Most big businesses today are publicly traded, which means their books, their employees and their salaries are public information. Every bean is accounted for. Any big business that's still private could be bought out any day. Not exactly the best environment for racketeering. The Cortez in Vegas is still privately owned, and there's rumors about that place. Cal Neva Club in Reno, too. But these aren't very big businesses.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea