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Informationen zum Autor Danielle Gomes, daughter of the late Dennis Gomes, who owned and operated Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, is a freelance writer and filmmaker. She co-wrote and narrated a documentary short on America's homeless that won a Telly Award and a Videographer's Award of Excellence. She is a member of the Association of Writers and Writers Program. Jay Bonansinga is the author of Pinkerton's War (Lyons Press), The Sinking of the Eastland, a Chicago Reader Critics Choice Book, and more than ten novels. He is also the author of the novelization of the television series The Walking Dead, a book titled The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. Klappentext In 1970s Las Vegas, a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption, Dennis Gomes-the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history-whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened investigators, shattering clichés about milquetoast accountant cops and battling the Mafia in garish pleasure pits, smoke-filled back rooms, and a high desert where snitches were bloodied and buried. Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. Hit Me! chronicles midnight raids, heart-rending showgirl romances, deadly double-crosses, and a roll call of gangster lore that includes Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro, Allen Glick, Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, George Jay Vandermark, and Joey "The Clown" Lombardo. But no matter how much evidence Gomes uncovered, or how many witnesses and informants suddenly vanished, he was swept aside by a crooked political system. It took nearly three decades, but in 2007 Gomes settled all scores as a key prosecutorial witness at the Family Secrets Trial-the justice system finally taking out a "hit" on the mob. Hit Me! is Gomes's crime-fighting story, as prepared with his daughter, coauthor Danielle Gomes.Dennis Gomes, whose long gaming industry career-including operating Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City-made him a casino legend, passed away in February 2012. He was posthumously inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame in October 2012. Zusammenfassung In 1970s Las Vegas-a heyday of Mafia misdeed in Sin City-a fearless young man launched a crusade to eradicate organized crime in the casinos. In the process! he revolutionized gaming lawenforcement! came within a hair's breadth of death! and wasbetrayed by a system that was dirty to its core. Hit Me! is his story. ...
