Video Games, Gambling, and Organized Crime (1991)

marshall the toms river businessman sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill his wife state prosecutors say new jersey got a detailed look today at organized crime's video poker operations in north jersey linda morgan reports a former member of the bruno scarf oh crime family testified today before the state commission of investigation the state's witnesses i didn't have to be disguised testify before the state commission of investigation detailing how he and his associates operated video gambling nations and say is there is a delicious bananas jeeves figure is jihad those were some of the violations of the damage witnesses or family as well as on

the kc gambino when colombo organizations in the illegal video gambling his testimony today was significant because it shows video games are doing to our people and if you're young people as cia members say it's important for the public to know that organized crime has its tentacles in video games like this one and it proceeds are feeding into other forms of organized crime like drugs and payoffs to public officials assistant attorney general robert carroll says the video gambling problem is similar to the one that existed in the twenties and thirties with the one armed bandits not be seeing what happens is they are placed in stores liquor stores sell buttons local teenagers and that's where the power and they'll be able to participate and to commit they often paid off the shopkeeper person one of them sutton was responsible does that constitute illegal gambling under our criminal code and many kids are becoming addicted to it

and substantial amounts of money are being thrown away by the population on these games here see i will hear more testimony tomorrow the commission will issue its report at a later date making recommendations to the legislature melinda morton new jersey network news when we talk about the management shakeup at donald trump's casino