Federal probe examining confiscated gambling funds
WILKES-BARRE The FBI is investigating the Luzerne County court systems handling of confiscated gambling proceeds from illegal poker machines, courthouse sources said Tuesday.
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Gambling history facts:
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- Horse racing is the best known and widespread parimutuel betting event. Horse racing is the only form of partimutuel wagering legal in California.
- 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel. - The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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