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For decades, and from when Vegas became a city of gambling and up until a few decades ago (I think the 1980s), Las Vegas was run by the mafia and they controlled the casinos. Then the FBI managed to run the mob out, and they were replaced with corporations. This thread was basically inspired by the movie "Casino", and a lot of the times I've heard people say Vegas was better in those days because the Casinos had a personal interest in you and making you feel comfortable, taking care of you, treating their entertainers nicely, and that it felt like you were being taken care of and cared for and that since the corporations came in, it's become very cold and impersonal and corporate and they have no interest in treating you fairly, and it lost its natural soul and became a shallow gambling Disneyland. I didn't visit Vegas in the mob era, so I have no clue, and this thread isn't about that.

Is it at all possible that Las Vegas could have continued to be run by organized crime, and what would be the repercussions and results of that?
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