CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 10, 1997
Hawaiian Gardens is poised to settle a lawsuit that until recently had stalled construction of a card club approved by city voters almost two years ago. Under the proposed agreement scheduled for approval today by the City Council, anti-gambling activists would drop their claims that city officials and card club licensee Irving Moskowitz violated a host of state and federal laws to create a monopoly on city gambling.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 12, 1997
Hawaiian Gardens will open its long-awaited card club next week, and Dr. Irving Moskowitz will be the operator, city officials said. Moskowitz, the hospital and bingo parlor entrepreneur whose personal foundation has made regular contributions to city coffers in the past, has long sought permission to open a card club in Hawaiian Gardens but has been delayed by legal challenges. Officials are upbeat about the card club because of the expected additional revenue it will generate.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 7, 1998 | JEFF LEEDS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The state Fair Political Practices Commission has filed a 922-count complaint against a Bell Gardens casino partially owned by the federal government, accusing the card club of concealing its role in several election campaigns aimed at blocking potential competitors. If the Bicycle Club and its staff of political consultants are found liable on all counts, the FPPC could impose a record $1.84-million fine, officials said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 1, 1997
State gaming regulators have issued a card club license to a Hawaiian Gardens developer who plans to build a controversial gambling hall in the city. An attorney for developer Irving Moskowitz said architects are now designing a temporary club to be built in the 11900 block of Carson Street. It is expected to open within a year, he said. Construction of a larger club next to the site is expected to take more than two years.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 5, 1998
Charles G. "Jerry" Westlund Jr., a former state parole board member and political consultant to the Bicycle Club casino in Bell Gardens, was convicted Friday of tax evasion and forgery. Westlund, 33, was found guilty by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury on six counts of evading state income tax and two counts of forgery.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 24, 1989
Proprietors of the seven card clubs in Los Angeles County have agreed to drop a controversial Asian betting game under a proposed revision of the state's 98-year-old gambling law. In return, officials of the California Police Officers Assn. have tentatively agreed to support legislation that would allow the clubs to return to a recently banned fee system, under which the clubs collect a percentage of gamblers' winnings, according to Los Angeles County Undersheriff Robert A. Edmonds.