Those are basically rackets they could have had in any town. Kind of hard to believe that NY agreed to let the midwest families have Vegas when AC allowed casinos. I guess at the time they thought they were going to get their hands into AC like they did Vegas in the '30s.
"...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
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