{"id":182284,"date":"2021-08-09T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mob-driven-out-of-las-vegas-resorts-by-corporate-casino-ownership\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:47:09","slug":"mob-driven-out-of-las-vegas-resorts-by-corporate-casino-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mob-driven-out-of-las-vegas-resorts-by-corporate-casino-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Driven Out of Las Vegas Resorts by Corporate Casino Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, the Mob has been run out of Nevada casinos and probably won\u2019t be able to get back in, according to former state officials interviewed for a recent podcast series.<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> investigative reporter Jeff German poses near the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. This resort is on the Las Vegas Strip where the mob-connected Aladdin once stood. (Image: Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Organized crime\u2019s deep infiltration into Las Vegas casinos began to erode in the 1960s in part because of two key factors \u2014 the Black Book and corporate casino ownership, according to season two of the \u201cMobbed Up\u201d podcast series<\/a>. The eight-part series ended this month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The series is produced in a partnership between the Las Vegas Review-Journal <\/i>and The Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Season two<\/a> is hosted by Review-Journal<\/i> investigative reporter Jeff German, who has covered organized crime in the state for more than 40 years. German previously worked for the Las Vegas Sun<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Black Book, created by Nevada gaming regulators, is a list of suspected mobsters and others excluded from entering casinos in the state. Officially called the Excluded Person List, it was introduced in 1960 and has included such names as Nick Civella, who once led the Kansas City crime family, and former Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bumps Along the Road\u2019<\/h2>\n

Another factor in driving out the Mob was the introduction in the late 1960s of the Nevada Corporate Gaming Act, the podcast noted. This act allowed corporations to own casinos without every shareholder having to be licensed, and paved the way for the Las Vegas Strip\u2019s current roster of corporate resorts.<\/p>\n

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Decades earlier, organized crime figures were involved in stealing untaxed casino revenue and delivering it to Mob bosses in the Midwest. This illegal action is called \u201cskimming.\u201d It led to felony convictions that sent several Mafia leaders to prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On the \u201cMobbed Up\u201d podcast, former US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Corporate Gaming Act \u201cwas the salvation of Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few bumps along the road. But generally speaking, the corporate gaming act saved us,\u201d said Reid, who once served as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. In that role, he had a well-publicized run-in with Chicago oddsmaker Frank \u201cLefty\u201d Rosenthal. That incident was dramatized in the 1995 Las Vegas Mafia movie Casino<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Bryan, a former Nevada governor and US senator, said the Corporate Gaming Act put the \u201cGood Housekeeping Seal of Approval\u201d on Nevada\u2019s casino industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese major corporations that have business interests all over the world are not going to get involved in any kind of skimming operations,\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Bryan said.<\/p>\n

Mob Stigma<\/h2>\n

Former Nevada Gaming Commission member George Swarts<\/a> said people who don\u2019t like corporate casinos say that Las Vegas was \u201cbetter when the Mob was running it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swarts said that perception is inaccurate.<\/p>\n

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The corporate gamers don\u2019t bury people in shallow graves when they misbehave,\u201d he said on the podcast. \u201cThey deal with it in a legal and proper way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reid indicated he would not take a bet on whether mobsters could work their way back into Nevada casinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are so clever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Swarts said it would be difficult for underworld figures to return \u201cbecause of all the transparencies involved and the stigma of having someone that\u2019s involved with a Mob family.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he noted that the Mob is still around, though not in the casinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they\u2019ve got the side rackets \u2014 drugs, prostitution, money laundering, loan sharking, all that kind of stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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