Blacklist for casino junkies not feasible, officials claim - 2004-03-13
Virginia Ormanian burned through much of her retirement funds playing slots in Detroit casinos last year.

Once she won $8,000 playing slots, and the casino compensated her after filling out the necessary tax forms. But Ormanian shouldn’t have been able to do any of it.
“I was counting on the casinos to honor their contract,” Ormanian explained.
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Tribes using persuasion in Congress to sidestep local opposition - 2004-03-13
When a Butte County tribe desired help launching a casino on a cow pasture 40 miles away, it turned to a retiring U.S. senator from Colorado.

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell assisted in introducing three obscure sentences into a Native American "technical corrections" measure that assists the casino site in Yuba County to become tribal property -- without mentioning the tribe's name, its site or even a word regarding gambling.
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