The Nation - News from Nov. 13, 1985

Kansas City mob leader Nick Civella told associate Frank Rosenthal that an attempt to bribe Nevada Gov.-elect Robert List, then attorney general, in 1978 could be harmful and advised him to drop it, according to wiretap evidence presented in the casino skimming trial in Kansas City. The tape revealed that Rosenthal had evidence that List had charged the state for a complimentary hotel room and threatened to make the information public unless List helped Rosenthal get a gaming license. Rosenthal was a silent partner of San Diego businessman Allen R. Glick, who owned the four Las Vegas casinos where the alleged skimming occurred.