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Search results for "MO Stephens" ...
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No title (id: 9875)
Kansas City Star reveals how the transformation of Branson, Mo. into a booming tourist town was accomplished at the expense of poor building inspections; one inspector is in charge of hundreds of projects and some buildings catch fire or collapse before they're even finished and then are not investigated, October 1993.
Tags: MO Stephens 36 pages
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No title (id: 9441)
Kansas City Star uncovers that local mafia figures had funded the campaign of a Kansas City council candidate and had met with him repeatedly in after-hour strip joints; Kansas City crime bosses had set up a nationwide video cassette counterfeiting ring; finds that the nation's largest manufacturer of gambling tickets is owned by a mob associate; and discovers that 20 Kansas City men had been ordered to prison after secret and closed court hearings, 1991.
Tags: MO Stephens Civella
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No title (id: 9000)
Kansas City Star documents the business of a secretive millionaire who runs legal bingo parlors and uses the profits to finance massage parlors and bookmaking operations in Kansas City and casinos in Arizona and Montana, Aug. 23, 1992.
Tags: MO Stephens
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No title (id: 5756)
Kansas City Star exposes massive violations of state laws enacted to protect bingo games from profiteering and organized crime; finds a convicted felon is director of three charities licensed to sponsor bingo; finds many groups give the state false information when applying for bingo licenses, June 1988 - January 1989.
Tags: MO DC Stephens
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No title (id: 5687)
Kansas City Star examines the increasing number of firms that cash checks and then hold them before submitting the checks to a bank; finds local firms charge fees which equal as much as 900 percent annual interest; also finds many of the firms are linked to organized crime, and they prey on the poor and uneducated, October 1988 - January 1989.