FBI Los Angeles report with informant accounts of Siegel, Sedway and Greenbaum (1946)

Part 03 of the FBI Vault’s “Bugsy Siegel” file holds pages of a Los Angeles Division report, each marked “L.A. 62-2837,” compiled for the Bureau’s 1946 “crime survey” of Siegel. The pages shown in the Vault carry no date at the top. The report’s text refers to events of July 16, 1946, which is the basis for the year given here. Much of each page is redacted. The stored image is scan 28, page 31 of the report. Other scans named below were read as images as well.

On scan 28 the report says that “Gus Greenbaum is known to be Siegel’s lieutenant, handling his bookmaking and gambling activities in the Luhrs Building in Phoenix, Arizona, and frequently contacts Siegel and Moe Sedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.” It then recounts that on July 16, 1946, with Siegel in Los Angeles, he telephoned Sedway at Las Vegas and asked whether Sedway had found a place to put the wire service in so that “they” could finish the “joint,” and that Siegel later told Greenbaum to arrange the physical setup for wire service in Tucson and Phoenix. The source of these statements is redacted. They are the Bureau’s record of what an informant or a monitored contact said, and they are not a finding about any of the three men.

Scan 10 (page 5) describes the Frontier Club race book and says Siegel “re-opened the Frontier Club race book and later opened the race books in the Las Vegas Club and the Boulder Club.” Scan 8 (page 3) is headed “Background of Benjamin ‘Bugs’ Siegel” and says, without naming a source, that Siegel and Meyer Lansky “shared the dictatorial powers” of a New York gang in earlier years. Scan 12 (page 7) carries an informant’s allegations of killings, partly redacted. This archive does not repeat those allegations, which the Bureau recorded as informant statements.