Allen Smiley
Club Savoy (Las Vegas, NV)
Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Cheating / Fleecing
Flamingo (Las Vegas, NV)
Gambling Laws / Regulations
Games / Races: Craps
It Really Happened
Jack Durant
Las Vegas--Nevada
Louis "Russian Louie" Strauss
Norman Khoury
Dirty Dealings in Las Vegas
1949-1953 Only months after Cleveland bar owner, Norman Khoury’s 1949 acquisition of Club Savoy in Las Vegas, Nevada, California mobster/gambler Allen Smiley, an associate of the then-deceased Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, unexpectedly approached him. Smiley introduced…