The Vegas Casino That Was a Machine Built to Steal | The Stardust Skim

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An Old Fashioned, some red lipstick and a black dress…sigh, there’s just something undeniable about a good ol’ classic. The beloved Vegas showgirl may be an endangered species these days (insert tear), but “VEGAS! THE SHOW” preserved those feather-clad beauties and the likes of an era when everything was flashier and dripping with sophistication. What’s that you ask? Can a show filled with gorgeous and talented women a la Rat Pack era really exist in the here and now? Oh yes my friend, it sure can and all we have to say is raise that curtain and let the good times roll. With a little song, a lot of dance and that certain sultry allure that only old timey Vegas could pull off, this is a trip down memory lane and, well, it’s pretty legit. The costumes are fun, funky, sexy and so real. Ok, well maybe not the candy-themed costumes but hell, their Sammy Davis Jr. sure had us pining for an autograph. For a city that was built on pure, raw talent and obviously dolla dolla bills, this show celebrates iconic moments from the city's rich entertainment history through the decades that made the Vegas we know and love today. And we’ll tip our top hats to that.
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For nearly a decade, the Las Vegas mob ran the Stardust Resort and Casino like a machine built to steal — and on paper, everything balanced. This is the true story behind Martin Scorsese's "Casino": the count-room skim, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, Tony Spilotro, Alan Glick's Argent front, the Teamsters Pension Fund money, and the FBI's Operation Strawman that finally brought the whole thing down.

Every night, cash was weighed instead of counted. A scale set to read light turned real money into a smaller number, and the difference left the building in paper bags, suitcases, and the lining of a coat — carried to Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. The books were perfect. The taxes were paid. Millions vanished anyway. Then a wiretap in Kansas City caught a conversation about a casino a thousand miles away, and a mob bookkeeper named "Tuffy" DeLuna had written all of it down.

This is how the skim worked, how it was hidden, and how three separate records — the tapes, the notes, and the couriers — finally told one story.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 The man who weighed the money
0:35 How the Stardust became the biggest sign on the Strip
0:50 Alan Glick, Argent & the $60M Teamster loan
2:05 Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal really ran the floor
2:38 Inside the count room
3:13 How the weigh-scale skim actually worked
3:51 Carl Thomas: the right way and the wrong way to steal
4:18 Cash to four cities: the couriers
5:01 The FBI, Nick Civella & the wiretaps
5:39 Operation Strawman
5:54 Tuffy DeLuna's ledger of a crime
7:00 Rosenthal gets too visible
7:23 Tony Spilotro & the burglary crew
7:52 The car bomb, October 4, 1982
8:24 The RICO case comes together
9:02 The bosses of four cities convicted
9:39 The fallout for the Teamsters
10:07 Spilotro in the cornfield
10:35 The implosion of the Stardust (2007)

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DISCLAIMER: This is a documentary retelling of publicly reported historical events. Images may include dramatizations/AI-generated visuals for illustrative purposes.
Category
Vegas Untold
Tags
stardust casino, stardust las vegas, las vegas mob
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