Joe owned a gas station on Sunset Boulevard and his business started booming when George Raft happened to pull in for gas. After that, Joe had to hire extra help to handle the celebrities that rolled in and out of his station including, Benjamin Siegel, Raft and Leo Durocher, among others. During the war he was able to obtain black market fuel for his friends and could get tires and parts that were not available anywhere at any price. He also sold Ben Siegel's car a couple of times (among others), taking a couple thousand as down payment and then not delivering the 'goods.' When people started closing in on his scheme he took all the cash he had, went to Hollywood Memorial Cemetery and purchased the crypt directly above Mr. Siegel and was reported to have said to the manager: "Write it down. If anything ever happens to Ben Siegel, if he dies before I do, I want to be in a crypt right over his……" And he is.
Joe owned a gas station on Sunset Boulevard and his business started booming when George Raft happened to pull in for gas. After that, Joe had to hire extra help to handle the celebrities that rolled in and out of his station including, Benjamin Siegel, Raft and Leo Durocher, among others. During the war he was able to obtain black market fuel for his friends and could get tires and parts that were not available anywhere at any price. He also sold Ben Siegel's car a couple of times (among others), taking a couple thousand as down payment and then not delivering the 'goods.' When people started closing in on his scheme he took all the cash he had, went to Hollywood Memorial Cemetery and purchased the crypt directly above Mr. Siegel and was reported to have said to the manager: "Write it down. If anything ever happens to Ben Siegel, if he dies before I do, I want to be in a crypt right over his……" And he is.
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