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Coverage of Card Club Indictments
The San Jose Mercury News covers the indictment of 55 people connected with area cardrooms that offer "California games," a variety of Asian-style games that are popular with the city's Vietnamese population. The indictments -- and subsequent investigations that revealed loan sharking and drug dealing connected with cardrooms -- led the city of San Jose to shut down all of its card-clubs.
Tags: cardrooms; gambling; loan sharks; drugs; crime; San Jose; California; Vietnamese; California games; Asian
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Cardroom Probe
KOMO Radio (Seattle) exposes a state-licensed cardroom near Seattle that uses decks of marked cards; finds cardroom is owned by convicted racketeers who are laundering money and stolen liquor there, Jan. 16, 1987.