It's time for the top Orange County casino party company, A.K.A. Aces Casino Entertainment,
to wrap up this interesting look into the official Las Vegas Casino's
"Black Book," one of the most discussed, but rarely delved into book of
it's kind anywhere. Part Three of the series simply deals with the
answer to the question, "hey, just who IS in this infamous Black Book of
Las Vegas?" Ask and you shall receive, my friends, courtesy of the top
Orange County casino night party company in SoCal - Aces Casino.
There have been 50 individuals entered on the List of Excluded
Persons, otherwise known as Nevada's Black Book. The following is the
year they were listed, their current age, and last known city of
residence along with the reason they were listed:
* 1960 --
Marshall Caifano, 101, Chicago: A high-ranking Chicago mobster suspected
of committing numerous killings who became the mob's Las Vegas enforcer.
*
1960 -- Louis Tom Dragna, 92, Covina, Calif.: One-time acting boss of
the Los Angeles mob who unsuccessfully challenged the legality of the
Black Book.
* 1960 -- Carl James Civella, deceased: Mob boss in
Kansas City, Mo., who was convicted of skimming and maintaining hidden
interests in the Tropicana.
* 1960 -- Nicholas Civella, deceased: Brother of Carl; another Kansas City mob boss convicted in the Tropicana case.
*
1960 -- Sam Giancana, deceased: Chicago mob boss, murdered gangland
style, who was linked to the 1960 presidential election of John F.
Kennedy and to a 1963 CIA plot to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro.
* 1960 -- Murray Llewellyn Humphreys, deceased: An alleged
lieutenant of Chicago mobster Al Capone.Humphreys worked for Giancana.
* 1960 -- Joseph Sica, deceased: Los Angeles mobster involved in bookmaking, narcotics.
* 1960 -- Michael Coppola -- A New York City mob enforcer who was involved in drug trafficking and later moved to Miami, Fla.
*
1960 -- John Louis Battaglia, deceased: A Los Angeles mob associate who
was arrested with Dragna on a vagrancy charge at the Desert Inn
hotel-casino.
* 1960 -- Robert L. Garcia, deceased: A mob associate who lived in Southern California.
* 1960 -- Motel Grzebienacy, deceased: A mob associate who resided in Kansas City, Mo.
*
1965 -- Ruby Kolod, deceased: A Desert Inn hotel-casino executive who
was alleged to have stolen money from the resort to finance an oil deal.
He was removed from the Black Book later that year.
* 1965 --
Felix Alderisio, whereabouts unknown: A reputed Giancana lieutenant tied
to Kolod's oil deal. He was removed from the book later that year and
eventually became a Chicago mob boss.
* 1965 -- William Alderman,
deceased: A one-time stockholder in the El Cortez, Flamingo and Riviera
hotel-casinos who was also tied to Kolod's oil deal. He, too, was
removed from the book.
* 1975 -- Wilford Kalaauala Pulawa, 77,
Kauai, Hawaii: Alleged head of organized crime in Hawaii at a time when
gaming regulators were concerned about junket representatives associated
with him.
* 1975 -- Alvin George Kaohu, 75, Honolulu, Hawaii: Pulawa's right-hand man.
*
1978 -- Anthony Joseph Spilotro, deceased: The Chicago mob's enforcer
in Las Vegas whose badly beaten body was found in an Indiana cornfield
in 1986.
* 1986 -- John Joseph Vaccaro Jr., 73, Las Vegas:
Convicted ringleader of a slot cheating operation who has also been
convicted of illegal bookmaking.
* 1986 -- Sandra Kay Vaccaro, 73,
Las Vegas: Vaccaro's wife and the only woman in the Black Book, she
participated in her husband's slot cheating ring.
* 1986 -- Carl
Wesley Thomas, deceased: One-time owner of Bingo Palace and Slots-A-Fun
and executive at the Riviera, Stardust and Tropicana resorts who was
convicted of skimming and holding a hidden interest in the Tropicana.
* 1987 -- Chris George Petti, 86, San Diego: A top organized crime figure in San Diego who was convicted of illegal bookmaking.
*
1988 -- Michael Anthony Rizzitello, 86, Reseda, Calif.: A reputed
California mob associate convicted of attempting to extort casino
leaders Benny Binion and Moe Dalitz.
* 1988 -- William Gene Land, 77, Las Vegas: Convicted of marking cards for a blackjack game.
*
1988 -- James Tamer, 101, Mt. Clemens, Mich.: A one-time Aladdin
hotel-casino executive who was convicted of hiding his ownership
interest in the resort after having been denied a gaming license.
*
1988 -- Frank Joseph Masterana, 84, Las Vegas: The bookmaker has a
history of gambling-related convictions and allegedly was associated
with mob figures.
* 1988 -- Frank Larry Rosenthal, 84, Boca Raton,
Fla.: One-time entertainment director of the Stardust and Argent Corp.
executive who was allegedly associated with mob figures and pleaded no
contest to a charge of conspiracy to bribe a college basketball player.
*
1988 -- Gaspare Anedetto Speciale, deceased: A bookmaker convicted of
interstate transmission of sports bets, loan-sharking, racketeering.
*
1989 -- Harold Travis Lyons, 77, Las Vegas: A convicted slot cheat
whose rap sheet also includes convictions for burglary, grand theft and
drug-related crimes.
* 1990 -- Joseph Vincent Cusumano, 77, Las
Vegas: An alleged loan shark and Chicago mob associate who was convicted
of helping to skim money from a Culinary Union life insurance plan.
*
1990 -- Douglas Joseph Barr, 54, Sparks: The youngest person listed in
the Black Book is a convicted slot cheat who was imprisoned for making a
cheating device causing electronic machines to pay out.
* 1991 --
Timothy John Childs, 65, Reno: A convicted slot cheat who made
mechanical machines pay out by pulling the handle down part way and then
jerking it.
* 1991 -- Francis Citro, 67, Las Vegas: Alleged to
have ties to the Los Angeles mob, the former card dealer was convicted
for extortion and racketeering and for using counterfeit credit cards.
*
1992 -- Richard Mark Perry, 69, Las Vegas: Convicted of fixing horse
races and basketball games, he allegedly served as a bookmaker for the
New York mob and was linked with the UNLV Rebels basketball team when he
was photographed in a hot tub with three players.
* 1993 --
Anthony Michael St. Laurent, 72, Johnston, Rhode Island: An alleged
"made member" of the New England mob convicted of running an illegal
gaming operation, racketeering and cocaine possession.
* 1993 --
Albert Anthony Corbo, deceased: Owner of a Las Vegas sports information
service who was convicted of bookmaking and conducting illegal gambling
businesses in Atlantic City, N.J., Philadelphia and Miami Beach, Fla.
* 1993 -- Edward Lawrence DeLeo, deceased: A Boston mob associate with a bookmaking conviction who was also tied to Spilotro.
*
1994 -- Dominic Anthony Spinale, 77, Las Vegas: Another reputed New
England mob associate and bookmaker, convicted with DeLeo of relaying
betting information from Las Vegas to Boston.
* 1994 -- Brent Eli
Morris, 56, Bridgeton, N.J.: He has multiple convictions for making bets
after dice were thrown in craps and cards were dealt in baccarat.
*
1994 -- Douglas William Barr Sr., 77, Las Vegas: Father of Douglas
Joseph Barr, he also is a convicted gambling cheat who used coins with
strings attached to fool machines.
* 1997 -- William Dominick
Cammisano Jr., 64, Harrisonville, Mo.: A reputed Kansas City mob
underboss who was convicted of witness tampering during a grand jury
investigation of a gangland-style killing.
* 1997 -- Ronald Dale
Harris, 57, Las Vegas: A former state Gaming Control Board agent who was
convicted of rigging slot machines in Washoe County so that jackpots
were paid out if coins were bet in a specific sequence.
* 1997 --
Jerry Dale Criner, 64, Claremore, Okla.: A convicted slot cheat whose
rap sheet also includes convictions for burglary, racketeering, theft
and currency violations.
* 1997 -- Anthony Thomas Civella, 83,
Kansas City, Mo.: The son of Carl Civella and nephew of Nicholas Civella
is an alleged Kansas City mobster who was convicted separately of
illegal bookmaking and of holding hidden interests and skimming from the
Tropicana.
* 1997 -- Louis John Olejack, 62, Las Vegas: A card cheat who was convicted of bending blackjack cards at Harrah's Las Vegas.
*
1997 -- Stephen Anthony Cino, 76, Henderson: A reputed "made member" of
the Los Angeles mob who was convicted in an extortion scheme to take
over loan-sharking and insurance fraud operations run locally by the
late Herbie Blitzstein.
* 1997 -- John Joseph Conti, 78, Las
Vegas: He was convicted of attempting to file false credit applications
at the Maxim hotel-casino.
* 1997 -- Charles Joseph Panarella, 88,
Las Vegas: Convicted of attempted money laundering through the Maxim
hotel-casino and a reputed member of the New York mob.
* 1998 --
Michael DiBari, 79, Las Vegas: A former Continental hotel-casino
supervisor who was convicted of money laundering from the hotel and who
was reputedly tied to imprisoned New York mobster John Gotti.
*
1999 -- Peter Joseph Ribaste, 58, Kansas City, Mo.: An alleged Kansas
City mobster, he ran an illegal gambling operation there and later was
convicted of mail fraud, wire fraud and failure to disclose Las Vegas
gambling debts on loan applications in an attempt to buy a Kansas City
car dealership.
* 2008 -- William Cushing, 60, Whereabouts Unknown: Slot cheat extraordinaire.
Sources:
State Gaming Control Board, Nevada Gaming Commission and "The Black
Book and the Mob" by Ronald A. Farrell and Carole Case
Ed. Note: That's all for now, my Aces "Blogaholics." The Black Book is officially in the rear-view mirror.....We'll see you next Monday with a brand new entry into the Aces Blog.... Next up - Our Aces Casino crew's favorite YouTube vids for the month of March, courtesy of the top orange county casino party company in SoCal. You KNOW They'll Be GOOD! Have a good weekend, We'll See you then!