Tribes regulate their own their casinos - 2004-01-01
Oversight of Indian gaming can be a family affair.

Tribes with gaming establishments, such as San Manuel Bingo and Casino by San Bernardino, are regulated by their own gaming commissions frequently led by relatives of the tribal chairman and a National Indian Gaming Commission on which two of the three commissioners are also members of gaming tribes.

A state commission exists, but its powers are limited because of tribal sovereignty.

"You hear congressmen saying Indians regulating Indians is like Enron regulating Enron,' said Deron Marquez, chairman of the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians, whose mother, Sandra Marquez, chairs the tribe's gaming commission.
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Prosecutors File For Look at First Binion Trial - 2004-01-01
Prosecutors might get an inside look at defense in the first trial of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish in the killing of casino mogul Ted Binion. That's IF they can persuade a Clark County judge to waive Tabish's attorney-client privilege with his previous lawyer.

Clark County D-A David Roger says prosecutors need to be able to check out Tabish's claim that his former lawyer botched his appeal of his extortion conviction. His former lawyer's not talking. Tabish is now being represented by San Francisco defense attorney Tony Serra.
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