What is it about gangsters and their safes? When Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's private safe in 1986, all he found were a few empty gin bottles. On Wednesday, L.A. television station KTLA had the cameras rolling when mobster Bugsy Siegel's vault, hidden since the 1940s in a secret back office of the Formosa Cafe in Hollywood, was opened before the greedy TV cameras. What they got was ... nothing. Nada. Zilch. Old Bugsy, who caught a bullet in a mob rubout, must have taken it all with him.
Another Empty Safe
What is it about gangsters and their safes? When Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's private safe in 1986, all he found were a few empty gin bottles. On Wednesday, L.A. television station KTLA had the cameras rolling when mobster Bugsy Siegel's vault, hidden since the 1940s in a secret back office of the Formosa Cafe in Hollywood, was opened before the greedy TV cameras. What they got was ... nothing. Nada. Zilch. Old Bugsy, who caught a bullet in a mob rubout, must have taken it all with him.
