Tropicana Las Vegas - a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel

This guide to the former Tropicana Las Vegas opens in 1957, when gunmen shot the mobster Frank Costello in New York and police found a note in his pocket listing the exact earnings of a brand-new casino across the country. You'll follow developer Dandy Phil Kastel's denials, the initials on that note believed to point to Meyer Lansky and Jimmy Hoffa, and the licensing fight that followed. It traces a second scheme decades later, when federal wiretaps caught a Kansas City crime family draining cash from the casino's cashier cage.