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Crazy Horse Too loses liquor license, Rick Rizzolo

One year ago tonight



The following AmericanMafia.com INSIDE VEGAS column described an event that took place one year ago tonight. Since that time, the Crazy Horse Too has remained dark, and in approximately eight hours -- at midnight tonight -- the adult use zoning for the address will permanently expire rendering the property to never again be operated as a topless bar. Thanks to the Las Vegas City Council, and US Judge Philip Pro, the violence is finally over.

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The Anticlimax:

Crazy Horse Too loses liquor license, but will it be for long?

INSIDE VEGAS by Steve Miller AmericanMafia.com July 2, 2007 LAS VEGAS, midnight Saturday June 30, 2007 - A used hypodermic needle lying in an empty parking lot is all that remains of the once booming Crazy Horse Too. AmericanMafia.com photographer Mike Christ and I arrived early to find two TV news crews and Review-Journal City Hall reporter Dave Schwartz with his photographer milling around the front of Buffalo Jim Barrier's auto garage waiting for the moment that marked the historical end of a sad and bloody saga that endured from the late 1970s until last Saturday night. After the last intoxicated patron staggered to his car parked under the Sahara overpass, the forlorn building that once housed the wildly popular strip joint echoed of better times, but no one of any significance remained inside although the lights stayed on and they can still pour non-alcoholic drinks. A minute after midnight, a half dozen city business license officials led by City Attorney Brad Jerbic entered the building and unceremoniously removed the liquor license while club owner Rick Rizzolo sat in a cell at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center. more...


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Steve Miller, is a former Las Vegas City Councilman. In 1991, the readers of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the “Most Effective Public Official” in Southern Nevada. Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com.

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