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This clip is from 1979 Harry Reid vs Frank Rosenthal This clip of Rosenthal’s meltdown at a Gaming Commission meeting, then chaired by future senator Reid – taken from Ned Day and Robert Stoldal’s series “Mob on the Run” for KLAS TV – became the basis for a fictionalized scene in Casino (1996). Both Reid and Rosenthal survived subsequent car-bombing attempts. Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont, Marina, and Hacienda casinos in the 70s, was formally banned from Nevada casinos in ‘87.

Mayor says he won’t be able to meet with President Obama Don't expect Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman to wade too deeply into partisan politics Friday -- even though he's speaking at the Republican State Convention in Henderson. "I don't intend to make this into a political speech. That was never my intent," Goodman told reporters today at his weekly press conference. "I don't take my own personal political agenda to the public." He also won't be meeting with President Obama during his two-day visit to the city. The nonpartisan mayor — who was thinking about running for governor himself...

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has a very busy schedule. After all, the city has a budget deficit, and even after that, Goodman has to bolster tourism to keep the local economy running, and Vegas has had some setbacks on that front. Goodman doesn’t have time for frivolities … like accepting a meeting with the President of the United States on his next visit: Mayor Oscar Goodman has refused an invitation to meet with President Obama when he arrives in town on Thursday. Mayor Goodman called President Obama a slow learner after he told Americans not to blow money on...

LAS VEGAS -- Mayor Oscar Goodman has a bone to pick with President Barack Obama after he suggested people shouldn't spend their college savings on a trip to Las Vegas. On Tuesday, during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Obama was trying to make a point that the federal government needs to watch their spending the same way American families do. But he used Las Vegas as an example, for the second time. “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t go blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying...

Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman lambasted Barack Obama yesterday after Obama made a reference to his city in a speech demanding better fiscal discipline earlier in the day. A year ago, Obama raised Goodman’s ire by demanding an end to expensive corporate meetings in Las Vegas, but smoothed things over with an apology and a clarification. This time, Goodman says an apology won’t cut it and that Obama has proven himself to be “a real slow learner” (via Gateway Pundit):

Last year it was the “Bridge to Nowhere” that outraged America. This year it’s the “Mob Museum”. The Mayor of Las Vegas has a plan to save his city. Unfortunately, the rest of the country does not share his vision. In fact, Oscar Goodman’s proposal to use up to $55 million of federal stimulus funds to build a museum celebrating the Mafia’s influence over Sin City — part of it will presumably be dedicated to the Mayor himself who, in a previous career as a defence lawyer, represented many of the city’s most notorious gangsters — has become something of...

The Council on American Islamic Relations will hold a ribbon-cutting today in Las Vegas to mark the official opening of its first chapter in Nevada. Mayor Oscar Goodman is scheduled to assist in the ribbon-cutting at the new office, located at 501 S. Sixth St., and to deliver brief remarks during the 2:30 p.m. ceremony.

Oscar Goodman loves his martinis.... The Las Vegas mayor is famous for showing up at events with a showgirl on each arm, and for proposing outrageous punishments -- the stocks, removal of limbs -- for petty offenses. But his martini habit is perhaps his best-known feature. The city's flamboyant mayor picked up a $100,000 endorsement deal with Bombay Sapphire. He got in trouble last year for telling a fourth-grade class that if he could take anything to a desert island, he would take a bottle of gin. Drinking, he told them, is one of his hobbies. And so it recently...

Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) failed today to address rumors that Nevada Senator Harry Reid will step down next month as Senate Minority Leader. Reid has been stung by revelations that his political action committee (PAC) accepted more than $60,000 in contributions from Indian tribes linked to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Appearing on CNN's Late Edition, Biden avoided discussing either the Reid situation or any upcoming changes in Senate Democratic leadership. Reid is no stranger to scandal, having been the subject of a 1979 Justice Department probe into allegations that Reid — then Nevada Gaming Commission chairman — had received bribes...

Harry’s Henchman Rory ReidHarry Reid’s Mob Money, Part 2By Fedora Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob Money revisited a 1979 Justice Department probe into allegations that Midwestern Mafia members skimming funds from the Tropicana casino had channeled bribes to Nevada Gaming Commission chairman Harry Reid through mob lawyer Oscar Goodman and Tropicana attorney Jay H. Brown. Although the probe officially cleared Reid, he subsequently received numerous contributions from gambling industry figures, including Brown and known Mafia-associates as well as legitimate individuals and corporations. Reid’s son Rory has followed in his footsteps by associating with his father’s patrons in the...

Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob MoneyBy Fedora “I’ve gotta Cleanface in my pocket,” boasted Kansas City Mafia representative Joe Agosto, unaware the FBI was monitoring his conversation (reproduced loosely in the movie Casino). FBI surveillance of Mafia gambling operations in Las Vegas in the late 1970s picked up Agosto making references to an individual he codenamed “Mr. Cleanface” and “Mr. Gillette”. Agosto’s conversations mentioned Mr. Cleanface was close to Nevada Governor-Elect Robert List. After turning state’s evidence, Agosto claimed that Mr. Cleanface was Harry Reid, then chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission and sporting a cleanshaven, boyish look....

RENO, Nev. -- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television. Goodman, appearing Wednesday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" television show, said, "In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes. "You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it. "I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor added. "That may be the...

Showing the sensitivity and compassion that earn him praise throughout "his" city, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman took time out from his busy schedule Thursday to insult a room full of people who try to help the homeless. Goodman called the "good people" in the room "enablers" who, by feeding the homeless sandwiches and giving them water, "enable them to remain homeless." His words hit homeless advocates present like a stinging two-cheek slap challenging them to a duel. The setting: A meeting of the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition's committee on homelessness, a workshop in Henderson at which elected officials...

A fun poll. Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman wants a Mob History Museum here. As an Attorney he defended a lot of so called mobsters, in fact he was in the Movie "Casino", as Attorney for Robert Deniro!