Huge illegal casino busted in Canada (2 Viewers)

Re: the terrible looking slots, they came from a side location in a mini-mall by the sounds of it. There were 5 other sites raided.
 
Av8tion said:
looks like someone missed a protection payment to the police...
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IRS as well & to add... people probably leaving, talking about the games loud asf, and drunk.

Maybe snitches YOLOing there cars home, getting pulled over - "Hey where ya coming from?"

Could be little bits of this and that, but over time that shits called building a case!

also @trigs theory lololol, they probably let the cops in yo
 
In the US it is customary for the police to describe any quantity of illegal drugs as a “street value of $x” “x” is usually 10 to 100 times real value. Kinda like if chipsdealer was quoting the value of starbursts.

With that in mind I’m guessing the $1.5 million in alcohol is actually 1 bottle of pappys and 4 cases of jack Daniels.
 
CdnBeerLover said:
My understanding is the same as yours, but I would assume they didn't have a liquor license.
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Agree. It’s that 99% that they don’t have a liquor license, just clarifying that saying something is cash bar doesn’t imply any illegality or nefarious activity. At least in the U.S.
 
Some screenshots from the OP's video. These chips don't look like Milanos. Any ID? Funny if these were someone here's custom set and it was a PCF member that was running this game.

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Gratuitous cash shot.

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Dang totally missed this last year when I was in town. All I got to play was in some slimy KGB-like hole in the wall at a strip mall in the suburbs. All the dealers were Eastern European and wore track suits. Fun night.
 
I listened to the podcast… To make a long story short: After parading all the money and chips and booze and guns and machines before the press, and taking a victory lap, according to this reporter someone in the police stole a couple of expensive watches from the evidence, and another may have planted some unneeded extra evidence in the king pin’s bedroom.

As a result, the big fish who was backing the whole operation and owned the house will go scot free, while some lower level employees and gamblers will still get prosecuted. Typical
 
Av8tion said:
looks like someone missed a protection payment to the police...
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Taghkanic said:
As a result, the big fish who was backing the whole operation and owned the house will go scot free, while some lower level employees and gamblers will still get prosecuted. Typical
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Maybe no payment was missed at all ;)
 
Taghkanic said:
I listened to the podcast… To make a long story short: After parading all the money and chips and booze and guns and machines before the press, and taking a victory lap, according to this reporter someone in the police stole a couple of expensive watches from the evidence, and another may have planted some unneeded extra evidence in the king pin’s bedroom.

As a result, the big fish who was backing the whole operation and owned the house will go scot free, while some lower level employees and gamblers will still get prosecuted. Typical
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This says a lot about the whole ordeal.

Before the state got involved, there was a gaming establishment providing entertainment to select clientele, as well as a source of some jobs. Overall a small boon to the local economy.

After the state got involved, all the entertainment and jobs disappeared, replaced by theft, wasted public resources, destroyed property, smeared reputations, and a handful of people having their lives ruined by the court system for no real benefit.

It's almost like this approach is totally wrongheaded and harmful. Not only will it not prevent a similar operation from inevitably sprouting up elsewhere, but it has even contributed to corruption of public officials. By all means, though, turn a blind eye to the criminals in the police department, and instead prosecute productive members of society who engaged in harmless, voluntary recreational activities.

Does no one in any decision-making capacity here have any sense?
 
Jimulacrum said:
This says a lot about the whole ordeal.

Before the state got involved, there was a gaming establishment providing entertainment to select clientele, as well as a source of some jobs. Overall a small boon to the local economy.

After the state got involved, all the entertainment and jobs disappeared, replaced by theft, wasted public resources, destroyed property, smeared reputations, and a handful of people having their lives ruined by the court system for no real benefit.

It's almost like this approach is totally wrongheaded and harmful. Not only will it not prevent a similar operation from inevitably sprouting up elsewhere, but it has even contributed to corruption of public officials. By all means, though, turn a blind eye to the criminals in the police department, and instead prosecute productive members of society who engaged in harmless, voluntary recreational activities.

Does no one in any decision-making capacity here have any sense?
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No doubt the province makes a lot of money on gambling revenue as these are provincially regulated in Canada. If they allow the profits to be reaped by a private enterprise and turn a blind eye they risk the practice to be come more commonplace and risk a loss in tax revenue
 
joker80 said:
No doubt the province makes a lot of money on gambling revenue as these are provincially regulated in Canada. If they allow the profits to be reaped by a private enterprise and turn a blind eye they risk the practice to be come more commonplace and risk a loss in tax revenue
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Sure. If your main concern is generating tax revenue (and you're willing to ignore all the tax revenue wasted in this misadventure), then this makes sense.

But last I checked, government is supposed to be primarily concerned with public welfare. This series of actions serves the public welfare about as much as a liquor-store robbery.

If the issue is really tax revenue, maybe it would behoove the province to allow establishments like this to operate openly and pay taxes rather than forcing them underground with the law.*

* I know this opens a can of worms with regard to regulating the gaming establishment. To that, I point out that (a) the government responsible for that is the same one whose employees can't be trusted not to steal and plant evidence, and (b) it could be viable to have a market with some gaming establishments that are micromanaged by the province and others that operate free of meddling. All would still be responsible for paying taxes. It may not create an ideal situation, but it would likely be better than the current setup (and would generate more revenue at a lower cost, which is apparently objective #1).
 

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