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IVilanei hotelmen ered to report to the mini-
ma Lansbt and Sam i mum security facility at
nen have awn federal !IEglin Air Force Base, Fla.,
i4 prison sentences of a year ton May 14, Each also was •
t each for conspiring with mob ! assessed a=20,000 fine. ,
,Ad figure Meyer Lansley to skim Lansburgh, 55, and Cohen,
millions off Las Vegas casino 66, were accused of conapir•
i profits without paying ta;ttc, ing to conceal $16 million in •
gambling revenue from the
• I They were sentenced yes- Flamingo Hotel casino be-
terday in Las Vegas by U.S. tween 1960 and 1967. •
District Judge Roger Foley ! Lansky, facing sentence
3 who had earlier accepted here for criminal contempt,
their guilty pleas. also faces trial in the skim-
ILansburgh said "I'm terra- i ming case at Las Vegas on
1 bly sorry' and Cohen wept . June 4. He recently under-
as the prison sentences were I went open heart surgery
imposed. Both men were ord• here.
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Lansbui'oh, Cohen Sentenced
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To One Year for Conspiracy
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By JAMES SAVAGE sentences, Judge Foley or- er entered pleas of no contest
• Herald StiH writer dered Lansbuth and Cohen were sentenced Friday. ,
' Miami Beach hotelmen to pay $20,000f fines each. '
,oras Lansbur and Sam Lansburgh, 55, and Cohen, STEVE DEas sent , 37, of
ones were sentenced to one 66, pleaded guilty to govern. Las Vegas, was sentenced to
year in fedetafaprison Friday m e n t charges that they serve 60 days of a one year '
for cons;:irmg with hoodlum conspired to hide casino rev sentence in jail and the rest a
M e y c r Lansky to skim enue and to evade paying to of the sentence on probation.
^-;:iionc of dollars in untaxed come taxes. Approximately Harry Goldberg, 71, of 1
revenue from the Flamingo S16 million ;was illegally Miami was sentenced to pay
Hotel gambling casino In Las removed from the casino dun- a$5,000 fine.
�. Vegas. :ng the period the Miami i
Lansburgh told Las Vegas Beach men o}vned It from A former member of the i
U.S. District Judge Roger 1960 to 1967. Miami Beach Tourist l
Foley he was "terribly sorry" Development Authority,
before the judge passed sen- The maximum sentence on Lansburgh's Associated Re-
tense. Cohen wept before the the two county was 10 years sort Hotels owns the Deau• ,
i sentence was invoked. in prison and a $20,000 fine. ville, Eden Roc, Sherry Fron-
The two men, long time Lansky, currently recuper- tenac, Crown, Versailles and
ating in Miami Beach frons Saxony Hotel on Miami
' business partners, were or- open heart surgery, is ached
, dered to report to Florida's tiled to appearl for trial on Beach.
minimum security federal the same charges in Las THE FIRM ALSO owns the
prison facility at Eglin Air Vegas June 4. 1 King's Inn in Grand Bahama
Force Base in Florida May l4. Two other men associated and a new hotel in Marbella,
IN ADDITION to the jail with the Flamingo,who earli- Spain.