Hole in the Wall | S1E7

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

“This was the end of organized crime in Las Vegas.” In 1978, mob-connected thief Frank Cullotta moves from Chicago to Las Vegas to work alongside his childhood friend, reputed Las Vegas mob enforcer Tony Spilotro. When he arrives, Frank says his first assignment was to put together a crew of guys⁠—a crew that would soon earn a reputation as one of the most prolific burglary outfits in the country. For more on this episode, visit www.reviewjournal.com/mobbedup. To learn about The Mob Museum, visit www.themobmuseum.org.

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0:00.0	A heads up before we get started. Mobbed up contains explicit content such as adult
0:05.7	language and depictions of violence including murder. Please be advised that this
0:10.2	podcast might not be suitable for all audiences. that this is Clay T White and I am with Tim Harney and his office here in Las Vegas.
0:28.0	It is June 12, 2010.
0:31.0	So how are you this morning?
0:32.0	I'm fine Clay T. Tim Harney speaking.
0:35.0	The interviewer hearing was conducted by Clay T White,
0:39.0	the director of the Oral History Research Center
0:41.0	in the UNLV Library Special Collections and Archives.
0:45.1	And as you just heard, she's sitting down with the Las Vegas resident named Tim Harney, who in the 1970s
0:51.1	was living in the John S Park neighborhood of the city.
0:54.0	It's a historic neighborhood that sits just north of the Las Vegas Strip.
0:58.0	Tell me economically what John S Park was like in the 70s when you move there.
1:05.0	It was really pretty well off.
1:08.0	Tim rattles off the names of a few of his old neighbors.
1:11.0	The Binyon family, the Max, the Boids, the Stupax, all high-profile names associated
1:17.8	with the gaming industry.
1:19.8	Names that are probably familiar to anyone listening who's been around Las Vegas for a while.
1:24.0	All those people were living there.
1:28.0	Put simply, there was a lot of money in the John S Park neighborhood in the 1970s.
1:33.0	If you were in the business of stealing, that translated to plenty of targets.
1:38.0	There was a very famous gang in town.
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