FBI memorandum on a Justice Department request about the Flamingo Hotel (15 October 1946)
An FBI office memorandum of October 15, 1946 recording a call from the Justice Department's Criminal Division: Civilian Production Administration officials were weighing civil or criminal action against the Flamingo Hotel and asked for any information the FBI held.
- Date
- 1946-10-15
- Kind
- case-file
- Source
- FBI Records: The Vault
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Scan 60 of the FBI Vault’s “Bugsy Siegel” file, Part 10, is an office memorandum to Mr. D. M. Ladd dated October 15, 1946, with the subject “‘Bugs’ Siegel; Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.” The sender’s name is redacted. The text was read from the page image stored here.
An official of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, whose name is redacted, “called and advised that several representatives of the Civilian Production Administration were in his office discussing the possibility of either civil or criminal action against the Flamingo Hotel of Las Vegas, Nevada.” The memo records his explanation “that that organization had flaunted CPA restrictions against unnecessary building and was engaged in a large project in connection with a gambling casino.”
It adds that CPA representatives “had received information that the FBI was investigating Bugs Siegel, who allegedly has a control, either personally or through his associates, of the Nevada Projects Corporation, which in turn controls the Flamingo Hotel,” and that the official wanted any information the Bureau held about Siegel, the corporation or the hotel. The word “allegedly” is the memo’s. Under “Action,” the memo says the matter would be referred to the appropriate Division of the Bureau, that there was information about the Flamingo Hotel in another case file, and that the memorandum should go to Mr. Rosen. The articles of incorporation of the corporation, which the FBI examined in August 1946, are filed separately.
