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The
list
below
was
obtained
by
a
former
employee
of
High
Country
Investments
,
a
company
first
believed
to
be
a
dummy
company
owned
by
Derwent
Enterprises
.
It
now
seems
more
likely
that
Derwent
’
s
interest
in
High
Country
(
if
any
)
is
outweighed
by
those
of
several
Las
Vegas
gambling
barons
.
And
these
same
gaming
honchos
have
been
linked
in
the
past
to
both
suspected
and
convicted
underworld
kingpins
.
Present
at
the
Overlook
during
that
sunny
week
in
August
were
:
Charles
Grondin
,
President
of
High
Country
Investments
.
When
it
became
known
in
July
of
this
year
that
he
was
running
the
High
Country
ship
it
was
announced
-
considerably
after
the
fact
-
that
he
had
resigned
his
position
in
Derwent
Enterprises
previously
.
The
silver
-
maned
Grondin
,
who
refused
to
talk
to
me
for
this
column
,
has
been
tried
once
and
acquitted
on
tax
evasion
charges
(
1960
)
.
Charles
"
Baby
Charlie
"
Battaglia
,
a
60
-
year
-
old
Vegas
empressario
(
controlling
interests
in
The
Greenback
and
The
Lucky
Bones
on
the
Strip
)
.
Battaglia
is
a
close
personal
friend
of
Grondin
.
His
arrest
record
stretches
back
to
1932
,
when
he
was
tried
and
acquitted
in
the
gangland
-
style
murder
of
Jack
"
Dutchy
"
Morgan
.
Federal
authorities
suspect
his
involvement
in
the
drug
traffic
,
prostitution
,
and
murder
for
hire
,
but
"
Baby
Charlie
"
has
only
been
behind
bars
once
,
for
income
tax
evasion
in
1955
-
56
.
Richard
Scarne
,
the
principal
stockholder
of
Fun
Time
Automatic
Machines
.
Fun
Time
makes
slot
machines
for
the
Nevada
crowd
,
pinball
machines
,
and
jukeboxes
(
Melody
-
Coin
)
for
the
rest
of
the
country
.
He
has
done
time
for
assault
with
a
deadly
weapon
(
1940
)
,
carrying
a
concealed
weapon
(
1948
)
,
and
conspiracy
to
commit
tax
fraud
(
1961
)
.
Peter
Zeiss
,
a
Miami
-
based
importer
,
now
nearing
70
.
For
the
last
five
years
Zeiss
has
been
fighting
deportation
as
an
undesirable
person
.
He
has
been
convicted
on
charges
of
receiving
and
concealing
stolen
property
(
1958
)
,
and
conspiracy
to
commit
tax
fraud
(
1954
)
.
Charming
,
distinguished
,
and
courtly
,
Pete
Zeiss
is
called
"
Poppa
"
by
his
intimates
and
has
been
tried
on
charges
of
murder
and
accessory
to
murder
.
A
large
stockholder
in
Scarne
’
s
Fun
Time
company
,
he
also
has
known
interests
in
four
Las
Vegas
casinos
.
Vittorio
Gienelli
,
also
known
as
"
Vito
the
Chopper
,
"
tried
twice
for
gangland
-
style
murders
,
one
of
them
the
ax
-
murder
of
Boston
vice
overlord
Frank
Scoffy
.
Gienelli
has
been
indicted
twenty
-
three
times
,
tried
fourteen
times
,
and
convicted
only
once
,
for
shoplifting
in
1940
.
It
has
been
said
that
in
recent
years
Gienelli
has
become
a
power
in
the
organization
’
s
western
operation
,
which
is
centered
in
Las
Vegas
.
Carl
"
Jimmy
-
Ricks
"
Prashkin
,
a
San
Francisco
investor
,
reputed
to
be
the
heir
apparent
of
the
power
Gienelli
now
wields
.
Prashkin
owns
large
blocks
of
stock
in
Derwent
Enterprises
,
High
Country
Investments
,
Fun
Time
Automatic
Machines
,
and
three
Vegas
casinos
.
Prashkin
is
clean
in
America
,
but
was
indicted
in
Mexico
on
fraud
charges
that
were
dropped
quickly
three
weeks
after
they
were
brought
.
It
has
been
suggested
that
Prashkin
may
be
in
charge
of
laundering
money
skimmed
from
Vegas
casino
operations
and
funneling
the
big
bucks
back
into
the
organization
’
s
legitimate
western
operations
.
And
such
operations
may
now
include
the
Overlook
Hotel
in
Colorado
.
