Once upon a time, Newport, Kentucky was set to become what is now Las Vegas.
Newport’s quaint downtown has no casinos, no massive digital signs advertising Penn & Teller, Cirque du Soleil or the singing sensation. There are no sprawling hotel/casino/resorts where the din is the sound of money changing hands., dressed in Mafia black, telling visitors how this little city across the river from Cincinnati could have been filled with those things.He spun a detailed portrait of a town on the cusp of global notoriety.
There’s even a line in the movie “Godfather II” that pays homage to the little Kentucky town. Hyman Roth, played by Lee Strasberg, said, “Eddie Levine of Newport will bring in the Pennino Brothers, Dino and Eddie; they’ll handle actual casino operations.”Investigative reporter Hank Messick focused his early work on Newport, which eventually prompted a few death threats. His 1995 novel “Razzle Dazzle” is named for a complicated dice game popularized here.
By 1950 the town’s population had grown to more than 30,000 people. By 1960 the Saturday Evening Post ran an eight-page exposé of Newport called “Kentucky’s Open City.” The subhead noted that the city “flourishes as one of the nation’s biggest illegal gambling centers.” The governor declared a state of emergency in the county and raided the casinos for possible liquor and fire code violations. The federal government got involved when then-U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, who admired Ratterman from his football-playing days, asked Congress to pass legislation that would enable the Justice Department to target mobsters, specifically those in Newport, operating across state lines.
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