Oi . You vahnt Trable ? I GIBE You ' TRAHBEL ' . Vaht's a mattah , you kant take a Joke ? What are you , anti-semitic ?You dohne like to Laff ? We're goingk to SUE You ! How do you LIKE Thos' Apfels ? And You KNOW , Vhat ? WE'RE going to VIN ! You sunnofah - YOU got ALOTTA Noive ! You betta send an APOLOGY Right Now , Big mauts, and - we'll, Thinkabout it ; OR, You're THROUGH ! You UNnerstand that, Free Press BOY ? When we get done with you , you won't be able to afford a 'pint' of Mogen David ; Nevahmind , a bottle , already ! Who do you think you are ? I got More things to say to YOU, Mister But I wouldent " lower " myself . MY ATTORNEY vil Be contactink You. Don't go ah vay! YOU, ...... _____________ : From: C. Bollyn
: American Free Press
: Washington, D.C.
: To: Mark Wolper
: Executive Producer
: Penn & Teller
: OPEN LETTER TO MARK WOLPER, PRODUCER OF PENN & TELLER
: Dear Mr. Wolper: I am researching the Penn & Teller
: program of May 9, 2005, which attempted to deal with the
: conspiracy theories surrounding the terror attacks of Sept.
: 11, 2001, the "faked" NASA Apollo moon landings,
: and the JFK assassination.
: As the executive producer of this show, perhaps you can tell
: me why the 30-minute program of May 9 included a gratuitous
: act of desecration of the Holy Bible? Was the destruction
: of the Bible done to foment anti-Semitism among American
: Christians? It is completely out of place and obviously
: insulting to hundreds of millions of Christians.
: Would you desecrate the Torah or Talmud in the same way?
: I also have a few questions about the Wolper family and its
: ties to organized crime.
: In your father's autobiography, Producer, David L. Wolper
: writes: "The closest anyone in my family came to show
: business was my uncle, David J. Wolper. He was an attorney,
: and among his clients was gangster Mickey Cohen's glamorous
: moll, Virginia Hill. To settle a 1942 bill, Virginia Hill
: gave my uncle, the lawyer, the famed Hurricane nightclub on
: Broadway." (Producer, page 7)
: "Which is how the Wolper family first got into the
: entertainment business," your father continues. It
: seems this is not the complete truth.
: From the book, Bugsy's Baby: The Secret Life of Mob Queen
: Virginia Hill, we read that the Hurricane was a mob-run
: outfit and that your uncle was simply acting as a
: "racketeer," the front man for a gangster
: operation: "As part of their trade accord with New
: York, the Chicago gang was allowed to invest in a nightclub
: called the Hurricane Club, at 1619 Broadway in New York. It
: had all the promise of a money-maker and could provide a
: great way to launder money as well. The Chicago mob was, of
: course, a silent partner, and the names of the backers were
: not to appear in any legal registers. Virginia was ordered
: to act as the front and travel to New York to work the
: deal.
: "Depending on who told the story, Virginia put down
: anywhere from $6,000 to $60,000 cash, but for some
: unexplained reason her name never appeared on the license
: as an owner." (Bugsy's Baby, page 62)
: No, but your great uncle David J. Wolper's name certainly did.
: The book about Bugsy's Baby continues: "But when she
: fronted for the Hurricane Club, federal agents activated
: the Virginia Hill file: No. 136246. She was
: 'elevated," if on can call it that, from 'known
: associate of gangsters' to 'suspected racketeer.'"
: Because David J. Wolper's name is on record as the sole owner
: of the Hurricane Club, by the logic of the federal agents,
: he should also be considered as a 'suspected
: racketeer."
: David J. Wolper is recorded as being the lawyer for Virginia
: Hill, which is to say a lawyer for Benjamin
: "Bugsy" Siegel.
: As your father wrote in his autobiography: "We named our
: company Flamingo Films after Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas
: hotel."
: Mr. David J. Wolper is also on record as having been the
: "former president of the B'nai B'rith in
: Florida." (Chicago Tribune, Oct. 1, 1956)
: So, as your father says, it is thanks to David J. Wolper, the
: lawyer and front man for the Mob that the Wolper family got
: into show business.
: And then there is the question about "Dr." Max
: Wolper, your father's grandfather.
: Max B. Wolper appears on all U.S. Census reports as being born
: in Russia, but by the time his obituary was written in 1949
: in the New York Times, he had upgraded himself to becoming
: a Berliner, born in Berlin and being a magna cum laude
: graduate (1888) of Berlin University.
: Was he German born, or did he come from some village in the
: Pale of Settlement as the U.S. Census indicates?
: Where is the truth here? Was he born in Berlin or was he a
: Russian speaking Jew, born in Russia, as the Census records
: of 1900, 1910, 1920 all indicate? Furthermore, did
: "Dr." Max Wolper attend "Berlin
: University" and was he a doctor at all? Or was he a
: fraud?
: And lastly, where did your family live during the first part
: of 1969? Where were you when the first man walked on the
: moon? Were you in Las Vegas working near Area 51 or were
: you in Los Angeles? Do you know where the fake moon landing
: footage was filmed?
: Was your father the producer of that film too?
: Regards,
: Christopher Bollyn
: American Free Press
: Photo: Bugsy Siegel's infamous mob hangout, the Flamingo
: Hotel.
: Credit: Nevada State Museum and Historical Society
