Nevada’s Casino Blacklist: The Book Nobody Wanted to Be In

In Las Vegas, casinos are built to welcome people in.

But for decades, there’s been one list designed to keep certain people OUT.

It’s called Nevada’s Black Book — officially known as the List of Excluded Persons — and getting your name into it can permanently change your life in the casino industry.

In this episode of Vegas Crime Files, Gaming writer Rick Velotta joins Heidi Harris to uncover the strange history behind one of Nevada’s most infamous documents. From mobsters and casino cheats to organized crime figures and controversial modern additions, the Black Book has always occupied a unique place in Vegas history: part law enforcement tool, part public warning, part mythology.

Who ends up in the Black Book?Who decides?And once your name goes in… can you ever really escape it?

The episode explores:

• how the Black Book began

• the mob influence that shaped early Las Vegas

• why casinos and regulators wanted certain people banned

• the process for getting listed

• whether the Black Book still matters today

• and the people fighting to get their names removed

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Along the way, you’ll hear stories that sound ripped from a Vegas movie — except they’re real.

Because in Las Vegas, reputation is currency. And some names become too dangerous for the casino floor.

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