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Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas returns for the exciting third season

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Join host John Katsilometes as he sits down with Oscar Goodman. The former attorney recalls some of his most notorious cases representing some of the biggest names from the mob.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mobbed up, the fight for Las Vegas is back.

0:07.0

For the Las Vegas Review Journal, in partnership with the Mob Museum, I'm John Katz Limitas.

0:12.6

I've spent more than two decades covering Las Vegas.

0:17.0

In season three of Mobbed up, I go one-on-one with Oscar Goodman, one of the last living

0:22.3

legends of the Mob era, defense attorney for Jimmy Shagra, Tony Spallotro, Lefty Rosenthal,

0:29.9

and Meyer Lansky.

0:31.9

I'm representing every wise guy in the country.

0:33.9

All of the pro-governments think of something untwored or unseemly about me representing

0:39.7

them.

0:40.7

To me, it was a badge of honor.

0:42.7

It's a true story about money.

0:45.0

My clients could afford anybody in the world.

0:47.5

They retained me to make sure that the government was going to do their job right.

0:53.5

They would win or lose a million dollars in a night in the 1970s.

0:58.2

They had expensive suits and the limousine and the money rolled, you know, crime.

1:03.2

He was murdered within six months.

1:05.6

It was the beginning of the end.

1:07.2

We were public enemy number one.

1:09.4

It was just unimaginable that a federal judge would be assassinated in his driveway for

1:15.4

conducting this trial.

1:17.4

The man had the coldest eyes I'd ever seen.

1:20.4

And the fight for control of Las Vegas.

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