When you think of the mob, names like John Gotti, Al Capone, and Frank Nitti may come to mind. However, the name David "Davie" Berman aka Davie the Jew rings bells, especially in the Las Vegas mob scene. Berman once shared in an interview with 48 Hours that her father, Davie, worked for Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and the infamous Lucky Luciano.

Apparently, Meyer and Frank gave Davie the option of running a city of his choice and $1 million. Initially, Berman explained that Davie only wanted “train fare to Minneapolis” — the family’s hometown and Berman's birthplace — and the approval to run the rackets in the Twin Cities before gambling was legal.

After Davie ran Minneapolis at the end of the ‘30s into the early ‘40s, he decided to sign up for the war. He returned to the U.S. as a war hero in 1945 and partnered with gangsters in owning three Las Vegas clubs: The Las Vegas Club, The El Dorado, and The Apache.

In Vegas, Davie was a respected mobster and his family reaped plenty of benefits. According to Berman he was known as the "Henry Kissinger" of Las Vegas, which in hindsight is hardly a compliment. By the time of his death in 1957, Davie was a silent partner in seven Las Vegas hotels.

"Her trust fund, at the time of her mother’s death, was somewhere between four and five million, but Berman had a character flaw: she was loyal, and she loved her friends," said Berman's cousin Deni Marcus in Blood & Money.