Casino: The REAL Sam 'Ace' Rothstein/Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal was a professional sports bettor who was the mob's man in Vegas and ran their casino operations alongside his friend Tony "The Ant" Spilotro. The 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino is based on his career in Las Vegas.
I didn’t know that Lefty had so many altercations with law enforcement in Chicago and Florida. he was lucky to even make it in one piece in Las Vegas.
I miss the sound of real coins falling from slot machines and $1.99 ham and eggs. And don't forget the free drinks !
Vegas casinos charge for drinks now!?
Pfft, I remember loving the $1.99 steak and eggs at the old 4 Queens back in 1996.
@@clammer23 That’s back when Vegas was a “buyers market”.
I went to Vegas when I was 10 in ‘97. My gf grandma walked around with the biggest cup I’d ever seen full of quarters and spent hours at the slots. Totally different experience today.
Equal amount of blueberries in every muffin
That pic of Lefty adjusting his tie, looked like Rodney Dangerfield.
😮"No respect "
I was thinking the same thing 😅
LoL that Mans Movies where Legendary...
hey Our Father In Heaven Is not A Respecter of Persons ah but Ah Ha!
Because he is grabbing his tie
I lived in Vegas for 17 years, and I met a few Geri McGees lol. After a while, any woman I met claiming to be “from Vegas”, I wanted nothing to do with. Not a perfect science, but better safe than sorry.
How was she? was she as bad as it seemed
I'm loving these documentaries and you do such a good job with research and your speaking! Thank you and keep the stories coming please!
A lot of this info was in Frank Cullotta's autobiography.
and the voice is ai
@@bovem1706 Sure doesn't sound like AI and should it be, though I think not, it's one of the best I've heard on these videos.
@@michelleadams474Yeah dude, I've definitely heard this voiced reused on lot of youtube channels, it's less annoying than others though.
😂 Such a nice voice. He's such a nice real human boy.
Dig your content man, keep up the good work!
You have made an excellent documentary OP, many, many details that were never in "Casino".
Casino is not a documentary 🤦♂️
Casino is just a mob movie that happens to have some similarities to actual events. It's not the real thing, just another great movie.
The trouble with greed is that it never knows when to stop!
Tru n money that is not earned honestly will never last
Contempt for money is another trick to keep you without it.
I told him to take the food and beverage title and to lay low
This guy is so off the hook smart, I'm talking about the youtube creator. This is not a perverse man, there is real sincerity and commitment. What admiration I have for True Crime Stories. The more with time. Definitely worth note!
It's interesting how it's Balastreri they think bombed Rosenthal's car because the movie really kind of leaves you thinking Spilotro was behind it. Not sure this can ever be confirmed either way.
According to the movie, he would figure out the different bounce you got from various basketball courts.
that's the MOVIE
I notice how you drop these anecdotes about how Lefty ‘picked 7 out of 8 winners’ one day at the track and once he got to Vegas ‘he picked every winner of Monday night football’.
The dude would gamble wager on 2 flies climbing a wall…. The law of averages says he’ll have his streaks.
Doesn’t make him Rain man.
I love these videos u just got a new sub bro from Australia 🖐️🖐️🖐️
According to the movie Tony and his brother were buried alive.
Straight to the point all facts
Frank in the thumbnail looks like a sportscaster 🤗
I luv that cause he soaked up everything like a spunge! When I saw Casino, I was blew away by this flick! Lefty was da man! I see why he was immortalized in Casino, he was a cash cow and could always make big money! Nuff Said!
Excellent detaiked story.
Good video 👍
Elcortez hotel in Vegas barber shop still there 2 floor and also vintage rooms unreal rooms must stay 1 night
Great Video. Only it bothered me that alll those 100 dollar bills in the video were printed after he passed. They were diferent back then.
Dont change the digit count
Opens talking about the Las Vegas Strip, while showing vintage film of Fremont Street (Downtown).
The rest of the content is very good.
Good vids
You change those numbers and ill know you fixed gambleing
Interesting and informative. Excellent still -motion pictures enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Lefty was a punk who turned gov't informant. Glad to know that his wife took him for a financial ride. Along with the Vegas gaming commission. The car 🚗 bombing convinced him to forever vacate Vegas. For not keeping under the radar.
Men NEVER support/cheer a worthless two bit peasant junky “working” girl or any woman stealing, cheating, getting alimony/support at the expense of a man… and to gloat about it! Nope that’s an effeminate trait….
And I can tell you’ll turn informant far easier than Lefty(who turned after he was betrayed by Tony and certain people trying to take him out)…
The feds have everything they need, all the power they could possibly have, to make arrests. Agents harassing him, pulling him over, threatening him, and turning into criminals themselves wasn't needed.
Oh my goodness...Sharon Stone looks just like Leftys' wife!
I love the movie casino.
Damn, I know exactly where I was and what I did the day Frank died 😂
19:47 that's not the 1981 model
Iceman next. 🥶
People understand clearly more theories exist besides "random number generator" in the age of information. Not to the disrespectful, and seriously. Who is your mentor ? Why is he your mentor ? What did mentor teach you ?
Lets GO
Triple gemini? 🚩
🤩🇺🇸👍⚖️👁️👁️⚖️Very Interesting! Criminals & Crimials.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Terrible picture 1:01.
Ba fon gu....
There is nothing illegal about Gambling!
There is only Govt sanctioned gambling
We are not a FREE people, until we wake up to the gambelig
htat's great, but why don't we talk about the crimes committed by the israeli occupation?
we have plenty of other relevant pages for that
I stood ten feet from him as a VIP guest watching him do his live TV show in Vegas. Sinatra was one of his guests that night. Quite the experience.
Frank brought out frank😂
I played in the band on his weekly live broadcast sports show from the Stardust. Played in the Stardust lounge for years where he'd end his evenings with his entourage of show girls and mobsters. Very generous people. Great memories
My Dad told me many years ago how the Casinos were so much better back in those days. He said you could get 5 star quality food for almost nothing and you didn't even have to be a big time gambler to do so.
They kicked out the mob and turned it all over to the real criminals!
Yep. Good food for almost nothing.
99 cents for breakfast. lol
Peut-être une fois "plumé" aux tables de jeu.🙂
@@aliced7505😅jj nn n
used to bring free drinks to you while you gambled as well.......
The mafia didn't pay taxes on the skim but other than that they aren't different from the companies that own the casinos today. They take a bigger cut of the money and new rules gave the house a bigger edge.
They ain't listening though. You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. So sad. That was the point from the beginning. Notice how Mob has infiltrated politics. As if they are different than their Father or Brother.
well that's the ultimate crime for the govt . you didn't pay them their share.
Casino is one of my favourite movies 🎬
After Lefty's death in 2008 it was "revealed" by a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist that he was a high-level FBI informant for much of his time in Vegas. I didn't include this in the video because there isn't really any supporting information that corroborates this claim and it has proven to be a very controversial topic amongst mob historians. But if you're interested in reading about it and forming your own conclusions here are 2 articles I found online detailing the accusations and what information Lefty potential gave the FBI.
www.reviewjournal.com/news/news-columns/jane-ann-morrison/lefty-rosenthal-was-an-fbi-snitch/
mafiahistory.us/rattrap/infachilles.html
Hehe
Ah yes, Achilles
I doubt that, he wouldn't of lasted.
I dunno about this case, but playing both sides by being an informant is exactly how a lot of guys lasted so long.
@@sudstahgaminglots of people have done that and survived.
Great job on these videos. I discovered this channel last night and watch 5 or 6 of them binge style and I'm back for more😂. Thanks again these really are great.
You should do a video on whitey bulger.
I lived and worked in Vegas in the early 70’s. A good friend, now deceased, worked 40 weeks a year at the Stardust lounge. For me personally, I thought Vegas was better back then. The lounges were a financial write-off….the owners didn’t care if they made a profit. The whole system was designed to make the high-rollers happy. If they lost big at the tables, they could see great entertainment in the lounges with comped drinks. In my opinion, Vegas sucks now….no free drinks, no free parking and you can’t walk on the strip without getting accosted by illegals pushing sex clubs. When I lived there prostitution was illegal in Clark County but was tolerated in the hotels so long as it wasn’t in your face. Street walkers were absolutely non-existent.
Lefty's character was questionable if he discovered that his girlfriend had a list of telephone numbers and contact details of the high rollers who would give her a call and some money when they were in town, in exchange for a good time, and he STILL proposed and married her. I just don't understand it.
yes he was a genius at gambling and running casinos but had terrible love life instincts. like hiraldo said the heart wants what it wants
Yes sir! Love the short documentaries, Crime Time! Please keep them coming! 👍
Lefty was born in 1929 which would have made him 40 in 1969. Johnny Hicks could not have been almost 30 years younger, unless he was 10 years old. Time...10.56
He would've been around 24 in 1969. He was born in 1945 and was killed in 1977. I'm not sure where the 30 comes from.
just excellent, love learning all of the real history behind casino.
I am completely fascinated about Lefty Rosenthal and his role in Vegas. Was he an FBI informant?? Don’t know exactly. It’s very interesting that Lefty was never indicted for the things going on in the casinos he supposedly ran. Maybe the mob intentionally kept him clean away from the illegal side of the operation like the skim in the count room and he was just a high level day to day operations manager for the casinos so he never got indicted and never had to testify in the various mob indictment cases like operation Strawman. I think it’s unlikely that he had no knowledge of what was going on. I believe Allen Glicks account of AG having his life threatened by the KC mob because he interfered with Lefty’s running of the casinos. I also believe that since the teamsters union was involved and Lefty was Chicagos guy at Argent that other mafia groups that also comprised the teamsters like KC and Milwaukee wanted their own guy running the Argent casinos and that created conflict as well. I believe it was Milwaukee boss Frank Balistreri who ordered Lefty’s car bombing in 1982 as a message to get out of town. I believe car bombings were Balistreris MO while Tony Spilotro would’ve just killed Frank and dug a hole in the desert. Frank and Tony kept their business separate and Frank was smart enough not to go upstairs and cause a beef to mafia higher ups about Tony sleeping with Lefty’s wife. Then there was the issue of Lefty having a TV show and making a huge scene at the Gaming control hearings. He was denied a license by the board after he made some heavy handed decisions that went against relatives of board members who had jobs at the casino. He created too much heat and needed to go. But why would he become an FBI informant? He’s not a made man and has no oath of loyalty to the mob so he has nothing to betray but if he was an informant why wasn’t he ever called to testify in a trial? Wouldn’t that be the value he had to the feds in the first place??
Don't forget Tony & his brother were found dead in a hole In a cornfield
but it only happened once 🤣
Tony Spilotro was too
Loud for the mob they eventually had to Eliminate him.
Wearing silk underwear.
Frank said it happened in a basement. Go look at vlad interview on Cullotta
I live about 10 minutes away from where they were found in Indiana. That land was owned by another outfit associate
Cullotta said that Lefty was good but his father was the master.
Rosenthal never had to wear 3” lifts.
I met a guy who used to go to a bar Lefty owned in Boca, he said the place had hot servers. Dude was looking over NBA spreads in the paper and Lefty came over to him and shared some knowledge. Told Dude to wager against west coast teams on the long east coast road trips. Lol.
I doubt it
@@loudonrebel5383 bar was called Croc's I believe
The dudes Uncle was Stan Kasten who was the GM for the Atlanta Hawks & Atlanta Braves....I doubt he was lying
Cap,BS etc
That’s so genius, being on the road has to take a toll on a team.
I worked with Lefty at the Stardust in Las Vegas, he was an egomaniac and not very smart.
What years was that?)
I worked at the Stardust from 1970 to 1974
@@RonnieMinh you must have seen a lot of stuff back then, I think Vegas was better back in that time
Do you still live in Las Vegas??
@@johnmandock56 I live in Mesquite (one hour north of LV).
Enjoying the series however, using new $100 is a bit of a stretch.
Excellent thank you 🐓
Your my new favorite channel. Keep it up!
I don’t know what casinos y’all be going too but I still be getting free drinks
Again, good, thorough coverage. Thank you.
Can you do Henry hill video
Henry Hill has been done to death don’t you think?
@@backagain5216 well this isn't exactly the first coverage of lefty
Great segment! Casino made this guy larger than life lol
She was a working girl who men loved and threw big money to be wit' her! She couldn't be trusted at all! She still supported this former pimp she was still involved wit'! Lefty should of divorced her and stop being used! She was involved wit' Lefty's best friend and couldn't resist him at all! That was the only part of the movie I hated! But the only thing about that hearing is the guy who headed that should of been disqualified from being part of it because he was a client of Lefty! The movie is a mother Fucker and whoever is a movie buff like I am should have this as part of his collection like Goodfellas! Nuff Said!
Do a vid on micheal franzese
Casino is probably one of the most accurate mob movies ever made. Almost everything that happened in the movie was fairly close to real life events.
Really good documentary thank you.
Straight from the film Casino! Love it!❤
I wonder if Lefty smoked as many ciggs as Deniro did in the movie. He smoked nearly every moment of every scene like they tried to make him appear more gangster than he really was. Scorsese really played up the anti-Semitic drama against Ace to appease Hollywood too. Great movie though
he didn't appear gangster, he looked like an addict dressed like a clown (sometimes like dick tracy)
Well. Deniro is such a bad actor, he needs plenty of help!
That one 100$ bill was rolled up for use 👀😆
Do one on John Dillinger plss❤
Tony Spilotro was 5’5
He seemed like such a nice guy on Casino?!.
That era was a fun time in Vegas, money everywhere, movie & singing stars everywhere. Every weekend the town filled up with gamblers and everything goes school teachers from CA. As a 23 year old 21 dealer in the stardust casino I was in heaven.
So you met Lefty and Tony or seen them around
@@Nixkrude79no he didn't. It's BS
@@Nixkrude79 just Mr. Rosenthal. I never saw or heard of Mr. S getting out of line, like in the movie. Another historical event was when someone tried to take out Mr. Reids. He made a few enemies while sitting on the gaming board. The Lamb family was a powerful family in Vegas. Mormons.
Interesting that you would find this time and its events as ‘heaven’.
Do you have any good stories to tell?
Im surprised you didn't mention that after his death it was revealed that he was an FBI informant
No proof of that
Almost every high profile criminal gets "revealed" as an FBI informant after they die, and once in a while, it even is true (everyone in Cleveland's glory days seemed to be). When after Carmine Persico died and he was "revealed' as a supposed FBI informant, even Franzese, who Persico wanted dead for years, said he found the idea of Persico being a Fed informant almost ridiculous. Personally, I take anything a lifelong criminal, an informant, a journalist, a politician, or an FBI agent says with a not only a grain of salt, but the entire salt shaker and the cylinder shaped container with the girl holding the umbrella on it that the salt in the shaker came from.
FBI "informants" are like CIA assets, even if someone passes along the most minute and inconsequential piece of information once in a blue moon when asked by an agent, they go into the file and WHOLA, they're an 'informant" or an 'asset". The FBI likes to pretend they're some sort of masterminds infiltrating every facet of the criminal underworld through their divine influence and masterful investigative techniques, it's really quite embarrassing.
Never heard about that
Forgit abou it.
Read the damn comments. There was a reason and it's addressed complete with links.
LEFTY vs. GINGER. Concerning Lefty's relationship with Ginger----let this be a lesson to all: no matter how much money you have, a beautiful woman will never respect/love you if you look physically like.. Lefty. At best, she'll love your money.
This should be a life lesson.
She wasn't a good woman. She was a working w.h.o.r.e. with a Rolodex filled with clients and a pimp named Lenny. That's not the kind you marry. You can't compare someone like her to another type of woman.
First place I ever stayed at was the Tropicana in 1981-82. Sorry to see it go, and to see my A's go away from Oakland 😢
Manager of Foods & Beverages
What year did Lefty Rosenthal win every Monday Night Football bet?
Very informative on mob gambling and casino dealings. Though I enjoyed the movie Casino i will never look at it the same again.
I’m starting to see a connection between R0senthal and Epste!n and Moss@d with this bribery thing
If this is true this scene with ant the agents and lefty needs to be in casino as a flashback.
as we already heard, too many incidents to make the final cut
@@saagisharon8595 Right……it’s crazy hearing more stories about them I’ve never heard before.
Love the film watched it many times the film is a classic and good to watch this to know the real people
Best most informative videos I’ve seen I never subscribe to channels. I’m gonna subscribe to this one.
Love you channel and narrations bro, thanks for the interesting content to watch, keep up the good work!
That was a very clean interesting piece. Thank you so much.
Lefty kind of looks like Bill Maher
You guys still haven’t figured out who’s running this ‘nation.’
My uncle was in biz with those guys.
If only Sharon stone would have
-laid off the coke
-staid away from joe Pesci
-staid away from James woods
By the way all jokes aside whatever happened to lefty’s daughter in real life?
If we can't find any info about his daughter (and son), it means they prefer privacy
The real ginger also had her first daughter with lester
@@saagisharon8595 We aren’t looking I was just sharing my thoughts. Still curious as to what became of them though.
You left out he was an informant
Wow a whole story of total BS. Anyone believe this is a lollipop.
That was incredible
Vegas today sucks...it's a mall...
No lefty he was simpin over Jerry
I think Armen needs 1 more win over 1, 2 or 3. I mean Benil was not a number 4 anyway. Maybe a 7 but not a 4. He has had to bitch loses. He should drop to 10. But this is not real it's just Entertainment. Check how they are registered. Just like the WWE, NFL & MLB it's sports "ENTERTAINMENT" which allows the refs "directors" control the scene! Look at these horrible stoppages and the way these guys are scoring the fights. It's all about controlling the narrative.
good insight on Lefty. for those going through the comments, I've got good news. God is good because He gives His blessings to everyone, whether they be good or bad. but everyone has at least, told a lie, or stolen something in their life. and that makes them sinners, and God will not allow sinners in heaven; in His presence, because He is holy. so, God has to punish the sinners in hell, because God is severe and just. but God is also love and He made a way for some to be saved from His wrath. here are the steps:
1. admit that you're a sinner and are lost.
2. realize that the penalty of sin is death (hell).
3. believe that Jesus (who is God) died on the cross, was buried, then rose from the grave, to pay the penalty for man's past, present, and future sins.
4. trust Christ alone as your Savior, and not on your own good deeds to get you to heaven (nor a combination of your faith and self-righteous works).
5. pray to God NOW that you're accepting Christ's free gift of salvation because if you die before making this decision, it's too late, and you'll 🔥🥵😈
6. and to be a disciple, tell people about Jesus, read the bible, go to church regularly to know God's will for your life.