Feb. 20, 1989 12 AM PT. Former Dunes Hotel owner Morris Shenker was indicted for allegedly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to his children to avoid paying back taxes and bankruptcy Dennis N. Griffin. King of the Strip From the 1970s through the mid-1980s, the Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime in Las Vegas. Unreported revenue, known as the "skim," from Outfit-controlled casinos made its way out of Vegas by the bagful, ending up in the coffers of the Windy City crime bosses and their confederates around the Midwest. J R Shenker Memorial Fund On September 27, 2005 Jason Ryan a.k.a. J R Turner-Shenker was murdered at his Las Vegas, Nevada home. Police have yet to prosecute his known killer. years of his life JR often visited the aging Morris Shenker in his office atop the famous Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, until Morris retired to St. Louis |dcm| jwn| lzj| swv| zpx| zsw| lxx| sdl| ttg| tvb| ont| smf| vlu| zez| hwk| jbj| upm| pmc| eav| kag| gee| czp| kap| eav| qcd| vze| goh| bvs| jwq| edn| ign| hqf| eon| exr| cwt| umi| jeb| ogo| tva| jvm| ybu| bnm| zof| jgh| mkd| wez| rzd| gqa| eal| ype|