Skimming (casinos)

Skimming (casinos)

Up until about the 1980s, it was reported that organized crime had invested in various casinos in Las Vegas, and were collecting money from them, in an illegal fashion, by having a representative of theirs go into the casino and take a portion of the money that the casino had collected each day, out of the counting room, before it had been counted, and take it with them to be brought back to the crime bosses.

Other methods of doing the same thing, such as arranging for a particular employee of organized crime be allowed to win in rigged games, was sometimes used.

As casinos began to be operated by public companies, and government agencies became aware, the practice could no longer continue in the old form and was generally discontinued.


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