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...U.F.C. was bought and revamped in 2001 by second-generation Vegas tycoons Lorenzo, 35, and Frank Fertitta III, 42, brothers and co-owners of Station Casinos, who in their spare time practice Brazilian jujitsu, the technique of choice among top U.F.C. fighters. In fact, a series of buttons on the U.F.C. video game will allow you to fight as Lorenzo, who apparently is much stronger than he looks. Their parents gave them a bunch of local casinos, which, along with revenue made from consulting with Native Americans on casino operations, they have used to build the slick Green Valley Ranch...
...locals buy apartments so they can be close to what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water...
...locals buy so they can be near what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says casino owner Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water." "We're going through the reverse of what so many cities have suffered through, this flight out of the city," says Jim Murren, president of MGM Mirage and a longtime Vegas resident. Two weeks...
Source: Documents filed with the Massachusetts Office of Public Charities IESlion to Margeotes, Fertitta and Weiss, aconsulting firm in New York; $1.5 million toTowers Perrin, an accounting firm in Boston; and$1.5 million to lan Freed Consulting, also basedin New York
Last week, just before LIFE published "Wide-Open Galveston Mocks Texas Laws," Gambling Boss Fertitta was tried for simple assault in the Galveston justice court. After Fertitta pleaded "not guilty" and then refused to take the stand, Justice J. L. McKenna found Fertitta guilty, gave him the maximum punishment: a $25 fine. The conviction was much more important than the small fine. In Galveston, where gang leaders like Fertitta have long tried to pose as legitimate businessmen, the criminal conviction reported on Page One of Texas newspapers helped to expose these "legitimate businessmen" for the thugs they...