John Factor

John-Jake the Barber-Factor was the half brother of cosmetics mogul Max Factor. Jake was an international confidence man, who was funded by the New York criminal Arnold Rothstein, as well as Chicago's Al Capone. Factor ran stock , land and mining scams in Europe as well in the United States. He faked the kidnapping of himself in 1933, to avoid extradition back to England. Factor was close to the Mob, and after he received a Presidential Pardon from President John Kennedy, the Chicago Outfit put him in charge of the Las Vegas Stardust hotel casino from 1955 to 1962. The Stardust was the fictional Tangiers casino in the movie Casino.