Giacamo or anyone else,

I'm sure this has been answered before, but why weren't the west coast families cut it on the Vegas skim? Wasn't Vegas basically their territory? Whenever I read about the skim, all of the midwest families are discussed but that's it. I know when AC opened for gambling, the bosses agreed that the midwest would have Vegas while the east coast families would have AC, but wouldn't the west coast families be brought into this? Even if there were just a few of them left, by commission rules, shouldn't they have been cut in?

"...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