{"id":1474746,"date":"2022-05-13T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474746"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:29:43","slug":"not-a-bad-way-to-get-rid-of-someone-former-las-vegas-mayor-ex-mafia-attorney-comments-on-body-found-in-lake-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-bad-way-to-get-rid-of-someone-former-las-vegas-mayor-ex-mafia-attorney-comments-on-body-found-in-lake-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not A Bad Way To Get Rid Of Someone\u2019: Former Las Vegas Mayor, Ex-Mafia Attorney Comments On Body Found In Lake Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-a-bad-way-to-get-rid-of-someone-former-las-vegas-mayor-ex-mafia-attorney-comments-on-body-found-in-lake-mead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-486179088.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former Las Vegas mayor who also served as an attorney for Mafia chieftains was impressed with the possibility that the Mob killed enemies and dumped them in Lake Mead.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Goodman, who represented Meyer Lansky, Frank Rosenthal and Anthony \u201cTony the Ant\u201d Spilotro, stated he had no idea how the body of a man found in a barrel in the receding waters of the lake got there.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he declared, \u201cDumping a body in a barrel and then dropping it in a lake is not a bad way to get rid of someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nobody ever dreamt that lake would be as low as it is today,\u201d he added in an interview with The Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s body was discovered close to Hemenway Harbor on May 1 after the water level plunged because of the megadrought in the area. The man had been shot in the head and had a metal overcoat in the shape of a barrel as it reportedly rested in the lake for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the lake level dropping at Lake Mead, bodies are showing up\u2026.this could get interesting\u2026.\ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yw02aWgrBJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Yw02aWgrBJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Troy Warren (@chvyrod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chvyrod\/status\/1520969170862583808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very difficult case,\u201d Las Vegas Metro police homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told the 8 News Now. \u201cI would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody is asking me, \u2018Who is it \u2013 and do you know who did it?\u2019\u201d Goodman said. \u201cAnd I say to them, don\u2019t bother asking me that. How do I know? Nobody ever came to me and said, \u2018Mr. Goodman you think it\u2019s a good idea for us to put someone in a barrel and put him in the lake?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m waiting to see if the guy was shot with a .22,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cThe favorite method of murdering somebody back in those days was to use a .22.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe .22 kills people, but it doesn\u2019t cause great damage,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a small caliber bullet. And the person was usually shot in the back of the head. That\u2019s the modus operandi in most of the cases with Mob related murders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say if I was a gangster I wouldn\u2019t use a .22,\u201d he theorized. \u201cI\u2019d use something that put a bigger hole in somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goodman turned to joking: \u201cI used to joke that when we had a development project such as a new store, and I was asked to cut the ribbon as mayor at the start of excavation, I would pray one of my former client\u2019s hands didn\u2019t come up from the ground. That always used to crack people up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were a criminal and I was looking to commit a crime and had to hide something like a body I would think of the desert before dumping it in a lake,\u201d he insisted. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of work to go out to Lake Mead and put somebody in a barrel, go out on the water and dump that barrel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing out to the desert, you take a shovel and you do it at night, little flashlight,\u201d he said confidently. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to bury somebody out there. It\u2019s a big desert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt used to be like the wild west in Las Vegas. But everything is much tougher for somebody to be a real mobster these days,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Las Vegas in the 1960s and 1970s, he argued, \u201cIt was a very safe place to live then.\u201d He explained that mobsters would kill people out of state and not in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would do it in California or Arizona because they did not want to bring attention to Las Vegas,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Las Vegas mayor who also served as an attorney for Mafia chieftains was impressed with the possibility that the Mob killed enemies and dumped them in Lake Mead.Oscar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1482917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}