SOURCE: News 3 Las Vegas
5/13/2020
tags: organized crime, Mafia, Las Vegas, John Gotti
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5/13/2020
The Last Remnants of the 'Mob Era' in Las Vegas
Breaking Newstags: organized crime, Mafia, Las Vegas, John Gotti
What is generally considered the "Mob Era" of Las Vegas ended in the mid-1980s with the death or imprisonment of many key players -- and a corporate culture emerging on the Strip and downtown.
However, it turns out that perhaps the biggest "La Cosa Nostra" name still out there was wetting his beak at a smaller property on Paradise at Flamingo.
In the years after the Continental first opened in 1975, perennial lounge performer Cook E. Jarr became a mainstay at this otherwise unremarkable off-Strip casino.
The Continental made it into the news a few years after it was generally thought that skimming in Las Vegas had been defeated, with the successful prosecution of midwestern crime bosses Frank Balestrieri, Joey "Doves" Aiuppa and others.
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