(Documentation of widespread Jewish predation upon impoverished African-Americans and Latinos also here:
 http://www.jewishtribalreview.org )


 http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021216/ncasino1.html

Who Gets the Money? Needy Native Americans, you'd think. But Indian casinos are making millions for their investors and providing little to the poor, Time, December 8, 2002

"So how, exactly, is Hollow Horn prospering from the $12.7 billion Indian gaming industry? Like most Native Americans, not at all. Last year
the Oglala's Prairie Wind Casino, housed in a temporary, white, circus-tent-like structure smaller than a basketball court, turned a profit of $2.4 million on total revenue of $9.5 million. Most of the money went to fund general programs, such as services for the elderly and young people, as well as education and economic development. But even if there had been profit sharing instead, the payout would have worked out to a daily stipend of just 16¢ for each of the 41,000 tribe members. That's not to say that
members of a few small tribes near big cities aren't doing very well from gaming. In Minnesota, 300 members of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community reportedly take home more than $1 million a year. But bands like that are the exception. Only 25% of gaming tribes distribute cash to their members, usually no more than a few thousand dollars each. So if the overwhelming majority of Native Americans like Hollow Horn aren't benefiting from the Indian casino boom, who is? In many cases, the big winners are non-Indian investors, some of whom pocket more than 40% of an Indian casino's profits. Actually, calling these people investors understates their role. They often serve as master strategists who draw up the plans and then underwrite the total cost of bringing a casino online: ferreting out an amenable tribe, paying a signing bonus, picking up tribal expenses and paying the salaries of the tribe's officials, all of this
before a spade of dirt is turned. If an Indian band isn't federally recognized as a tribe and is thus ineligible for a gaming venture, these full-service backers will bankroll genealogists to construct a family tree, then hire lawyers and lobbyists in Washington to help change the band's status. And if a reservation isn't prime real estate for a casino, the investors sometimes purchase a more suitable patch and instruct their lawyers and lobbyists to persuade the government to designate the land as a trust, as reservation property is called ... Say what you will about Lyle Berman —and people have called him a lot of things: a pit bull, an intimidator, a fearsome competitor—but no one has ever accused him of
modesty. Of his casino-development company, Lakes Entertainment Inc., Berman once told reporters, 'We're the most successful company in Indian gaming'... By his account, as of September 2001, hewas worth almost $69 million."



 http://www.citizensalliance.org/links/pages/news/National%20News/New_York.htm

Casino case raises issues of money, politics Contributions coincide with favorable decisions, By Sean P. Murphy, Citizens Alliance (from Globe), October 30, 2001

"Arthur Goldberg, owner of Caesars, Bally's, and other casinos in Atlantic City, knew a threat when he saw one: When an Indian tribe,
the St. Regis Mohawks, announced plans last year to build a casino in Monticello - an hour closer to New York City than his casinos - Goldberg knew his business would suffer. But Goldberg, a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, had friends in high places. Pretty soon he was arranging meetings with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Then came a cascade of ''soft money'' contributions to the Democrats. Over a five-month period following the April 2000 announcement of the Mohawk casino deal, Clinton's Bureau of Indian Affairs made several unusual
decisions helpful to Goldberg. First, the bureau withdrew the federal government's longstanding support for the group of Mohawks who planned
the casino in Monticello; instead, the bureau backed a group of tribal leaders allied with Goldberg; and finally, the bureau intervened
to help prevent the enforcement of a Mohawk tribal court's $1.8 billion judgment against Goldberg for interfering in tribal affairs. On
the very day - Oct. 6, 2000 - that the Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a letter declaring that the tribal court had no authority, Goldberg's
company contributed $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee. It was the second time a Goldberg contribution was registered on the day
of a decision favorable to him ... ''Arthur Goldberg reached right into the government to protect his Atlantic City casinos by controlling
gaming in New York state,'' said Robert Berman, a businessman who headed the group planning the Mohawk casino at the Monticello Raceway."



 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/gaming/2002/jan/23/512929949.html
Kerzner's son lobbying for casino, Las Vegas Sun, January 23, 2002

"Howard Kerzner is keeping his hopes alive to build a major resort casino in Hawaii. Kerzner, president of Sun International Hotels Ltd., has spent the past two weeks lobbying lawmakers in Hawaii for an exclusive gaming license ... Howard Kerzner is the son of Sol Kerzner, the chairman and chief executive of Sun International. Sol Kerzner is best known in Las Vegas for his aborted bid to acquire the Desert Inn on the Las Vegas Strip from then-owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Steve Wynn [also Jewish] acquired the D.I. shortly after Kerzner backed out of the $275 million deal in March 2000. In gaming circles, Sol Kerzner is also well known for a lucrative deal in which a partnership he headed developed and for a time managed the giant Mohegan Sun Indian casino in Connecticut. The Boston Globe reported the partnership, Trading Cove Associates, will have received an estimated $1 billion from the tribe that owns the casino over the life of the partnership -- apparently hundreds of millions of dollars more than allowed by federal law. Critics charge that amount is exploitative and well above the 30 percent limit on profits non-Indians are allowed to earn from Indian casinos. Trading Cove and Mohegan officials have defended their arrangement as appropriate, though that deal has prompted Congress to consider tightening the law to ensure
tribes are not exploited by non-Indian developers."



 http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/gaming/mccain_grills_officials_on_mohegan_deal+.shtml

Tribal Gamble. The Lure and Peril of Indian Gambling, Boston Globe, August 26, 2001

"Focusing on the huge profits some investors now take from Indian-owned casinos, an angry Senator John McCain yesterday grilled two government
officials on the deal-making behind the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut and on the Clinton administration's last-minute recognition of the Nipmuc tribe of Central Massachusetts. In his questioning, McCain made clear his concern that non-Indian investors at the Mohegan Sun casino dodged federal law to get hundreds of millions of dollars in extra profits that rightfully belonged to the tribe. "Do you find that disturbing? Outrageous, even?" McCain asked Montie Deer, the chairman of the National Indian Gaming
Commission, a panel established to enforce a strict limit on casino profits for non-Indian investors ... McCain pinpointed the Mohegan tribe's relationship with a group of investors known as Trading Cove Associates, a syndicate headed by international gambling mogul Sol Kerzner, creator of Sun City in South Africa. In 1988, Congress recognized that some tribes
were so poor that they might agree to give as much as 90 percent of any profits to their non-Indian investors. Congress set 30 percent as the
maximum profit margin for those investors, though in exceptional circumstances the tribes could grant up to 40 percent. The Indian Gaming Commission was charged with enforcing that limit by approving contracts between tribes and investors who would also act as casino general managers. The Mohegan tribe made its deal with Trading Cove Associates, which originally proposed to develop both a casino and an on-site hotel in exchange for the development rights. But before submitting the proposal to the National Indian Gaming Commission, Trading Cove withdrew the hotel component. The commission approved maximum compensation for Trading Cove in 1995 anyway -- an arrangement worth close to $500 million, to be paid over seven years. After the casino opened, Trading Cove and the tribal leadership agreed on a 'buyout' whereby the tribe would take over direct management of the casino. Nevertheless, the tribe promised to pay Trading Cove in full, as if Trading Cove had continued as general manager. But with Trading Cove no longer managing the casino, the National Indian Gaming Commission lost authority to enforce restrictions on Trading Cove's share of profits. That was the ruling of the commission's general counsel
in 1998. As a result, Trading Cove could then negotiate for profits above the maximum set by Congress. And it did so by selling the hotel
rights back to the tribe for as much as $450 million, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Globe. Trading Cove, in all,
will receive an estimated $1 billion from the tribe."



 http://mytwobeadsworth.com/Massacresite902.html

Casino operator offers to buy, donate massacre site,by Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News (at mytwobeadsworth.com),September 3, 2002

"The wandering spirits of 163 Arapaho and Cheyenne slaughtered and mutilated at Sand Creek on the rolling prairie of southeastern Colorado
in 1864 have another chance at resting in peace. There's a Dec. 2 closing date for rancher William Dawson to sell the 1,456 acres at the heart of
the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, where 700 Colorado militia soldiers killed and mutilated Cheyenne and Arapaho, mostly women, children and the elderly. 'It will be a big win for everyone,' said Victoria Livingston, Dawson's real estate agent. 'It has been sacred ground for the Indians since the massacre. It should end up with the Indians.' Election year tribal politics have delayed the closing three times in 2002. Jim Druck, a Minnesota-based casino operator, will pay $1.5 million for the land. He runs a casino for the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Oklahoma and will donate the property to the tribes ... Druck, owner of the Minnesota-based Southwest Entertainment Inc., heard the story and offered to pay Dawson's price in late 2001. That same year, he had taken his family to the Nazi death camp at Dachu, where his father, an Army captain, had helped evacuate the starving survivors at the end of World War II. The Drucks are Jewish, but none of their close relatives died in the concentration camps, he said ... Druck, who calls himself a 'recovering attorney' who did well in real estate, also did pro bono work for Native Americans in Minnesota until he closed his law practice in 1976. Years later, some of his Indian clients approached him to run a casino. Druck went to work for the Arapaho and Cheyenne in Oklahoma in 1992 on the first Indian bingo casino approved by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Druck also owns the Gold Rush Casino in Cripple Creek."



 http://www.gtlaw.com/pub/media/2002/abramoffj02a.pdf

At $500 an Hour, Lobbyist's Influence Rises with G.O.P.,New York Times (posted at gtlaw.com), April 3, 2002

"In the last six months of 2001, the Coushatta Indians, a tribe with 800 members and a large casino in southwestern Louisiana, paid $1.76 million to the law firm of Jack Abramoff [law firm: Greenberg Tausig], a Republican lobbyist here. Last month, the Bush administration handed
the tribe a big victory by blocking construction of a casino by a rival tribe that would have drained much of the Coushatta's business. William
Worfel, vice chairman of the Coushattas, views the administration's decision as a direct benefit of the eye-popping lobbying his tribe paid Mr. Abramoff, more money than many giant corporations like AOL, Time-Warner and American
Airlines paid lobbyists in the same period ... Mr. Abramoff, 43, has used his close ties to Republican Tom DeLay of Texas, the Republican
whip, and other conservatives in the Hose to become one of the most influential -- and, at $500 an hour, best compensated -- lobbyists in Washington ... Unlike many lobbyists who take almost any client who is willing to pay their fee, Mr. Abramoff says he represents only those who stand for conservative principles. They include three Indian tribes [actually five noted in this article: the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, the Coushetta Tribe of Lousiana, the Sagninaw Chippewa Tribe, the Hopi
Tribe, and the Missississippi Choctaw] with big casinos and, until recently, the Northern Mariana Islands ... [Abramoff] is an Orthodox Jew whosays that even more than politics, his religion is a cnetral element of his life ... The Mississippi Choctaw paid Greenberg Traurig more than $1 million in the last half of 2001 ... The other big issue for Mr. Abramoff in 1995 that promoted his career was a bill pased by the Senate that would have stripped the Norhern Mariana Islands of their exemption from the United States minimum wage and immigration laws ... Representative George Miller, a California Democrat who sponsored the legislation in the House,
is still furious about Mr. Abramoff's action. In a recent interview, Mr. Miller said, '[Abramoff] spent a lot of time, effort and money
to protect a system that was a growth industry for sex shops, prostitution, abuse of women, slavery, illegal immigration, worker exploitation and narcotics, and he did it all in the name of freedom.'"