The Cleveland Syndicate: The Life, Crimes, and Legacy of Morris Dalitz, Samuel Haas, Morris Kleinman, Tommy McGinty, Louis Rothkopf, Samuel Tucker, and others.

Las Vegas has been considered the Mob’s most outstanding achievement, while law enforcement at the city, state, and federal levels did very little to stop their expansion and growth, which brought them to the once-rural town. In fact, politicians supported the Cleveland group's growth and prosperity because it benefited the city and state, as their population grew.The Cleveland Syndicate tells the true story of a group of investors from Cleveland who risked the wealth they had earned during Prohibition, expanded their empire into gambling opportunities in Ohio and Kentucky over the years, and then invested in the rural town of Las Vegas in the late 1940s to help build what Las Vegas became famous for. Fun, excitement, entertainment, wealth, poverty, prostitution, and of course, the Mob’s massive and almost unstoppable skimming operation that lasted for over three decades. The Cleveland Syndicate transitioned from a criminal, influential crime group into a legitimate, disciplined corporation second to none.The Cleveland Syndicate worked patiently and strategically alongside other Mob-controlled cities, but was not controlled by them, as they had already established a partnership with the Cleveland Mob. Under Moe Dalitz's vision and leadership, they collaborated with the boys from Chicago and New York, and, of course, with Meyer Lansky, trying their hand in Cuba before their governments collapsed.Author Michael Newton related in his book “Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz.”“America’s most secretive and most successful gangster never spent a night in jail, or even went to trial, despite a life of crime that spanned three-quarters of a century.” He was, Newton and others state, “someone who preferred brain over brawn and knew how to keep his hands clean but was not above enlisting mob muscle to do the dirty work.” Read more