Bernard "Mooney" Einstoss
Casino: Financings: Reconstruction Finance Corporation
It Really Happened
Louis "Lou" J. Wertheimer
Mapes (Reno, NV)
Nevada
United States
Was The Mapes’ Financing Unethical?
1947 The United States’ Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) co-financed construction of a gambling enterprise via its $975,000 loan for the Mapes hotel-casino in Reno, Nevada in 1947. Under Attack Three years later, Senators William Fulbright…