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...guys misbehave regularly in crime novels. That's what bad guys do. But for the most part their villainies--tying nice girls to railroad tracks, playing poker with an extra ace--are elaborate setups, abominations staged by the author to make the good guys look good in the last chapter. This, of course, is what good guys do; they look good. And the bad guys go to jail or perdition...
...money, although Chase's Mondex cards are encoded with the user's personal identification number, making a stolen card useless. Mondex's cards also allow consumers to transfer value among their own cards by means of an electronic "wallet," good for settling restaurant tabs and poker games...
...then, is Wilson forcing on-screen poker machines to deal a premature last hand? In interviews, Wilson has said he is simply doing his job, that he is following a court decision in June that deemed slot machines illegal in California...
...feed their children. Troopers raided a VFW post and, with the help of the FBI and the IRS, eventually uncovered a gambling empire that over six years produced $48 million for Belleville wheeler-dealer Thomas Venezia. It worked like this: tavern owners paid out real winnings to the video-poker players. The profits were split 50-50 between Venezia and his tavern-owning partners. In the course of the investigation, 27 taverns were raided. Venezia was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 15 years in prison; as he went down, he took with him the mayor of nearby Washington Park...
...could just leave the house" to gamble; a convenience-store manager whose addiction led her to embezzle $18,000; and a parcel-service driver, Marge Alexander, whose compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune to the cost of its new pastime. In May a reporter from the Belleville News-Democrat found video-poker machines at 11 local fraternal clubs. A VFW post commander even admitted to paying out. Otherwise, said he, "nobody would...