A prosecutor dropped charges on a Pennsylvanian casino holder Yesterday, he was accused of lying about his contacts with organised crime and other underworld figures. As part of the agreement, he has to turnover the casino to his daughter.
Louis DeNaples a Scranton businessman who owns the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania, was charged with four accounts of perjury, perjury is lying while under oath, he supposedly lied about his connections with organised crime. This connection is with the Mafia family of Russel Bufalino, who are connected to prostitution, extortion and illegal gambling. Also he supposedly had connections with Roman catholic priest Joseph Sica, who was charged with the same counts. DeNaples casino license was revoked by the Gaming Control Board after the charges against him in January 2008. DeNaples will have to turn over all business of the Casino to his daughter Lisa.
Despite the fact that the charges were dropped, prosecutor Ed Marsico thinks he reached his primary goal, he wanted DeNaples out of the casino industry. DeNaples claims to be innocent and said, “I have said from the start I have no connection to organized crime, and that is the truth.” Lately the casinos feel the presume from the online casinos which do much better business, these type of cases is bad news for the land-based casinos.
