This is from Steve Miller, a guy who runs an online news site tracking 'connections' (to put it mildly) between the mob and the Las Vegas political establishment, law enforcement, and judicial officials. With that little hobby he's a busy man. He's also a former Las Vegas City Councilman. He posted this yesterday, but the local press did not:
[I][B]Crazy Horse bouncer reported dead [/b]
Maurice "Mo" McKenna
A reliable source reports that long time Crazy Horse Too topless bar bouncer Maurice "Mo" McKenna has died.
McKenna, 45, was expected to be a witness in the upcoming OPERATION CRAZY HORSE racketeering trial.
The 300-pound, 6' 1" bouncer was named in an Incident Report but not taken into custody on May 30, 2002, for the alleged beating of Scottsdale, Arizona tourist Michael Silverman. This was not the first time McKenna was accused of beating Crazy Horse Too patrons.
McKenna was also identified as the bouncer who allegedly assaulted Glendale, California tourist Chris Johnson on Monday, October 21, 2002. Johnson in a police report stated that a Crazy Horse bouncer pushed him into the street where he fell twisting his ankle. Johnson said the man who pushed him weighed over 300 pounds and matched McKenna's description.
Since his election in 2003, current Clark County District Attorney David Roger has refused to prosecute any employee of the Crazy Horse Too.
On August 4, 1995, California trucker Scott David Fau was found beaten to death next to railroad tracks behind the Crazy Horse Too. A witness reported seeing Fau being severely beaten by Crazy Horse employees in the parking lot after he was ejected from the bar. According to the witness, one of the men who was reportedly observed kicking Fau in the head was named "Mo."
In a taped statement, the witness described two men who he said worked as bouncers at the club. "Yeah, they're the ones that beat up this Hawaiian guy out there that was just - the poor guy wasn't even moving, and they were kicking him, and um, at that point that's all. They were just kicking him around, jumping on him, stomping on his arm. They stomped his leg. Kicked him in the stomach. They kept - Mo was kicking him in the head, and you just watched his head wiggle around."
Former District Attorney Stu Bell refused to prosecute anyone in the Fau case, so on January 16, 2003, eight years after her husband's death and after several dismissals of her case, Scott Fau's widow Camille sued the Crazy Horse in Clark County District Court. When the purported eyewitness did not appear in court, Judge Nancy M. Saitta refused to allow his taped testimony to be heard by the jury. Subsequently, Fau lost her case.
Now, a young man who would have been a key witness for federal prosecutors is reportedly dead.[/I]
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P.S. For those who aren't aware of it, the official "owner" of the joint, Rick Rizzolo, is the Mayor's buddy, and his unofficial boss, Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, head of the Chicago mob who's currently under indictment for 18 murders, is a longtime indirect business associate of Hizzoner, making him rich through his clients. I wouldn't care to run up a big bar tab in this place, and wouldn't expect a very thorough local police investigation if it ended badly.