Las Vegas casino tycoon Allen Glick, exposed as a mob frontman, dies of 79-year-old cancer
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The former casino owner died of cancer at the age of 79, praised by his Las Vegas business leader for his clean business records before it became clear that he was actually a mob frontman.
Allen R, CEO of Argent Corporation, who owned four casinos on the Las Vegas Strip during its heyday. Glick’s family announced that they died of cancer on August 2. He was 79 years old.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glick became famous for taking ownership of hotel casinos in Stardust, Hacienda, Fremont and Mariana in the 1970s. The only big guy with a larger Las Vegas casino portfolio than Glick was the recluse billionaire Howard Hughes.
He won the “Man of the Year Award” in Las Vegas after being promoted to the top of Sin City society in a seemingly legitimate way.
However, Glick’s reputation came after it was revealed that his deputy commander, Frank’Lefty’Rosenthal, secretly scooped $ 7 million from slot machines and passed the proceeds to American criminal families. , Shattered.
Glick claimed he was unaware of the mob relationship and avoided criminal convictions in return for acting as a witness to more than 12 mobs.
The scam was adapted in the 1995 movie “Casino,” in which Kevin Pollak played casino owner Phillip Green, whose character is modeled after Glick.
Meanwhile, Robert De Niro played Sam Rothsteen, who was based on Rosenthal.
Born April 11, 1942 in Pittsburgh, Glick received a PhD in Law from Case Western Reserve School of Law and enrolled in bars in both California and Pennsylvania.
In 1967, he joined the army as a lieutenant in the military police branch, but eventually transferred to special operations, served as captain in Vietnam, and learned to speak a language to support military research and relief efforts. ..
For his achievements, he was awarded the Bronze Star, three Combat Air medals, and the Medal of Honor of Vietnam.
He was honorable discharged in 1969 and moved to San Diego, where he joined the American Housing Guild and Saratoga Land Development Company in San Diego.
From there, his 702-word obituary (which doesn’t mention Glick’s mob ties) says he pioneered development at the southern tip of the Las Vegas Strip and founded his own company.
According to the Mob Museum, in 1972, a $ 2.3 million loan from the Saratoga Land Development Company was used to acquire a major stake in Hacienda Hotel Casino and a Nevada casino license.
However, he broadened his horizons because he also wanted to buy Stardust Hotel Casino in 1974. There he met the top leader of Milwalky, a criminal family in Kansas City, and found out that he knew from college the son of Frank Ballist Reali, the boss of the Milwalky mob.
Glick then met with Ballistrieri personally and decided to buy Stardust and Fremont casinos by Glick buying control of Recrion Corporation. This later became Argent Corporation.
In exchange, Glick would agree to allow Barristolili’s sons Joseph and John Joseph the option to buy his company for only $ 25,000.
When Glick agreed to the deal, Barristolili obtained Glick’s Team Stars Pension Fund loan with the help of the mob bosses in Kansas City, Chicago and Cleveland. And at the age of 32, he received a $ 62.75 million loan.
By October 1974, Glick publicly announced that Frank’Lefty’Rosenthal would be his executive assistant.
However, Rosenthal did not actually serve Glick, but instead reported to the mob boss and performed a skimming operation.
Nevada gambling investigators later learned that it began in November.
Then, in May 1975, Glick opened Marina Casino, became a successful casino operator, and was praised by local business leaders and the media for his clean business records and heroic deeds in Vietnam.
He revolutionized sports betting in Las Vegas by adding a large and elaborate sportsbook to Stardust, where Siegfried and Roy became prominent.
In June 1978, the FBI sent agents to Las Vegas with 83 search warrants in a series of raids centered on Argent Corporation’s operations, based on wiretapping and other evidence.
And in 1979, the Nevada Gaming Control Agency quietly scooped about $ 7 million from slot machines between 1974 and 1976 on behalf of the Milwaukee, Chicago, Kansas City, and Cleveland families of Argent casino employees. I decided that it was.
As a result, Glick lost his casino license and sold his stake in Las Vegas in 1980. He later told federal agents that Nicholas Civella, the head of the Kansas City criminal family, threatened to kill his two sons if he did not sell the company.
Glick then returned to his home in San Diego for fear of his family and was finally able to find a reliable FBI agent.
He was unaware of skimming and vowed that federal prosecutors had never criminalized him in a scandal.
But in return, they demanded his cooperation as a witness before the two federal grand juries heard evidence against more than 12 top US gangsters.
According to the Mobster Museum, the government defended Glick in court as “a terrifying tool in the underworld that is secretly responsible for financing from the corrupt Team Star Pension Fund.”
Finally, in 1986, the gang was convicted and faced federal prison conditions.
Since then, Glick has lived with his family in a walled San Diego home until his death earlier this month.
He is survived by his wife Kathy. Son, Todd and Care League Rick. And grandchildren, Aaron and Adam Glick.
Las Vegas casino tycoon Allen Glick, exposed as a mob frontman, dies of 79-year-old cancer
Las Vegas casino tycoon Allen Glick, exposed as a mob frontman, dies of 79-year-old cancer
