Excerpts From Jerry Vann’s Book “Underworld Secrets…”
Since Eddie Nash is not dead (confirmed by fellow club owner Chris Cox, it appears), then I will leave you with some Nash quotes from Jerry Vann’s book “Underworld Secrets: Jimmy Hoffa to Las Vegas”. Jerry Vann (Van Hoorelbeke?) is an interesting character and I should like to track him down for an interview one day.
It appears that Eddie Nash is upset here about Jerry’s friend, Greg (not Greg Diles) – and his visits to Nash’s strip club. Greg is hurting business!
On this page, the “Tony” character is Anthony Mudarris, who was indicted with Nash for money laundering and RICO stuff in 2000. Jerry paints himself well in the book, even saving a stripper girl who Tony had tossed down a hillside. It appears that Jerry & company also liked to use stolen / fake credit cards to buy jewelry and other valuables, but that is in another chapter I will post later. In even another chapter Jerry is frightened to death of Eddie’s heroin smugglers in Hawaii, even thinking he might die during the exchange as intermediary.
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localarts 4:59 pm on August 5, 2014 Permalink |
Ed had everybody in his pocket. I wonder how many son’s & daughter’s of the LAPD brass he put through college? Eddie Nash truly was the God Father of LA during that period of time. I would not at all be surprised if Nash was doing business with the Chagra brothers back in the 70’s & 80″s.
Sean 4:11 am on August 8, 2014 Permalink |
Happy 70th birthday to John Holmes. Was he not dead for the past 27 years.
Sean 4:46 pm on August 8, 2014 Permalink |
Happy 70th birthday to John C. Holmes! Was he not dead for the past 26 and a half years.
Mike 8:29 pm on August 9, 2014 Permalink |
I’m a lone voice in the wilderness here, but I don’t believe for a minute that LAPD brass, or those of LASD for that matter, were paid off by Nash. I believe that the fed investigator was – I believe this is known. I also think that a high city official surely was involved, but the the local police brass (and I’m aware of what Lang and his partner said about a hidden hand seeming to steer them away)? No way.
Ken 9:54 pm on August 5, 2014 Permalink |
Yep…..up till the whole WONDERLAND incident Nash was pretty much considered to be the “King of Hollywood” but once it became known that he did order the killings everybody he had paid off in the past weren’t there for him anymore….
localarts 10:46 am on August 11, 2014 Permalink |
That’s probably true. I think one glaring aspect that people tend to overlook is Nash controlled a lot people out of fear.
jim 9:58 pm on August 17, 2014 Permalink |
the king of Hollywood who ever heard of eddie nash before wonderland and by the way the Chicago outfit controlled things there any way at that time tony spilatro was more known as a menace to authoritory than nash he probably was paying off the outfit if he was as big as reported he would have to
Ken 12:56 pm on August 18, 2014 Permalink |
Nash was VERY well known in the Los Angeles area in the late 60’s and all through the 70’s.
The Outfit’s reach never extended westward from Chicago past the hotel casinos that they owned in Las Vegas and even the New York mob that did have a limited amount of control in Los Angeles most of that was back in the 40’s till the early 60’s.
Carlo Gambino once made the statement that he could probably count the number of “Made Guys” tthat were on the west coast on one hand.
localarts 6:43 pm on August 19, 2014 Permalink
The fact Eddie is still alive say’s it all.
jim 10:50 pm on August 24, 2014 Permalink |
well the west coast mob was known as the mickey mouse mob and Chicago had everything west of the Mississippi sorry if I never herd of nash but out of all the true crime books I’ve read never came across him and its been published in many books that tony accardo did everything he could to stop the guy in LA from ever achieving anything he thought he was a clown according to FBI agent Bill Rohmer man against the mob book
localarts 10:59 am on August 25, 2014 Permalink |
Eddie Nash was a crime figure not a crime boss per say. Nash was a legitimate business owner as well as a drug lord. There was no criminal structure (hierarchy) as is the case with most traditional mafia families. Eddie Nash was simply Eddie Nash. Nash had power and influence. The extent of which is debatable.
The Odyssey 11:52 pm on August 28, 2014 Permalink |
Eddie Nash outlived everybody and made 30 million dollars in 2008 selling the Seven Seas building. He is/was the King Of Hollywood. Don’t care what. Anybody says.
loon432 8:14 pm on December 14, 2014 Permalink
How much is Tony mudarris worth today? And what other businesses does he own besides strip clubs
John 11:03 am on January 5, 2015 Permalink
I believe Tony owned an auto body shop also, or a few of them. This would be good for making phony car insurance scams via staged accidents.
jim 9:56 pm on August 31, 2014 Permalink |
Perfecto localarts
The Odyssey 12:34 am on September 17, 2014 Permalink
Tony Mudarris daughter Nikki is on Love and Hip Hop Hollywood on Vh1
James DelCol 8:05 am on December 22, 2014 Permalink |
This is some pretty outrageous stuff. This shows the inner working of Nash’s power. He had all kinds of people on his payroll. I never thought it ran that deep. Although Mickey Cohen (When he was in LA) had Chief Justice Earl Warren in his pocket. Amazing! Mickey Cohen was the only person ever bailed out of Alcatraz. This shows you what money can do. Nash was in deep and had balls of steel. Imagine what it would take for the average Joe to buy a cop? Most people can’t get out of a traffic summons let alone get bounced out of a jail like Alcatraz. It makes me wonder if Chief Justice Warren’s mob ties helped along JFK’s assassination investigation.