While a former regulator says the shocking details of a gambling scandal involving organized crime shows local casinos are clean, other repercussions await the industry.
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The Mafia’s presence in Las Vegas, and other large American cities have been long documented and romanticized, and seeing its resurgence in 2025 shouldn’t be surprising, according to an expert.
Nevada lawmakers wanted to remove mobsters from the state’s casinos in the 1960s to begin an era of corporate ownership so organized crime populated the first ‘Black Book.’
Among the most notorious people on the List of Excluded Persons are a former Gaming Control Board computer expert, a game “fixer” and the wife of a mob associate.
The answers to who killed then-31-year-old John Dubeck and his wife, Francis, remain elusive and the case a mystery, despite strong past indicators of possible mob connections.
Historians point to one casino and two men as the first famous encounter that kicked off an era of mobster influence.
The city’s mobsters roots run deep. Here are a list of mob-connected homes that has sold in recent years, including one formerly owned by Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal.
The house is connected to former mobsters who appeared in the 1995 film “Casino.”
Oscar Goodman loves telling a good story — almost as much as he enjoys his Bombay Sapphire gin. He had both at his disposal while recording Season 3 of “Mobbed Up,” the Review-Journal’s award-winning podcast.
From where Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Tony Spilotro lived to where they made headlines, these spots will help you create your own DIY mob tour.
Former federal prosecutor Stan Hunterton, one of the people responsible for driving the mob out of Las Vegas casinos, died on Saturday at the age of 74.
Oscar Goodman regaled the Mob Museum crowd Wednesday night with stories from his defense of Jimmy Chagra as well as other asides about his time as a criminal defense attorney.
Some artifacts for sale were exhibited at the Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana.
Two experts at Las Vegas’ Mob Museum hypothesize that the ruthless enforcer killed one of three men with mob ties who disappeared decades ago without a trace.
To many, the grim discovery of the body of a shooting victim in Lake Mead inspired a callback to a darker Las Vegas past, but the the reality could be as murky as the waters where the body was found.