San Diego and Las Vegas have had a long, wild history together.
Besides the mobbed-up Moe Dalitz s La Costa resorts, San Diego County has played host to marginal figures who became Vegas notables, including Dalitz crony Wilbur Clark. A onetime bellhop at the San Diego Knickerbocker hotel, Clark built and ran the Desert Inn and casino under Dalitz s guidance.
More recently, the 1990s Cheetahs bribery case, which forced the resignation of three San Diego city council members and put one behind bars, began as an investigation of the Nevada strip club s doings by Vegas-based federal prosecutors.
Moe Dalitz s La Costa resorts were one San Diego connection to Las Vegas.