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Surviving a series of name and ownership changes, the hotel is known today as The Flamingo Las Vegas.

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Despite the inherent reservations, I felt no danger: Frank Cullotta is half-way through his 70s at this point, his days of pointing pistols are well behind him.

Now, Cullotta runs several tours in Las Vegas that take visitors through the old haunts the mob used to frequent.

He also has thoughts on the film that loosely documented his era in Sin City, Casino , along with, of course, his own brand. Real life is boring.

I was the technical consultant on the movie. Nick Pileggi did a tape on me. More than just a technical advisor on the film, Cullotta is also portrayed in the movie by actor Frank Vincent.

The mafia began their domination of the desert town long before the film begins. What was Las Vegas really like when major mafia families held their interests there?

How exactly did they come to control one of the most lucrative cities in America? What did Casino get right? The hotel business followed. The Flamingo can be considered an inception point for the Vegas mafia.

The Lansky and Siegel property — which Siegel helped build and manage — was the first real luxury hotel in Las Vegas. The Desert Inn is being started; the builder of it, Wilber Clark, runs out of money.

In comes [mobster] Moe Dalitz and the Mayfield Road Gang from Cleveland, and you do have — at this point — a proliferation of mob ownership and investment.

Throw in that in November of , Estes Kefauver brought his Senate organized crime committee hearing here, and he talked about how terrible legal gambling was in Nevada because of the mob.

The result of his hearing was that they were shutting down illegal operations around the country. Where were they going to go to run casinos? Well, Nevada was the logical place and Las Vegas was the most logical place in Nevada.

The mob was able to infiltrate the budding Las Vegas complex by acquiring land at a cheap rate, specifically land that was on the road to Los Angeles.

It was not as if there was a group out here training them. We did not have a hotel college then. These were the guys with experience. That certainly helped them — they knew how to run these operations.

These were business people. Another thing helping the propagation of the mob in Las Vegas was the ineptitude of the cities and counties in properly investigating the backgrounds of the casino and resort ownerships.

When Nevada legalized gambling, the state regulated that the county would police their own turf, and Las Vegas was not properly equipped — at that time — to manage an operation of that magnitude.

By the time they got it, the mob was here. There was also a huge, undeniable reality: The mafia was making money for the state, hand over brass-knuckled fist.

Regulation would change the flow of those funds moving some of it underground through bribes, etc. I mentioned Lansky and the Cleveland group.