Francis Citro Jr., the 80-year-old Las Vegas entertainer who hoped to have his name removed from the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s list of debarred persons, failed in a unanimous vote to convince commissioners to grant him a hearing to make his case.
In an hours-long hearing Thursday, Citro’s attorney, Anthony Sgro, told commissioners that all of Citro’s former mob associates are dead and that he is a changed man who just wants to be able to bring his act of performing bebop music, Italian folk songs, jokes and telling stories about Las Vegas’ mob past to a casino lounge.
Commissioners also unanimously agreed to make illegal bookie Mathew Bowyer the 39th person added to the infamous “Black Book” filled with names of people permanently banned from the state’s major casinos for gambling-related crimes.
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