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Supermob

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by Gus Russo


  Al Hart's City National Bank of Beverly Hills

  Bel-Air Hotel, Los Angeles

  Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills

  Hyatt House (Sunset Strip), West Hollywood

  Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills

  Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles

  Sunset Towers, Los Angeles

  Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles

  San Diego Hotel

  U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego

  Manor House, San Diego

  Del Mar Hotel, San Diego

  Morris Hotel, Los Angeles

  California Hotel, Los Angeles

  Asbury Apartments, Los Angeles

  Wyvernwood Apartments, Los Angeles

  Hotel Hayward, Los Angeles

  Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles

  Lafayette Hotel, Long Beach

  Wilton Hotel, Long Beach

  Clark Hotel, Los Angeles

  Breakers Hotel, Long Beach

  Ocean House, Santa Monica

  Normandie Club, Gardena

  Buena Park Motel, Los Angeles

  Hollywood Hotel, Los Angeles

  Melody Lane Restaurants, Los Angeles

  Clock Restaurants, Los Angeles

  Garden Land Company, Los Angeles (consisting of over 3,000 acres in West L.A.)

  Sand and Sea Club, Los Angeles

  Emery Ranch, Buena Park

  Spreckles Building, Los Angeles

  Broadway Arcade Building, Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Warehouse, Los Angeles

  Lakewood Rancho Land Company, Orange County

  Northrop Building, Beverly Hills

  Brighton Building Annex, Beverly Hills

  Normandie Hotel, Los Angeles

  Davies Warehouse, Los Angeles

  Arrowhead Springs Hotel, San Bernardino

  Entire block on E Street, San Bernardino

  Padre Hotel, Bakersfield

  Sands Hotel, Bakersfield

  Hacienda Motels, Bakersfield

  Californian Hotel, Fresno

  Taft Hotel, Taft

  El Camino Hotel, King City

  Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco

  Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco

  Bright-Holland Ranch, Lassen County (300,000 acres)

  Hotel Senator, Sacramento

  Hacienda Motel, Indio

  Nevada

  (In addition to the Chicago underworld's well-known Las Vegas holdings in The Flamingo, Stardust, Desert Inn, Riviera, and Tropicana)

  Mapes Hotel, Reno

  Riverside Hotel, Reno

  El Rancho Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

  Sands Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

  Gay Nineties Hotel, Las Vegas

  Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas

  Frontier Club, Las Vegas

  La Rue's, Las Vegas

  Colorado

  Tabor Building

  Chicago

  Conrad Hilton (later Stevens, and still later The Hilton)

  Drake Hotel

  Palmer House

  Seneca Hotel and Suites

  Blackstone Hotel

  Congree Hotel

  Borg-Warner Building

  DuSable Hotel

  New Pershing Hotel

  Sherman Hotel

  Vernon Country Club

  State and Madison Building

  Edmund Theaters

  Ken Theaters

  Westminster Building

  Hotel s and Properties Elsewhere

  Nacional Hotel and Casino, Havana, Cuba

  Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia

  Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.

  Warwick Hotel, NYC

  Gotham Hotel, NYC

  Hampshire House, NYC

  Hilton Hotel, NYC

  Sherry Netherland Hotel, NYC

  Deshler-Wallich-Hilton, Columbus, OH

  Neil House, Columbus, OH

  Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland

  Roadside Hotel, Lansing, MI

  Mississippi Valley Trust Building, St. Louis

  General Mills Building, Minneapolis

  Meridian Hill Hotel, Washington, D.C.

  Carver Hotel, Washington, D.C.

  David Janis Hall, Washington, D.C.

  Aquila Court Building, Omaha

  Park Shelton, Detroit

  Spencer Hotel, Marion, IN

  Bel-Air Hotel, Belleair, FL

  El Panama Hotel and Casino, Republic of Panama

  Sources

  1. County grantee-grantor records in California, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio.

  2. Probate records in California, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio.

  3. Kefauver Committee reports.

  4. Chicago Crime Commission files.

  5. Archives of New York Daily News, Chicago Daily News, and Chicago Tribune.

  6. Dun & Bradstreet reports.

  7. LAPD Intelligence Division files.

  8. California State Corporation Commission.

  9. California Secretary of State records.

  10. Reports of the 1952 "Chelf Committee," U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary.

  Appendix B: Pritzker Holdings

  Following is a partial list of Pritzker holding companies (as of 1982), subsidiaries, affiliates, plus corporations in which the Pritzkers own large shares of voting power, compiled by Knut Royce for the Kansas City Times (3-8-82) from filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Standard & Poor's, and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. *Subsidiaries of subsidiaries are indented.

  H6 Inc .

  (HG Inc., according to New Jersey gaming division documents, is a holding company for all the common stock of the Hyatt Corp. and of several subsidiaries.)

  Hyatt Corp.

  HCB Corp.

  W.P. Equities

  Stamford Equities Corp.

  Refco-Properties Inc.

  Hyatt Development Corp.

  Hyatt Minneapolis Corp.

  Hyatt Greenville Corp.

  Oasis Development Corp.

  Hyatt Columbus Corp.

  BRC Corp.

  Hyatt Milwaukee Corp.

  Hyatt San Diego Corp.

  Rosemont Purchasing Co.

  Hyatt Crystal City Corp.

  West Palm Hotel Inc.

  Fiyatt Flint Corp.

  Hyatt Long Beach Corp.

  FMG Inc.

  Hyatt Management Corp. of New York Inc.

  Texas Facility Management Inc.

  Florida Facility Management Inc.

  Facility Management Inc. of Maryland

  "'Data concerning voting power and subsidiaries may have changed since the filings with Standard & Poor's, the SEC, and the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

  Facility Management Inc. of Illinois

  Facility Management Inc. of California

  Facility Management Inc. of Southern California

  Hyatt Management Corp.

  HT-Operating Corp.

  HMC Management Corp.

  Facility Enterprises Inc.

  HCG Corp.

  HCN Corp.

  HCQ Corp.

  HCV Corp.

  HT-Boston Inc.

  HT-Nami Inc.

  HT-Houston North Belt Inc.

  Hyatt Galleria Inc.

  Hyatt Resorts Management Corp.

  Refco Marine Services Inc.

  Two-Two-Three Corp.

  Hyatt Corp.

  (Source: New Jersey Gaming Division)

  California Hyatt Corp.

  Hyatt Wilshire Corp.

  Edgewater Hyatt Corp.

  Hyatt Del Monte Corp.

  S.C. Hyatt Corp.

  Hyatt Des Moines Corp.

  Thruway Hyatt Corp.

  Hyatt Furnishings Corp.

  Riviera Hyatt Corp.

  Hyatt Hotels Corp.

  Hyatt Hotels Corp. of Maryland

  Northridge Industries Inc.

  Tradewinds Hyatt Lodge-Fresno Inc.

  Tradewinds Restaurant-Fresno Inc.

/>   Two-Two-One Corp.

  Two-Two-Four Corp.

  Two-Three-Six Corp.

  Beef N'Barrel-Palo Alto Inc.

  LTT Properties

  JTD Corp.

  HCC Corp.

  Dallas Regency Corp.

  Hyatt Tahoe Management Corp.

  Hyatt Regency Corp.

  Regency Houston Corp.

  Tudor California Corp.

  HC Airlease Inc.

  Hyatt on Wells Corp.

  Mormon Group Inc .

  (Source: Standard & Poor's)

  American Safety Equipment Corp.

  Cerro Copper Products Co.

  Cerro Copper Tube Co.

  Cerro Sales Corp.

  Cerro International S.A.

  Cerro Mining Co. of Canada Ltd.

  Fetterolf Coal & Construction Inc.

  M.F. Fetterolf Coal Co. Inc.

  M.F. Land Co. Inc.

  RegO Group Inc.

  RegO Co.

  Marmon Co.

  Marmon Group Ltd.

  Marmon Group Inc. (Michigan)

  Marmon-Keystone Corp.

  Marmon Group of Canada Inc.

  Hammond Corp.

  Behring Corp. (66%)

  RegO Group

  (89.6% owned)

  (Source: Standard &C Poor's)

  4201 W. Peterson Corp. Co.

  GL Corp.

  (GL Corp., according to Standard & Poor's, is the parent company of Marmon Group Inc.)

  (Source: 1979 filing with SEC)

  Accutronics Inc.

  Accutronics, Wisconsin, Inc.

  Amarillo Gear Co.

  Ankh Insurance Co.

  Bay Meadows Inc.

  Bintwerp Inc.

  Boca Housing Inc.

  Boykin Enterprises Inc.

  Broward Estates Inc.

  The Communities Group Inc. of Broward County

  Downtown Management Co.

  Film Properties Inc.

  Gibbs Manufacturing & Research Corp.

  Halmac Inc.

  Hammond Corp.

  Hammond Organ Corp.

  Hammond Organ Western Export Corp.

  Hammond Service Centers Inc.

  James Foundry Corp.

  Keystone Pipe 8c Supply Co.

  Keystone Tubular Service Corp.

  K. Ueda Co. Inc.

  L.A. Downtown Inc.

  Lakeview Inc.

  La Salle Travel Inc.

  La Salle Traventures Inc.

  Lockhart Manufacturing Co. Inc.

  Long-Airdox Construction Co.

  Mainlands Construction Co.

  Margate Development Co. Inc.

  Marmon Automotive International Co.

  Marmon Insurance Agency Inc.

  The McCall Publishing Co.

  Miles Metal Co.

  Movie Development and Finance Inc.

  Movie Service Functions Inc.

  Movie Service Functions Inc. II

  Organos Hammond de Mexico S.A. de C.V.

  Oxford Tile Co.

  Penn Aluminum International Inc.

  Penn Brass & Copper Co.

  Refco-Cambridge Inc.

  Refco Consolidated Inc.

  Refco Del Ray Inc.

  Refco Enterprises Ltd.

  Refco-Equities Inc.

  Refco-General Inc.

  Refco-Holdings Ltd.

  Refco Indianapolis Corp.

  Refco Investments Inc.

  Refco-Louisiana Inc.

  Refco-Louisville Corp.

  Refco-Montreal Inc.

  Refco-New Orleans Inc.

  Refco-Poydras Plaza Inc.

  Refco-Properties Inc.

  Rio Mar Associates Inc.

  Rue Royale Corp.

  Select Communities Realty Inc.

  Tarpon Construction Co. Inc.

  Tex-Apt. Inc.

  Tubular Service Corp.

  Wells Lamont Corp.

  Willow Creek Construction Corp.

  Woodmont Construction Co.

  Woodmont Development Co.

  Woodmont Management Co.

  Workwall Inc.

  Alpha Mining Inc.

  Anderson Copper and Brass Co.

  Cerro CATV Devices Inc.

  Cerro Coal Trading Co.

  Cerro Copper & Brass Co.

  Cerro Corp.

  Cerro de Pasco Corp.

  Cerro Gas & Oil Corp.

  Cerro-Marmon Corp.

  Cerro Mineral Exploration Co. Inc.

  Cerro Purchasing Corp.

  Cerro Sales Corp.

  Cerro Wire and Cable Corp.

  CJI Inc.

  Colony West Country Club Inc.

  Compania Industrial del Centro, S.A.

  The Country Club at Tarpon Lake Villages Inc.

  G.M. & W. Coal Company Inc.

  Golvest Corp.

  The Housing Group

  International Industrial Services Inc.

  International Services Inc.

  July Investment Corp.

  M.F. Land Co. Inc.

  Leadership Cable Systems of Palm Beach Inc.

  Leadership Communities Inc.

  Leadership Homes

  Leadership Homes of West Florida Inc.

  Leadership Housing Inc.

  Leadership Housing Systems Inc.

  Leadership Housing Systems of Florida Inc.

  Leadership of Hawaii Inc.

  Leadership Realty &c Management Inc.

  Leadership Title Agency Inc.

  LHI Recreation Co.

  LHS Management Corp.

  Mainlands Realty Inc.

  Maui Land Investors Inc.

  Orangeburg Plastics Co.

  Richmar Development Corp.

  Richmar Inc.

  Rockbestos Cables International Inc.

  Somerset County Coal Corp.

  South Canal Utilities Inc.

  Stereo Tape Club of America

  James M. Stott Coal Co.

  Tamarac Utilities Inc.

  Tarpon Lake Corp.

  T.U.I. Inc.

  Westcliff Escrow Co.

  Woodlands Construction Corp.

  Communities Title Co.

  Salem Corp.

  (Refco Consolidated, controlled by the Pritzker family, owned 22.8 percent of the common stock, and the Birds-boro Corp., controlled by Pennsylvania Engineering Co. and the Posner family, owned 22.2 percent.) (Source:

  Standard & Poor's)

  Herr-Voss Corp.

  Wilputte Corp.

  Industrial Resources Inc.

  Industrial Contracting of Fairmont Inc.

  Mountaineer Resources Inc.

  Salem Construction Co.

  West Virginia Electric Corp.

  Salem Industries Canada Ltd.

  Salem Engineering (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

  Salem Engineering Co. Ltd.

  Salem Herr-Voss Co. Ltd.

  Coaltek Corp.

  A.L. Lee Corp.

  Salem S.A.

  Salem Furnace Co.

  Affiliates ( 5 0% owned or noted)

  ForSalem S.p.A.

  Nippon-Herr Co. Ltd.

  Finnsalem Oy (40%)

  Salem-Dowson & Dobson (Pty.) Ltd.

  AIt ami I Corp.

  (GL Corp., controlled by the Pritzker family, held 34.3 percent of the voting power while J.P.K. Fontaine owned 18.5 percent.)

  American Box Co.

  Fontaine Truck Equipment Co.

  Aluminum Forge Co.

  Transall Truck Equipment Co.

  Basca Martinville Corp.

  Superlock Manufacturing Inc.

  Playboy-Els "more Associates Sources

  1. Reid, The Grim Reapers, Chicago chapter.

  2. Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle. Chapter 24.

  3. Block, Masters of Paradise.

  4. Kansas City Times, 3-8-10-82.

  5. Truell & Gurwin, False Profits.

  6. Lewis and Allison, Cheating of America. "Haven's Gate" chapter.

  7. Jack Clarke int
.

  8. New York Times, 12-11-01.

  9. "Shattered Dynasty," Vanity Fair, May 2003.

  10. "Hyatt's Kingdom of Rooms," "Hyatt, Korshak, Las Vegas and the Teamsters," and "Letters," New YorkTimes, 8-29-76, sec. 3, p. 1.

  11. "The Castle Bank of Nassau Story."

  12. Chicago Tribune, 11-1-01.

  13. Chicago Crime Commission, Arthur Greene file, memo from Virgil W. Peterson, 8-26-58.

  14. Chicago Crime Commission, Arthur Greene file, pages 65-98 from McKesson to Peterson, Business Investigation Summaries.

  15. To file from William K. Lambie Jr., Associate Director, 11-18-81.

  16. Memo concerning Pritzker, Pritzker and Clinton on 134 N. LaSalle Street, from the Chicago Crime Commission documents from Virgil Peterson, 6-23-60.

  17. Chicago Tribune, 2-19-57.

  18. Letter to James S. Hamilton from Virgil Peterson on the Pritzker family, 01-17-57.

  19. Hamilton sent a report of one page on Abram Pritzker to Peterson, 1-9-57.

  20. Letter to Virgil Peterson from James Hamilton, 5-14-56.

  21. Letter to Peterson from Hamilton, 2-28-55.

  22. Chicago Crime Commission report by Dixon on a labor matter, 9-24-44.

  23. "Business Diary: The Donald Trumps Pritzkers with Lawsuit," Crain's Chicago Business.

  24. Jon Anderson, "Pritzker on Pritzker, a Mogul Talks About His Family Dynasty," Chicago Tribune, 11-24-85.

  25. "At 90, Pritzker Still Feels like a Million," Chicago Sun-Times, 11-21-85.

  26. "Do the Pritzkers Have McCall's on Block?" Chicago Tribune, 10-8-85.

  27. "Pritzkers, Patricof Explore Bid for UPI," Chicago Tribune, 9-30-85.

  28. "Bottom Line: A Pro Manager for McCormick," Chicago Tribune, 9-18-85.

  29. Chicago Tribune, 9-16-85.

  30. "Pritzker Fears Another Braniff Bankruptcy," Chicago Sun-Times, 11-29-84.

  31. "Pritzkers Ponder Sale of Stake in Levitz After Bid Is Thwarted," Chicago Tribune, 8-14-84.

  32. "Braniff Talking Merger," Chicago Sun-Times, 8-8-84.

  33. "Pritzker to Buy Miami Furniture Chain," Chicago Sun-Times, 6-30-84.

  34. "College of Hard Knocks, B. Pritzker, President," Chicago Tribune, 3-23-86.

  35. "A. N. Pritzker, Pioneer," Chicago Sun-Times, 2-11-86.

  36. "Levitz Investors Sue Pritzker," Chicago Sun-Times, 6-08-84.

  37. Chicago Tribune, 6-02-84.

  38. "New Offer for Eastern?" Chicago Tribune, 4-24-86.

 

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