- Allen Glick
Allen Glick (
April 11 ,1942 – ) was the front man for the syndicate-controlled Stardust Casino andFremont Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was also the alleged mafia associate of mobsterFrank Rosenthal .Early life
Glick was educated at
Ohio State University and, according to some, was a classmate ofJoseph Balistrieri , the lawyer son ofMilwaukee mob bossFrank Balistrieri .Fact|date=February 2007 Glick later attended law school atCase Western Reserve University and worked as an Army intelligence officer during theVietnam War . After an honorable discharge, Glick ventured into real estate. He specialized in condominiums, earning a monthly salary of $800. Within five years, Allen heldTeamsters Pension Fund loans and owned theArgent Corporation . Afterwards he worked forSaratoga Development , whose owner sold him 45% of the company's shares for $2,500. The shares at the time were estimated to be worth between $4 and $5 million.Fact|date=February 2007 Glick would leave Saratoga Development in 1974.The
FBI considered Glick a front man for members of the Chicago mob,Anthony Spilotro andFrank "Lefty" Rosenthal . At the very least, Glick was caught in a power struggle between the Kansas City andChicago mob families.Gangland slaying of Edward "Marty" Buccieri
Edward Buccieri, a distant cousin of mobster Fiore "Fifi" Buccieri , was a
pit boss at the Las VegasCaesars Palace . Buccieri, an ex-convict and formerbookmaker , first met Allen Glick when Glick attempted to purchase theKing's Castle inLake Tahoe in 1972. Buccieri introduced Glick toAl Baron andFrank Ranney , who later became instrumental in Glick's purchase of the Stardust in 1974. In 1975, Buccieri began harassing Glick for a finder's fee of $30,000 to $50,000. After a meeting at the Hacienda, Buccieri grabbed Glick by the throat and threatened him. A week after the incident, Buccieri was about to start his car in the Caesars Palace employee parking lot when two men armed with .25-caliber automatics with silencers shot him in the head five times. TheMilwaukee mob bossFrank Balistieri ordered the murder. Balistieri was convinced that Buccieri was a rat, and he went to theChicago bosses to approve the hit.Anthony Spilotro insisted to Balistieri that Buccieri was not an informant, but he carried out the assignment anyway.Partnership with Tamara Rand
On
November 9 ,1975 wealthy real estate owner and investorTamara Rand was killed in the kitchen of her Mission Hills,San Diego home.Rand had attempted to sue Glick over a promised $2 million loan. The day before her murder, Rand had had an argument with Glick. She had flown into Las Vegas in May to file her suit, and when she got back to San Diego she told her niece she had an argument with Glick. She also said that she had been threatened, but exactly who had threatened her was not made clear. Her niece said Rand shrugged off the threat, being more interested in preparing for the lawsuit. A couple of months before her murder, Rand escalated her civil actions against Glick by filing criminal fraud charges against him. The court gave Rand and her attorneys access to corporate documents pertaining to the Teamsters Pension Fund.
Glick complained to Chicago mob boss Joe Aiuppa about Rand. Rand was later shot dead in her estate by
Anthony Spilotro , with the help ofFrank Bompensiero .Downfall
Glick lost his empire when the
Nevada Gaming Control Board 's audit division discovered that $7,200 in quarters had been placed in the Stardust's auxiliary vault without being recorded in Argent's books. Another unrecorded $3,500 was also discovered in the vault. Searches in the Fremont revealed similar unrecorded caches. After a lengthy investigation, the agents estimated that the skimming of the slot machines at both casinos amounted to nearly $12 million. Glick's casino licenses were revoked and he was originally ordered to pay a $12 million fine, later reduced to $500,000.In 1979 Galitz sold his interests in Las Vegas to
Allen D. Sachs (1925-2002), a long time associate ofMoe Dalitz . After his spell in Las Vegas, Glick returned toCalifornia , where he now runs a successful real estate business.In the movie "Casino" (1995), Glick was portrayed as "Philip Greene" by
Kevin Pollak .References
*Morton, E. James. "Eastend Gangland and Gangland International Omnibus".
External links
* [http://www.sdreader.com/php/cityshow.php?id=C032201 City Lights: With Friends Like These] by Matt Potter
* [http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/lasveg.htm JewishTribalReview.com - Las Vegas and Jewish organized crime] ,
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