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Wicked Newport: Kentucky’s Sin City

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Controlled by the heavy hand of the mob and fueled by government corruption, Newport evolved through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a notoriously robust center of criminal activity. With top political and law enforcement officials ceaselessly on the take, the seedy status quo became so over the top that a May 1961 issue of Time magazine declared, “Newport has developed this type of gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it stands nowadays as probably the most nation’s most blatant sin centers.” Eastern Kentucky University Professors Gary Potter and Thomas Barker, both experts on organized crime, together with Jenna Meglen, offer up a fascinating chronicle of Newport’s criminal development, complete with thought-provoking assessments of the conceivable advantages that organized crime brought to the city often regarded as to be Las Vegas’s predecessor.

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