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EPISODE · Sep 7, 2026 · 19 MIN

Las Vegas, Skimming, and the Mafia’s Desert Gamble

from A History of the American Mafia Podcast: Organized Crime, Mob Families, Bosses, Gangsters, Prohibition, Criminal Trials, and the Rise of La Cosa Nostra · host Podily & Josh Linsk

Explore how Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingo, Meyer Lansky’s financing, and the Teamsters’ pension funds turned Las Vegas into a mob money‑machine—tracing the families, alliances, and RICO prosecutions that brought the city under organized crime’s shadow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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