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How Do I Cheat? Let Me Count the Ways, Part II

1958-1959 (Part I ran last week.) The Nevada Tax Commission withdrew the gambling license of the New Star casino’s operators — Brent Mackie and Kenneth Henton — in July 1958 after investigators allegedly witnessed 21…

How Do I Cheat? Let Me Count the Ways, Part I

1958 Casino workers at the New Star allegedly were caught in flagrante delicto. In April, a gambling detective — Michael MacDougall from New York — conducted a statewide, in-person survey of various gambling entities upon…