White-collar crime and the story, what was behind the movie "Casino"

White-collar crime and the story, what was behind the movie "Casino"

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The "Hole in the wall gang" Las Vegas

At the beginning of this text, I will tell that organized crime is a serious thing, and there is no humor if you will get some mobsters angry. Those people are living for collecting "protection money" from the street gangs, and if that thing would be uncovered, that might cause problems for the writer.

So if you write something, what those mafia-guys don't like, that would mean that your car might be broken, and the baseball bat will hit to your head. And that means that be quiet and let everything happen, and maybe they would take you to the gang, and in this case, you can follow the road of Spilotro-brothers, whose fate was beaten to death by baseball bats, and that case is really good example, what would happen, if you will join the organized crime and screw up their business.

There have been many movies and documents on the television about this case, what is the source or base for the Frank Scorsese movie "Casino", where one of the main characters acts by the Robert De Niro. But when we are thinking about this kind of cases, where the people who were working in an illegal casino business, where the money is washed for the mafia, we might see one very interesting detail in this kind of thing. I will tell that thing lately.

Use the casino as the bank

In that case, the persons, who worked for the organized crime had two casinos one was legal and one was illegal. That illegal casino was covered as the kiosk, what was used that the money can transfer to the legal casino legally, and the bookkeepers could mark those incomings in the legal bookkeeping. Here I must say, that the role of the Spilotro brothers was to work as the frontmen for the real actors of that dirty business, what was covered as the casino business. In fact, there were two "banks" where the organized crime washed the money, and in the "dark side of the force" the money from the drug dealers and other "street criminals" is changed to the form, what looks better.

And in that interface, the mafia would always have problems, because in this layer the white-collar crime is in touch with "dirty crime", which is the risk for the mafia. The thing is that the would face the street gangs in this layer, and that is the risk of those men, or what would you think about the lawyers, who are sitting in every photo at the next of some rap-artist looking guys. Of course, they can tell people, that they are fans of rap music, but there is one problem. That would not be seen very good in the eyes of the judges, especially if those rap-artists are showing the MAC-10 sub-machine guns in those photographs.

The kiosk with millions of dollars of revenue

That thing was made by using the sells of that kiosk as the cover for bringing money to the legal casino. The thing, what made FBI interest about this case, was that the gift shop, what was at the lobby of the hotel had revenue of about six million dollars per month, and this made those policemen suspicious that there was something, what the owners of that kiosk wanted to tell about their business. There is one thing, what made the Cold War so profitable for the mafia, and that is that those members of the organized crime could go in the money changing kiosk in the Eastern block and then change money to the eastern value and after that, they changed it back to western value.

The case is very well documented, and that gives really good sources, which are found on the Internet, and here I must say, that some of those texts, what is written by this case, are things that are not meant read for the people, who have ADHD. Here I'm trying to tell that they are a little bit mixed, and there was one detail in that case, why I'm writing about it.

And that thing is that there is seen one bad thing, what is common in the members of the organized crime and every other criminal organization. That thing is when some of those persons trying to live a normal life, that attempt must be destroyed immediately.

Here I'm talking about Michael Spilotro's attempt to make a career as the "B-movie actor", and I think that maybe the mafia or his brother torpedoed his career. The reason might be that those persons had relationships for one of the Americas oldest criminal organizations, and that organization couldn't let that man make a legal career.

Burglaries uncovered the secret

So, what is the "Interesting thing", what I mentioned earlier? That thing is that the persons, who were working for organized crime as the money washers made burglaries. That kind of things was caused that the police and FBI were interested in the case of Spilotro, and when they were arrested because of those burglaries, those men just ran in the door of the biggest mafia-boss of Chicago. That caused the FBI to made a search to the office and home of that mafia boss, and the Spilotro brothers were killed by using the baseball bats.

When we are thinking about money laundering, in this case, the Casino was used as the bank, where the organized crime changed the money, what was collected from the drug dealers and other criminals to the "legal money". That means those paper money, where are marks of the cocaine use or blood are changed to the clean money, and that means that those money can take to the legal bank. But in this case, the "Spilotro brothers" and their friends were just the front men for the mafia, who used their kiosk for bringing money to the legal casino. And the thing is, that the interesting thing was, that the men who worked for money laundering made the burglaries opened one of the biggest cases against organized crime in American history.