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Las Vegas is planning a $50 million mob museum featuring the exploits of multifarious gangsters who launched the gambling industry in Sin City, and, many say, still run the place. Mayor Oscar Goodman, a long-time Mafia lawyer who for years has spent vacation time in Coronado, says it's a "great project" that can be started in 30 days, and it fits the dimensions of spending the new Obama administration is looking for. There is already stiff resistance in Congress. If Vegas gets its mob museum money, will it be long before the Chargers argue that they should get a stadium built with prime-pumping federal money? After all, the National Football League has long been backed by organized crime money, and is very closely tied to the gambling industry. (Other pro sports owners are mob-tied, too, but the stench is greater in the NFL.) I doubt that this argument will be trotted out, however.
Las Vegas is planning a $50 million mob museum featuring the exploits of multifarious gangsters who launched the gambling industry in Sin City, and, many say, still run the place. Mayor Oscar Goodman, a long-time Mafia lawyer who for years has spent vacation time in Coronado, says it's a "great project" that can be started in 30 days, and it fits the dimensions of spending the new Obama administration is looking for. There is already stiff resistance in Congress. If Vegas gets its mob museum money, will it be long before the Chargers argue that they should get a stadium built with prime-pumping federal money? After all, the National Football League has long been backed by organized crime money, and is very closely tied to the gambling industry. (Other pro sports owners are mob-tied, too, but the stench is greater in the NFL.) I doubt that this argument will be trotted out, however.