Gambling New Jersey

U.S. Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh on Wednesday announced a sweeping federal anti-racketeering suit seeking a government takeover of a 22,000-member casino hotel workers' union based in Atlantic City. The union allegedly is controlled by a reputed Mafia crime boss who operates from his federal prison cell.

Sometimes it pays to remember. In the case of Melvin B. Milligan, it paid $46 million. The 40-year-old computer technician collected his prize Friday, days after lottery officials declared no winner existed for a multi-state lottery jackpot. It turned out Milligan, who has a forgetful streak, had stuffed the winning ticket into a drawer full of junk and losing lottery stubs. Last June, he bought the Big Game ticket at Krauszer's Convenience Store in Montvale, N.J.

Two state legislators on Friday proposed letting Atlantic City casinos offer their games online, saying it could help regulate Internet gambling. The measure could hamper unscrupulous Web operators, Democratic Assemblymen Anthony Impreveduto and Neil Cohen said.

Two state legislators on Friday proposed letting Atlantic City casinos offer their games online, saying it could help regulate Internet gambling. The measure could hamper unscrupulous Web operators, Democratic Assemblymen Anthony Impreveduto and Neil Cohen said.

Donald Trump offered to sell his three Atlantic City casinos in exchange for stock in Mirage Casino Hotel's parent company, the chairman of Mirage Resorts Inc. said Tuesday. Trump denied the report, saying Mirage officials were making false statements to get publicity on the shirttails of the Trump name. Steven Wynn, chairman of Las Vegas-based Mirage, told business owners in Bridgeport, Conn., that Trump made the offer on Monday.

Former Philadelphia Eagle owner Leonard H. Tose earned a reputation as "the highest" high-roller at an Atlantic City gaming hall, a casino executive testified in Camden, N.J. The disclosure came as a civil lawsuit filed by Tose against the Sands Hotel Casino entered its third week. Tose contends he lost millions at the blackjack table because he was plied with free drinks and allowed to gamble while drunk. Tose lost $14.6 million between 1981 and 1986, according to court records.

To a surprising degree, the streets of this salt-air amusement park have maintained their relative real estate values since Charles Darrow, an out-of-work engineer from Germantown, Pa., carved their names into the American psyche with his Depression-era board game, "Monopoly." Boardwalk and Park Place remain the priciest addresses; Baltic and Mediterranean avenues are still low-rent. In the real-life city, as in the game, the only way to riches is by owning the hotels.

In a move harshly criticized by experts on compulsive gambling, state regulators agreed to let casinos accept credit cards and debit cards at Atlantic City gaming tables for the purchase of chips and slot tokens. Currently, the only way to buy chips is with cash. Critics say the practice will ruin some problem gamblers and make even casual ones lose more than they want to.

The old plastics factory was fading into a blue-collar phantom, the work force down to 48, the future bleak. Then came a promising new technology--and an ambitious new governor searching for ways to make employers feel welcome in a state recently hammered by recession and job flight. Last year, the AlliedSignal Inc. plant sprang back to life. "Here's the government calling me and asking if they could help. It took me off guard," said Gary D.

A Nevada gaming regulator was arrested with another man on charges of hitting a $100,000 keno jackpot using a highly confidential computer code. Ronald D. Harris was fired as an electronics expert for the Nevada Gaming Control Board after his arrest Sunday in the alleged scam at Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel.

Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls spent a late night at an Atlantic City, N.J., casino before his team played the New York Knicks in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday, according to a published report. The New York Times said in today's editions that Jordan was spotted at Bally's Grand by employees and guests. Some reports placed Jordan at the casino as late as 2:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The game began at 8 p.m.

Donald Trump is suing Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and the chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, claiming Indian tribes are given preferential treatment in the granting of casino licenses. The civil lawsuit argues that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 also mandates states to authorize Indian gambling operations, stripping the states of their "sovereign, constitutional powers to tax, regulate and police gambling activities conducted within their borders."

A special committee of Resorts International directors agreed Monday to accept a sweetened buyout offer from controlling shareholder Donald Trump. The flamboyant New York developer, who had raised his offer to $22 a share from $15, said he is now prepared to provide funding to finish the firm's massive Taj Mahal hotel-casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Trump had sharply curtailed construction in late December of what an analyst called "the most expensive hotel in the world."

A jury Thursday rejected claims by Leonard H. Tose, former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, that an Atlantic City casino plied him with drinks, causing him to lose $1.2 million at the blackjack table. The eight-member jury deliberated for eight hours over two days before reaching the verdict in the two-week civil case. The trial was the second stemming from a 1991 lawsuit filed by Tose against the casino. Tose sought to recoup the money he lost at the Sands Hotel Casino on three dates in 1985.

Former Philadelphia Eagle owner Leonard H. Tose earned a reputation as "the highest" high-roller at an Atlantic City gaming hall, a casino executive testified in Camden, N.J. The disclosure came as a civil lawsuit filed by Tose against the Sands Hotel Casino entered its third week. Tose contends he lost millions at the blackjack table because he was plied with free drinks and allowed to gamble while drunk. Tose lost $14.6 million between 1981 and 1986, according to court records.