Was The Mapes’ Financing Unethical?

Bernard "Mooney" Einstoss, Casino: Financings, Casino: Financings: Reconstruction Finance Corporation, It Really Happened, Louis "Lou" Wertheimer, Mapes (Reno, NV), Nevada, Reno--Nevada, United States1 Comment

1947 The United States’ Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) co-financed construction of a gambling enterprise via its $975,000 loan for the Mapes hotel-casino in Reno, Nevada in 1947.   Under Attack Three years later, Senators William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Paul Douglas (D-Ill.), members of a committee investigating the RFC’s past lending practices, publicly criticized the group…

Movie Starlet Murdered by Mobster?

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, California, Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Murder / Killing, Frank Nitti, It Really Happened, Meyer Lansky, Mobsters / Gangsters / Syndicate Members (Alleged) / Organizations, Movies / Movie Stars / Entertainers / Celebrities3 Comments

1934-1935 Today, 80 years later, the circumstances of actress Thelma Todd’s death remain a mystery, and the case still is one of Hollywood’s infamous unsolveds. A deep cover-up precluded the truth about the incident from surfacing. On December 16, 1935, the famous, 29-year-old blonde was found dead in her garage, her beaten, slumped body behind…