VOLUNTEER BANQUET SPEAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE!

MR. AL MOE

Al will be speaking at the volunteer’s banquet. Yet another reason to attend the convention AND volunteer to help. You cannot get to the volunteer’s banquet and member Al Moe unless you help at the convention. Contact Belinda Hixon for more information about volunteering, volunteer and you get a banquet dinner on Saturday night and Al Moe and his book too!

VEGAS AND THE MOB

Publication Date: April 4, 2013

“Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success,
and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the
FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun.
This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like
you've never heard it before, from start to finish.

Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in
the 1930's: Al Capone, and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit,
while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were
influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters
into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control,
and drug sales.

Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string
of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included
Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was
legal. Most of it. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino
after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to
bribe their way to respectability back home.”

By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino.
Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing
crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder
often followed.

Al W. Moe has been interested in gaming, casinos and slot machines since the age of eight. He grew up in a family of four. His mother was a teacher and his father was a career US Naval officer. Al lived all over the United States and overseas, but loved Northern California and Nevada the best. He attended college first in California while playing baseball and basketball and then attended the University of Nevada Reno and finally managed to obtain a BA in Business Management.

Mr. Moe played poker and blackjack while attending school and then played for a living for several years. He tried to save a chip from each place he played, and eventually got interested in trading chips with other collectors. He started a newsletter in 1984 to send to his chip traders and started "Casino and Gaming Chips Magazine" two years later. Archie Black wrote articles for the magazine and asked him to join the - Al was happy to join as member #67.

He started working in the casino industry in 1985 and spent time in Reno at Harrah's, Circus Circus, the Cal-Neva and was the Casino Manager at the Atlantis Resort.

In Washington he ran Freddie's Club as the General Manager and is currently at Casino Arizona. Al has four wonderful daughters and two of them are young enough to be at home with his wife Shannon in Scottsdale, Arizona.