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Meet 8 real mafia bosses who ran their criminal enterprises in Buffalo.

Tough Jews, Las Vegas, and the Legacy of Meyer Lansky He left a disturbing legacy of inexcusable violence, but endures as a humanized figure of intense fascination for the American public. Larry Greenfield is a Fellow of The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy. August 1971: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983) at Mount Olive, Israel. In the background is the city of Jerusalem, with a view of the Omar Mosque on the right. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In his au...

Opinion: History says the Supper Club fire was no accident Peter Bronson View Comments Ivory-clean Cincinnati has a dirty secret buried in the dim, forgotten past. Long ago, a Faustian bargain was made that was good for the convention business: The northern banks of the Ohio would stay clean – but south of the river, anything goes. Newport, Kentucky became an underworld kingdom, the outlaw grandfather of Las Vegas. It was “Sin  City,” “Little Mexico” and “America’s most wicked ci...

Cincinnati Magazine Photograph courtesy Peter Bronson One of the deadliest nightclub fires in U.S. history destroyed the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate on May 28, 1977, killing 165 people. Former Enquirer editor and columnist Peter Bronson has published a new book, Forbidden Fruit, about the tragedy’s connections to Northern Kentucky’s long history as a gambling and organized crime hotbed. The fire was no accident, Bronson claims, but in fact flowed from 40 years of “Sin City”...

Water-cannon gangsters, booze-soaked vice dens: How 1939's 'Battle of Santa Monica Bay' brought down L.A.’s floating casinos.

San Diego and Las Vegas have had a long, wild history together. Besides the mobbed-up Moe Dalitzs La Costa resorts, San Diego County has played host to marginal figures who became Vegas notables, including Dalitz crony Wilbur Clark. A onetime bellhop at the San Diego Knickerbocker hotel, Clark built and ran the Desert Inn and casino under Dalitzs guidance. More recently, the 1990s Cheetahs bribery case, which forced the resignation of three San Diego city council members and put one behind bars...

Hughess Expansion In Las Vegas Essay Hughess Expansion In Las Vegas Essay 450 Words2 Pages Although Hughes wasn’t a mafia or mob boss but mobs did play some part of Hughes’s business explansion in Las Vegas. Balboni’s book also briefly explained about Hughes’s involvement and connection between mafia and Hughes in Las Vegas. In Balboni’s book, “First, The Boys—Hank Greenspun (who, by 1966, had become respectable despite his early association with Bugsy Siegel ...

Las Vegas Weekly A casino executive mysteriously disappears. Hikers find a body in the desert. An ignition key sets off a car bomb. Fortunately, these are stories from Las Vegas ’ past, not its present. But mob-related murders—some solved, others enduring mysteries—still loom large.  “There ’s a lot of mythology surrounding organized crime, ” says Geoff Schumacher, vice president of exhibits and programs at the Mob Museum in Downtown Las Vegas.  “One of the reasons for that is...

Sands Casino sells Las Vegas business, bets big on Asia 4 Mar, 2021 06:46 PM 4 minutes to read Other By: Michelle Chapman Las Vegas Sands is selling the iconic Venetian casino resort and its Sands Expo and Convention Center for $6.25 billion, withdrawing from gambling operations on the Las Vegas Strip after changing the nature of the casino business there and just about everywhere else. The name of the Venetian, the expo center as well as the Palazzo, the Sands luxury casino and resort that is ...

Before there was the "Fab Four" there was the "Rat Pack." This week, two of their main members share historical moments. It was 40 years ago Tuesday, Dec. 8, that we lost John Lennon to an assassins bullet and this Saturday we mark what would have been Francis Albert Sinatras 105th birthday. Its also the 60th anniversary of "The Rat Pack." Richard A. Lertzman and Lon Davis marks the occasion with a new book called Deconstructing The Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob, and the Summit. It breaks down the 2...