The Genie in the Lamp S2E1

It’s July 2, 1976. Music legend Neil Diamond is opening the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, one of the finest stages ever constructed in Las Vegas. The theater is $10 million worth of class. It was designed to be part of the city’s future, but it was built on the city’s past - part of a $50 million hotel expansion financed by the Teamsters Central States Pension fund, a mob-controlled financial institution that had loaned millions of dollars to casinos. The Aladdin loan helped the Detroit Mafia get a big piece of the resort. The fight for Las Vegas was on.

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The Genie in the Lamp S2E1 is an episode from Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas by Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum.

This episode is 27:54 long.

This episode was published on Jun 21, 2021.

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