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By Kyle Gillis | Nevada Journal
LAS VEGAS — The Mob Museum and Mob Attraction, two organized-crime-themed properties that opened within a year of each other here, have a respectful business competition.
But is it a fair competition?
The Mob Attraction in the Tropicana Resort on the Strip is a privately developed, for-profit exhibition that allows visitors to interact and become “initiated” into the mob.
On the other hand, the Mob Museum in downtown showcases the mob’s history with the assistance of $42 million in taxpayer subsidies and a tax-exempt nonprofit status — giving it government-granted advantages that its private competitor lacks.
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