meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

The Argent Empire | S1E5

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"You don’t buy Mr. Spilotro drinks. He buys you drinks."In 1971, Tony Spilotro moves from Chicago to Las Vegas to look after the mob's interests, alongside a longtime oddsmaker named Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. A few years later, a mob-connected holding company, the Argent Corporation, begins buying up casinos using loans from the Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund. For more information on this episode, visit www.reviewjournal.com/mobbedup. To learn about The Mob Museum, visit www.themobmuseum.org.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

A heads up before we get started. Mobbed up contains explicit content such as adult

0:05.8

language and depictions of violence including murder. Please be advised that this podcast

0:10.8

might not be suitable for all audiences. In the

0:25.0

audio you're hearing right now, I'm walking up to the front gate of a home in the Las Vegas Country Club,

0:31.0

a gated community a little ways east of the Las Vegas Strip.

0:34.6

I'm here to meet the home's current owner, an attorney named Jim Morgan who has

0:39.3

agreed to show me around the place. The home has been described to the review journal as a quote

0:44.4

very one-of-a-kind property and something you don't see in Las Vegas.

0:48.1

Built like a fortress, a little Fort Knox. As Jim shows me the home's front gate, I can start to see why.

0:55.3

Supposedly these doors are bulletproof. You can see how heavy they are.

1:06.8

Just inside the bulletproof gate before you get to the front door of the home, which is also bulletproof. There's a small electrical room housing a maze of wires and electrical

1:11.7

boxes.

1:13.4

This is, every time I have any electrical stuff done at the house,

1:19.6

they're all, they're all fascinated

1:22.2

by the electrical in this house.

1:25.1

I'm not an electrician by any stretch of the imagination,

1:28.1

but even I can tell this isn't typical for a home of this size.

1:32.8

This unit has enough power to run a small commercial building.

1:39.2

But he needed that because he had all of the cameras, TVs up in one of the rooms I'll show you.

1:46.1

Jim tells me that one of the upstairs bedrooms used to be filled with video monitors hooked up to a home

1:51.5

security system and surveillance systems at a handful of casinos.

1:56.0

And I'll show you there's tons of wiring all over this house.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.