Reflections On Vinnie (Vincent Faraci), Former Manager Of Crazy Horse Too Strip Club In Las Vegas
John L. Smith reports that Vinnie Faraci is the "son of notorious Bonanno crime family capo "Johnny Green" Faraci."
This guy is actually a Bonnano guy. I heard on the street that he maybe is a Capo like his old man Johnny "Greens" Faraci. I heard this in 2003, who knows. He is no saint anyway, he was convicted of mail fraud in 1985. He was also said to be watching from the doorway of the Crazy Horse too in Las Vegas when Kirk Henry was beat down and paralyzed. The place is not as good as when Vinnie was the shift manager. The quality of the dancer has gone down. Vinnie had the books of the girls who could work in the VIP room. I wonder if he misses having the girls dump out their purses and taking 25%? Most of the girls were so loaded or doped up they could not even count. Well Cabo must look nice this time of year. The problem with Cabo? Its Mexico and a big let down from New York and Las Vegas. I don't blame him for heading down south after his Boss Joey Massino did the flip. Really it was a belly flop because of his size. I don't know what happened in Brooklyn, but Vinnie must have had a good 20 years at the Crazy Horse Too. Vinnie was so close to getting Exotica2000! ICE dashed those dreams. Good luck Vinnie! The Mexicans sent home Sam Giancana, so don't get all comfortable. So what does V innie have to do with LA? One he is in Las Vegas, well not anymore, but he was for awhile. Guys from Brooklyn and pump and dump Wall starters all checked in with him over at the Horse before they hit town. The local Las Vegas guys had no idea who was coming into town. Then Vinnie was in LA. He had Limping Lenny who was at his wedding and is his guy in LA. Limping Lenny was over in Las Vegas at the House of Blues but that did not work out. Then he had Bust Out Bonanno Ronnie Lorenz in Brentwood. Vinnie went to see Ronnie when he was locked up at Taft. I remember when I was at Frankies with Tabitha Stevens and we saw Vinnie and Frankie speaking.
JOHN L. SMITH: Crazy Horse Too shift manager's luxurious spread likely to intrigue IRS
The Brooklyn native [Vinny Faraci] is a registered felon with a 1985 mail fraud conviction. An incident in which he was named but not prosecuted in 1985 involved the alleged ball bat beating of a Crazy Horse Too customer.
In New York, Faraci's father is a feared Bonanno crime family loan shark known as "Johnny Green." With a reported $500,000 on the street and a reputation for a quick temper, until he ran into legal trouble Johnny Green was no one to mess with.
New York and Las Vegas law enforcement insiders call Vinny Faraci a Bonanno soldier. Others claim he holds a lieutenant's rank.
One alleged violent act was a September 2001 incident involving Kansas tourist Kirk Henry, whose neck was broken after a $66 bar dispute. Club attorney Tony Sgro asserts Henry was injured after a drunken fall. Henry's attorney Don Campbell counters that his client, now a quadriplegic, was nearly killed by a man identified as shift manager and Faraci associate Bobby D'Apice.
Porn star Logan LaBrent writes me in January 2001: "Luke regarding XXX on who owns Crazy Horse Too. I've worked at the Horse Too Chicago and currently in between shoots in LA, at the Crazy Horse Vegas. I know Rick and Vinny very well. Rick is the owner and there is no mafia(Bonnano/Merlino) involved at all with either of them. XXX should get his facts straight before talking smack!"
The Glamorous Life Of A Mob Whore
The Hollywood Mafia ex-gangster writes me in March 2005 about porn star Dayton:
How does she support her over $1000 a month pill habit? She works as an escort. She tells anyone who might see her pictures on the websites that they just put her picture up without permission. When a john pays for an hour, she get him in and out in 35 mins. She is so nasty that when doing multiple appointments she does not even shower.
She had this boyfriend down in Orange County who she kept at home while she was in New York turning tricks. While in New York she was not only a escort, she was a Mob whore. She was like a newpaper that everyone read. She was at the Bayridge Street Fair with Nicky Glasses and Craig Marino. She was with John Goggles. She was even at Keith Gordon's apartment doing the deed. She had alleged Colombo Mobsters call Las Vegas-based alleged Mobster Vinny at the Crazy Horse Too so she could get a good shift.
Reflections On Vinnie (Vincent Faraci), Former Manager Of Crazy Horse Too Strip Club In Las Vegas
I talk to somebody who hung out with him.
XXX: "He's regarded as the last public link to the Mob in Vegas. He ran the Crazy Horse. Every Sunday he would come into the nightclub Light at the Bellagio. He would always come in with 15 dancers from Crazy Horse. He always had two bodyguards. He never spoke. He'd point and people would order things for him. You'd shake his hand and you wouldn't say anything because you'd know he wouldn't talk back. He'd go on the dance floor and his two bodyguards would clear people away. I thought he brought his girls into the Vegas club scene to get them work [as hookers] with the highrollers. They'd never all leave with him. They'd always end up with different guys. He was always out at the different clubs in Vegas with different girls.
"Everybody who worked at the Crazy Horse Too seemed like they were in the Mob.
"Jack Sheehan's book Skin City: Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry is superb. It talks about Vinnie Faraci."
The Jurk reviews Skin City on Amazon.com:
I bought this book during my last visit to Las Vegas but, unfortunately, I didn't find out very much about Vegas from reading it. I knew Vegas hosted the porn awards, I knew Vegas had a lot of escorts and hookers...so not too many surprises.
I was also left a little skeptical since the author was satisfied with each porn star and prostitute's take on their lives and professions. The book read like he was trying to maintain the slick, sexy sheen of the Vegas tourism ads without delving into some of the more tragic aspects of all that sex and drugs.
One of my best friends in the world is on the Vegas Police Department, and he could tell you a completely different side of the "fun capital of the world." (Maybe a dark, stunning expose could be written about the seedy side of Disneyland. I don't know. But I read SKIN CITY and felt like a lot of folks in that book were not telling their whole story. Or just the whole story of that lifestyle).
Ultimately, SKIN CITY reads like a book where only the winners are interviewed...and the losers are hustled out of town.
12/25/05
This is Joey Lombardo a man who is said to head up the Outfit in Chicago. Joey who was dubbed by the newspapers as the Clown made this blog because of his ties to the Crazy Horse too strip bar in Las Vegas. Joey's brother Rocky was a manager for years at the Horse. The FBI and the IRS have for years looked for a connection between the Outfit and the Horse. The Horse was strange because you had guys from the Colombo Family in Brooklyn, alongside Bonanno Guys and then Chicago guys. I am sure that when the Feds finally move on the Horse the total amount of the skim will come out. The skim for a club of that size and traffic must be huge. The Casino count rooms really did not provide that much cash because of all the eyes on the cash. Joey is currently a fugitive, wanted for murder and RICO crimes. One of the crimes he was indicted for is the murder of the Antman and his brother in a cornfield. The Mafia cop case in New York is one step closer now. The US attorney would like to have an hidden jury because Eppolito bragged of his NYPD connections.
