A new look at Tony Spilotro in upcoming movie
When mobster Tony Spilotro was active in Las Vegas decades ago, doors opened for him in Hollywood. As the Chicago…
Who bombed Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s car?
Flames two or three inches high emerged from the defroster vent as he sat in his car with takeout food…
Las Vegas Mob stories attract Hollywood interest
Of the many Mob movies and television shows now in the works, several are focused on underworld figures who had…
Separating fact from fiction in ‘Casino’
Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is surrounded by the press at a Nevada Gaming Commission meeting portrayed in Casino. Rothstein’s…
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…
A late Mob hit in Las Vegas
First of two parts. Part Two looks at Blitzstein’s criminal activity in Las Vegas. By the mid-1990s, death had claimed…
Slaying of singer Barbara McNair’s Mob-connected husband in Las Vegas remains a mystery since 1976
Who killed Rick Manzie, husband of popular singer and actress Barbara McNair, in the couple’s Las Vegas home 39 years…
I vote ‘Aye’
There may never have been a better time to live in Las Vegas than in the early to mid-1990s. The…
Lefty’s house, equipped with bulletproof windows, is on the block
Despite being so safe, the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, two-story house still has a wide-open feel thanks to the expansive windows…