Allen Glick Dies: Ex-Casino Mogul, Strip Developer Who Testified Against the Mob

Allen R. Glick has died at age 79 after a lengthy combat with cancer. His company, Argent Corporation, was single of the top off Battle Born State gaming prop operators in the 1970s until Glick missed his license and he sold turned the casinos below the cloud of a federal inquiry.

Argent ran the John Charles Fremont Hotel and Casino, Marina Casino, the Hacienda, and Stardust Hotel and Casino. The Argent acquisitions ab initio were funded by a $63 one thousand thousand loan from the Teamsters Pension Fund, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Glick’s dominant role inward the sphere led him to become the Phillip Green River graphic symbol inwards the 1995 moving-picture show Casino. Actor Kevin Sydney Pollack played Green.

In tangible life, Glick was never charged, as authorities investigated skimming of cassino funds. He e'er denied beingness mired with the illicit operation.

But he avoided criminal prosecution when he agreed to evidence for federal attorneys against over a dozen defendants inwards trials during the 1980s. Prosecutors alleged some $7 billion was stolen betwixt 1974 and 1976 from the casinos’ slot political machine revenue, according to an business relationship from The Mob Museum.

Reputed felon organizations based inwards KS City, Chicago, and Milwaukee allegedly received the ill-gotten money. The FBI did have got Glick below their watchful eyes. The Feds gave him the cypher name “Genius,” the museum said inward a recent blog post.

Mob Threat

During the 1970s, Sunflower State City reputed mobster Carl DeLuna allegedly threatened Glick piece they were inwards the power of Attorney Oscar Goodman, who would later swear out as Las Vegas mayor. His wife, Carolyn, is now the city’s mayor.

″DeLuna, in a hoarse voice, using pictorial terms, told me to sit down down,″ Glick claimed inward testimony recounted inward an Associated Press article.

He said he was sent there to present ane last, net subject matter to me from his partners. He stated that he and his partners were finally sick of having to business deal with me and having me around,” Glick said. “He informed me that it was their desire for me to sell Argent Corporation straight off and i was to announce the cut-rate sale as soon as i left wing the office.″

Otherwise, DeLuna allegedly threatened “one-by-one” to make “each of my sons murdered,″ Glick recalled.

Glick also was responsible for naming Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal as a manager at Argent. He later fired him. The Casino character based on Rosenthal, Sam “Ace” Rothstein, was portrayed past Robert De Niro.

The real-life tribulation ended with prison house sentences for a dozen defendants, including DeLuna. Others imprisoned were Frank Balistrieri, Chief Joseph Aiuppa, Milton Rockman, and Jackie Cerone, the Mob Museum said.

Glick Loses License

Glick’s gaming licence was revoked in 1979 and he sold the properties the followers year. But in Argent’s heyday, only when Leslie Howard Langston Hughes owned more hotels and casinos inwards Las Vegas than Glick.

Argent grew come out of Recrion Corporation, which Glick acquired in 1974. He was Argent’s chairman and president. Argent got its figure from Glick’s initials, ARG. They were followed by the abbreviation for enterprise: ENT.

Later, he led a fellowship that operated casinos in strange nations, such as Costa Rica.

Bronze Star in Vietnam

Born inward Pittsburgh on April 11, 1942, Glick was a graduate of Buckeye State State University and Case-Western Reserve School of Law.

He served in the US Army’s Special Operations arm in which he was a maitre d' inwards Viet Nam and assisted inward armed forces look for and deliverance operations. Glick was awarded the Bronze Star.

At the clip of his overtaking finally Monday, Glick resided in San Diego. Survivors include his wife, Kathleen Glick, and two sons: Sweeney Todd and Cary Glick. He is also survived by grandsons Henry Louis Aaron and X Glick.