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Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Villain » Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:03 am

Confederate wrote: Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:59 am
Villain wrote: Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:56 am Old time Outfit crew boss Rocco DeGrazia was involved in this, and he even skimmed from the church charities lol
But after he skimmed the Church Charity, he went to Confession and was forgiven by the Priest who got a cut of the action from Rocco. :lol:
:lol: Well to tell you the truth...besides that, the Outfit always had some long standing connections with the church such as Giancana allegedly posing with the Pope or using certain priests as bagmen and I believe that one of them was even named Father Cash :lol:

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Confederate » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:59 am

Villain wrote: Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:56 am Old time Outfit crew boss Rocco DeGrazia was involved in this, and he even skimmed from the church charities lol
But after he skimmed the Church Charity, he went to Confession and was forgiven by the Priest who got a cut of the action from Rocco. :lol:

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Villain » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:56 am

Old time Outfit crew boss Rocco DeGrazia was involved in this, and he even skimmed from the church charities lol

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Pete » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:31 pm

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagot ... y,amp.html

Difronzo and Carlisi were indicted for a bingo hall/casino operation in Southern California

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by cavita » Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:40 pm

cavita wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:32 pm
JCB1977 wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:44 pm Thanks Cavita! It seems that it was a pretty popular stream of income for the families.
I have to dig around but there were a couple separate raids on these incidents at the time and they involved some guys from the Chicago suburbs as well.
So in relation to this it seems it tool the Illinois Department of Revenue two years to bring charges up. On June 2, 1995 they raided a place in Schaumburg and arrested James Bakunowicz of Rockford, Diane Z. Howell of Northlake, Joseph A. Zeno of Melrose Park, Mark E. Rydberg of Loves Park, Matthew D. Dickson of Aurora, Lowell K. Armon of Arlington Heights, James G. Hyde of Hammond, Wisconsin, Matthew J. McGuire of Rockford.

On June 3, 1995 they raided a place in Rockford and arrested James W. Kasputis, Sr. of Rockford, Judy A. Morris of Machesney Park, Joseph R. Reiff of DeKalb, James W. Kasputis, Jr. of Rockford, Michael D. Bradbury of Rockford, Mark E. Rydberg of Rockford and Sam S. Colmone of Rockford.


On June 3, 1995 they raided a place in Des Plaines and arrested Michael A. LaPrise of St. Charles, Jeffrey R. Moline of Rockford, Lowell K. Armon of Arlington Heights, Diane K. Howell of Northlake, Alan R. Armon of Las Vegas, Nevada, Kathleen S. Sullivan of Oak Lawn and Warren J. Wright of Roselle.

The Rockford Casino Players Group supplied the gambling equipment for the "charity events" and the intent was to raise money for charity. The law required the group and its volunteers to operate the charity game and the Illinois Department of Revenue said there were not enough volunteers at these events.


The only person I could see that was "connected" was Joseph Zeno who was listed as an Outfit associate. James W. Kasputis Sr. has long been a Rockford area gambler as far as I know.

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by JCB1977 » Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:28 pm

Meatball wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:45 am I hope Father Frank and Sister Mary got their taste... :lol:
:lol: :lol:

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Meatball » Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:45 am

I hope Father Frank and Sister Mary got their taste... :lol:

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by cavita » Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:32 pm

JCB1977 wrote: Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:44 pm Thanks Cavita! It seems that it was a pretty popular stream of income for the families.
I have to dig around but there were a couple separate raids on these incidents at the time and they involved some guys from the Chicago suburbs as well.

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by JCB1977 » Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:44 pm

Thanks Cavita! It seems that it was a pretty popular stream of income for the families.

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by cavita » Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:04 pm

A couple more.
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Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by cavita » Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:02 pm

cavita wrote: Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:40 pm
JCB1977 wrote: Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:04 am
cavita wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:31 pm I have FBI files from the 90s mentioning the Rockford LCN was skimming from "charitable Vegas night" games. The FBI had some good evidence on them in that they intercepted some type of mail with the funds inside but they never indicted anyone for some reason.
Great share Cavita, could you post any links to the articles or info? Thanks!
That might take some doing. The file I have is a hard copy and is about four inches thick. I'll have to sift through it and find the pages to hopefully post up.
Here are a few. I have dozens and dozens of pages that just outline the date that Nagra recordings were made and submitted to the FBI.
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Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by Stroccos » Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:29 pm

JCB1977 wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:13 pm
SILENT PARTNERZ wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:11 pm
Wiseguy wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:03 am There was a case involving Outfit-connected people doing this back in 2002.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chicagot ... y,amp.html
How illegal is making $ from bingo games?
Is there a minimum amount that has to go to
the charity?
The Pacar Center that Jimmy Prato had in the 1970’s and 80’s would sometimes have up to 800-1000 seniors playing on any given night. I’m not 100% sure but I’m positive there was a buy in for the players. Pittsburgh had the tri-state area in OH, PA and WV.
Some Cleveland associates were skimming bingo as well , Erine zevO was running the charties and he had ties to big ange lonardo

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by cavita » Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:40 pm

JCB1977 wrote: Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:04 am
cavita wrote: Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:31 pm I have FBI files from the 90s mentioning the Rockford LCN was skimming from "charitable Vegas night" games. The FBI had some good evidence on them in that they intercepted some type of mail with the funds inside but they never indicted anyone for some reason.
Great share Cavita, could you post any links to the articles or info? Thanks!
That might take some doing. The file I have is a hard copy and is about four inches thick. I'll have to sift through it and find the pages to hopefully post up.

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by MichaelGiovanni » Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:35 pm

'Donnie Brasco' and Sonny Black set up a bingo night in Florida that was promoted as a charity event. The same one that got raided.

Re: Charitable Bingo Games Skimmed

by JCB1977 » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:12 am

Here are some partial FBI files on LCN Families setting up bingo games to skim:

Link to Pittsburgh operating Bingo games

1. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... 0&tab=page

2. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... go%20games

Link to Philly operating Bingo games

1. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... go%20games

2. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.htm ... go%20games

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