Michael Franzese, who served as a capo in the Colombo crime family, joins “Jesse Weber Live” in Las Vegas to talk about the mobbed-up history of Sin City. The reformed racketeer says the place was more efficiently run back in the heyday of organized crime. #LasVegas #MichaelFranzese #Crime "Jesse Weber Live" brings a fresh, fast-paced, and often unexpected take on the day’s headlines, diving into the biggest stories through the lens of legal expertise.
Las Vegas has long been known as Sin City for its 24/7 access to all kinds of indecencies. - America is quickly becoming Sin Nation. Or, as President Trump put it while discussing prediction markets in the Oval Office last month: "The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino." Why it matters: Once-forbidden vices — weed, gambling and porn — are no longer confined to back alleys or the desert. They're ubiquitous, digital and spreading at a pace that has outstripped the country's social and regulatory guardrails. - Governments didn't turn a blind eye to most of this behavior. They encouraged it. We're scaling sin in real time. This shift in American governance, both at the national and local levels, didn't play out…