10 Las Vegas Restaurants With Mob Stories (STILL OPEN Today)

Ten places in Arizona the mob used to control, from a Phoenix steakhouse legend to the hotel parking lot where one car bomb changed American journalism. People who knew one Phoenix newspaperman said he often stuck a strip of Scotch tape across the seam of his car’s hood, so he’d know if anyone had been in the engine. For about half a century, Arizona was where the mob came to hide, to spend, and sometimes to settle scores. Bosses from New York, Chicago and Detroit traded the snow for sunshine and new names, and the desert gave them room to work. This countdown builds from the rumors toward the record. A steakhouse whose mob story has never had a paper trail. A Gambino underboss who turned government witness, moved to the Phoenix suburbs and went into the swimming pool business. A Detroit mobster who tried to sell a stolen Renaissance painting out of a bugged office on his Tucson ranch. A Las Vegas casino boss murdered in his house across from Encanto Park. A Hollywood shakedown witness living as William Nelson until the morning his pickup truck exploded. A summer in Tucson when the bombs kept going off, and the bombers later claimed an FBI agent had put them up to it. A New York crime boss the FBI finally beat by going through his garbage. A dog track tied to a company convicted over secret mob ownership in Las Vegas. And a bookkeeper shot in a stairwell the day before he could testify. All of it ends at one Phoenix hotel, where the mob went after the man asking the questions, and nearly forty reporters came to Arizona to finish his work. Real names, real dates, from the public record. Subscribe:    / @nevadauncovered   Watch Next:    • The Most Famous Person From Every Nevada C...   Which of these places has your family driven past? Tell us below. Historical documentary. Names, dates and cases are drawn from court records, the public record and published reporting. Some footage is illustrative. #Arizona #ArizonaHistory #mafiastory PHOTO CREDITS (CC BY 2.0/2.5/3.0/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Flickr) — photos by: • Alberto-g-rovi, Larry D. Moore, Missvain, upyernoz, kennejima, Krista, Los Angeles Daily News, matze_ott, Mic, Reinhard Link, Renjishino, 1950sUnlimited, Ajay Suresh, Alexis Jazz, Allen McGregor, Bob n Renee, Bobak Ha'Eri, Busition, Chicago Crime Scenes, Cindy Shebley, Dale Cruse, darwin cruz, David Stanley, Deidre Woollard, Derek Jensen (Tysto), Erik Ratcliffe, Scott Davidson, Harrison Keely, Ivan Radic, Jakub Hałun, Jiaqian AirplaneFan, John Morgan, Julie Mac, lasjuly, Lasvegaslover, Loco Steve, matchity, Mathieu BROSSAIS, Matt Belton, Matthew Field, Maurizio Pesce, Mickey Løgitmark, Montclair Film, Myotus, Paul K, Pierre André Leclercq, rayb777, Regina Rioux, Robert Taylor, Shixart1985, Steve Shook, Steven Damron, Terence Ong, Tim (Timothy) Pearce, touhotus, "Sign, reserved (AM 1994.112-1)". Public-domain archive photos and film: Wikimedia Commons, public-domain archives, destockd / FedFlix, NASA. Original score composed for this video. No AI-generated images or video.