Don‘t Call Me Bugsy

“Crazy as a bedbug” they called him… and the nickname stuck.Bugsy.Born in Brooklyn in 1906, Benjamin Siegel was a young thug shaking down pushcart vendors for protection money when the Prohibition gave him his first job, as a bootlegger.Working his way through the ranks of the New York Underworld, Bugsy’s callous disregard for human life made him a valuable enforcer for “Murder, Inc.,” that infamous army of Mob assassins.It was through SCARFACE star George Raft that Bugsy gained entrance into the Hollywood demimonde, brushing shoulders with A-list actors, starlets, producers and West Coast gangster Mickey Cohen.Seeing potential in the undeveloped “cowtown” of Las Vegas, Bugsy borrowed millions to build the Flamingo Hotel, a lavish casino he hoped would put Vegas on the map. Bugsy’s dream of a gaming dynasty in the Nevada desert ended abruptly with his still unsolved murder in June of 1947.DON’T CALL ME BUGSY is the true story of the Moses of American Organized Crime who, like his Bibli