Our guest today is David Clary. David is a news editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, and has written a new book entitled “Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America.”
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Show Notes
[00:44] The book’s aim and whether the goals were met
[02:51] Government revenue and financing through lottery
[04:24] Louisiana lottery company and the corruption
[05:58] Less known history about the mob and Las Vegas
[10:17] David’s prediction on the future of Las Vegas
[12:21] Atlantic City v.s. Las Vegas
[16:10] The future of sports betting
[24:57] The future of fantasy sports
[29:07] Where the online gaming is going
[33:31] John “Old smoke” Morrissey
[36:56] What happened to horse racing?
[41:45] The NFL owners and their gambling connections
[48:40] Other interesting gambling facts
[50:19] Possibilities of the sequel
Gansters to Governers: The New Bosses of Gambling in America by David Clary: http://amzn.to/2zaJKDr
John “Old Smoke” Morrissey” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Morrissey
David Clary
Twitter: @dpclary
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I was flabbergasted when the guest said he hadn’t known about Howard Hughes’s role in modern Vegas and then proceeded to recount what everybody who knows anything about Vegas already knew about Hughes. Not sure this guy is much of an authority. So much else of what he said is common knowledge