Black Book (gambling)

Black Book (s: Black Book) is a slang term for a list to be entered in the persons which have, de facto, a casino ban, as they are considered undesirable individuals or there are also excluded as a participant or operator. The term can refer to either a list of the Gaming Control Board or the Griffin Book.

Gaming Control Board

1960 was introduced by Grant Sawyer, the governor of Nevada, the Black Book to curb the criminal influences on the Las Vegas Strip. Usually used to have people whose names appeared in the Black Book of the Gaming Control Board, any links to organized crime. Mainly, these were to be members of La Cosa Nostra and the associated Kosher Nostra. The casino is imposed on the entry of a person, that to refuse access. Violators will be, for example, from the Gaming Control Board punished with penalty payments.

When the list was first created in 1960, it contained eleven names in alphabetical order: John Louis "Joe Batters " Battaglia, Giuseppe Marcello " Marshall " Caifano, Carl and Nick Civella, Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Louis Tom Dragna, Robert L. " Taco Bob" ' Garcia, Sam " Momo" ' Giancana, Max Jaben Grazebienacy, Murray " The Camel " Humphries and Joe Sica.

Marshall Caifano complained in October 1960 against the entry that meant a restriction of his rights, but the 9th Chamber of the Civil Court dismissed his suit. Also, Anthony Spilotro, who in 1971 came to Las Vegas to where the vacant position of Caifano as " enforcer " ( en: enforcer ), taken was included in the Black Book 1979.

The list was the " skimming " ( en: skim ) the casinos by the mafia in Las Vegas but did not prevent the 1970s and 1980s. So the puppet master Frank Rosenthal was only entered on November 30, in 1988, Black Book of the Nevada Gaming Commission. These circumstances were popular by the movie Casino. Formal Rosenthal was an employee of the Argent Cooperation of the straw man Allen Glick. As the Nevada Gaming Control Board discovered irregularities in the books of the Argent Cooperation, Glick lost his license in 1979 and sold his casino interests in Allen D. Sachs, a longtime partner of the Kosher Nostra Moe Dalitz. Glick was a Pentito and introduced himself as witness the justice available.

Such a prohibition may, however, also be imposed on business partners undesirable persons exercising any functions inside of a casino. Thus, for example, a ban on the U.S. entrepreneur and attorney Alvin Ira Malnik, a business partner of Meyer Lansky. Malnik in 1977 was involved in the sale of shares of the Aladdin Casino. In this context, the FBI against him and the "Detroit Department " Kosher Nostra the determined. 1980 Malnik was by the competent " Gaming Commission " in New Jersey because of his criminal contacts - especially to Lansky and Sam Cohen, the access to casinos prohibited.

This decision was renewed on 8 September 1993, when two casinos - Caesars and the Taj Mahal - were disciplined in Atlantic City, as they had granted Malnik entry.

"He is not welcome here. "

"He is not welcome here. "

Griffin Book

The Griffin Book - out of the Griffin Investigations - on the other hand lists to fraudulent or to " professional" gambling players ( en: " Cheaters " ), etc. on. The entry can also be done on spec, if a player has won too many times to perhaps unusual way against all odds. This list is so equipped, in principle, by the casinos themselves, to protect themselves against loss of revenue. The players there gelisten be stored with a photo. Information is also European casinos available.