Las Vegas Museum To Depict Mob's Role in Casino Gambling Empire

Everybody loves to watch the movies. You know, the ones about how the mob was the most influential group in making Las Vegas and its casinos famous.

Now those stories that were told in fine Hollywood fashion are ready to make their way to a museum. Las Vegas will be the home to the mob museum. It will feature a historic look at the influence that mobsters had on Sin City.

The FBI is the latest group to give an endorsement to the museum. The group feel they have much to offer in telling the story of how Las Vegas was built.

"This is a way to connect to the public and show the results of our work," said Dan McCarron, a spokesman for the FBI in Washington.

Mayor Oscar Goodman who once made a cameo in the movie "Casino", is also a supporter of the museum. "Let's be brutally honest, warts and all. This is more than legend. It's fact," he said.

The FBI has supported the museum because they feel that while telling the stories of some heralded mobsters, an inclusion must be made of the agents that were involved in going after these figures.

The museum is slated to open in 2010.

December 10, 2007
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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