{"id":176955,"date":"2021-06-19T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mobbed-up-podcast-explores-celebrity-feud-to-control-las-vegas-casino\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T15:35:07","slug":"mobbed-up-podcast-explores-celebrity-feud-to-control-las-vegas-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/mobbed-up-podcast-explores-celebrity-feud-to-control-las-vegas-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mobbed Up\u2019 Podcast Explores Celebrity Feud to Control Las Vegas Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"

An eight-part podcast on the Mob\u2019s influence in Las Vegas begins Monday. The series examines the battle between celebrities Wayne Newton and Johnny Carson to control a Las Vegas Strip casino. It also explores labor leader Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s life and 1975 disappearance.<\/p>\n

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Colorful lights illuminate an entrance to Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip. This once was the site of the Aladdin Casino. (Image: Larry Henry<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Titled Mobbed Up: The Fight For Las Vegas,<\/em>\u00a0the podcast is a collaboration between the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/i> and The Mob Museum<\/a>. Two episodes air Monday. A new episode will be available weekly until the season ends Aug. 2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the second season for the \u201cMobbed Up\u201d podcast. The first season aired last year. It focused on the Mob era dramatized in the 1995 Las Vegas Mafia movie Casino<\/i><\/a>, starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci.<\/p>\n

For this season\u2019s series, Jeff German, a Review-Journal<\/i> investigative reporter, serves as host.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

German is a longtime Nevada reporter who previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun<\/em>. He is the author of the 2001 book Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss. <\/i>German\u2019s book explores the 1998 death of Ted Binion, whose family once owned the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

‘A Tough Time’<\/h2>\n

The upcoming season of \u201cMobbed Up\u201d spotlights longtime Las Vegas singer Wayne Newton and his feud with former NBC talk show host Johnny Carson. Known as \u201cMr. Las Vegas,\u201d Newton is 79. Carson died in 2005 at age 79.<\/p>\n

The dispute arose over an attempt by each to purchase the Aladdin Casino in 1980. The resort stood on the east side of the Strip, where the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino now is located. Caesars Entertainment owns the Planet Hollywood property.<\/p>\n

During the 1970s, the Aladdin was linked to Detroit mobsters. It was one of several hotel-casinos in Las Vegas with Mafia connections.<\/p>\n

In 1980, NBC<\/i> alleged Newton had ties to the Gambino crime family. Newton denied the allegations. Nevada gaming regulators did not uncover evidence of connections, according to the Review-Journal<\/i>.<\/p>\n

During this time, Newton and former Riviera Casino executive Ed Torres purchased the Aladdin for $85 million. Torres later bought Newton out, the Las Vegas Sun<\/i> reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Newton won a $19 million defamation judgment in a lawsuit against NBC<\/i>, according to the Sun<\/i>. On appeal, a court determined the NBC<\/i> report was inaccurate, but done without malice, a key standard in such lawsuits. Newton received no cash settlement.<\/p>\n

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It was not about money. It was about clearing my name,” Newton said. “And I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a recent Review-Journal <\/i>story about the podcast, German said this period was \u201ca tough time for Newton.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had to deal with death threats, scrutiny from gaming regulators, and national news reports raising questions about contacts he made with Mob figures,\u201d German said.<\/p>\n

Hoffa\u2019s Las Vegas Influence<\/h2>\n

Hoffa, a former Teamsters Union president, disappeared in July 1975 from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant where he was supposed to have met with Mafia leaders to resolve differences. No one has been held criminally responsible in the case.<\/p>\n

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Decades ago, Hoffa helped secure union pension funds to construct Caesars Palace and other Las Vegas casinos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The whereabouts of Hoffa\u2019s remains has been a longstanding mystery. Recently, investigative journalist and author Dan E. Moldea pinpointed a location in New Jersey<\/a> where the remains might have been buried in a 55-gallon drum. Moldea, author of the 1978 book The Hoffa Wars,<\/i> is considered the nation\u2019s top expert on Hoffa.<\/p>\n

The site that Moldea pointed out is at a landfill once controlled by the Genovese crime family. Moldea and Fox News<\/i> anchor Eric Shawn have asked federal authorities to conduct a dig at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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