Follow here: www.ofINTEREST.net facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Via National Geographic In the 1950s, Mafia-built Las Vegas was a cash cow for organized crime, but when Howard Hughes arrived, things changed. Although gambling was around in Las Vegas way before the mob, and had even been legal since the 1930s, it took the greedy imagination and chutzpah of the mafia to turn the podunk little town destined to be known as Sin city into the gambling mecca that it is today. Read more at Suite101: The History of the Mafia in Las Vegas, Sin City | Suite101 More: suite101.com Vegas and the Mafia La Cosa Nostra had always been involved in gambling, from numbers games to sports betting. They operated luxurious, illegal casinos through the United States, bribing local police officers to look the other way. When Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, mobsters were not the first ones to see the opportunity. The famous Strip was already developing, and a few fancy hotel/casinos were already in place by the time the Mafia arrived. More: people.howstuffworks.com 17 USC § 107 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 USC § 106 and 17 USC § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In ...