3704 stories by Philip Conneller
Indicted Mob Soldiers in Atlantic City Extort Bookies, Sell Drugs, Feds Say
Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed indictments against 15 alleged members of the Philadelphia Mob for racketeering, extortion, gambling, and drug trafficking. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, since 2015 the Bruno-Scarfo crime family has been adding...
Crooks Steal Eight-Liner Slot Machines by Impersonating Non-Existent Texas Gaming Commission
Investigators from the Texas Gaming Commission seized gambling machines known as eight-liners from Houston-area businesses last month. They said the machines were involved in illegal gambling. The only problem is that the Texas Gaming Commission does not exist. Meanwhile, impersonating a public...
Tyson Foods Managers Gambled on Workers Catching COVID-19 in Sick Office Pool
Managers at meat industry giant Tyson Foods took bets on which workers would contract Covid-19 as a coronavirus outbreak swept through its Waterloo, Iowa facility. The company has endured months of negative headlines over its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite meat-processing...
Drug Enforcement Agency to Repay Gambler’s Money Seized at Airport
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has agreed to return $43,000 in cash snatched from a Florida woman last May as she traveled to a casino reopening in North Carolina. Stacy Jones was informed by DEA officials that the cash she was...
$1.6 Billion Crown Sydney December Opening Banned, License Hangs in Balance
Crown Resorts has been told by the New South Wales gaming regulator (ILGA) to put the opening of its $A2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) new Crown Sydney on ice. That's pending the verdict in February of a licensing suitability investigation. The embattled casino...
Ex-Gambling Kingpin ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino Denounces ‘Crazy’ Pennsylvania Ballot-Fixing Allegation
Reputed Philadelphia Mob boss ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino has been reluctantly dragged into President Donald Trump’s ballot-fixing conspiracy. The former gambling kingpin, who once offered odds on his own trial, has been forced to denounce a story that he helped manufacture 300,000 illegal...
Tennessee Sports Betting Books $27.4 Million in First Week, But Are Operators Ignoring Minimum Hold?
Tennessee’s online-only regulated sports betting market got off to strong start at the beginning of November, with nearly $27.4 million wagered the first week of its existence, according to figures from the Tennessee Lottery. When the state’s Republican Governor Bill Lee begrudgingly...
Bags Stuffed with Cash at BC Casinos was Asian ‘Cultural’ Quirk, Claimed Regulator
An inquiry into money laundering at British Columbia casinos has heard an astonishing allegation. The operator-regulator BC Lottery Corp once suggested that Asians appearing at gaming establishments with bags stuffed with cash was a “cultural” norm. In an internal 2013 newsletter titled...
EA Now Lets Players Set Spending Limits on FIFA 21 FUT Packs
FIFA 21 publisher Electronic Arts (EA) rolled out new player protections for the globally popular soccer simulation video game Tuesday. These include the ability for players to set limits on the time and money they are spending on the game. The new...
Crown Resorts Believed Chinese Operations Were Legit Prior to ‘Gambling Crimes’ Arrests
The Crown Resorts board did not believe it was breaking Chinese law when 16 of its staff members were imprisoned in China in 2016. This was despite warnings a year earlier that a crackdown against recruiting Chinese citizens to gamble overseas was...
