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Tourist Mecca? Or Taxpayer Boondoggle?

Tourist Mecca?  Or Taxpayer Boondoggle?

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Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 | 7:30 p.m.

Tourist mecca or taxpayer boondoggle? The Mob Museum has been criticized as a taxpayer-financed shrine to former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's glory days as a mob lawyer. But will a visit to the museum be an offer Las Vegas tourists can't refuse? We'll hear from the city and from a critic who says it's a waste of your money.

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