into our neighborhoods. Because of multi-agency partnerships like this one, we are making it harder for violent criminals to do business.” ATF Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman added: “ATF is on the frontline in the fight against violent crime, particularly through the disruption and dismantling of firearms trafficking operations which are a large source and supply of crime guns to offenders,” Details of the investigation weren’t immediately available and a criminal complaint hadn’t been filed publicly. The suspects are: Alexander Fitwi, 32, was charged with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Durrell Melchor, 33, was charged with dealing in firearms without a license, being a felon in possession of a firearm, conspiracy to distribute drugs, and drug trafficking. He could go to prison for up to 45 years. Prentice Moreland, 55, is facing counts of distribution of cocaine, distribution of crack, and being a felon in possession of a gun. Moreland faces more than 210 years in prison if convicted. Ozzie Morrison, 33, was charged with dealing in firearms without a license and distribution of crack. He could land in prison for up to 45 years. Antoine Thomas, 47, is facing charges of dealing in firearms without a license, being a felon in possession of a gun, distributing crack-cocaine. Thomas can go to prison for up to 85 years if convicted. Jose Wade, 37, was charged with three counts of distribution of cocaine, which could land him in prison up to 60 years if convicted. Brenton Williams, 38, was charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs, and distribution of cocaine. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. Jessica Williams, 28, who was charged with distribution of both meth and crack-cocaine, faces up to 15 years in prison. “Operation Nora exemplifies the kind of impactful multi-defendant prosecutions that play a critical role in our office’s strategy to reduce violent crime in our communities,” U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich said in a statement. “We appreciate the opportunity to work with ATF and (Metro) to take drugs, ammo, and over two dozen guns off the streets through one investigation. Edited June 14, 2021 by Villainous 1 Link to comment
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