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Casinos have been the way for the mafia to operate legally.

What interest would a criminal organization have in a high cash revenue business?

Could it be a way to launder money? Jimmy "No Nose" comes in with $40k cash every weekend and loses it gambling, and "nobody knows" where a guy like Jimmy gets that cash so regularly.

Gambling has been well-known for some time as a way to launder money. For example see this[1] official government report in the UK or this[2] which is US-specific but much less detailed.

[1] https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/print/The-money-launde...

[2] https://moneysmartathlete.com/betting-industry/money-launder...

The old skim was even better than that. Make $500k, report $300k and send $200k cash back to Chicago.

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