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In article <1993Jan25.222140.7287@island.COM> guido@island.COM (Guido Marx) writes:
>I heard a brief report on the radio over the weekend that some
>"stockholders" of the Garden City were arrested and charged
>with crimes that allegedly took place at the club.  The report
>was EXTREMELY sketchy.  Anyone know who these people are, and
>what they are charged with ? 

That WAS a pretty sketchy report.  The owners and some of the principal
management of Garden City have been under indictment for a couple of years
now for skimming profits.  [This goes to show that some people just can't
make enough money.  It looks to me like that operation is financially
equivalent to a legal money printing press].  Anyway, owner Nick Dalis,
his mother, a couple of nephews (I think) and various other people have
been in and out of court for a long time.  Former SJ COP Joe McNamara wanted
to shut 'em down and revoke the license, which would effectively mean
they'd get *nothing* for their investment in the club.  Once McNamara left,
the climate was far better for a settlement of some sort.  The new
chief (I'm not going to mangle his name here, it's Lou C.....) is willing
to let the Dalis family sell their interests, (and thus make a potload of
money).  

A deal was worked out such that they plead guilty to some subset of the 
charges, and he doesn't revoke the license.  They sell their interest
and apparently only Nick Dalis runs any real risk of doing time.

Of course, the fact that the club pays $5M/yr. in taxes didn't hurt the 
SJ City Council's willingness to find some middle ground %).

Personal opinion: Garden City is a clean operation in the sense that the
dealers are square, the games are square.  That's the part that matters
to me.  Clearly some very slimy stuff was happening in the backroom, and
I think it's wholly appropriate to get those responsible out and toss 'em
in the pokey if the violations are serious enough.

I do worry about the jobs of the people that work there.  I suspect that
lower level folks (dealers, cashiers, waitpersons, etc.) are probably
fairly secure.  However, floorpersons, shift managers, etc.  may have a 
tougher situation.  I feel bad about that because I think largely they
are a fine bunch of people doing a difficult job very well.  I can't think
of any floorpersons I would advocate getting rid of.  And the shift
managers that I know (Japanese Mike, Rick Bell, and Chris Martin) all do
an excellent job.  I would suspect their jobs might be at risk.

Now there *are* a couple of dealers I'd like to talk to the new management
about...

Regards, Lee

In article <1993Jan25.222140.7287@island.COM> guido@island.COM (Guido Marx) writes:

>I heard a brief report on the radio over the weekend that some
>"stockholders" of the Garden City were arrested and charged
>with crimes that allegedly took place at the club.  The report
>was EXTREMELY sketchy.  Anyone know who these people are, and
>what they are charged with ? 

What the report was probably referring to was the conclusion of a
six or seven year investigation of the GC owners for skimming, tax
evasion and a few other nits.  At the time the offenses were discovered,
San Jose toyed with shutting them down, but now that the city is deeply
addicted to the cardroom's tax revenue, they're just forcing the owners
to sell and pay some stiff fines.

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