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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department wasn’t alone in making Tony Spilotro a priority target in the late 1970s. The FBI was also beefing up its forces in Vegas, bringing in additional personnel from other offices. Among the new arrivals ...
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department wasn’t alone in making Tony Spilotro a priority target in the late 1970s. The FBI was also beefing up its forces in Vegas, bringing in additional personnel from other offices. Among the new arrivals …
Although Commander Clifford was newly assigned to confront Spilotro, he was well-aware of the gangster’s reputation and presence. Clifford described his adversary this way: “Tony Spilotro was a cold- blooded killer. You could see it when you looked into his eyes. He was capable of being extremely vicious and violent.”The former Intelligence boss disagrees with newspaper accounts that killings involving the use of a .22 were the “signature” of the Spilotro gang. “Tony used a twenty-two, but that particular weapon wasn’t unique to him. A lot of hit...
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