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Rosenthal filed for a divorced on September 11, 1980, three days after Geri drove away from the bank. Three days later, he got a call from the Psychiatric Ward of Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. He was told that his wife....

He goes over to the $100 blackjack table and starts playing five blacks [$500] a hand. He's playing all alone and he's losing. I see him go tor $10,000 out of his own kick in about 20 minutes.
He starts to abuse the dealer. When he gets a card he...

Yeah, the big guy.
Well, I don't want you hitting him on the street
Who?
The Jew. I'll set him up, so when he pulls up, you scoop him. You'll know where the hole's at. We'd just have to move the plywood, drop him in the hole and cover it up.

They cheered as Sinatra gave his opinion on a subject of more than routine interest, blasting the NCAA for placing the University of Las Vegas basketball team on a two-year probation.

No more masquerades behind different job descriptions like public relations director or food and beverage director. He was given forty-eight hours to clear out his desk. And he did. On January 29, 1976, Lefty moved out of his newly refurbished....

Lefty was working day and night at the casino, and Geri began to suspect he was seeing other women. She told her sister she had found receipts for jewelry and presents in his pockets when she took his suits to the dry cleaners.

But Tony did it all off-the-cuff and kept it all in his head. The only things he ever wrote down were telephone numbers, and he used to write them down in the tiniest little handwriting that made them unreadable without a magnifying glass, and....

In September of nineteen seventy-two we picked him up on a nineteen sixty-three Chicago homicide warrant. He was being held without bail—normal in a homicide case—awaiting extradition back to Chicago. I guess Tony didn't want to spend the....

I had some friends at the Stardust and I got a job as a floor man. That's one step above a dealer. I got sixty dollars a day. I pulled a eight- or nine-hour shift. I was in charge of watching four blackjack tables.

She must have pulled in sixty thousand dollars for the guy, judging by the racks of hundred-dollar chips he had in front of him. She looked up, and she saw me, she gave me a dirty look. I knew she didn't like that I'd come to see her.