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00:00you know what people get starstruck from the lights but I'll tell you what there's some real
00:09real underhanded street people in this town the lights put out a different message than what's
00:16really happening welcome to Las Vegas the shadow capital of America a four mile long shopping mall
00:24for the seven deadly sins nobody ever got killed here they would put it no they waited till they
00:32crossed the state line I'm starting a little antsy are you at the prospect of the prospect of meeting
00:38up with a bad guy and he doesn't want to go and it's a big fistfight or gunfight your hands up
00:42I'm out right now I've been to this city several times before but I never discovered where fantasy
00:49town collided with reality I mean how violent does it get if one of the pimp steals another
00:55one's girl they'll shoot them I mean they'll like do a drive-by that's just how it is it's just like
01:01the Mafia what to make of people who live here and what does Vegas do to their lives is controlling
01:09anger a problem for you well you haven't heard about me attacking nobody yelling screaming at
01:14anybody lately so I guess I'm doing a pretty good job to the schoolteacher in love with a former mobster
01:21has it ever occurred to you that your friends would say to you what on earth are you a schoolteacher
01:26doing with former mobster my friends don't know that he's a former mobster and to the man who won
01:35the biggest poker prize in history and you won that 18 million yes I did 18.2 it's time to uncover the
01:46secret life of sin city
02:01on action news live at six a man on Hawaii's most wanted list is behind bars tonight a nationwide search
02:08for a fugitive ends in north Las Vegas officers found us marshals received a tip that neb ray was
02:14in Las Vegas before tracking him down near west it's nighttime in Vegas a city built by the mob
02:24this is Andrew Di Donato when he was a member of the Mafia the FBI wanted him in jail but when he
02:33turned informer the Mafia wanted him dead and when the pressure got too much he escaped to Vegas
02:43you're a fugitive in this city but what is it that makes this place such a so attractive to people
02:49hiding out from the law well for me the attraction was it was 2,500 miles away from any sort of law
02:55enforcement that was looking for me that was number one number two it's a big seating it's like New York
03:00it's open 24 hours a day you know people don't ask questions here you could fit in there's there's
03:06hundreds of thousands of people walking across this sidewalk at any given time you know and you
03:11could fit in uh also you know there's a criminal element out here there's people who would help you
03:16you can get yourself some fake identification you know you could you know put your head down go sit
03:22in at a pool at a casino nobody's the wise and nobody knows who you are you can get a meal to eat
03:27you know and these are the things that are important when you're on the run because if
03:30anybody knows about being on the run you know that it's probably the most stressful thing you'll
03:34ever go through in your life you know times any problem Trevor that you ever had in your life
03:38times it by 10,000 and that's a day on the run a day was this relief when they finally caught you
03:44basically yes it was a relief at the time I was burnt out and what I mean by that is you know
03:51I had 14 months on the run I had law enforcement looking for me I had a few crime families looking
03:59for me and the stress level in my life was really at its apex and what happened was when they finally
04:06did catch up with me I remember coming out of my house and I seen a van screeching down the block I
04:12see another car coming I seen two guys running down my driveway and my first instinct was that I'm dead
04:19that I'm getting clipped but meanwhile I seen the badge come out and the guy said FBI and I threw my
04:26hands in the air and I said FBI you guys I can handle and it was a relief because I finally knew that
04:36I'm gonna get my first night of rest in 14 months
04:40and your story is part of the Vegas life few visitors ever see it's part of the Vegas of the mob
04:56and his story helps to peel away the myths of Las Vegas
05:10I'm heading downtown to where the story began
05:14about a hundred years ago a few bar men and brothel owners decided to build the city at the crossroads of
05:28a good night and a good time
05:35this is a journey into the past because that's where you should begin if you want to find the
05:43soul of this city after 60 years the Riviera Hotel and Casino has closed its doors afternoon now this is a
05:52big deal because Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin both lived here at some point
05:56since becoming the strip's first high-rise in 1955 Riviera closed its doors once home to the
06:03Rat Pack era greats like Sinatra the Riviera sold itself as the complete package the place had it all
06:13the biggest names in the world of entertainment showmanship at its best the king of rock'n'roll
06:29and of course the girls
06:33that world has gone the Riviera is now marked for demolition
06:39for only a few dollars you can take away a piece of old Vegas history
06:50all that remains are a few golden memories
06:56memories of the sensation when the first nude showgirl set foot on an American stage
07:04that girl was Lisa Medford
07:09God this is strange
07:10it's like being in a haunted house
07:14she's back at the Riviera to remember what it was like
07:21Lisa what are you here to look for?
07:24you
07:26no it's just one more last look
07:29even though it doesn't look the same
07:32and it hasn't for a long time
07:34but there's still ghosts in here of great times
07:37I came here in 1957 with Harry Belafonte
07:40he was performing here?
07:41he was the star
07:42and I was the first nude showgirl
07:45appearing nude must have been very daring for the time
07:48it was frightening
07:49I came out of Catholic school
07:50girls school
07:51I wouldn't even change bathing suits in front of my sisters
07:54I'd go in the closet close the door
07:56the first time was scary
07:58I threw up after
07:59and they had to carry me down because I was shaking so bad
08:02second show
08:03boom
08:04I was ready
08:05that was fun
08:07you mentioned Harry Belafonte
08:09who are the other people you remember performing there?
08:11I worked at the Copa Lounge
08:13at the Sands Hotel
08:14with the Rat Pack
08:16Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop
08:19and you got to know them
08:21it was beautiful
08:22and everybody dressed
08:24men always wore a suit, tie or a tuxedo
08:27women wore furs, evening gowns
08:30it was what Monte Carlo would
08:32in the movies
08:33what people think Monte Carlo looked like
08:35it was elegance
08:36do you miss it?
08:37yeah
08:37when the mob ran Vegas
08:40the bosses would come out from where they were
08:43and they'd go behind where the dealer was
08:45and they'd move the blackjack dealer out of the way
08:47and turn the cards over
08:49so everybody could win at the table
08:51but nobody ever got killed here
08:52they would put the hits
08:54no they waited till they crossed the state line
08:57they killed Gus Greenbaum around this hotel
09:00and he got murdered
09:01him and his wife
09:02killed them both
09:03and Bugsy Siegel went back to LA
09:06and got him too
09:09I came into a hotel one night
09:11they were breaking a guy's fingers back there
09:13and you just pretend you don't see it
09:15but it was somebody stealing
09:16I don't know if it was a dealer or a customer
09:19somebody was stealing
09:20they just broke his finger
09:22and they said don't come in here and steal anymore
09:25now go have a nice dinner
09:26go have a nice dinner
09:27the buffet's on us
09:28so this was not unadulterated glamour
09:32it was mixed with
09:33it was pretty nasty violence
09:34but only little violence
09:36when the mob opened the doors of the Riviera
09:41they started an entertainment revolution
09:43it was the shape of things to come
09:47there they are
09:51they're the signs you're looking for
09:56yeah
09:56see it says Riviera
09:5860 years
09:59hello Miss Smithford
10:00how are you
10:01good to see you
10:02good
10:03we're shooting a little documentary
10:04are you
10:04yeah I had to come and say goodbye to the Riviera
10:06did you go up and steal any of the dressing rooms
10:08or anything like that
10:09no they have costumes up there
10:10no they're all gone
10:11okay see you guys
10:12let you get back to work
10:13all right I'll see you at the banquet
10:14take care
10:14see you
10:15it was so beautiful
10:18we used to watch the atom bomb go off on the roof
10:21we'd get drunk and go up on the roof
10:22and watch the bomb go off
10:24what's the atom bomb?
10:26they would try
10:26they were testing the atomic bomb
10:28out in the desert
10:30and we would see the flash
10:31and then the building would shake a few minutes later
10:34we didn't know
10:36we thought that was like normal
10:37three
10:39two
10:40one
10:41zero
10:42normal for Vegas
10:44in the 50s and 60s
10:48more atomic bombs were detonated outside Las Vegas
10:51than on any other place on earth
10:53and of course the high rollers had front row seats
10:59to watch the bombs go off
11:01while America tested a weapon that changed the history of warfare
11:08gamblers drank atom bomb cocktails
11:11and watched beauty competitions for Miss Atom Bomb
11:14Las Vegas took it all in its stride
11:21the showgirls considered it a golden age
11:29and that time in the 50s and 60s
11:36there was no place on this planet
11:40like Las Vegas
11:41this was the most perfect place to be
11:44and luckily I was here
11:46at the most perfect time on the planet
11:48at this place
11:49I've got you
12:01under my skin
12:04those were the days
12:06the mafia operated on the belief
12:13that some people can never get enough of a bad thing
12:17that you're really a part of me
12:21always knew their limits
12:23Las Vegas would simply never exist
12:26under my skin
12:28today the new princes of Vegas are a different species
12:32I'm about to meet a man who found the secret of making a fortune here
12:36at the age of 36
12:38he's already ahead by 26 million dollars
12:45it's frequently said the only way to leave this place with a small fortune is to arrive
13:00with a large one
13:15some have done much better than that
13:21I was about to meet one of the biggest winners this city has ever known
13:32it is the biggest poker tournament ever
13:4618 million plus to take home
14:15this is the look of very serious money
14:25tonight Antonio is hosting a high stakes game
14:31in his ultra fashionable Vegas penthouse
14:34wow this is lovely
14:36sometimes you need to get out and get a little fresh air
14:39yeah
14:40there's another balcony in the back
14:41sometimes you want a mountain view
14:43yes yes
14:43sometimes you need a ship view it depends on the time of the night and the activities going on
14:47how long is an average game
14:49it's completely normal for a game to go two three four days sometimes
14:54you know certain people quit certain people sit down
14:58one guy might be there from the beginning to the end you never know I can't play for more than about a day and a half
15:03but if the game is really good and people are giving away their money I will not quit
15:08I'll just stay there until it I'll just stay there until it's over
15:11even so a day and a half intensity of that
15:14must be very very tiring
15:16it's not really so much that the intensity gradually gets more
15:20what happens is people get stuck right so the beginning of a poker game
15:24if there's not a lot of craziness going on because everybody's even right
15:28right the game only gets good when people start losing there's a thing we call tilt in poker
15:34and so you start playing bad to try and get back some of your losses and your mind cannot control
15:40your emotions and so ninety percent of poker players go on what we call tilt
15:45antonio's nickname is the magician a career he once considered
15:55what made him a celebrity was poker played with the style of a man able to bring the wheel of fortune under his control
16:05and everyone is fascinated by winning
16:07why do you think you became so so good at it
16:15i i remember that when i first started playing poker
16:18i uh i just knew i you remember in the matrix i don't know if you've seen the matrix when
16:24when uh the computer green stuff was going off and you could just see
16:29you know see the truth it was like that for me when i first started playing poker i just saw
16:33how people were so bad and they had no clue what they were doing and right away i just realized
16:38that there was something there what sort of money are involved in the games that you play
16:43um well on any given night you can win you know in excess of a hundred thousand or lose a hundred
16:48thousand you just never know you know the interesting thing about what i do is you never
16:52know if you're gonna have a good day or a bad day do you remember your biggest loss yes i do it was in
16:57excess of a few hundred thousand that hurts how do you deal with with losing that i'm a huge believer
17:03in uh surrendering to what is happening at the current moment right and so i can't live my life
17:10in the past so if i have a big loss there's nothing i can do about it you just go on and go on with
17:16your life but even so in the darker moments darker recesses of your mind do you ever have the fear
17:24that you might you could lose it all zero there's no fear that i could lose it all because it's it's
17:30not possible i wouldn't jeopardize my life for one game you know so it would take an incredible amount
17:38of bad luck for a very long period of time for me to lose it all let's hope that doesn't happen
17:46that's my dad one knock and walks yes antonio's family left iran after ayatollah khomeini's islamic
17:54revolution when he came to california he was nine years of age his father wanted him to study medicine
18:04antonio chose poker and now with his fortune he's bought his father a penthouse next to his own
18:13cheers cheers thank you cheers dad
18:14cheers tbf antonio's friends are among the best players in the business how are you doing hello
18:21trevor billy and business is booming nice to meet you is there something like a a poker face
18:31is that the expression you do nothing that's pretty good that's that's his a-plus poker face right there
18:36i haven't even seen what was that the poker face that was it the most interesting guy just walked in
18:40trevor is he yes all around he's probably one of the best all-around poker players in the world
18:46i mean i'm fascinated by the complete poker player what's what's what's he like what attracted
18:52you to the game in the first place i started off uh in mathematics okay and i always enjoyed
18:58the puzzle nature of it the idea of you have this question this problem tumbling through your mind
19:05and you're just trying to unlock it and figure out what to do to break it open and solve it and
19:11poker to me when i first found it was just such a beautifully complex puzzle that i just enjoyed
19:17so much tinkering with it playing with it delving into it seeing just how deep mathematically it could
19:23go and i kind of never really stopped how much cash do you have there ten thousand dollars ten thousand
19:42and one hundred dollars guys please make sure you have ten thousand
19:46for a non-card player like me it's difficult to imagine the loss of thousands of dollars around a table
19:57like this but in a way this is quintessential las vegas and for these high rollers it's just another night
20:16from the mob early on to the moguls and corporations of the present day
20:21the true winners have always been the titans who control the casinos
20:30their genius if that's what it is is to stay one step ahead of the game
20:37the strip was built on the hunch that billions could be squeezed out of the desire to be part of the
20:43the spectacular and incredible
20:48but vegas is changing and not all the action is confined to the strip
20:55it's downtown back to where it all began
21:01for years the downtown area has been the ugly sister of the vegas experience
21:06and that is helping to shape a new future
21:21the d hotel is at throwback to the old days of the dancing girls
21:27not extravagantly glamorous but the kind of place where people know who you are
21:32and where you can still find the owner buying his customers a drink at the bar
21:39this is my wife the ball
21:44meet derrick stevens he made his money in the motor car industry in detroit
21:50it's rumored that he bought the d for 70 million dollars but in vegas terms that's no big deal
21:58as the new boy on the block derrick has a lot of catching up to do to follow in the footsteps of
22:03the big names of old has anybody ever said to you what's a nuts and bolts man from detroit doing in a
22:11glitzy glamorous city like this the fact that everyone's so oriented on the productivity
22:18and and trying to be efficient um that's what you take for manufacturing and it really carries over here
22:23but here you do it with a little more pizzazz and a little and a little bit more a little bit more
22:28fun after uh after six o'clock and having a drink here and there what was it that led you to come into
22:34a business which put you up against some of the legendary names in the casino industry well you know
22:40oftentimes when i'm on the casino floor people ask well how do you compete against a four billion dollar
22:46project or an eight billion dollar project and you know one of the things i always say is that
22:51las vegas is a place where many dreamers come and uh everyone likes to see some new blood come in
22:56and uh everyone's hopeful that uh you know some some new blood might bring some new projects and new
23:01ideas and uh you know a lot a lot of what las vegas is built upon is learning from from people of the
23:07past uh learning from the jay sarnos who started circus circus and caesar's palace learning from steve
23:13win who had the golden nugget and then bellagio mirage and now the winning encore uh these are uh these are
23:19some great legendary people and people that i revere really the world's first 21st century city
23:31survives partly on its history
23:38to keep the customers rolling in the old tales must be reinvented rewritten and told time and time again
23:50why else would anyone choose to visit a small town in a sprawling arid desert
23:59las vegas is kept alive by its legends and its ghosts
24:04it's a very tender love song it's a ballad and uh get up into a girl's face you know very close
24:12you say yeah yeah
24:13it blows her hair straight back you know
24:27the bright lights of las vegas have always cast long disturbing shadows
24:49and into those shadows is where i'm heading next
24:57this is a used car lot in las vegas not very different from any other
25:17but take a closer look at one of the dealers
25:25it's someone i've met before he's andrew di donato
25:29how many miles on this 180 okay would anyone buy a used car from a former member of the mob
25:42all right so listen i give you the range rover
25:45you give me the mercedes and give me 7 000
25:53andrew was once a member of one of the biggest crime families in new york
25:57he was done for attempted murder burglary drug dealing and extortion
26:05the kind of record that could have kept him behind bars for life
26:08but andrew talked and turned state witness
26:16ever since that he's been a marked man
26:24he felt too conspicuous in new york
26:26and knew that with his connections in las vegas if he kept his head down
26:33he could pass virtually unnoticed
26:37andrew do the mafias still have a presence here in las vegas
26:40oh yeah they still do not as not a biggest presence that they did years ago
26:45but there was definitely organized crime members walking around in this town
26:49i've seen plenty of guys that i knew from the street while i've been out here and um
26:55you know guys come out here for all different types of reasons there's guys who bought homes out
26:59here many years ago there are guys who came out here to reinvent themselves where you know they
27:04did something wrong in new york they came out here to you know stay out of the line of fire when the
27:10mobsters were running this town how different was it from what it is today well you know when the mob
27:16was running this town you know back in the day it was more personable they knew your name when you
27:21came to a casino they knew you know what your favorite drink was they knew the things that you
27:26like to do or show you like to go to you could walk into a casino lose all your money they would
27:31give you an airplane flare to get home now you're just a number on a player's card they'll clock your
27:36time to see how many hours you spend at the machines or spend at a table it doesn't matter
27:41how many thousands you lose all they care about is time at the table because if you weren't there
27:47for enough hours you can't even get a free breakfast now if that's not a slap in the face i don't know
27:51what is back in the days when you were in the mob when you were in vegas how much did you gamble
27:55i bet were caution to the wind didn't care you know because the money came easy and you know you're
28:01betting tens of thousands of dollars you know five thousand dollars a night three four thousand dollars
28:06another night because you're stealing and when you're stealing you think that it's never going to end you
28:11think it's going to last forever trevor and you're making money and you don't have no respect for
28:15the money so you spending it you think that you know you could go out the next day and perform your
28:20magic trick and you'll be able to just continue on with this thing but never realizing that it does
28:26come to an end and i found out the hard way finding out the hard way is an occupational hazard for the mafia
28:41and this is what the strip looked like when the mobsters muscled in all those years ago
28:50i'm sorry and these are rare pictures of the man who became a vegas pioneer
29:00bugsy siegel and his associates aspired to build hotels that would be the last word in luxury
29:06on boxing day in 1946 siegel opened the flamingo a resort that would change this town in the desert
29:17the dunes the riviera the tropicana nothing could stop the march of the mafia's casino capitalism
29:28they had discovered the mobster's dream unearned unaccounted for untraceable money forever
29:4040 years on the man whose job it was to collect the money was tony spilatro
29:45by the time spilatro made his move to las vegas it would make the evening news in chicago man by the
29:51name of tony spilatro has attracted the attention of law enforcement officials some of whom think
29:56spilatro is the most cunning and dangerous member of the crime syndicate in the scorsese film casino
30:03joe pesci's character was based on tony spilatro the movie's depiction of violence in vegas was true
30:10to life while i was trying to figure out why the guy was saying what he was saying nicky just hit him
30:15no matter how big a guy might be nicky would take him on you beat nicky with fists he comes back with
30:21a bat if you beat him with a knife he comes back with a gun and if you beat him with a gun you better
30:27kill him because he'll keep coming back and back until one of you is dead
30:32by 1986 spilatro's reign of terror was coming to an end he'd been tried several times for murder
30:46he'd always got off but when the mafia turned against him he had no place to hide they found him
30:54and buried him alive positively identified the remains of anthony spilatro and his younger brother michael spilatro
31:06from budsy siegel to tony spilatro four decades of mob rule in las vegas had come to an end
31:13sin city or fun city it's not always easy to understand the nostalgia for what the mafia did here
31:31far easier to remember how they ruined thousands of lives
31:37and andrew di donato is on both sides of that story
31:43he suggested a meeting somewhere downtown
31:47where he could blend in to the surroundings
31:50and where he and his past could be almost anonymous
31:55andrew how violent were you required to be
31:58i i needed to be able to be proficient in my threats and everything else that i
32:03did in the street so in other words i've shot people i've hit people with baseball bats i did
32:07things that i'm not proud of whatever we needed to do to get the job done we used to be a little trick
32:12we used to talk about and we used to say we were always guys who were successful because we're
32:16willing to go a step beyond the normal person and that's what intimidated people a step beyond
32:23normal people a step beyond you want to take out a baseball bat i'm going to shoot you you're
32:28going to take out a gun i'm going to wait in your bushes at night and i'm going to ambush you
32:31it's always going to be something so it gives the other people something to think about when they want
32:37to you know go against the system so to speak how did you start up in the witness protection program
32:42well what happened was in 1997 after seeing all the things that i was up against and knowing that
32:49you know i was you know marked for death and when you're marked for death by the people that you're
32:55loyal to and the people that you love the world is very small and i knew that i was you know
33:01fighting a battle that i couldn't win so i finally made a decision to cooperate with the government
33:07something that i was born to be against my whole life i was born to hate the government but i knew
33:13this was the only chance that i would have to live a normal life and be alive there's almost a pleasant
33:20sound to the words witness protection program they always yeah they rock you to sleep with that but
33:25basically what it is is it's what you make of it you know it's like anything else you know people think
33:30that you know the government just you know gives you money and you know and makes sure that you're
33:35uh um you need taken care of what they'll do is they'll put you in a safe place they'll keep your
33:41family safe but it's up to you to go out and get a job it's up to you to go and make a life for yourself
33:45sticking to those lines of the new identity though throughout your time in the program must be
33:52terribly difficult it is very difficult because there are times trevor where you want to just be you
33:57you just want to be able to just let it out you know sit there and talk to somebody like i'm talking
34:01to you right now and just talk about old times talk about the old neighborhood things that i miss
34:06maybe some of the things that i did when you sit there and you keep it bottled in every day you need
34:10a release you need something how close did you ever come to having your real identity discovered
34:15oh without a doubt it definitely did i mean there's been a few times where you know i was in a restaurant
34:20or i was in a different location and i seen guys that i knew from the neighborhood say 15 20 years
34:26ago and it's so funny because they all have the same reaction when they see me they see me they double
34:31take they look back they slowly start to gravitate towards me and then they all do the same thing you
34:37look great my god i can't believe it it's been so many years i want you to know it's none of my business
34:44would happen i wish you all the best in the world but i also know that when they walk away from me
34:50whoever they're with they're singing a different tune than when they see me that's very difficult
34:55isn't it because you might think when they walk away from you they might pick up the phone to some
34:59i expect them to pick up the phone but here's the thing trevor if i live in fear and i don't live my
35:04life accordingly then they still control me i can never let them control me ever again they control me my
35:10whole life andrew knows he'll never be able to entirely wash away the stains of his past
35:20he knows there'll always be a killer seeking revenge
35:26and there'll always be a nevada law that bans convicted mobsters from selling cars
35:31so to work as a car salesman andrew must cross the state border if he's to make a living
35:42it all amounts to the fact that he'll never be alive to forget what he once did
36:00you're nobody till somebody loves you
36:19my time was almost up in this city of conflicting emotions
36:23body care there's excitement and wonder in this dazzling neon jungle
36:33but there's danger too and i discovered why las vegas has such a profound effect
36:39on the lives of so many people
36:41just being here can give you a place in its history
36:54living in las vegas you can look out over that strip and all the memories come back
37:02vegas gave lisa medford the chance to be a glamorous showgirl
37:06and perhaps the romance of a lifetime i dated him for almost two years
37:12and um carrie grant wanted a child and i didn't want children even with carrie grant
37:21carrie grant was carrie grant and one day i asked him how do you act you know what's your secret
37:29he said you're they either buy you or they don't buy you if they like me they like me i'm not an actor
37:38and he wasn't he was carrie grant lock stock and barrel
37:44this is what las vegas did for lisa
37:52for antonio esfandiari las vegas provided the key to a life of enviable wealth
37:58i will never leave vegas completely this is a place where i've created a lot of
38:02memories and things that i will always carry with me
38:07you know i'm always going to be coming to vegas for poker tournaments and other events and things
38:11like that i love coming to vegas and so you know if i move anywhere else in the world i'm always going
38:16to have a place in vegas
38:17winners in vegas get to be the top of the pile but winners like antonio are a rare breed
38:30luck is elusive would andrew de donato ever find it he invited me to meet his girlfriend at the el cortez
38:41the venue was oddly appropriate because it was the first hotel budsy siegel bought
38:47in the big mafia takeover of vegas in the 1940s
38:54and now andrew and school teacher daniela are planning to leave this place and all that history
38:59behind them andrew hey trevor how are you good morning come on this is daniela hello daniela very
39:06nice to meet you come sit down what did you think how much did you know about andrew's life when you
39:13first met him i didn't know anything about his life when i first met him when you discovered what did
39:18you think you know it was kind of hard i didn't really think that much into it i was more concerned
39:25about my my daughter and what could take place and you know there's always a thought in the back of
39:32your mind there's he has a lot of enemies he has a lot of people that don't like him you know that there's
39:37people out there who would like to kill me i mean it's plain and simple and i also know that my
39:43past could come back to haunt me at any time in my life but you know we just have to just keep
39:48moving forward and live a positive life and do the things that any normal people would do in your
39:53case daniela how does that fear express itself in in the way you conduct your life when i'm alone i'm
40:00fine it's whenever i'm with him so you know i'm constantly looking over my shoulder or watching the
40:06cars that are behind us or if we go in somewhere i'm always looking around i was i was
40:13about to say do you ever give daniela specific advice on her own say yes i told daniela most of
40:20all to watch out for strange conversation somebody who just comes out out of nowhere who wants to talk
40:25to her and you know speak to her as far as asking questions that they shouldn't or trying to strike
40:32up a friendship because you never know who you're talking to daniela you've had to make a huge
40:36accommodation in your life to take all this hey that works for ways here yeah um you know he's made
40:43no accommodations but my accommodations are are very large um you know you guys are making me
40:50seem damaged it's not i'm not damaged by any means you know i have two girls so it's difficult would
40:57i want my daughters involved with somebody like him 110 no so see but but i think what she's trying
41:08to say is somebody who used to be like i thought she said it yeah see what that's just it see when
41:15do i get a fair shake when do people understand that you could change your life you could spend you've
41:22you could make for the better you could put your best foot forward and live a better life yes i
41:28made a lot of horrible decisions in my life i hurt a lot of people in my life i have to live with that
41:35i have to live with that every day plain and simple daniela has has it ever occurred to you that your
41:41friends would say to you what on earth are you a school teacher doing with a former mobster my friends
41:48don't know that he's a former mobster they well they only know me from what i do now for a living
41:55so your friends know nothing your friends know nothing about andrew's former life no absolutely
42:01not if that's not something that we could go i can divulge you know or share with somebody you know
42:07i can't go sit and have a cocktail with one of my friends and say hey guess what do you know that he
42:12used to be affiliated with the mob i mean you know they have kids and i understand that from their
42:17standpoint too they have children we don't want to destroy relationships i have a child and you
42:22know if she was on the other foot i would be concerned too as a parent i would i would really
42:27think twice on you know allowing my child to go with for certain activities or whatever it is knowing
42:32his background and you know nothing against him and he knows that but if i do have functions with the
42:38kids or whatever it's a double-edged sword i usually do it alone i won't because i won't put somebody
42:43at risk andrew given given the realities of this place las vegas would you ever be able to
42:52make a living here making a living here is very hard it is very hard i gotta be honest with you it's
42:59it's geared to failure for a guy like me see because if you have criminal record out here especially
43:07me with an organized crime pass they will hold that over your head i couldn't get a license here to
43:12sell automobiles that's why i go to other states to sell automobiles because here they won't give me
43:17a license to do so so eventually you'll have to you'll have to move there's no question that i will
43:24leave here i have some good opportunities with people i really care about and who are in the car
43:31business and i will go see them very shortly and hopefully i can make a life in that location
43:37your reaction to that daniela i go where he goes so there you go fantastic
43:45for however short a time las vegas exerts a hold on people perhaps like no other city
44:06it's gaudy superficial and brash even brutal
44:11but it's also enthralling it shines with glamour and excitement
44:22las vegas overwhelms the senses and its promise never lets you go
44:41so
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