Word: mobbing
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That, at least, is the intended impact of indictments produced by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., against 15 alleged participants in a casino skimming conspiracy involving millions. The defendants include Mafia chiefs in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee and the Chicago Mob's reputed enforcer of its operations in Las Vegas. The charges, stem ming from a five-year FBI investigation, challenge the repeated claims by Nevada casino regulators that skimming and the heavy hand of organized crime had been largely eliminated from the gambling capital. The indictment contends that the conspiracy was still operating...
...some of the gambling proceeds and reports the income to be less than it actually was. The result is to bilk federal and state tax collectors of millions. FBI bugs, planted without court approval in executive offices at the casinos, turned up evidence of both the skimming and the Mob's not-so-secret control. But this evidence could not be used in court...
...indictment traces the flow of illegal cash from the Stardust counting and cashier's cages through a number of bagmen for delivery to Mob leaders in the three Midwest cities. FBI agents, for example, claim to have followed Joseph Talerico, a Teamster business agent from Chicago, on monthly trips between Las Vegas and Chicago that sometimes took more than a week as he tried to throw off any trackers. The agents have sworn they watched Talerico pick up packages from a Stardust executive and then meet Aiuppa in Chicago...
...Kansas City restaurant recorded DeLuna bragging that he had ordered Glick to sell his interest in the Stardust and Fremont in April 1978. Glick did so. A new corporation took control in 1979, headed by Allan Sachs and Herbert Tobman, who were cleared of Mob connections by the Nevada gaming commission. But FBI affidavits claim that the skimming has continued and charge that Tobman and Sachs are "figureheads" for the Chicago Mob...
Last week the FBI was hyping the latest indictments. "The impact is going to be tremendous," said an agency spokesman about the Midwest Mob. "It's a devastating blow." Patrick Healy, executive director of the Chicago crime commission, agreed. "The indictment pretty well knocks out the decision makers from Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas City," he said. Perhaps. But first the defendants must be convicted in court. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that the casino games themselves are crooked, except for an occasional phony jackpot as a skimming tactic, and there is unlikely to be any shortage of gamblers...