Casino History
Casino: Bankruptcies
Casino: Corporations: Club Cal-Neva Inc.
Casino: Corporations: Spinning Wheel Corp.
Clifford Jones
Club Cal-Neva (Reno, NV)
Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Tax Evasion
Earl Snyder
Gambling History
Gaming History
Governing / Regulatory Bodies: Internal Revenue Service
It Really Happened
James "Jim" Contratto
Joe Wells
Marion Hicks
Nevada
Saddle Club (Las Vegas, NV)
Sanford Adler
Silver Palace (Las Vegas, NV)
Tahoe Biltmore (Crystal Bay, NV)
United States
IRS Swoops Down on Casino Cash
1955-1956 At 9:15 a.m. on Friday, November 11, 1955, eight U.S. IRS agents entered the Club Cal-Neva in Reno, Nevada, demanding payment of $65,000 (about $600,000 today) in overdue withholding and excise taxes. When the…