Moe Sedway
Testified to the Kefauver Committee at Las Vegas in 1950 that he was vice president of the Flamingo Hotel, and named with Siegel among the five directors of the Nevada Project Corporation in an FBI memorandum of 1946.
- Role
- Vice president of the Flamingo Hotel, by his own testimony before the Kefauver Committee (1950)
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 23 July 1946 — An FBI memorandum of August 9, 1946 says the articles of incorporation of the Nevada Project Corporation, "owners of the Flamingo Hotel," were signed on July 23, 1946 by Ben Siegel, Moe Sedway, William R. Wilkerson, G. Harry Rothberg and N. Joseph Ross, and filed on July 26.
- 16 July 1946 — An FBI Los Angeles report records an informant's account that on July 16, 1946 Siegel telephoned Sedway in Las Vegas and asked whether he had found a place to put the wire service in. The statement is the Bureau's record of an informant's account and is not a finding.
- 15 November 1950 — Asked his business, Sedway told the Kefauver Committee: "I am vice president of the Flamingo Hotel" (Part 10, p. 64). He testified that "I came here at the request of Ben Siegel," and that after Siegel's death "we formed this group and bought the Flamingo for $3,900,000" (pp. 71-85).
- 15 November 1950 — Sedway testified that Siegel was interested in the El Cortez Hotel about 1945 along with Meyer Lansky and Greenbaum (Part 10, p. 89).
This page is limited to the Kefauver hearing record and the FBI memoranda. The role line is his own sworn statement. No family or rank is stated for him in any opened record. A police witness’s description of Sedway as a “representative” of a New York group is a witness’s characterization, is hearsay, and is not used here. The quotations from the hearing are from uncorrected OCR text.
Records
itemFBI memorandum summarizing the articles of incorporation of the Nevada Project Corporation (9 August 1946)An FBI office memorandum of August 9, 1946 summarizing a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of the Nevada Project Corporation, "owners of the Flamingo Hotel," filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on July 26, 1946.
itemFBI Los Angeles report with informant accounts of Siegel, Sedway and Greenbaum (1946)Pages of an FBI Los Angeles report (file L.A. 62-2837) recording informant statements about Benjamin Siegel and the Las Vegas race-wire service in 1946. The statements are informant allegations recorded by the Bureau, not findings.itemKefauver Committee, Las Vegas session (15 November 1950)The printed record of the Special Committee's Las Vegas session of November 15, 1950 (Part 10, pp. 1-104): testimony on the race-wire service, the Flamingo Hotel's ownership, the Desert Inn and Benjamin Siegel, by Nevada officials, Louis Wiener, Wilbur Clark and Moe Sedway.
itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 10: Nevada-California (1950–1951)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 10, Nevada-California: sessions in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, November 1950 to March 1951.