Nevada’s gaming history is colorful and Jeffrey Silver, a retired attorney and former member of the Gaming Control Board in the 1970s, was part of that legacy when he led the effort to deny a license to mob-connected Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal.
Silver, who was inducted into the American Gaming Association Hall of Fame in 2020, is a former chairman of the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. He recounted his most interesting interactions to a group of gaming lawyers gathered for its annual conference sponsored by the State Bar of Nevada.
Nevada at one time had a basic regulatory framework and members of the Gaming Control Board were testing every aspect of the laws in place, because organized crime had a lot of history of corruption and coercion, Silver said…