September 19, 2018
Wednesday
I just finished my seventh interview with Morgan White Jr.
on his clear-channel broadcast from Boston that reaches the eastern two-thirds
of the country. In our hour-and-a-half discussion, we covered the leaders, and
their close associates, of the three biggest Prohibition gangs, and the elegant
illegal casinos they operated following its Repeal. These men then built 80% of
the Las Vegas Strip resorts from the Flamingo in 1946 to Caesars Palace in
1966, all of which was detailed in my 30
Illegal Years To The Strip.
We also talked about these men’s incredible influence over
politics in their cities from the 1920s through the 1940s. At the same time,
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover prohibited his agents from investigating organized
crime. In fact, during the 48 years of his tenure, he annually lied to the
President of the United States, the Congress, and the American people by
falsely claiming that there was no such thing as organized crime or the Mafia,
as documented in my All Against The Law.
In addition, we discussed the early years of legalized
casinos in Nevada and the illegal casinos that preceded them. This was from the
manuscript I am currently working on that covers the early history of Nevada
casinos - the illegal casinos of the Roaring ‘20s, the legalized casinos of the
30’s Great Depression, the development of the Las Vegas Strip during WWII, and
the huge growth of casinos in Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe during the major
post-War economic boom of the late 1940s. I am about half way through this
manuscript, and I hope to have it completed by the end of next year 2019.
