#51: Fedora: Any connection between Reid and the late Alan Dorfman (Las Vegas casino skimmer from the mob), who ended up with two to the head or back in a car trunk in Chicago?
You’re right about the Chicago and Kansas City mob having direct ties to the Vegas Mobe. That is what later involved the casino skimming of Dorfman and his execution, among other activities.
Any investigation by Carter’s Attorney General (Ed Levi), then Griffin Bell and Asst AG Ben Civiletti (later AG), would be an effort in futility or coverup. Civiletti later tried to let two indicted Soviet spies come back into the US and avoid a trial (Martha Dodd Stern and Alfred Stern, in “The KGB against the ‘Main Enemy’: How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates Against the United States”, Herbert Romerstein and Stanislav Levchenko, Lexington Books, 1989. Levi was just a dumb Chicago schmuck.
Wonder if any of Reid’s land-deals/schemes in Nevada involved the Mustang Ranch? That would be a logical place for him to have earned the nickname “Little Harry” Reid or “Dingie Harry.”
His son escaped, barely, a major investigation into illegal donations/work re the real estate scheming of his father, as you mentioned. The whole story was never told to the public.
I personally think that Dingy, like Mohammed Ali, took too many punches to the head during his boxing days, which would explain his political-babble and incomprehensible mumblings. Or, he could just be a shrewd politician who got lucky by playing dumb. OR he could just be dumb, and lucky.
Either way, he is a blithering idiot who should be investigated as a threat to the nation’s sanity.
I’ll buy his first straight jacket.
I had dinner with Dorfman and some KC figures once.
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May 1979: Nevada Gaming Commission revokes Glick’s/Argent’s license; Las Vegas papers carry reports that group of investors headed by Tropicana attorney Jay H. Brown are planning to bid for Glick’s properties, but bid is allegedly (per affidavits filed by Kansas City organized crime strike force) withdrawn because it fails to win approval of Chicago underworld; according to affidavit second buyout plan involving Teamsters associate Allen Dorfman and Civella family is approved by Mafia but falls through; affidavit also alleges third plan is arranged by Agosto to work out compromise involving Briggs and Rosenthal; Glick eventually agrees to sell Stardust and Fremont to Doumanis (who by now own Tropicana—when did they get it?), with provision that if sale to Doumanis fall through first right of refusal to buy belongs to Allan D. Sachs (associated with Herbert Tobman), who has been licensed by Gaming Commission despite FBI informer Fratianno’s allegation that Sachs has organized crime connections