The feds really do take them out the front door and new ones are right in the back door. The poker machines have always been around but I don't remember them being as a big part of an indictment and news reports as they were this time around for Uncle Joe. I have a feeling it was how Uncle Joe, staino and mousie bought and ran the company and that they were a big money maker for this regime. The machines say for "entertainment" and the bartender pays you out if you hit. So you have to know them to play. And they are only in the local corner bars. It really is stupid to make such a big deal out of poker machines. You have to be a dumb ass to play mob ran poker machines anyway. But there are so many degenerate gamblers in the city that they are used even with Sugar house casino right around the corner.
Back in September 2001, a few dozen video poker machines belonging to Ligambi, Massimino, and Staino were seized. That's what led to them moving in on Tony Machine's territory. Then, of course, you had the last raid back in September 2009 where about 50 machines were seized.
