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No organized crime group extracted more money from Las Vegas than the Chicago Outfit. For years, hundreds of millions of dollars were quietly skimmed from Las Vegas casinos and funneled back to Chicago. This wasn't chaos - it was a system. Vegas and the Chicago Outfit examines how the Outfit gained influence in Las Vegas casinos, how skimming operations actually worked, and why it took so long for regulators to stop it. Inside this book: How the Chicago Outfit established control in Las Vegas The mechanics of casino skimming How money was moved, hidden, and distributed Why early gaming regulation failed How investigations finally exposed the operation This book focuses on financial reality, not mythology. It explains how organized crime treated Las Vegas as a revenue stream - and how Nevada eventually shut it down. But there's a bigger story here. Chicago was the worldwide leader in gangster wars and bootlegging in the 1920s, as Al Capone set the stage for his tremendous success and popularity. When he was safely away in prison, the Chicago Outfit expanded into more rackets involving gambling and loan sharking, making bosses like Paul ""The Waiter"" Ricca and Tony ""Joe Batters"" Accardo rich beyond even Capone's wildest dreams. For forty years, Chicago led the way in untaxed and hidden money by skimming at often crooked games of no chance. When Las Vegas jumped in the early '40s, the Outfit's interests in Las Vegas captured the Downtown area and went uptown to the Strip and the new Flamingo casino. To keep everything straight, Las Vegas imported known killers as local enforcers from the Outfit, like Marshall Caifano and Tony ""The Ant"" Spilotro. Vegas and the Chicago Outfit is part of a larger series on Nevada gaming and organized crime history. If you want to understand how Las Vegas casinos were exploited - and how the system changed - this book tells that story.

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