Bugsy Siegel death house for sale in Beverly Hills
The Beverly Hills, California, mansion where Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel was shot to death in 1947 is on the market for…
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Spado’s ‘Accidental Gangster’ story headed to silver screen
After a childhood in upstate New York, Ori Spado embarked on a criminal career that took him from Manhattan to…
The Las Vegas misadventures of Russian Louie
By the time he was 11 years old, he was arrested for burglary in San Francisco. By the time he…
Fearless Las Vegas journalists Jeff German, Ned Day left lasting legacies
Las Vegas reporters Jeff German and Ned Day had more in common than a dogged approach to digging out major…
Frank Costello, Vito Genovese feud is focus of upcoming Mob movie
Mob movie veterans Robert De Niro and Nicholas Pileggi are teaming up again, this time for a drama about two…
Hollywood’s ‘Bugsy’ is entertaining but plays fast and loose with the facts
In the 1991 movie Bugsy, Warren Beatty, portraying mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, stands in the desert near Highway 91 south…
Assassination expert says Cubans encouraged Oswald to kill JFK
By 1964, two brothers secretly working for the FBI had been informing on the Communist Party for 10 years. One…
El Cortez, first luxury hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas, turns 80
In the late summer of 1939, John C. Grayson, casino manager of the Mt. Baker illegal gambling ship, was arrested…
Allen Glick, 1970s owner of Las Vegas casinos skimmed by Mob, has died
Allen R. Glick, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and California developer who insisted he knew nothing about skimming by Midwestern…
Wife of drug kingpin El Chapo pleads guilty to drug trafficking
Standing in a federal court dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and white face mask, the wife of imprisoned Mexican…