"17 men with links to organized crime were charged with plotting to skim profits from some of the 13,256 video poker machines proliferating in bars and truck stops around the state [Louisiana]" (Applebome 1994).
"A Louisiana gambling commission has rejected a bid by Bally Gaming Inc. to sell slot machines to a planned casino in the state, after finding that the company's management and directors had allowed it to be infiltrated by `elements of organized crime'" (Meier 1995).
"A federal grand jury returned the first indictment Wednesday in a multistate investigation of a Minnesota slot-machine company, International Gaming Management (IGM), with alleged connections to organized crime" (Ison, Aug. 10, 1995).
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