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Unbelievable is the other word on every first-timer's lips. They do not necessarily mean Al Capone's 16-cylinder bulletproof Cadillac (with gunports and authenticating documents) on display at the Imperial Palace. Nor are they referring to eclectic concoctions like the Stardust casino, which features show girls "direct from Paris," orangutans redolent of Borneo, a Moby Dick restaurant and a Polynesian statue out by the sidewalk. No, it is enough that front doors all along the strip are wide open in January, with just a little breeze (and a lot of money) coming across the threshold. Also that...
...former Las Vegas Casino Owner Allen Glick explained, an offer he simply couldn't refuse. In 1978, when the Mafia was leaning on Glick to sell his interest in Vegas' sprawling Stardust casino, Kansas City Mobster Carl ("Tuffy") DeLuna was dispatched to deliver him a chilling message. "He said I might think of my life as expendable, but I might not think of my children's lives as expendable," Glick testified. "Then he read off the names and ages of my sons and said if he did not hear the announcement to sell immediately, my sons would be killed...
Glick, a wealthy San Diego real estate investor, was a key witness against four organized-crime leaders from Chicago and one from Cleveland in a four-month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...
...soon as he acquired control, Glick testified, he was told to place Frank Rosenthal, a Stardust employee, in charge of the casinos. The order came from Frank Balistrieri, 67, a Milwaukee crime boss who had helped Glick get the Teamsters loan. (Balistrieri pleaded guilty after the trial began. So did DeLuna, 58.) Glick complied, but when he later wanted to fire Rosenthal, he was given a blunt warning. Glick testified that Rosenthal said to him, "I was told not to tolerate any nonsense from you because you are not my boss. If you don't do what you're told...
...huge loans to conduct their shadowy business. Suffering from emphysema and clutching an oxygen bottle, Williams, 70, was testifying in the trial of nine alleged Mafia leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City. They are charged with a conspiracy to skim some $2 million in profits from the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas. Prosecutors contend they used a $62.5 million loan from the Teamsters' fund in 1974 to buy the casinos and operate them under the name of the Argent Corp...