:09:00
NlCKY: Definitely the most
important guy in this room.
:09:03
FRANK: About 20 pounds.
Around $700,000.
:09:04
REMO: Good.
:09:06
STONE: It's a little early for Las Vegas...
:09:10
but I want to welcome the ladies
and gentlemen of the gaming industry....
:09:13
SAM: As far as the world was concerned...
:09:15
Andy Stone,
head of the Teamsters' Pension Fund...
:09:18
was a legitimate guy.
:09:21
A powerful man.
:09:23
He played golf with the President.
:09:25
ANDY: On behalf
of the Teamsters' Pension Fund...
:09:27
I'm glad to present...
:09:28
SAM: But he also took orders.
:09:30
When he was told to give
a pension-fund loan to Philip Green...
:09:33
...this cheque for $62,700,000...
:09:36
for the new Tangiers.
:09:38
...he did what he was told.
:09:40
NlCKY: Here was the perfect front man.
:09:42
What the fuck else could he be?
He didn't know too much.
:09:44
He didn't want to know too much...
:09:46
especially that the bosses
made the Teamsters lend him money.
:09:49
He wanted to believe they gave him
the money because he was smart.
:09:52
I say that knowing just how much
competition we have in this city.
:09:55
[Upbeat jazz music]
:09:58
NlCKY: And where they got Green from?
:10:01
Who the fuck knows?
:10:02
All I know is that he was
an Arizona real-estate hustler...
:10:05
who barely had enough gas money
to come and pick up his fucking cheque.
:10:09
And it was the bosses' man...
:10:11
Andy Stone, who gave all the orders.
:10:13
Not the Chairman of the Board,
Philip Green.
:10:15
I understand.
:10:16
[Upbeat jazz music intensifies]
:10:21
NlCKY: Now all they needed was...
:10:22
someone they could trust to run the casino.
:10:24
And who better than Ace?
He was already in Vegas a couple years...
:10:28
and he had the fucking place clocked.
:10:30
But typical Ace,
give him a shot to run a casino...
:10:33
and he tries to talk you out of it.
:10:35
I don't know if I could do this.
:10:36
The Gaming Commission
would never give me a licence.
:10:39
I have at least 24 gambling
and bookmaking pinches on me.
:10:42
You don't have to have a licence
to work in a casino.
:10:45
All you gotta do is apply for one.
:10:47
The State law says that
you can work in a casino...
:10:49
while they process your application.
:10:51
ANDY: They got a 10-year backlog.
:10:53
What happens when they do find out?
:10:55
ANDY: Why would they want to find out?
:10:56
We're putting $100 million here.
Why would they lock us out?