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Medford's Mafia
This is a comprehensive overview of criminal beahvior on the part of former Bunbombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford. The story was supposed to have run on Dec. 12, the day before the sheriff was arrested by federal authorities.
Tags: video poker; gambling; Johnny Harrison; Ronnie "Butch" Davis; Guy Penland; payoff; bribe;
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Wanna Bet?
In North Carolina, video poker machines are legal but under strict regulation. These machines must be registered and pay-outs must be in the form of merchandise. In reality, the regulations are laxly enforced,leading to an unknown number of machines and un-taxed cash pay-outs.
Tags: poker; pay-out; registration; poker machines; regulation enforcement
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The Hidden Addiction
This series examines the social costs of gambling. For all its profitmaking, the real losers are the gamblers and their families. According to the report, there are 100,000 "gambling addicts" in Oregon which result in financial straights (bankrupticies, bad loans), as well as emotional pressures.
Tags: gambling; video poker; addiction; lottery; Oregon Tribes Committee; Keno; legalized gambling; casino nights; Project Stop
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Busted Flush
South Carolina's video poker industry is vast, powerful and virtually unregulated. Harper's investigates how the gambling industry brought down the Republican former governor, a video poker opponent, spending more than $3 million in donations to the Democratic candidate and on blatant smear campaigns.
Tags: State Government
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For Amusement Only? Gray Area: Video Poker in West Virginia
The series revealed retail business owners and video machine owners probably make an annual profit somewhere between $400 million and $1.3 billion. Bar owners, convenience store owners asnd "gray machine" owners pay taxes on a small percentage of these profits. The state could be losing up to $100 million a year or more, simply because no sales tax is collected. The series also revealed close political ties between the illegal gray machine industry and state legislators.
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Stacking the Deck
South Carolina has been swamped by gambling because of the lack of regulations and little enforcement of the laws that do exist. the state now has more video poker machines than any other state except New Jersey and Nevada. No state gives the owners of the machines more freedom or taxes them less.
Tags: gambling; state government; casinos
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Palermo controversy
Joe Palermo Jr. is one of Louisiana's leading distributor of video-poker devices. Palermo is currently fighting a 1997 state recommendation that his license be revoked. San Miguel investigates Palermo's criminal connections.
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This was a two part investigation into illegal gambling at about a dozen eating and drinking establishments in Northeast Kansas City. KSHB-TV learned that at these bars and restaurants are operating casino-type gambling operations through the use of Las Vegas-style video slot machines. Customers are paid off according to how many credits they earn by winning poker hands dealt by the machines or by combinations of objects that appear on the screen. This gaming activity is illegal because it is unauthorized, unregulated and untaxed according to laws and rules set forth by the Missouri Gaming Commission. (Nov. 2 & 3, 1995)
Tags: Kruger Massey Griswold Condelles Illegal gambling Contest entry 11 pgs. TAPE
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Corvallis Gazette-Times examines Oregon's efforts to raise revenue through licensing video poker, an industry the state had regularly prosecuted on racketeering charges, Aug. 24, 1989.