Republican candidate was sued over gambling debts
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger paid $28,000 in the early 1990s to settle two lawsuits over gambling debts he racked up in Atlantic City, N.J., the Hartford Courant reported Friday.
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Gambling history facts:
- The famous banker J.P. Morgan once walked out of a Monte Carlo casino because the stakes were too low? At the time, the maximum wager was 12,000 francs and Morgan wanted it increased to 20,000 francs. When the casino manager refused to increase the limit, Morgan left the casino saying "12,000 francs! I have no time to lose such ridiculous amounts."
- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino. - Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
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