Michael Taylor is a historian and coauthor, with Michael S. Kochin of An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States.
In the 1970s and thru the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit was the dominant organized crime family in Las Vegas, with business interests in several casinos. During those years the Outfit and its colleagues in Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Cleveland were using ...[SEE MORE]