Prominent gaming attorney Patty Becker likes to remind younger audiences today that Las Vegas’ history with mobsters led to murders before they were run out of town.
Becker, the first woman to serve on the Nevada Gaming Control Board, who now lives in San Diego, told gaming attorneys at a State Bar of Nevada gaming-law conference that she unknowingly sat next to a former casino executive when she was having dinner a decade ago at a restaurant.
It was Allen Glick, a central figure in an infamous organized-crime scandal that rocked the Las Vegas casino industry in the 1970s and was later dramatized in the 1995 movie Casino. Through his Argent Corporation, Glick owned four casinos – the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina – second in number only to the Nevada hotels owned by billionaire Howard Hughes at the time…