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In an interview for Royal Hot Shot Airways in-flight magazine–
THIN AIR CONSUMPTION–Mr. Greene found it ironic that his early
hopes were to be a concert pianist. He was quite an accomplished soloist, but felt that his name would prevent his being taken seriously by music producers and critics.
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WASHINGTON — In what could be one of the hardest blows to the al-Qaida crime family since they muscled their way to the top of the gaming industry, the group’s No. 3, Moe “Mustafa Abu al-Yazid” Greene, is believed to be dead, killed by a rival Las Vegas faction, an attorney with the U.S, Anti-Crime […]
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The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | October 9, 2008 10:23 AM
Writing for the Daily Beast, Michael Kinsley relays a disturbing story about John McCain from Jeff Dearth, former publisher of the New Republic, when Dearth and McCain attended a magazine industry conference at a casino hotel in Puerto Rico in 2005:
McCain’s game is craps. […]
For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling
By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: September 27, 2008
Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around […]
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The reason for the question centers on the Associated Press report that Senator Bill Frist(R-TN) used military spending bill as a vehicle to carry his wish to ban the use of credit cards to pay on-line gambling debts. The story pointed out that the ban is favored by the NFL, anti-gambling and conservative sectors. The […]