What Chuck Bryant has said about Organized crime in Las Vegas

2 quotes · 1 episode · May 28, 2026

Chuck Bryant, Co-host of Stuff You Should Know, has been quoted on Organized crime in Las Vegas 2 times in 1 episode of Stuff You Should Know, most recently on May 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Bryant said Hughes envisioned Las Vegas becoming as respectable as the New York Stock Exchange rather than a mob town.
“he had a vision of Las Vegas to be, I think he said, as respectable as the New York Stock Exchange”
Stuff You Should Know: Howard Hughes in Las Vegas (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 31:18
Bryant said the mob skimmed about $50 million from Hughes's casinos in under four years.
“in less than four years, the mob skimmed about 50 million bucks off of Howard Hughes”
Stuff You Should Know: Howard Hughes in Las Vegas (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 46:57

Howard Hughes in Las Vegas
Stuff You Should Know · May 28, 2026 · 49 min
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant recount Howard Hughes's reclusive, drug-addled years at the Desert Inn and his buying spree that reshaped Las Vegas.