Saturday, April 7- Frank Cullotta will be signing CULLOTTA – The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness in the gift shop from 1:00 – 5:00 pm. Gift shop is free to attend, browse and of course, buy!!

The Mob Museum Events Page

Entrance to the Gift Shop is free!
But take the tour, its worth the money and the time.
If you do take the tour, you will see Frank’s mug featured prominently near the end… In several displays and video shots.  Plus he has a spot in the end movie exhibit, when  Casino writer Nicholas Pileggie talks about getting the killing right in the movie and ended up using Frank,, the man who really did the hit.  Good Stuff!

Can’t Make It??

Forgetaboutit.  Come May 11 and meet the writer who helped Frank get it all done.

Friday, May 11 – Denny Griffin will be signing The Battle for Las Vegas, Surviving The Mob and CULLOTTA from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.

• Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness (True Crime)

• The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law Vs. the Mob (True Crime)

• Surviving the Mob: A Street Soldier’s Life in the Gambino Crime Family

On Valentines Day, The new “Mob Museum” opened in Las Vegas. Frank Cullotta and few other mobsters were there for the opening.  I saw Andrew DiDonato(see photo with Frank), Henry Hill and a few others lurking around.

The official title of the museum is “National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.”  Everyone just calls it The Mob Museum…  And that’s it website address.

Frank has a role in the museum. In video clips and statements inside various exhibits and interactive kiosks, Frank Cullotta talks about being in the Mob.  Giving you a pretty grim first person view of being part of the Mafia.  Warts and all and always in the Frank Cullotta style… as it is and how it happened.  Nothing is ever sugar coated with Frank!

The museum itself, steps you thru the birth, growth and demise of the Mob in America.  Nothing is glamorized.  It also shows how Law enforcement helped bring the Mob down.  Nothing is glamorized (the critics keep hounding the opposite)  and they even tell a few gritty tales of when Law Enforcement was on the Mobs side.  So, like I said, it shows everything, warts and all.

Of course, the whole thing ends in a gift shop, where you can buy Frank’s book, amongst other mob/Law enforcement memorabilia and trinkets.

Love the Mob?  Love Law Enforcement?  Love Vegas?  Go see The Mob Museum!

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I know, it’s been awhile since I touched this website, my apologies for that… Life gets in the way and things slip by.  However, the interest in Frank Cullotta and his life story keeps growing and growing…

If you caught Mob Week on AMC, you probably caught a few segments with Frank kicking back and talking about his life as a mobster. If you were wondering, yea, that’s Frank.. easy going, straight forward and not make excuses or apologizing for what he did… he lived, he survived and he knows he was a lucky one. Move on..

If you did see Frank on AMC, leave your comments below, we would love to hear them!

Back to the Show

As summer heats up, life seems to be slowing down a bit and hopefully giving me more time to reorganize and update this site.  Wanting to add some highlights, some tips and some facts about Frank Cullotta and those he associated with.  So let us know what you want to know and we will try to find it and post it here…  Just for you!

So hang in there, give us your thoughts and questions and sign up for the free updates.

Mark Anthony

For people new to the site… here are a few good primers to Frank and the Vegas Mob era.

• Casino (the best movie on Las Vegas and the Mob)

• The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law Vs. the Mob (True Crime)
  The book that details the era covered in Casino.  Meet Frank and Tony

• Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness (True Crime)
  Frank’s life story.
• The Vegas Tourist interviews Frank Cullotta

Tuesday, January 18th is when you can come out and meet Frank Cullotta and some other mobsters at the Las Vegas Public Library

Frank will be part of a panel of heavyweights from organized crime families in New York, New Jersey and Chicago who ended up in Las Vegas, what it was like turning on the Mob and working for the government, plus Hollywood memories from the Martin Scorsese movies Casino and Goodfellas.

Frank Cullotta of the Chicago Mob participated in the original Hole In The Wall Gang that pulled off the most notorious heist in Las Vegas and was mob technical advisor on the movie Casino;

Andrew DiDonato worked for the Genovese & Gambino crime families in New York who later became a government informant and produced a documentary movie about his criminal life ; Dennis Griffin penned Cullotta, a biographical expose about Frank Cullotta’s life of crime;

East Coast ex-mobster Henry Hill got the Hollywood treatment when his life story of working for the Lucchese crime family was portrayed by actor Ray Liotta in Goodfellas; and actor Craig Vincent played the cowboy who wouldn’t take his boots off the table in Casino and was also a technical advisor/stuntman for the movie.

Also,  The Mob Museum is scheduled to open in 2011 and a presentation of mob related items will be donated to curator Kathleen Hickey Barrie on behalf of the Museum in an onstage ceremony.

Books and merchandise by DiDonato, Griffin & Hill will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.

Join Us
Clark County Library Mob Month events are co-sponsored by Yelp. Free and open to the public. Starts at 7pm.  All program seating is first-come, first-served. For more information, please call 507-3458.

Actually, its the same interview published in  several papers owned by The Las Vegas Sun.  Where he talks about his restaurant, the Upper crust and the fact that his place was the first one in Las Vegas to offer Chicago-Style Stuffed Crust Pizza.  That Senator harry reid was NEVER on the mob’s payroll or that he was a marked man and they did a failed hit on his family.

Harry is running for his livelihood in the Senate race and pulling or grasping at all available straws, targets and scapegoats to save his cushy job in Washington.  At one point, running a series of ads claiming he is such a wonderful “man of the people”  that at one time, the mob wanted him dead.  I know, nice try and a funny headline.  But it got him some free media attention.

The surprise comes in a blog posting on The Las Vegas Sun, where the fateful question was finally answered.  What does an ex-mobster do for a living?  And where does he do it??  want to know what Does an ex-mobster do for a living??

To meet Frank Cullotta:
Saturday, May 8
2 p.m
Winchester Cultural Center
3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Cost is $15

Special Guest is Dennis Griffin
Co-Author of
“Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness.”

Mr Cullotta has knowledge of this website, but he has Nothing to do with this website or it’s contents. Questions, Comments and Messages for Mr Cullotta may be saved and delivered to him at a later date.  But I make no guarantees.