Culling out the card sharks
Gambling was always a backdrop in the nascent years of Las Vegas, a popular if illicit activity for railroad workers,…
Sixty years ago, Nevada entered the modern era of gambling regulation
Marshall Caifano, the Chicago Outfit’s overseer of casinos in Las Vegas, went by more than a dozen fake names before…
The hit that could have sunk Las Vegas
On May 2, 1957, Frank Costello thought he had problems, but he had no idea. He was appealing a five-year…
Fat Herbie’s rise and fall
Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…