It got to the point where I got so tired of telling reporters, “no comment,” that I stopped answering the phone. Naturally, as troubles mounted towards the end, the phone calls came straight to me. Mind you, this was from a local press that was generally friendly towards the casino industry. During that period you couldn’t open up the city’s two newspapers, the Las Vegas Review-Journal or the Las Vegas Sun, without reading yet another embarrassing story about the casino and its epic degree of dysfunction. In fact, it would be easier to list those who didn’t want the Behnen’s completely out of casino business.Įver since the carnival that was the Ted Binion murder trial some four years earlier, local media enjoyed a field day airing out the dirty secrets within the crumbling building at 128 E.
We had a virtual enemies list as long and wide as The Strip.
It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.Įveryone in Las Vegas had a hard-on for the Horseshoe.
