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| Mob museum muscles out Elvis, Sinatra, magic |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 10/06/2008 |
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LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas hopes its newest museum will be a hit. The city is opening The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime. The City Council unveiled the name Tuesday, along with logos resembling court documents with material blacked out. The first redaction obscures the word "mob." "I don't think anybody is able to do tongue-in-cheek the way Las Vegas can do it," said Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former criminal defense lawyer who represented organized crime figures before representing residents in City Hall. The museum is expected to open in spring 2010 in downtown Las Vegas at the site of the former federal courthouse where Goodman tried his first case. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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