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Tourism: If you build it, they will come (The Mississippi Press)
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:35:37 GMT
(AP) — VICKSBURG, Miss. - From Civil War battlefields, antebellum homes and historical museums to outdoors adventures, Delta blues and riverboat casinos, tourists are attracted to Vicksburg for myriad reasons. Admitted card-cheater sentenced (The Desert Sun)
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:34:02 GMT
A man who participated in a major card-cheating ring that targeted the then-Trump 29, Agua Caliente and Spa Resort casinos in the Coachella Valley and made off with as much as $7 million from casinos nationwide was sentenced this week to 70 months in prison. SD man sentenced for bilking $7M from 27 casinos (CBS 47 Fresno)
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:02:49 GMT
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The leader of a card-cheating scheme that bilked dozens of casinos out of $7 million has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison in San Diego. Phuong Quoc Truong was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in April 2008 to conspiracy to conduct a racketeering enterprise. He and 13 others were indicted in May 2007. Truong has been ordered to serve 70 months, pay $5.7 ... Rules violations put Nevada's golf program on probation (USA Today)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:12:58 GMT
The NCAA placed Nevada's athletic department on probation for three years and fined it $1,500 on Thursday because of an ex-golf coach's major rules violations but concluded there was no proof he gambled on college games and cleared all other sports of wrongdoing. Asian casino magnate denies organized crime ties (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:32:27 GMT
Asian casino magnate Stanley Ho denied Thursday that he has ties to Chinese organized crime gangs. His denial via a spokeswoman came a day after New Jersey gambling regulators released a report that accused Ho of letting gangs operate and prosper inside his casinos.
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