Opinion ID: 2972844
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Heading: Myers Lake Instant Bingo

Text: In early 1999, Donal Bush, Carol Megyes, Chester Simons, and Marcia Williams met for lunch and decided to open a gambling business in Canton, Ohio. The four agreed to invest in an instant bingo store, which would operate from a Canton storefront owned by GDC Investments. GDC Investments is a real estate company partially owned by Donal Bush. Although the venture was not associated with a charity at the time, Chad Bush, the son of Donal Bush, recruited the Community AIDS Network (CAN), a tax-exempt organization dedicated to helping AIDS patients. According to the fiscal manager of CAN, Chad Bush told CAN that he would “take 30 percent off the top for overhead and stuff,” with the remaining proceeds going to CAN. The store, which was called Myers Lake Instant Bingo, sold instant bingo tickets to customers six days a week. Megyes managed the store’s daily operations, in which CAN took no part. Chester Simons later provided bingo machines for the Myers Lake store, and he collected the proceeds from the machines once a week.