The rise of Castro and the fall of the Havana Mob
When Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, Che Guevara and 79 other Cuban rebels piled into the 43-foot yacht Granma on…
Month: December 2018
The Kansas City connection
In the 1995 movie Casino, the Mob’s control of skimming at Las Vegas casinos is exposed when authorities learn about…
Hoodlums at the Statler
In the early morning hours of December 5, 1928, patrol officer Frank Osowski was walking his beat in downtown Cleveland…
Gus Greenbaum, Las Vegas casino operator for the Mob, and his wife were murdered 60 years ago this week
After nightfall on December 2, 1958, Bess Greenbaum, wife of Las Vegas casino boss Gus Greenbaum, drove from their Phoenix…