The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday is expected to decide whether it will consider the unprecedented removal of a living person from the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s List of Excluded Persons.
Commissioners will consider whether a hearing is in order for Francis Citro, 80, a Las Vegas man who was placed on the list, also known as Nevada’s “Black Book,” on Nov. 21, 1991.
Usually, commissioners won’t remove someone’s name from the list until after they’ve died.
Citro’s attorney, Michael Lasher, in November formally requested Citro’s removal from the list.
A popular entertainer at Las Vegas’ Italian American Club, Citro is hoping his removal from the list would enable him to perform his collection of bebop music, Italian folk songs, jokes and stories about Las Vegas’ mob past in a casino lounge setting some day.
