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| Author | : Al W Moe |
| Publisher | : Al W Moe |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2017-02-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1493556924 |
Reno was the first US city to fully embrace its destiny as a gaming capital, and even before gaming was legalized in 1931 the city was the one place gangsters from Chicago and the Midwest wanted to go, for safety, sanctuary, and of course the booze, the broads, and the banking services to launder their kidnapping and hold-up loot. Bank robbers like Alvin Karpis, kidnappers like Ma Barker and her sons, and even “Baby Face" Nelson came to stay, play, and enjoy the show. Reno had it all, and they had their own Mob who controlled the vices, legal or otherwise. Eventually, Lucky Luciano, Tony Accardo, Sam Giancana and others took note and joined the easy profits and the skim in Reno. This is the true story. The story of four men who ran things with no remorse. Coercion, arson, murder.
| Author | : Al W Moe |
| Publisher | : Al W Moe |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2017-02-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1483955559 |
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. Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in the 1930's: Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit, while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control, and drug sales. Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was legal. Most of it. 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. By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino. Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder often followed.
| Author | : Al W. Moe |
| Publisher | : Al Moe |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2008-10-03 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9781439211991 |
Reno was truly Hell on Wheels in the 1920's. The rest of the nation considered the town Sodom and Gomorra, but that's only half the truth. Reno offered everything in the way of adult entertainment, from speakeasy's and houses of ill-repute, to open gaming - legal or not. And it took plenty of sins by the founding fathers to make Reno "The biggest little city in the world." When the gold-veins of Tonopah and Goldfield ran out, the casino owners moved to Reno, where even greater riches awaited. Together, a group of four men (Nick Abelman, Bill Graham, Jim McKay, George Wingfield) took over Reno's casinos and held sway over the town for the next three decades. Together they administered policy, collected juice, ran politicians, and owned the red-light district and most of the town's casinos. When that wasn't enough they took over the banks and laundered money for crooks like "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Alvin Karpis, and Ma Barker's boys, and offered safety to "Baby Face" Nelson. It was a good gig. The Reno Four dictated policy all over Northern Nevada, taking special care of Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos up until the late 1950's. Their influence made Reno before Bill Harrah or "Pappy" Smith ever arrived, needing an introduction and permission to build their own casinos, Harold's Club and Harrah's. This is an expansion, an unabridged version of "Mob City - Reno" with much to tell about Nevada's gold mining towns.
| Author | : Albert Woods Moe |
| Publisher | : Al Moe |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9780971501904 |
59 black and white photos.
| Author | : Lee Grieveson |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780813535579 |
Mob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the "nature" of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
| Author | : Al W. Moe |
| Publisher | : Al Moe |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2012-08-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 147918571X |
This is my first venture into writing fiction. “Stealing from Bandits” is really a novella, written mostly in first-person, and much longer than a short story at 232 pages. And, like most novellas, there are fewer conflicts than found in a full novel. Much of the story deals with the inner goings on of a casino surveillance department, watching the players, catching cheats, and protecting the casino's main inventory: cash.As things spin out of control for surveillance observer Kevin Webb, he needs to figure out which one of his friends can help him stay alive after being just a little too good at his job. The action takes you behind the scenes of a major casino and lets you take-in what the cameras see and only the bosses are supposed to know about. Webb tries to run on instinct, but eventually he simply doesn't know who to trust.
| Author | : Terry Shaffer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 1912-06-01 |
| Genre | : Gambling |
| ISBN | : 9780615644431 |
A detailed listing of illegal gambling clubs in Toledo, Ohio and the people that operated. Also included are listings of gambling chips and dice used in the clubs.
| Author | : Ed Falco |
| Publisher | : Unbridled Books |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2014-08-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1609531124 |
Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, and Lucky Luciano. Tagged “Mad Dog Coll” after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the city’s newspapers. Loretto and Vince are bound to each other by years spent in an orphanage and on the streets, but in the summer of 1931, with Loretto in love with newly-divorced Gina Baronti, and Vince in thrall to the beautiful Lottie Kriesberger, their world of tough guys in tough times is hurtling toward disaster, and Loretto finds himself faced with impossible choices.
| Author | : Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
| Publisher | : Modern Library |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2011-10-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307807401 |
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.
| Author | : Michael Newton |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2009-06-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0786453621 |
Morris "Moe" Dalitz was America's most secretive and most successful mobster. As a major architect of the United States' national crime syndicate, Dalitz was active in various fields of organized crime from 1918 until his death, all while spinning a web of myth and mock-respectability around himself so dense that decades after his demise, most mistake the legend for reality. From Prohibition-era bootlegging to the Reagan years, no other individual was present at so many pivotal events in gangland history. It's impossible to fully understand the modern Mob without knowing about Dalitz, his career, and the cunning publicity campaign that transformed his image from thug to that of a revered philanthropist. This exhaustive biography tells the story of Dalitz's life and the syndicate that he and like-minded individuals built from scratch.
