Then agents began interviewing witnesses including the Crazy Horse's next door neighbor Buffalo Jim Barrier who shot the photos that time-stamped the Henry beating. From Barrier they learned that Mr. Henry's brutal experience was not the first of its kind -- that many others had met a similar fate at the hands and boots of Crazy Horse employees including the beating death of Scott Fau, and baseball bat beating of Rick Sandland that led to his death three years later. Again agents learned that local District Attorneys refused to prosecute in either case.

Wire taps were placed on Rick Rizzolo's phones. Soon new subjects of interest emerged. It was evident that Rizzolo hated his competitor Michael Galardi. According to sources, Rizzolo would talk openly of Galardi bribing public officials, and how other officials who had loyalties to the Crazy Horse would work to thwart Galardi's business efforts. This brought then-city councilman Michael McDonald into the investigation.

Michael Galardi had loaned his brand new Ferrari to Joey Cusumano, a close associate of Rizzolo and Mayor Oscar Goodman, and member of Nevada's infamous Black Book of undesirables. It was well known that Michael's father, Jack Galardi, had wanted his son to avoid any contact with Rizzolo or his crew. The Ferrari episode broke any confidence the father and son shared.

Michael Galardi must have thought "If you can't beat em, join em" when he suddenly put Rizzolo's biggest political stooge, McDonald, on his payroll. All of a sudden, according to sources, the city stopped harassing Galardi's Cheetahs club, located in the city limits.

However, Jack Galardi despised McDonald, so much so that he openly contributed $5,000 to his recall effort in 2000.

According to wire taps obtained by Jeff German of the LV SUN, even Rizzolo was shocked at the new relationship between McDonald and Michael Galardi, so he temporarily took McDonald off his payroll. The SUN's wire tap transcripts stated, "Ultimately, club owner #1 quit paying McDonald, at least for a time, because of McDonald's efforts to collect cash from both club owner #1 and Galardi."

Then, with McDonald's alleged help, Galardi made a slew of new friends on the Clark County Commission, hence this week's Galardi racketeering trial.

As stated in the above Review-Journal story, this week's Galardi trial probably is only the prelude to a Rizzolo trial. The original mission of the Organized Crime Strike Task Force was coined "Operation Crazy Horse," and to this day, that remains their priority.

But the most revealing statement was made by Michael McDonald's well respected attorney Richard Wright. Wright told RJ Special Projects Reporter Alan Maimon that McDonald would testify against Rizzolo at a potential trial only if he is offered immunity from prosecution.

That being the case, it's obvious that McDonald has a lot of important information if he needs immunity. Innocent people do not need immunity to do their civic duty. If McDonald gets immunity and takes the witness stand, the IRS will certainly be listening. Then Rick Rizzolo and his family will have much more to fear.

As far as speculating that Rizzolo would turn Federal witness, a long time Chicago law enforcement officer put it this way: "Rizzolo is too well connected to cut a deal....he'd be in witness protection the rest of his life....or in solitary in a prison."

If the above statement is true, Rick Rizzolo has nothing to lose by fighting the Feds to the bitter end.