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Category:
Crime
Publisher: Al W Moe
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 316
Copyright: Nov. 10, 2022
ISBN-13: 9798353049210
Price: $5.95 (eBook)
The Chicago Outfit crime group dominated Las Vegas casino operations and skimmed $300 million from mob-owned properties. Here's how they did it!
Chicago was the worldwide leader in gangster wars and bootlegging in the 1920s, as Al Capone set the stage for his tremendous success and popularity. When he was safely away in prison, the Chicago Outfit expanded into more rackets involving gambling and loan sharking, making bosses like Paul “The Waiter” Ricca and Tony “Joe Batters” Accardo rich beyond even Capone’s wildest dreams.
With prostitution and union corruption, Chicago had more bookies, card clubs, and clip joints than evil casino spots like Reno, Hot Springs, Toledo, and New York combined. So, they weren’t the first to find gold in Las Vegas, but they were sure good at draining the cash away once they tasted Sin City's pleasures and corruption!
For forty years, Chicago led the way in untaxed and hidden money by skimming at often crooked games of no-chance. When Las Vegas jumped in the early ’40s, the Outfit’s interests in Las Vegas captured the Downtown area and went uptown to the Strip and the new Flamingo casino. To keep everything straight, Las Vegas imported known killers as local enforcers from the Outfit like Marshall Caifano and Tony “The Ant” Spilotro.
Things went Chicago's way for decades as the Chicago Outfit drained hundreds of millions of dollars from a dozen Las Vegas casinos. How they did the deed right in front of the FBI, how it went untraced for decades, and how they moved the cash from the desert to places across the US and Europe is all right here in “Vegas and the Chicago Outfit.”
Excerpt
Chicago and The Outfit were late for the party in Las Vegas. Why bother with a town built on sand when you’ve got a stranglehold on the Windy City’s politics and populace?
Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, and only came to Chicago in 1919 to help Johnny Torrio, but Scarface was worth $100 million by 1927 as Organized Crime’s first Rock Star. Newspapers dubbed him “Public Enemy No. 1.”
His fall happened not because of the FBI (the Bureau of Investigation until 1935) but because federal authorities finally got angry and jealous enough of him to charge him with 22 counts of tax evasion. He was convicted of five counts in 1931.
As for the man entrusted to guard our country against the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover denied that the Mafia existed. He had plenty of good reasons for his ruse, including the facts that he couldn’t beat the Mafia and that if he admitted there was such a group of coordinated gangsters who shared info, hitters, and money across state lines, he’d never get a wink of sleep. But there was more.
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