{"id":168041,"date":"2021-03-21T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=168041"},"modified":"2021-06-23T02:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T09:14:33","slug":"las-vegas-tv-reporters-stories-about-frank-lefty-rosenthal-featured-on-media-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-tv-reporters-stories-about-frank-lefty-rosenthal-featured-on-media-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Reporter\u2019s Stories About ‘Lefty’ Rosenthal\u00a0Featured on Media Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

A website featuring mysteries and true crime\u00a0now includes reporter\u00a0George Knapp\u2019s\u00a0original Las Vegas television news stories on casino operator<\/a> and Mob associate Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal.<\/p>\n

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Veteran Las Vegas reporter George Knapp discusses the Mystery Wire<\/em> website during a broadcast. The website includes Knapp’s reporting on the Mob, UFOs, and more. (Image: KLAS-TV<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Knapp, a veteran investigative reporter at KLAS-TV<\/i>, oversees the Mystery Wire<\/i> website for Nexstar Media Group. Nexstar owns the Las Vegas CBS affiliate and 197 other stations around the country. Knapp also hosts the national radio show Coast to Coast AM on some weekends.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Knapp\u2019s reporting on Rosenthal popped up on the Mystery Wire<\/i> site earlier in March. It includes interviews with Rosenthal and footage from The Frank Rosenthal Show<\/i>, which he hosted from the Stardust Casino. His guests included Frank Sinatra and other celebrities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Knapp\u2019s stories include footage showing Rosenthal\u2019s wife, Geri, a former Tropicana Casino showgirl, and Tony \u201cThe Ant\u201d Spilotro. Spilotro was the Chicago Outfit\u2019s representative in Las Vegas. He and his brother, Michael, were killed in a 1986 Mob beating. They were buried in an Indiana cornfield.<\/p>\n

The Rosenthals\u2019 volatile marriage, and Geri\u2019s romantic relationship with Tony Spilotro, are at the center of New York-based author Nicholas Pileggi\u2019s<\/a> nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas<\/i>. Pileggi and director Martin Scorsese cowrote the 1995 Mafia movie Casino<\/i>, based on the book.<\/p>\n

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In the movie, Robert De Niro plays a Rosenthal-inspired character, with Sharon Stone as his wife. Joe Pesci portrays a character based on Spilotro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rosenthal oversaw the Stardust and three other Las Vegas casinos for Midwestern crime families. He survived a car bombing in 1982 outside a Las Vegas Tony Roma\u2019s restaurant and later moved to South Florida. He died of a heart attack in Florida in 2008 at age 79.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A month after the car bombing, Geri Rosenthal died in Southern California at age 46 of an apparent overdose.<\/p>\n

The Mystery Wire<\/i> site also includes video of the 2007 Stardust implosion. That location on the Strip now is occupied by the under-construction Resorts World Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaming Commission Spat<\/h2>\n

In his original reporting, Knapp notes that Rosenthal did not speculate about who might have blown up his car, other than to say it was not the Boy Scouts of America. No one has ever been held criminally responsible for the bombing.<\/p>\n

A sit-down interview that an unnamed reporter conducted in Florida with Rosenthal also is on the Mystery Wire<\/i> site. In that interview, Rosenthal says organized crime existed in Las Vegas when he was there. He adds that he knew who those approximately 20 people were.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were comprised of the Gaming Control Board, the Gaming Commission, all appointed officials, maybe one or two county commissioners, maybe two local judges, and possibly one Supreme Court justice,\u201d Rosenthal says.<\/p>\n

He says those people \u201ccontrolled everything that went on within that state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what I consider to be the real organized crime element,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rosenthal\u2019s battles with gaming regulators included a public confrontation with former US Sen. Harry Reid (D), who was Gaming Commission chairman at the time. That incident was dramatized in the movie.<\/p>\n

Former Mayor To Honor Movie\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Rosenthal\u2019s attorney, Oscar Goodman, a former Las Vegas mayor, is hosting a dinner on April 7<\/a> at Oscar\u2019s Steakhouse in downtown Las Vegas in honor of the movie Casino<\/i>. The restaurant at the Plaza Hotel Casino is named after Goodman.<\/p>\n

Goodman will discuss his experiences with the movie, including a dinner at his home that he and his wife, Carolyn, hosted for the stars. Carolyn Goodman is the current Las Vegas mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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