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NV - Love it or hate it, outcall is a lucrative business that
grosses a sum the FBI believes is big enough for criminals to
kill for. But Richard Sorrano, the most prominent outcall
operator in Las Vegas, thinks it isn't the revenue generated by
escorts, dancers and strippers that caught the mob's eye -- it's
the potential for far more profitable criminal activity. It
takes only $150 a year, the fee for a general business license,
for an outcall service to set up shop in Clark County.
"Escort industry generates uneasy mix on Vegas
scene"/Richard N. Velotta/ 10.16.98/Las Vegas SUN
TX-Vincent "Vinny Aspirins" Congiusti flew into Las
Vegas from Tampa in October 1998 to help the Gambino and Bonanno
crime families of New York seize control of organized
prostitution in that desert gambling oasis. "Prostitution
has always been a cash cow for organized crime," Agent
Gastorf said.
"Dallas IRS office heads mob crackdown"/Bill
Lodge/2.03.00/The Dallas Morning News
NV - A New York FBI special agent Tuesday positively identified
a Pahrump resident as the man suspected of shooting a mob
associate to death last fall in Brooklyn, N.Y. Greco was
arrested Thursday in Pahrump by Las Vegas FBI after a 68-page
indictment was handed down by a grand jury in the Southern
District of New York. Greco so wanted to avoid the police that
he went to the Nye County Sheriff's Office to get a work card so
he could get a job at the Terrible's Town Casino,
"FBI agent ID's Greco as suspect in mob hit"/By Kim
Smith/LAS VEGAS SUN/12.8.99
A Pahrump casino dealer appeared Tuesday in a Las Vegas
courtroom, where a federal prosecutor accused him of being the
triggerman in an October 1998 mob hit in New York. FBI agents
from Las Vegas arrested Anthony Greco, 44, on Thursday in
Pahrump after a federal indictment charged him with murder and
conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Joseph
"Joey O" Masella
"Casino dealer triggerman, prosecutor tells U.S.
court"/ By Carri Geer/Las Vegas Review-Journal /12.08.99
ATLANTIC CITY - Stuart and Clifford Perlman once were the
hottest team on the Las Vegas strip as chairman and
vice-chairman of Caesars. But the New Jersey Casino Control
Commission, wary of their links to reputed underworld figures,
told Caesars to get rid of the brothers if it wanted an Atlantic
City casino.
"Questionable links have forced casinos to dump
partners"/The Detroit News/1.18.99
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Longtime Nevada casino executive Ted Binion has
been stripped of state licenses held for up to 33 years at the
Horseshoe Club in downtown Las Vegas. The Nevada Gaming
Commission's vote Monday to oust Binion ended an eight-hour
hearing that focused on his associations with murdered
underworld figure Herbert "Fat Herbie" Blitzstein.
Las Vegas Sun/3.23.98
NV - Mexican textile magnate Kamel Nacif has been a familiar
face at Las Vegas gambling tables for some 30 years, using phony
identification to wager at Caesars Palace when he was still in
his late teens. He remains, however, a bit of a multimillionaire
mystery man, long suspected by Nevada Gaming Control Board
agents of money laundering and arms and narcotics dealing.
"Dave Palermo Binion ruling stirs things up"/The
Sun Herald/7.9.00
LOCAL LORE HAS IT that Benny Binion showed up in Las Vegas in
1946 with $2 million in cash in two suitcases, a step ahead of
the Dallas lawmen. That may or may not be true, but it is a fact
that the late Binion built one of the longest-running gambling
dynasties in town before he died in 1989. In a May filing,
Nevada's State Gaming Control Board alleges that Ted Binion has
hung around notorious Vegas mobsters such as Herbert (Fat Herbie)
Blitzstein, an associate of the late, ruthless Anthony (Tony the
Ant) Spilotro (who inspired Joe Pesci's violent character in
Casino). Blitzstein was found in Las Vegas in January with a
bullet in the back of his head.
Forbes/7.28.97
NV - A Southern California businessman with ties to reputed
mobsters involved in large-scale drug deals and prostitution
Wednesday lost his bid for a Nevada casino license.
"Regulators veto casino licensing plan"/Reno
Gazette-Journal/12.21.00
NV - It's a lawsuit on file at District Court that names Club
C2K and Venetian management as defendants in the July 200c0
Ecstasy-linked overdose of 21-year-old Danielle Heird. The
Venetian held serious concerns about Estasy and other drug sales
at C2K before Heird's death. A Las Vegas undercover officer
established a pattern of narcotics trafficking activity that
might have gone on with the knowledge of club management.
Associates of the club were linked to a large-scale Arizona
Ecstasy trafficking ring operated by Gambino crime family
underboss-turned-FBI snitch Salvatore "Sammy the Bull"
Gravano.
"Ecstasy lawsuit could visit new liability concerns upon
casinos"/
JOHN L. SMITH/Las Vegas Review-Journal/8.15.01
Jury selection for a half-dozen defendants charged with
diverting millions to mob figures from a $34 million judgment
over the sale of the Tropicana hotel-casino was to begin today.
Before the Doumanis sold the Tropicana, the resort was the
target of a massive Justice Department investigation into
alleged casino skimming by the Kansas City mob. Several Mafia
bosses were convicted and sent to jail in the probe.
"Trial begins for former Tropicana landlords"/By
Jeff German/Las Vegas Sun/4.6.98
Detroit - But the feds say they know who Tocco is, and they
secured an indictment that puts him on trial this week in
Detroit federal court with six associates accused of conspiracy
and racketeering. Two other defendants pleaded guilty this
month. Federal prosecutors locally have only gone after
individual mobsters in the past, but this time they'll try to
show a jury how the entire family operates, Zuckerman said. They
include allegations the mob tried to invest in three Nevada
casinos, charged a "street tax" to bookies and
persuaded a former U.S. Justice Department attorney to steal an
Internal Revenue Service investigation file on a Detroit Mafia
captain and his son.
"Feds, mob suspects ready to face off"/By David
Josar and Gene Schabath/The Detroit News/1.25.98
DETROIT (AP) - An FBI agent says he put his head to the wall of
a hotel room and overheard a discussion of a mafia plan to skim
$200,000 from a Nevada casino. Agent Samuel Ruffino testified in
U.S. District Court on Monday in the racketeering trial of
alleged Detroit mafia boss Jack Tocco and four alleged
associates.
"FBI agent tells of overhearing mafia plan to skim
Nevada casino"/Las Vegas Sun/3.3.98
WI - The Menominee Indian tribe formally pulled the plug on its
Kenosha casino deal because it was clear federal and state
officials would not approve it,...The tribe's main investor
partner, Nii-Jii Entertainment, became a liability, Apesanahkwat
said. Nii-Jii's major partner was Morgan Murphy Jr., a former
Chicago congressman. Though Murphy's business ties to a Chicago
labor leader with mob connections caught investigators'
attention, it was other Nii-Jii investors' backgrounds that were
more problematic, Apesanahkwat said.
"Tribe gives up on plan for Kenosha casino"/
By STEVE SCHULTZE/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/8.17.01
MS - The labor union that has been recruiting Coast casino
workers in recent weeks has just been released from U.S. Justice
Department oversight and has a history of corruption and
organized crime influence that predates Al Capone.
"History of corruption goes back to
Prohibition"/CHARLES BUSBY/the Sun Herald/2.4.00
NJ - The Casino Control Commission voted 5-0 to preliminarily
ban alleged mobster George Remini from setting foot inside the
city's casino hotels. The FBI in 1993 formally identified Remini
as a captain in the Gambino family. Remini has also been an
active gambler here since at least 1985. The New Jersey Division
of Gaming Enforcement said Remini last year played at Bally's,
Caesars, Resorts and Tropicana Casino and Resort. "CCC
votes to ban alleged mobster from casinos"/ By JOE WEINERT/The
Press of Atlantic City/2.15.02
NJ - Breton, one of the city's biggest gamblers, is an associate
of the Gambino crime family, is "actively involved" in
illegal gambling and in 1994 gambled at Foxwoods Resort Casino
in Connecticut with mob boss John Gotti, according to a DGE
petition filed Friday with the Casino Control Commission. In a
separate petition, the DGE asked commissioners to permanently
exclude Vincent Basciano, an alleged member of the Bonanno crime
family. Basciano, of New York City, is involved with illegal
gambling and las summer "transported a large amount of
money" from Atlantic City to the Essex County Jail to bail
out Breton after his arrest at Caesars, the DGE said. The
division wants Breton and Basciano added to the commission's
list of 173 people who are prohibited from ever setting foot
inside local casino hotels.
"DGE seeks to ban 2 linked to the mob"/Joe Weinert/2.26.01/
www.pressofatlanticcity.com/
CT-A lengthy investigation into illegal loan-sharking activities
has provided a rare glimpse into the growing influence of Asian
American organized crime groups at the state's two Indian
casinos. A Massachusetts man who had been the subject of a state
police investigation for nearly a year was arrested early
Tuesday at Mohegan Sun Resort Casino, accused of taking
advantage of Asian American casino patrons by offering loans at
high interest rates under the threat of physical harm if the
loans weren't paid back in full if the loans weren't paid back,
records show, Lin would make harassing phone calls or visits to
those who owed the money, often threatening to send an Asian
American gang called the "Black Society" after them.
The Black Society, court records say, is an Asian American
organized crime outfit that operates out of Boston and New York,
collecting payments from legitimate Asian American businesses
and cash-strapped casino patrons who would rather comply than
turn to American law enforcement officials.
"Arrest Follows Investigation Of Loan
Sharking"/Matt Burgard/ 1.30.02/Hartford Courant
NJ- New Jersey gaming investigators want to ban two reputed
organized-crime figures with alleged ties to jailed mob leader
John Gotti Jr. from all Atlantic City casinos. In petitions
filed yesterday, the Division of Gaming Enforcement asked that
Vincent Basciano and Taylor W. Breton be placed on the so-called
"exclusion list." Placement on the list, which now
includes the names of 173 alleged mob figures and suspected
cheaters, would not only bar both men from gambling in Atlantic
City, but would also prohibit them from entering any of the
city's casino-hotels. Both men have prior arrests and have
extensive organized-crime ties, according to the petitions filed
yesterday.
"N.J. seeks casino ban for two men"/George
Anastasia/2.24.01/Philadelphia Inquirer
NJ - He has been a Philadelphia police officer, an Atlantic City
casino worker and a New Jersey Racing Commission employee. He
also has been a bookmaker, a loan shark and a captain in the
Philadelphia-southern New Jersey mob. He scammed gamblers and
prostitutes while working the floor at the Tropicana Hotel and
Casino.
"From cop to mobster to informant, scam was name of
Previte's game"/By PETE McALEER/South Jersey
Publishing/3.12.01
ATLANTIC CITY Casinos lost one of their biggest gamblers
Wednesday when the Casino Control Commission banned reputed
Gambino mob associate Taylor Breton from setting foot inside
local gaming halls. Breton, 48, is "a whale, the biggest
player in the United States," former Caesars Atlantic City
President Gary DiBartolomeo said last year. Several Las Vegas
casinos also gave Breton million-dollar credit lines,
DiBartolomeo said.
"Gamblers mob ties roll craps with CCC"/By JOE
WEINERT/South Jersey Publishing/3..15.01
ATLANTIC CITY -- A mob turncoat who has quit the federal
witness-protection program took the stand Wednesday to point the
finger at a New York construction company he says has mob ties.
Under heavy security, William Murtha appeared before casino
regulators in a hearing aimed at deciding whether Giamboi Bros.
Inc. should be licensed to do work on Atlantic City casino
projects.
"Mob turncoat testifies at hearing on casino
license"/AP/5.21.98
BILOXI, MISS. -- Corporate and state-run gaming enterprises
today operate on the same principles established by the mob
decades ago, a former Chicago underworld associate told the
National Gambling Impact Study Commission on Thursday.
"After all the camouflage is removed," William Jahoda
said, "the harsh truth is that every form of organized
gambling is either a replica, a knock-off or a jazzed-up model
of each betting scam the mob trotted out before an unsuspecting
public in the barren Las Vegas nightscape 50 years ago."
"Ex-mobster rips gaming"/By Jeff German/LAS VEGAS
SUN/9.11.8
MS - Last month, a couple from Arkansas filed a lawsuit in
Tunica County, alleging they'd been gypped out of a big jackpot.
When they complained publicly, they alleged in their lawsuit, a
Fitzgerald's casino employee told them the casino was operated
by the mob. They took the comment as a threat.
"Tunica County Sheriff Jerry Ellington says his
department must regain the trust of the community after
corruption charges toppled former top officers."/By
Bartholomew Sullivan/The Commercial Appeal/1.16.00
LA - A former casino executive who testified against ex-Gov.
Edwin Edwards says he is looking over his shoulder -- not
because of helping to convict Edwards, but because of his
involvement in a Russian casino. The casino carried the brand
name of actor Chuck Norris, but Brotherton says it was
controlled by Russian mobsters.
"Involvement with casino has ex-executive
scared"/By Alan Sayre/AP/2.12.01
CT - Lin's arrest could be indicative, police believe, of a
growing presence of Asian gangs in both area casinos. Chinese
and Taiwanese gangs, known as triads, are considered to be some
of the most efficient and effective organized-crime syndicates
in the country, with a presence in many large cities, including
New York and Boston.
"Man charged with loan-sharking at Mohegan Sun
Casino"/Georgina Gustin/1.31.02/ www.theday.com/
CT-State police Master Sgt. John C. Drumm was ready to tackle
the underbelly of Connecticut's liveliest little city, where up
to 60,000 free-wheeling gamblers party around the clock every
day. Within a year's time on the beat at Foxwoods Resort Casino,
he says, he was immersed in investigating enough alleged
wrongdoing to pack a noir thriller: prostitution, narcotics
abuse, poker chip counterfeiting, illegal kickbacks, sexual
assault coverup and lurking mobsters.
"Detectives case before tribal court"/Rick
Green/7.25.02/Hartford Courant
MO-Two of the three men arrested Monday night for trying to
cheat the Players Island Casino out of more than $11,000 once
had ties to organized crime, authorities said Wednesday.
Officials believe that a father and son - John Francis Castagna,
57, of Sarasota, Fla., and Jack Francis Johns, 37, of the 4400
block of Lindell Boulevard in St. Louis - were once linked to
organized crime groups in Connecticut and New York. One of the
links was to the Genovese crime syndicate, arguably the most
powerful one in the nation. Federal authorities said Castagna
has performed a variety of activities for the crime family over
the past two decades, said Maryland Heights Police Chief Neil
Kurlander. Johns, too, was convicted on RICO charges in 1990.
His connections to the crime families were through his father,
authorities said. Authorities believe that the men now work as
independent "wiseguys," con men who travel the country
and make their living through illegal gambling, cheating and
theft.
"2 of 3 accused of casino scam had mob ties, authorities
say"/ Lance Williams/3.12.98/ St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Las Vegas slot-machine distributor pleaded guilty in San Diego
federal court yesterday for his role in a failed attempt by the
Pittsburgh Mafia to gain financial control of the now-defunct
Rincon Indian casino.
"Union-Tribune Publishing Co"/By Chet
Barfield/"/Union-Tribune Publishing Co/12.10.97
MA - In 1998, leaders of the Rincon tribe in California pleaded
guilty in connection with accusations of acting as a front for a
Pittsburgh crime family plotting to take control of their casino
to launder money. Federal prosecutors said it was a classic
example of the mob's infiltration of a cash-based business.
"Indian casinos spend to limit US oversight"/Sean
P. Murphy/3.12.01/Boston Globe
MA-Three-and-a-half years ago, investors in another Rincon
gambling operation were accused of acting as a front for a
Pittsburgh crime family plotting to take control of the facility
to launder more than $2 million raised through other criminal
activities. Seventeen people, including a member of the Rincon
tribal council, were indicted in what federal prosecutors
described as a textbook case of organized crime's notorious
appetite for infiltrating casinos and other businesses that
generate large amounts of cash. And that wasn't the first time
the Rincons had brushed up against the Mafia. In 1993, 10 people
associated with Chicago crime boss John '"No Nose'"
DiFronzo and a San Diego mobster were convicted of racketeering
and extortion in another attempt to take over a tribal gambling
hall. "There's a historical tendency for organized crime to
become attracted to casinos and the solution to that is
effective controls," says Eugene Christiansen, a financial
analyst who tracks the gambling industry. "We're not seeing
that with Indian gaming right now."Organized loansharking
at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa casino, in Mesa, Ariz. State
gaming officials have confirmed that the FBI is investigating
allegations of illegal money lending at the casino's card room
that might involve organized-crime figures.
"Tribes make easy criminal targets"/Michael
Rezendes/12.13.00/Boston Globe
CA-Construction of the first Harrah's hotel-casino in California
is scheduled to start July 31. Federal prosecutors later proved
the tribe had been duped into dealing with Pittsburgh mobsters.
Seventeen people, including a Rincon tribal councilwoman, were
convicted of various felonies.
"Rincon hotel and casino construction set to break
ground soon"/Chet Barfield/7.21.01/ Union-Tribune
CA - Former tribal Councilwoman Ruth Calac pleaded guilty to
perjury yesterday to get bribery charges dismissed in a case
involving a failed Mafia plot to gain control of the now-defunct
Rincon Indian casino.
"In plea bargain, ex-tribal official admits
perjury"/By Chet Barfield/
Union-Tribune Publishing Co./2.3.98
A 60-page Santa Clara County grand jury indictment made public
Monday accuses 55 people of criminal activity at both the Bay
101 and Garden City cardrooms. According to the indictment and a
related affidavit: Loan sharks typically approached gamblers and
extended them credit with the understanding they would have to
pay 10 percent interest every week. Among those charged was Bay
101 Vice President Hai Quang Huynh, who allegedly bragged about
connections to organized crime and ordered the beating of a man
seen with Huynh's girlfriend.
San Jose Mercury News/5.2.02
LOS ANGELES - She grew up among gangsters and drug dealers,
extortionists and killers. Her father, David Berman, was one of
the kingpins of the Las Vegas Mafia then. A partner to notorious
mobsters Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, Berman was a syndicate
strongman whose reputation was forged through moxie and
brutality. So when police found the body of 55-year-old Susan
Berman in her Benedict Canyon home Dec. 24, the questions
naturally began. The person who shot her once in the head
apparently hadn't used force to get in or taken anything.
"Growing up with the mob"/Los Angeles Times/January
2001
LA-Other allegations of corruption have further stained the
state's reputation. In 1994, a Louisiana company that
prosecutors said was a Mafia front was charged with skimming
profits from the state's video poker machines. More than two
dozen convictions resulted.
"Gamings arrival brings problems along with
cash"/Mike Brunker/3.2.??/MSNBC/
FL-Police on Thursday were investigating the mob-style shooting
of the Seminole tribe's (own casinos) lead attorney at his
upscale home. Seminole Tribal General Counsel Jim Shore, 55, who
is blind, was sitting or lying on his couch in the family room
of his Emerald Hills home around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday when he
heard several loud noises, said Lt. Tony Rode, spokesman for the
Hollywood Police Department. "He heard noises and felt
blood running down his body," Rode said. "He was
unaware he was shot."
"Hollywood police probing mob-style shooting of Seminole
tribal counsel"/1.10.02/
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The NIGC last year rejected Seminole Management Associates'
contract to run the tribe's Hollywood hall because some of the
company's shareholders did not pass background checks. SMA ran
the hall for 17 years and faced repeated allegations of
corruption and mob influence. "We always knew the mob was
there," said Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, who
was the sheriff of Broward County when the Seminoles' Hollywood
hall opened. "We just couldn't prove it." A 1995 FBI
document also showed a connection between the Seminoles' bingo
hall and the Larocca mob and the Genovese crime family in New
York City. In a September conference call with Glogau, Tadd
Johnson, the newly appointed chairman of the NIGC, and
enforcement director Alan Fedman, did not dispute that there may
be mob influence with tribal casinos.
"Regulators have ties to Seminoles"/By BRAD
GOLDSTEIN & JEFF TESTERMAN/
St. Petersburg Times
IL - At the time, the board alleged that Emerald executives
Donald and Kevin Flynn had lied to Gaming Board investigators
and that some shareholders had ties to the mafia. Emerald is
fighting the decision both in an administrative proceeding and
in court. Under the proposed settlement, Emerald's shareholders
would pay $250 million to the state. Donald and Kevin Flynn
would pay an additional $50 million. Anyone identified as having
connections to organized crime would be barred from receiving
more than their initial investment.
"Emerald urges settlement"/Nicole Ziegler Dizon/4.17.02/Associated
Press
IL - In letters hand-delivered to officials of Emerald Casino
Inc., the Illinois Gaming Board laid out its case against the
investors. It alleged the group was unfit to run a casino
because some shareholders had ties to organized crime while
others had lied to board investigators about backroom ownership
deals. The letters identify for the first time the investors
that board investigators contend have mob ties: Nick Boscarino,
a former Teamsters official and former business partner of
Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens, and Joseph Salamone, the
owner of Fair Share Foods, an Oak Park grocery on Roosevelt
Road.
"Illinois pulls license held by Rosemont casino
group"/Douglas Holt/3.7.01/
Chicago Tribune
IL - Wayne Johnson, who now tracks the mob for the crime
commission and used to do it at the Chicago Police Department,
says "no." "You put a casino anywhere near
Chicago, and it will attract the Outfit," Johnson said
Wednesday. "They'll buy restaurants, buy bars and set up
shop in close proximity to the casino."
"Expert: Mob would taint any casino"/Shamus Toomey
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