Mob Ledger

Files on the American underworld

Territory

The ground

Where the families in this archive actually kept their headquarters, and where the things in it happened. Four cities, one tab each. Points, not shaded territory — the record supports addresses far better than it supports borders.

Downtown The west side The Strip Paradise N 1 2 3 4
A schematic, not a survey. The Strip runs south from downtown as drawn; nothing here is to scale.

  1. Point1

    The Stardust

    Las Vegas Boulevard · The Chicago Outfit

    Frank Rosenthal ran this casino without a licence, and its count room supplied the largest share of the money four families took out of Nevada.

  2. Point2

    The Fremont

    Downtown · The Chicago Outfit

    The second of the casinos named in the Kansas City indictment, run under the same hidden ownership as the Stardust.

  3. Point3

    The Gold Rush

    West of the Strip · The Chicago Outfit

    The jewellery shop Anthony Spilotro worked from, and the office of the burglary crew the papers called the Hole in the Wall Gang.

  4. Point4

    East Sahara Avenue

    Paradise · The Chicago Outfit

    Rosenthal turned the key in his Cadillac outside a restaurant here on 4 October 1982 and survived the explosion.