Vegas and the Mob

Murder often followed.. Most of it. Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to bribe their way to respectability back home. Frank Nitti

Avid Reader said Grammatical and Factual Errors Marr an Otherwise Good Book. I would have liked to have given this book five stars, but it needs some editing for grammatical errors and downright mistakes. Did you know that one of the persons mentioned in the book could not get a shot off because the safety on his revolver stuck? Yeah, that's right, revolvers do not have safeties. In another place the author talks about two players in Vegas. First he identifies them as two separate persons and then he says they are the same person known by two names in different places then he says that one of them hired the other in Vegas. Huh? He a. An American Morality Tale Ralph E. Vaughan If you ever wondered just who put the Sin into Sin City, this is the book for you. This book names all the players, and chronicles not only what they did, but what they did to each other. There are the big well-known gangsters who rose up through the New York, Chicago and West Coast crime syndicates, as well as the lesser lights, the hangers on, the greedy grifters, the show business hucksters, the crooked politicians and Federal agents, the shyster lawyers, the colorful and enigmatic personalities, and the small time hoods and con men who came looking for . Vegas and the mob Peter O - HKG Interesting book. Too short really. Never got into the real characters behind the faces. Informative though and pretty enjoyable but could have been so much more.