Frank Rosenthal is best known as the central figure in a massive skimming operation run by Midwestern organized crime families with hidden interests in four Las Vegas casinos in the 1970s, a story depicted in the 1995 movie Casino. Brash and ruthless, Rosenthal oversaw the theft of millions in cash from the Stardust Hotel at the behest of the Chicago Outfit and with the aid of his boyhood friend, Mob enforcer Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro, until Nevada authorities forced him out in 1978.
