Tannenbaum's testimony was dismissed. One of the longest chapters was to be a section on the nationwide kill-for-hire squad led by Siegel. Even after dinner, Shnayerson said, [Siegel would] take an eye mask on his face to be sure there were no lines in his complexion. Sheldon Adelson, founder, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands, has passed away at the age of 87 from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma , the casino company announced Tuesday. The largely Jewish-American and Italian-American gang known as Murder, Inc. and Jewish mobsters such as Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, Harold "Hooky" Rothman, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel developed close ties with and gained significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia, eventually forming a loosely organized, mostly Jewish and Italian criminal syndicate known in the press as the "National Crime Syndicate." As word of losses made their way to Siegel during the evening, he began to become irate and verbally abusive, throwing out at least one family. Bugsy Siegel, byname of Benjamin Siegel, (born February 28, 1906, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.died June 20, 1947, Beverly Hills, California), American gangster who played an instrumental role in the initial development of Las Vegas gambling. [12] However, Cohen's description of Jewish gangsters ignores their criminality and immorality. [19][20][pageneeded]. "I Defend a Mobster. He would later become involved in financing syndicate controlled casinos with Meyer Lansky, specifically the Flamingo and later the Sands with Carl Cohen and Jack Entratter. Leading Jewish underworld figures from California and Las Vegas attended, and according to Cohen and other attendees, thousands of dollars was collected. A notorious group called the Bessarabian Tigers controlled the Whitechapel area of London's East End . Atomite, according to Siegel's accounts, was a new type of explosive substance that detonated without sound or flash. [49] Wilkerson was eventually coerced into selling all stakes in the Flamingo under the threat of death and went into hiding in Paris for a time. He's got guys like Lou Rhody and Dalitz, Doc Stacher, Gus Greenbaum, sharp fucking guys, good businessmen, and they know better than try to fuck us.[30][31]. [76] With the Flamingo, Siegel would supply the gambling, the best liquor and food, and the biggest entertainers at reasonable prices. He was brutally beaten and murdered by other mobsters in 1986. By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Following World War II, the dominant figures in organized crime tended to be second-generation Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. Yet there was a dark side to Siegel, as the book notes in its subtitle. [52] Actress Jean Harlow was a friend of Siegel and godmother to his daughter Millicent. Gordon had hired the Fabrizzo brothers from prison after Lansky and Siegel gave the IRS information about Gordon's tax evasion. 3. Tony Spilotro is best known as a ruthless Chicago mob representative in Las Vegas from the 1970s to the '80s. [43] On tax returns, Siegel claimed to earn his living through legal gambling at Santa Anita Park. On January 28, 1929, Siegel married Esta Krakower, his childhood sweetheart. Life's A Bagel. It was the beginning of Las Vegas as we know it.. In the new film, Lansky likens his business. [25] His wife moved with their teenage daughters to New York. [43] He devised a plan of extorting movie studios; he would take over local trade unions (such as the Screen Extras Guild and the Los Angeles Teamsters) and stage strikes to force studios to pay him off so that unions would start working again. Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant,[62] and Buchalter ordered his killing. [90][91] In 1946, a meeting was held with the "board of directors" of the syndicate in Havana, Cuba so that Luciano, exiled in Sicily, could attend and participate. Despite Siegel's defiance to the mob bosses, they were patient with him because he had always proven to be a valuable man. Those Jewish gangsters hostile to the idea of cooperation with non-Jewish rivals gradually receded, most notably Philadelphia bootlegger Waxey Gordon, who was convicted and imprisoned for tax evasion based on evidence provided to United States Attorney Thomas E. Dewey by Lansky. He was just back from Las Vegas, where he kept a home, and ready to open the fall . As Los Angeles mobster Jack Dragna explained to hitman and later government informant Jimmy Fratianno: Meyer's got a Jewish family built along the same lines as our thing. [25] The Syndicate operated casinos in Youngstown, Northern Kentucky, and Florida. (AP Photo), This is an aerial view of the Flamingo Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., in 1979. Read 'He did want to be a good Jew, he just never had the chance', Were really pleased that youve read, Please use the following structure: example@domain.com, Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition. Climb the leaderboards in wild challenges like races, MMA fights, carnage missions & casino games! Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 June 20, 1947) was an American mobster[2] who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. [17] However, the supposed Jewish-immigrant crime wave may have been exaggerated by the press and law enforcement. Sins of the Father, A Necessary End, American Made. He then teamed up with Meyer Lansky about 1918 and . After Prohibition ended in 1933, Siegel took his movie-star looks to LA, where he cultivated a Hollywood-style life. [35] In another development, a 2016 sting collared Aharon Goldberg and Shimen Liebowitz, two Satmar Hasidic Jews who were part of what The Forward described as the "Orthodox divorce underworld". Jewish organized crime fueled antisemitism and deeply concerned the Jewish community. [32] Siegel's only conviction was in Miami; on February 28, 1932, he was arrested for gambling and vagrancy, and, from a roll of bills, paid a $100 fine. 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His wife June recalled years later that he jokingly called the almost-barren highway the "Strip," after the Sunset Strip, believing, correctly, that other casinos eventually would locate there. Yet Siegel failed to see that his work crews were fleecing him. [17] He also maintained relationships with politicians, businessmen, attorneys, accountants, and lobbyists who fronted for him.[50]. Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield opened her Riverdale home to a family of Ukrainian refugees. There are many myths and counter myths surrounding Meyer Lansky, who died in 1983 and is buried in a Jewish cemetery in West Miami. Life's A Bagel. [66] The trial soon gained notoriety because of the preferential treatment Siegel received in jail; he refused to eat prison food, was allowed female visitors, and was granted leave for dental visits. Shaun Assael. [83], The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946, at which time only the casino, lounge, theater, and restaurant were finished. Following the recent allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Cuomo, Shnayerson wrote a Vanity Fair article based in part on his notes from the book including that during Cuomos divorce from Kerry Kennedy, there was an awful lot of tension between them. Yet costs ballooned, and his gangster associates suspected him and Hill of skimming funds. [17] As American Jews improved their conditions, the Jewish thug and racketeer either disappeared or merged into a more assimilated American crime environment. Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, and Joe Adonis allegedly were the four gunmen who shot New York mob boss Joe Masseria to death on Luciano's orders on April15, 1931, ending the Castellammarese War. They had a wonderfully hot and steamy romance in the movie, Shnayerson told The Times of Israel over Zoom. You get that background, Shnayerson said of Siegels tenement roots. Murray Wilson, born in the Bronx, graduate of William Howard Taft High School, died while dining with a friend. Another notorious gang, known as the Lenox Avenue Gang, led by Harry "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, consisted of mostly Jewish members and some Italian members (such as Francesco Cirofisi). Notables include Joseph "Doc" Stacher, who built up Las Vegas by pairing the Jewish and Italian Mafia into a national organized crime syndicate. .a Jewish deli with terrific sandwiches (tried pastrami." more. [1][10][11] His parents, Jennie (Riechenthal) and Max Siegel, constantly worked for meager wages. Warner. Please try again or choose an option below. 1. Siegel is the first gangster to be chosen as a subject for the Jewish Lives series among its 50 titles to date. LAS VEGAS The Republican Jewish Coalition conference was about 2022, and also 2024. [41], "Jewish mafia" redirects here. [81], According to later reports by local observers, Siegel's "maniacal chest-puffing" set the pattern for several generations of notable casino moguls. They joined countless fellow Jews in Lower East Side tenement life. Fue lanzado el 7 de junio del 2013 para el sistema iOS y 19 del mismo mes para Android. [7] He assisted developer William R. Wilkerson's Flamingo Hotel after Wilkerson ran out of funds. Mob bosses rule Lansky, who had already had a run-in with Charles "Lucky" Luciano, saw a need for the Jewish boys of his Brooklyn neighborhood to organize in the same manner as the Italians and Irish. As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Commit grand theft auto crimes on the streets of Las Vegas and combat gangsters. Rabbi Mel Hecht marries Craig Silver and Karen Butt of Connecticut at Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, February 12, 2016. Credit: Ron Kampeas / JTA E-mail. On November 22, 1939, Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum killed Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment. Organized crime was a complex set of relations between the recently arrived Jewish and Italian criminals and groups like the Irish-American organized crime networks, which had been established before the 1920s and which the newer groups were sometimes subordinate to. Robert De Niro stars as a Jewish gangster who runs Las Vegas casinos for the Chicago Outfit, with Joe Pesci playing Nicky Santoro, the barbaric mob enforcer who protects him. Essentially, at that meeting in Havana, the gangsters decided either Ben was going to make good on all the money hed blown or he was going to be killed, Shnayerson said. Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams Votes: 352,616 | Gross: $5.32M 10. [33] After the deaths of his two brothers, Tony Fabrizzo had begun to write a memoir and gave it to an attorney. Updated: Jul. Perhaps the most puzzling one is that supposedly he made. Ranked #91 of 5,596 Restaurants in Las Vegas. By the late 1920s, Lansky and Siegel had ties to Luciano and Frank Costello, future bosses of the Genovese crime family. Organized criminals from the State of Israel have also had a presence in the United States. Shirley Rook rose to the top of the criminal ranks. [46] The day after Siegel's murder, David Berman and his Las Vegas mob associates, Sedway and Gus Greenbaum, walked into the Flamingo and took over operation of the hotel and casino. (AP Photo/Michael Tweed), People are shown at one of the gaming tables at the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 24, 1955. As described by sociologist Stephen Steinberg, less than a sixth of the city's felony arrests were Jews during the 1920s, when Jews constituted nearly a third of the city's population. Very good customer service." more. It has been referred to variously in media and popular culture as the Jewish Mob, Jewish Mafia, Kosher Mob, Kosher Mafia, and Kosher Nostra or Undzer Shtik (Yiddish: ). Siegel". [11][23], From May 13 to 16, 1929, Lansky and Siegel attended the Atlantic City Conference, representing the Bugs and Meyer Mob. click the link in that email to complete your registration. [a][2] The last two of these terms are direct references to the Italian cosa nostra; the former is a play on the word for kosher, referring to Jewish dietary laws, while the latter is a calque of the Italian phrase 'cosa nostra' (Italian for "our thing") into Yiddish, which was at the time the predominant language of the Jewish diaspora in the United States. "Siegal's Bagelmania is the largest Jewish Deli in Las Vegas. LAS VEGAS ( JTA) You haven't heard a lot about Carolyn Goodman, which may be just how she wants it. The origins of the Mob in America can be traced to the urban ghettos of the late 19th century, where Irish, Italian and Eastern European Jewish immigrants struggled to survive amid poverty, overcrowding and discrimination. ", The day after Siegel's death, the Los Angeles Herald-Express carried a photograph on its front page from the morgue of Siegel's bare right foot with a toe tag. Robbers and thefts chase you in auto racing challenges to drive beyond city legal limits. An open world with racing challenges with different kinds of vehicles, various collectible weapons and clothes. 2. He was a casino gambling pioneer in Las Vegas, where he was a partner with mobster Bugsy Siegel at the Flamingo Hotel. After the Twenty-first Amendment was passed repealing Prohibition in 1933, he turned to gambling. For decades after, Jewish-American mobsters would continue to work closely and at times compete with Italian-American organized crime.[5]. A significant Jewish underworld already existed in New York at the start of the 20th century, with Jewish mobsters conversing in a jargon with Yiddish origins. The carnage left his eyeball spattered on the wall. [46][47], By 1942, US$500,000 a day was coming from the syndicate's bookmaking wire operations. It was a second life for Ben., In the end, Shnayerson reflected, you have to give respect and a lot of credit for the vision to build that casino in the first place. In the early 1920s, stimulated by the economic opportunities of the Roaring Twenties, and later the Prohibition, Jewish organized crime figures such as Arnold Rothstein were controlling a wide range of criminal enterprises, including bootlegging, loansharking, gambling, and bookmaking. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This item: Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and the Making of Modern Las Vegas by Larry D. Gragg Hardcover $53.00 Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky: The Controversial Mobsters Who Worked with Lucky Luciano to Form the National Crime Syndicate by Charles River Editors Paperback $12.99 Customers who viewed this item also viewed [47] According to Florabel Muir, "Four of the nine shots fired that night destroyed a white marble statue of Bacchus on a grand piano, and then lodged in the far wall. While still a teenager, he learned to shake down local pushcart vendors. He also donated tens of thousands of dollars toward Israeli independence through meetings with Zionist diplomat Reuven Dafni. 2023 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, center, thanks his attorneys Byron Hanna, left, and Jerry Giesler after Siegel's indictment for murder was dismissed in Los Angeles, California, December 11, 1940. Registering also lets you comment on articles and helps us improve your experience. [3] Siegel was not only influential within the Jewish Mob, but along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. The last rung on that ladder was Las Vegas, which legalized gambling in 1931. It was the big turning point year in Nevada, Shnayerson said. [3], One theory is that Siegel's death was due to his excessive spending and possible theft of money from the mob. (AP Photo). At one point the third richest man in the world, Adelson brought singing gondoliers to the Las Vegas Strip and went all-in betting Asia would . "[17], Problems with the Outfit's wire service had cleared up in Nevada and Arizona, but in California, Siegel refused to report business. A handful drove in from Los Angeles, despite bad weather. Much like Irish-Americans and other ethnicities (with the exception of Italian-American criminal organizations), Jewish-American presence in organized crime began to decline after World War II. He was really movie-star handsome, but at the same time a really tough guy with a famous temper, an incandescent temper, Shnayerson told The Times of Israel. She discusses what the experience may tell us about Jewish obligation, history and dignity. You could get married, get a quickie divorce, gamble. This is the story of Methuselah, the 18-year-old tree sprouted from biblical roots! Charles was adopted by the Polizzi family and his adoptive brother, Alfred Polizzi, was the head of the Italian Mayfield Road Mob. Jewish gangs controlled portions of the Lower East Side and Brownsville in New York City,[9] and were also present in other major American cities. In reality, the bug was planted at a dinner table with bench seats in a now-demolished Kansas City pizzeria, the Villa Capri. From the 1990s until 2013, members of the New York divorce coercion gang kidnapped and tortured Jewish men in troubled marriages to force them into granting religious divorces to their wives, in some cases extorting money from them. He hired future newsman Hank Greenspun as a publicist. [21], He first smoked opium during his youth and was involved in the drug trade. Siegel had several relationships with prominent women, including socialite Countess Dorothy di Frasso. [11][12][13] According to Rich Cohen, author of Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons and Gangster Dreams: "If Jewish gangsters still thrived today, if they hadn't gone legit, if Jews of my generation didn't regard them as figments, creatures to be classed with Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster, I think the Jewish community would be better off". [60] Bugsy Siegel attracted the interest of Benito Mussolini and the Axis powers to purchase atomite. Maybe, he speculates, the still-married Siegel found his match in Hill because both were born into poverty, Hill in Alabama and Siegel on the Lower East Side. 5675 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89146-0310. A contract on Siegel's life was the conclusion. [75] In May 1946, he decided that the agreement with Wilkerson had to be altered to give him control of the Flamingo. Rothstein "understood the truths of early 20th century capitalism (hypocrisy, exclusion, greed) and came to dominate them". Cathy Scott, Los Angeles Times bestselling True Crime author. An update of the 1932 gangster movie, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. [citation needed]. [17] No one was charged with killing Siegel, and the crime remains officially unsolved. 1. "[96] Siegel was hit by several other bullets, including shots through his lungs. Siegel traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he handled and financed some of the original casinos. Rabbi Mel Hecht marries Craig Silver and Karen Butt of Connecticut at Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, Feb. 12, 2016. If passed, this judicial legislation would jeopardise the fundamental rights of all Israelis, not just minorities. . They were raised, however, as secular Jews and share more in common culturally with Gentiles from the former Soviet Union than with their predecessors, such as Meyer Lansky, Kid Cann, and Mickey Cohen, who grew up in families that practiced Orthodox Judaism. American Jews quietly buried the public memory of the gangster past; unlike the Mafia, famous Jewish American gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel founded no crime families.[19]. In a sense, Bens vision did come true. In 1941, Siegel was tried for the murder of friend and fellow mobster Harry Greenberg, who had turned informant. A former associate of the "Kosher Nostra," 79-year-old author Myron Sugerman has become an expert on a bygone era of old-school gangsters. The immigrants were there to assist Wilson in a $1 million heist from . Keep fighting for your life through each adventure-packed mission. [22] By age 21, he was making money, and flaunted it. He had found opportunities in providing illicit services to crews constructing the Boulder Dam. [19] Siegel hunted down and killed the Fabrizzos after they made an assassination attempt on him and Lansky, penetrating Siegel's heavily fortified Waldorf Astoria suite with a bomb. In 1936, he left New York and moved to California. [85] After two weeks, the Flamingo's gaming tables were $275,000 in the red and the entire operation shut down in late January 1947. Fagin's Children: Hollywood's Jewish Gangsters It is no secret that Jewish criminals did what others did before them and have continued to do, that they have all used crime as another way of moving upward and onward in the American manner (Fried, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America , xvl 1). Berman died in 1957 during surgery. While gambling tables were operating, the luxury rooms that would have served as the lure for people to stay and gamble were not ready. Shondor Birns was a Jewish crime boss, in Cleveland, who controlled numbers, prostitution, theft, and gambling rackets. Thats why we started the Times of Israel ten years ago - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world. In 'Lansky,' Harvey Keitel puts legendary gangster's Jewishness front and center Now playing in US theaters and available on-demand, the film by director Eytan Rockaway seeks to understand the. In 1939, he bought the small Pair-O-Dice casino and auto park on Highway 91 outside Las Vegas. ", "Siegel, Gangster, Is Slain On Coast. 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In the 1940s, Siegel poured the Mobs millions into what seemed like a quixotic scheme. [47][48] Despite his complications with the wire services, Siegel controlled several offshore casinos[49] and a major prostitution ring. As costs soared, his checks began bouncing. [3] He had a reputation as a womanizer and the marriage ended in 1946. Click the link in that email to complete registration so you can comment. Luciano did not discriminate against Jews and valued longtime associates such as Meyer Lansky and Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel. It all happened in that one year.. Goodman, 76, was elected mayor of this city in 2011, succeeding her husband, Oscar Goodman,. Snatch (2000) R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime 8.2 He believed that these attractions would lure not only the high rollers but thousands of vacationers willing to gamble $50 or $100. 3. It reopened in March 1947 with a finished hotel, but by then his mob partners were convinced an estimated $1 million of the construction budget overage had been skimmed by either girlfriend Virginia Hill, Siegel or both. Roth, like Lansky, was an older Jewish gangster who worked with the mafia to build casinos in Cuba, and like Lansky he later sought asylum in Israel. It wouldn't take long for the desert town to change forever, with the Mafia playing a big part in this. . [86], After being granted a second chance, Siegel knuckled down and did everything possible to turn the Flamingo into a success by making renovations and obtaining good press. 1,136 Reviews. Siegels life was dramatized in the 1991 Warren Beatty film Bugsy, starring Beatty in the title role and Annette Bening as Hill. [24] Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang leader Johnny Torrio held the conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [65] Siegel was implicated in the murder, and in September 1941, was put on trial. Certificate of Excellence. For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members. On June 20, 1947, Siegel was shot dead by a sniper through the window of Hill's Linden Drive mansion in Beverly Hills, California. He became involved in bootlegging within several major East Coast cities. Capo's Restaurant and Speakeasy. Instead, on the night of June 20, Siegel was shot to death with a rifle through the living-room window of Hills LA mansion, which she had let him use during her absence. [97] Although Siegel's murder occurred in Beverly Hills, his death thrust Las Vegas into the national spotlight as photographs of his lifeless body were published in newspapers throughout the country. Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters. After killing a powerful Cuban figure, Montana and company gain the ability to leave their refugee camps and roam around the U.S. He held himself responsible for 12 deaths, including Tony Fabrazzo, a mobster he gunned down in front of Fabrazzos father. Live the Vegas gangster open world scenario. Siegel was part of the infamous Murder, Inc. syndicate that left a death toll estimated at 400 to almost 1,000. Contrary to Hollywood and popular fiction, hoods with names that ended in . Labor racketeering or "labor slugging" as it was known, would become a source of conflict as it came under the domination of several racketeers including former Five Points Gang members Nathan "Kid Dropper" Kaplan and Johnny Spanish during the Labor slugger wars until its eventual takeover by Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro in 1927. During the trial, newspapers revealed Siegel's past and referred to him as "Bugsy." (AP Photo), A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. That was it for Ben, Shnayerson said. Mobster Bugsy Siegel opens the glitzy Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 26, 1946. ", had expressed grave concern about the activities of Israeli organized crime figures, and was taking measures to prevent members of crime families from being issued visas to the United States. [35][34] In 1935, Siegel assisted in Luciano's alliance with Dutch Schultz and killed rival loan sharks Louis "Pretty" Amberg and Joseph C. Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc.[5] and became a bootlegger during Prohibition. He bought an apartment at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and a Tudor home in Scarsdale, New York. [6] His time as a mobster during this period was mainly as a hitman and muscle, as he was noted for his prowess with guns and violence. He also worked as the mob's hitman, whom Lansky hired out to other crime families. I've never known a man who had more guts. And not one Jewish gangster would accept a penny for their "TRIBAL WORK"! Is Victim of Shots Fired Through Window", "80 years ago, the Mob came to Atlantic City for a little strategic planning", "Boardwalk Empire Season 5: The Real Bugsy Siegel", "Walking In Their Footsteps A Look At The Mob In Los Angeles", "Bugsy Siegel Rolled Out The Greed Carpet For His Fellow Mobsters", "Legendary mobster's safe reveals nothing but rust", Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, L.A. After he boasted one day that he had personally killed some men, Siegel saw the panicked look on the face of head contractor Del Webb and reassured him: "Del, don't worry, we only kill each other. Refresh the page, check. In one of the most memorable scenes in The Godfather, Michael makes a pivotal shift from being innocent to turning into a full-fledged gangster. Amberg. His running mate was Mike O'Callaghan, his onetime boxing coach.. They were welcomed by construction noise and a lobby draped with drop cloths.

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