The casinos involved in the new indictments are the Stardust Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and the Fremont Hotel in downtown Las Vegas. Venue was available to Federal prosecutors in any of the cities where the conspiracy allegedly occurred. In 1981 the Kansas City grand jury returned indictments in a casino skimming case involving the Tropicana Hotel, and convictions were voted by a trial jury there in July. Balestrieri was being tried on charges of running an illegal betting ring. But the indictment was sealed to avoid influencing a jury in Milwaukee where Mr. 30, the day it ended three years of service. The indictment tabulated $1.6 million that Federal investigators were able to trace, but the total involved was believed to be much larger, according to Federal officials who did not want to be identified.Ī Federal grand jury in Kansas City returned the indictment on Sept.

Among the 15 people indicted were men described by the law-enforcement authorities as some of the most important leaders of organized crime in the Middle West, including Joseph Aiuppa of Chicago, Carl J. The indictment, which is a result of a five-year investigation, constitutes the most extensive skimming case the Federal Government has brought in the half century since Nevada began to license gambling as a part of a plan to develop a resort economy. They then looted the casinos by removing winnings through skimming operations that created large tax-free sums, which the conspirators distributed among themselves, the Government charges. A Federal indictment made public yesterday accuses purported Mafia leaders in three Middle Western cities of using their influence to get teamsters' union pension fund loans that enabled them to become secret owners of Las Vegas casinos.

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