Men sporting white jumpsuits wheeled what, according to the FBI, appeared to be an IBM copy machine onto the second floor of the casino where the executive offices were housed. The successful outcome - as deemed by Jonkey and others involved - of the tense 35-hour period was a product of collaboration mixed with a hint of what so many people hoped to find in Tahoe: luck.Įmployees at the casino and hotel built by Harvey Gross were the first to discover the device in the early morning hours of Aug. until the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which would later be out-shadowed by the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
The Harvey’s Resort bombing was considered the largest domestic bombing in the U.S.