Originally Posted By: ChiTown
You see this is the Outfit's bread and butter these Indian casinos. They got caught in San Diego and bilked these Indians in Wisconsin for $3M before being kicked out, but they do shit like this across the country in different states where their names aren't quite so familiar. They use guys like Steve Panzarella to control companies and be their "businessmen."


I would think the Outfit's "bread and butter" is sports betting and video poker machines within Chicago and it's suburbs.

These Indian casino cases involving the Outfit are few are far between. The Rincon Indian casino case was over 20 years ago. There was the case in 2001 of the Menominee Indian tribe pulling out of a casino deal because one of it's investors had some loose mob ties. Then you have the Lac Du Flambeau tribal casino boat case. Those are the only ones I'm aware of.

That said, there have been other examples - the Grand Victoria riverboat casino, the Emerald Casino, and Excelsior casino down in Aruba - of the Outfit's involvement (or trying to get involved) in some legal casinos. But it's really a stretch to say they, let alone Indian casinos themselves, are the Outfit's bread and butter.


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