These new ways to find loopholes in the law are LOL.
If authorities want to bust them for running an illegal card room, they will.
Calling it a "security fee" isn't going to change anything.
This is as useless as the disclaimer on hookers' websites where they claim you're only paying for "time spent together", and that anything sexual that happens is simply a voluntary action between two consenting adults. Yeah, like that would fly in court.
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Well well well. All criminal charges dropped per report by Hailey Hintze. Seems a staffer in the DAs office essentially solicited a monster bribe from both clubs to get them “legal”.
http://www.flushdraw.net/news/charge...-ties-exposed/
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Yeah that's a really interesting story.
The question is if the two raids were related to those bribes (that is, were the raided because they didn't pay enough in bribes), or was the guy arranging the bribes just a scammer who really had little influence?
In any case, for sure the bribes tainted the entire case, and it had to be dropped.
Now the guy who solicited the bribes is being investigated by the FBI, and the clubs are off the hook. Amazing.
I do like how Haley made reference to the similar situation with Harry Reid taking a $1 million bribe in order to help legalize online poker. That's rarely discussed, and when I bring it up to people as evidence of how corrupt Reid was, they think I'm repeating dumb conspiracy stuff, but it seriously looks like it really happened.
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Interesting article in the New Yorker, regarding these two clubs (Post Oak and Prime Social).
Lots of backstory to both this story and the clubs themselves.
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/spo...mi-legal-poker
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