THE MOB MUSEUM ....AND MORE

BY ED BRUCE....edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

MY FIRST VISIT.

THIS...... THE OLD DOWNTOWN POST OFFICE TURNED INTO THE MOB MUSEUM.

"THIS IS MY BABY" ....THOSE THE WORDS OF OSCAR GOODMAN LAS VEGAS 3 TERM MAYOR...MOB LAWYER...AND ALL TIME SUPPORTER AND PROMOTER  OF LAS VEGAS.

GOODMAN UNDERTOOK THE PROJECT MANY YEARS AGO, TURNING WHAT WAS A VACANT OPPORTUNITY INTO A WORLD CLASS ATTRACTION.

GOODMAN  SPOKE FOR 44 MINUTES ON THE MUSEUM...HIS CAREER...LAS VEGAS...MOVIES AND DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING ELSE....IT WAS SUPER ILLUMINATING AND AS ALWAYS, WELL RECIEVED BY THE MASSES.

GOODMAN TOLD HOW THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE POST OFFICE WAS COURTROOM WHERE HE TRIED CASES...WHERE HISTORY WAS MADE AND WHERE KEFAUVER SPREAD INNUENDOS OR WHATEVER IT WAS HE DID !

DURING THE TALK GOODMAN TOLD STORIES OF CASES....ONE WHICH HE DEFENDED AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN...HE WON....AND THEREAFTER HAD LOTS OF CLIENTS..."WHOSE NAMES ENDED IN VOWELS" !

AMONG THE HIGHLITES WAS A SUBJECT GOODMAN TOUCHED ON WHICH I ALREADY HAD MADE A JUDGMENT CALL ON.......CLIENT DEFENSE AND WORKING THE SYSTEM TO HIS BEST END.  THE TWO POINTS GOODMAN SAID HE ALWAYS FOLLOWED, WAS UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION AND MAKING SURE THE PROSECUTION FOLLOWED LEGAL CHANNELS....JUST WHAT I THOUGHT...ITS NOT A MATTER OF RIGHT OR WRONG, JUST BEATING THE GAME...ITS A GAME. IT  NEVER WAS A RIGHT OR WRONG DEAL. A PERFECT EXAMPLE WAS THE AUTHORIZING OF A WIRE TAP....ONLY 9 SIGNATORS WERE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO DO IT...IN ONE OF GOODMANS CASES....A SUBSTITUE SIGNED....GOODMAN CAUGHT IT  AND THAT OBVIOUSLY WORKED TO THE OUTCOME THE DEFENSE HAD IN MIND.

I PERSONALLY GOT A GREAT DEAL OUT OF GOODMANS TALK WHICH HE WILL REPEAT SATURDAY AT THE MUSEUM....DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS 229 2734   !

A COUPLE OF OTHER QUICK POINTS OF LAW I LEARNED WHAT WHEN THEY BREAK INTO YOUR ROOM....YOU THINK YOU WERE ROBBED...YOU WERE BUGLARIZED....DIFFERENCE....15 YEARS......THE OTHER .....GOODMANS ZEST TO BE MAYOR WAS DUE TO HIS INTEREST IN BEING IN FILMS....HE ACTUALLY STRUCTED THE SYSTEM TO HAVE ALL MOVIES MADE IN LAS VEGAS TO INCLUDE HIM !....WHAT GREAT STUFF.  WHAT AN EGO.....I LOVE THIS GUY....BETTER YET OSCAR AND HIS WIFE HAVE BOTH SLEPT WITH THE MAYOR OF LAS VEGAS !

I REALLY WANTED TO SEE THE MUSEUM AND SPENT AN HOUR ON FLOOR THREE AND ANOTHER HOUR ON FLOOR THREE AFTER THE TALK...I READ EVERYTHING....ALL FIRST CLASS STUFF.  I NEVER GOT TO FLOOR TWO OR FLOOR ONE AND HERE IN LAS VEGAS THE HOME OF THIS REPORTER AND OSCAR GOODDMAN I CAN GO BACK AND  I WILL !

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