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Joe Friday tackled the Los Angeles crime syndicate

Posted on June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 by Jackie Apoyan

William H. Parker, a hardnosed police chief in midcentury Los Angeles, did not want organized crime in his city. In…


Forty years ago, Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno turned on his Mob family

Posted on December 8, 2017June 29, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Some mobsters left their legacy by the gun, some by the knife, but Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno is best known…


Ten years ago, epic ‘Family Secrets’ trial crippled the Chicago Outfit

Posted on July 10, 2017August 2, 2018 by Misha Ray

The historic “Family Secrets” trial began 10 years ago in Chicago, finally bringing to justice several top Midwestern mobsters responsible…


Seventy years ago today, Bugsy Siegel’s storied Mob life came to an abrupt end

Posted on June 20, 2017December 15, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

It is important to our Museum and to me as the resident historian that criminals and their criminal acts are…


The hit that could have sunk Las Vegas

Posted on May 4, 2017June 24, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

On May 2, 1957, Frank Costello thought he had problems, but he had no idea. He was appealing a five-year…


Legendary comic Don Rickles, a Las Vegas showroom staple, has died

Posted on April 7, 2017April 25, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

Don Rickles, who comically insulted Las Vegas audiences for seven decades and had a prominent role in Casino, died Thursday…


Sixty years ago, the Tropicana opened under Mob’s hidden control

Posted on April 4, 2017April 3, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Las Vegas was in the middle of a slump. It was April 1957, and the town was still coming to…


Seventy years ago, Luciano’s Havana sojourn was cut short

Posted on February 22, 2017February 26, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

Written February 2017 In 1946, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was persona non grata in America. Though he was granted a pardon…


Fat Herbie’s rise and fall

Posted on January 10, 2017October 22, 2020 by Brenda Hengel

Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…


A late Mob hit in Las Vegas

Posted on January 9, 2017January 5, 2018 by Brenda Hengel

First of two parts. Part Two looks at Blitzstein’s criminal activity in Las Vegas. By the mid-1990s, death had claimed…


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