"State law allows for up to three casinos and one slots parlor. This year, the commission awarded licenses to MGM in Springfield, Wynn Resorts in Everett, and Penn National Gaming for a slots complex in Plainville.

If the commission goes ahead with granting a third license and the Mashpees end up clearing the federal hurdles to opening a casino, our nascent gambling empire could fold like a house of cards.

Even this pro-casino columnist is starting to worry about oversaturation, with the potential for a fourth casino in Massachusetts and yet another one just over the border in Connecticut as that state desperately tries to hang onto its high rollers and slot players by building a new gambling playground."

So my point is this: Will this casino boom give new life to the mobs in Bostom, Providence, Springfield, Connecticut & NY?