Bingo Critics Letting kids play bingo for cash could be a costly risk for Albertans who could end up paying for future gambling addicts, warn critics. Trying to support their habit, our young people would be ending up in jail, hospitals or committing suicide. Minors were banned from playing bingo for money after the 1998 Alberta Gaming Summit.
Kids are now limited to playing for non-cash prizes.
But the recommendations are just that, said Charlotte Moran of the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission. The Nevada Gaming Control Board voted 3-0 to recommend that Howard, who has held some top management slots, not be licensed as chief operating officer and general manager of the River Palms in Laughlin. The board's parent state Gaming Commission will have final say at an Oct. 21 hearing on Howard's plan to run the club, part of Gold River Operating Corp. Control Board Chairman Steve DuCharme said he was troubled by some of Howard's business ties, including associations with a man who once comped a mob boss to a New Jersey casino prize fight and allegedly laundered cocaine money. Board members also said Howard was involved in a Mississippi-based company that illegally shipped slot machines to Michigan. Howard's lawyer, Dennis Gallagher, pleaded with the board to give his client a break.