Ted Binion

He's represented, uh, the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

He's represented the people that actually had something to do with Ted Binion from Binion Casino.

He was representing Barry Bonds at the time for the Balco case.

And then he ends up, my friends all got lawyers from his firm.

And then one book, and then Biggie Smalls died six months later, and that became my second book.

Ted Binion, there was a murder case.

He wasn't murdered, but there was a murder trial, two of them, and his dad ran and he inherited part of the horseshoe casino in downtown, you know, one of the I think it was the first non-sawdust casino in downtown Las Vegas.

And so Ted Binion, I went through both trials and I ended up doing a book about that.

And it's just one book.

And Susan Berman, you know, that's one of my favorite stories and was a privilege really to cover Susan's case and give her a voice and give her her crime story.

But his biggest story came at the end of the 1990s.

When the casino heir Ted Binion was found dead in 1998, Jeff owned the story, including the investigation and the murder trials that followed.

The case had everything a crime writer could ask for.

mob ties, the family fortune, and even a stash of silver rumored to be buried somewhere out in the desert.

But his biggest story came at the end of the 1990s.

When the casino heir Ted Binion was found dead in 1998, Jeff owned the story, including the investigation and the murder trials that followed.

The case had everything a crime writer could ask for.

Mob ties, a family fortune, and even a stash of silver rumored to be buried somewhere out in the desert.