Hi, guys. Welcome to another episode, Allegely Brunette. I will be your host, Emily Simpson and...

Shane. Okay, we are recording this podcast from Vegas and we are here at BravoCon. So we thought it would be

appropriate to do an episode on the mob and the new NBA scandal that's come out because if you know anything about Vegas,

you have to know that Vegas was built by Lugsy.

The mob.

I don't know.

So organized crime played a foundational role in shaping early Las Vegas.

Beginning in the 40s, mobsters from cities like Chicago, New York, Cleveland, and Kansas City invested heavily in building casinos along the strip.

Figures such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and later Midwest crime syndicates to help finance and operate major resorts, using them both as profit centers and as fronts for

laundering money. So Jeff Shoemaker, who is the vice president of exhibits and programs at the

Mob Museum in Las Vegas, says organized crime in New York, Chicago, Miami, they saw that Vegas

was an opportunity to pretend to go legit. There had been illegal

gambling clubs all over the country for years. The mob would pay off the local sheriff and judges,

but still they'd raid the place every so often and shut it down to give the appearance of law

and order. Rather than that every couple months, the mob decided to emigrate to Las Vegas to get involved

with the casino industry. You know, we've been to the mall. I think I've been to the mall museum twice, actually. Well, once with me, I don't know another time you went. Must have been with some other man. Probably. Yes. But I've been, I think I've been more than one times. You love that place.

I do.

I know.

I do.

I,

first of all,

I love,

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