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Post #615077 by Swanky on Wed, Nov 23, 2011 12:46 PM

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Yes, Don had his affiliations with the mob. Various situations are described in the Bitner book about Don and the mob, and I have first hand stories of a certain mobster coming into DtB in Chicago, and well, we'll leave it at that.

I think if you were doing business in NY or Chicago in the 1940s, you dealt with the mob in some way or other.

And then, we have both of them doing business in Las Vegas as well!