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"House That Bugsy Built" newspaper clipping from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2009
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Collection Number: PH-00137
Collection Name: Gellman Family Photograph Collection on the Flamingo Hotel
Box/Folder: Box SH-052
Collection Name: Gellman Family Photograph Collection on the Flamingo Hotel
Box/Folder: Box SH-052
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Alderman, Icepick Willie
Israel "Icepick Willie" Alderman was a Las Vegas, Nevada casino investor and manager with ties to organized crime. Along with his associates Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Moe Sedway, David Berman, and Gus Greenbaum, he was involved in the El Cortez, the Riviera, the Flamingo, and the Las Vegas Club. Prior to living in Las Vegas, he was mob enforcer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was given his nickname based on his perfection of the icepick method of murder.
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