I remember the Stations Casino/FutureSouth blowup in Lemay and the Michael Lazaroff scandal connected with it. And that was pretty recent--2001, I think. If you look at the names of the investors, it's tough to believe that there's nothing going on here anymore--but it all seems pretty legitimate these days.

Concerning the Rallos, I believe it was Jesse Stoneking's testimony that said that the Rallo construction company worked hand in glove with the Chicago Outfit. Can't find that testimony online, but I bet it's available somewhere.

I find it interesting how much interplay there was back and forth between the Sicilians and the Syrians in St. Louis. I remember Jimmy Michaels' daughter married a Sansone--also, Mike Trupiano married the daughter of Virgil Daly, who was another Syrian, and I heard that a lot of the Bommaritos go to St. Raymond's, because they married Syrians.

Another name I see missing from this list is Miceli. Unless I totally misremember things, wasn't Phil Miceli supposed to have been a made guy? He's another one who married a Syrian. I'd heard Tony Sansone was a made guy, but I rarely if ever see his name on any of these lists.

Great article you posted. I remember Morris Shenker very well--he was a good friend of my grandparents and went to their temple. Big guy, and always sharp as a tack and dressed to the nines. As I recall, Shenker was front owner of the Sands and the Aladdin, and I think at one point, he had a piece of the Dunes as well, but I'm not sure about that. I can never remember which Vegas casinos St. Louis had with KC and which they had with Detroit.