Interesting article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch over the weekend about the evolution of Missouri’s casino blacklist:
For years, the crimes that barred gamblers from Missouri casinos read like Mafia movie plots.
Men with ties to Kansas City's notorious La Cosa Nostra ran illegal betting rings, threatened witnesses and skimmed money from Las Vegas casinos, according to FBI testimony. And the state, seeking a Mob-free gambling industry, banned each from Missouri's riverboats.
But that was more than 10 years ago. The blacklist is dealing from a new deck, and blackballing a different kind of professional: the public servant.
via Public servants are big fish in gambling blacklist net – STLtoday.com.
In general across the US there’s been a shift towards using it more for gaming-related offenses–cheating and the like–than organized crime affiliations.
If you’d like some cautionary reading, you can browse Nevada’s list of excluded persons or New Jersey’s exclusion list.
Hello again. I just this minute noticed the link to that article in UNLV’s ‘Rebel Yell’ student-newspaper, about our webhost DGS.
It’s good to see they mention his abilities in multi-tasking and social-networking. Somehow he squeezes-in-time to keep his blog-website updated, while doing several hundred other things. I for one am very glad Professor Dave is able to juggle all his stuff so well.
It’s appreciated out here in the many different Internet communities…from AC to OKC…to Reno..LV and who knows where else.
Truly.
Chicago too!! Don’t think I forgot Paul. haha.