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    Mob Museum In Las Vegas Lets Visitors Play Police Officer

    Apr 23, 2018

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A museum in Las Vegas lets visitors pretend to be police officers to show the complexity of the decisions that law enforcement officers face when they encounter situations that may require use of deadly force.

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    Culture: Made Museum

    Jan 26, 2018

    Make that remade, as the Mob Museum debuts a strikingly interactive — and maybe a bit controversial? — renovation.

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    Reporters Help Shed Light On Mob As Las Vegas Evolved In 1970s

    Apr 03, 2017

    The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas chronicles the history of organized crime, and that story would be less complete were it not for the efforts of intrepid news reporters.

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    Mob Museum In Las Vegas Gains Accreditation From National Group

    Mar 10, 2017

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Mob Museum in Las Vegas has turned a 1-in-35 chance into a sure thing, by gaining accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums.

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    Meyer Lansky Family Looking For Compensation From Cuba

    Dec 29, 2015

    Ah, Cuba in the 1950s: Drugs, prostitution, gambling. It was a playground for the rich and well-connected – almost all of whom were from the United States.

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    Twenty Years Later, 'Casino' Movie Compared With What Really Went Down

    Nov 06, 2015

    Before roller coasters and ferris wheels, the Las Vegas strip wasn't known for being a family friendly place. 

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    Criminal minds: Casino managed to be exciting and edgy, but also educational.
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    You lookin' at us?

    Oct 22, 2015

    Twenty years ago, Martin Scorsese’s meticulous Casino explained Las Vegas to the world

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    The Mob Museum's new exhibit highlights the "rampant corruption that plagues" the world soccer governing body, FIFA. It opened Tuesday.
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    Mob Museum Unveils FIFA Corruption Exhibit

    Sep 01, 2015
    A new exhibit about FIFA's recent corruption is on display at the Las Vegas museum of contemporary organized crime.
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    FIFA Scandal Becomes A Mob Museum Exhibit In Las Vegas

    Sep 01, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The same museum that chronicles Sin City's mob beginnings led by underworld criminals like Bugsy Siegel is hoping to score with an exhibit looking at FIFA's ongoing corruption investigation.

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    Mob Museum In Las Vegas To Open FIFA Exhibit

    Jul 29, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal.

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    Sinatra's Old Lake Tahoe Resort Set To Reopen

    Jan 29, 2015
    The famed Cal Neva, a North Lake Tahoe resort once owned by Frank Sinatra and frequented by a number of shady businessmen over the years, will reopen...
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    Three Questions With Gangsterland Author Tod Goldberg

    Jan 26, 2015
    Tomorrow, Sept. 20, novelist Tod Goldberg will sign copies of Gangsterland, his new Vegas-set novel, in the gift store of the Mob Museum. He'll be...
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    Writer Explores 'Cigar City Mafia'

    Aug 07, 2014
    We say the mob as if there were only ever one mob. In fact, there were numerous families that operated in much the same way within their own...
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    What's Inside the Mob Museum

    Feb 15, 2012
    The Mob Museum opens on Valentine's Day and will feature artifacts from world famous gangsters and law enforcement agents that brought them down. One of the biggest attractions at the museum is a section of wall from the Chicago warehouse where the Valentine's Day Massacre took place in 1929.
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    The Mob Museum Set to Open in February

    Jan 27, 2012
    On Valentines Day one of the key pieces of downtown redevelopment will open. The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, also known as the Mob Museum will debut.
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