Casino Icons Blasts Alabama Bingo Halls; Priases Supreme Court
Slot Machine Vendor warns “Alabama’s bingo halls are wrought with wanna-be gangsters,
illegal slot machines, and very shady commercial casino operations posing as charities.”
Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) November 18, 2009 -- A leading slot machine vendor and management company
took aim at Alabama’s fledging charity bingo operators during the casino industry’s largest trade show and a
meeting of hundreds of casino professionals in Las Vegas this week.
Synergy Gaming’s Gary Green warned the gathering that “based on my decades of experience, I have observed
that Alabama’s bingo halls seem to be wrought with wanna-be gangsters, illegal slot machines, and very shady
commercial casino operations posing as charities.”
At the same time, Green praised the six guidelines issued last week by the Alabama Supreme Court saying, “if
every vendor complies with these guidelines, then the Court has just legalized and regulated the games.
Unfortunately they did not address the issue of business model.”
A recent court case in Alabama (Walker County Circuit CV-2007-0400), however concurred with Green that at
least some of the operational models are illegal. The same court closed down a number casinos purportedly
operated by charities but found, by the court, to be illegal commercial operations.
“Unless the courts step in and clean up the mess, these elements are going to cause untold suffering for the
beneficiaries of legitimate charities and cost Alabama millions of dollars in lost revenue by ultimately destroying
legitimate gaming in the State,” cautioned Gary Green, Synergy’s Executive Vice President, a
three-decade-casino veteran, former Vice President for Donald Trump, and author of the book “Gambling Man”
“The absolute lowest rung of our industry’s ladder has set up shop in Alabama and the State is reacting by trying
to throw the baby out with the bath water,” continued Green, who recently moved into a Birmingham apartment
on behalf of Synergy.
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