Razzle DazzleIn Sin City, Newport, Kentucky, in the mid twenthieth century, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, organized crime the syndicate established itself as the purveyor of vice: gambling & prostituion. Since the prohibtion era Newport had been the night life center for the greater Cincinnati area, and by the 1950s it was run by the eastern mafia syndicate based in Cleveland. In the late 1950s Newport citizens began their attempt to clean up