Casino Folk Pages

A deal to settle a 200-year-old land dispute in New York paves the way for Wisconsin’s Oneida Nation to build a $500 million casino that could open in two years, a tribal leader said Thursday.

The casino could help the tribe achieve financial security for generations, said William Gollnick, the Oneida Nation’s general manager of operations. The tribe wants to develop the casino about 100 miles northwest of New York City, tapping a market of about 10 million potential gamblers, he said.

“This is monumental,” Gollnick said in a telephone interview from tribal headquarters in Green Bay. “Our culture tells us we are responsible for seven generations. I think the foundation of an economic base that can sustain the Nation going forward is perhaps one of the greatest gifts we can bring.”

Las Vegas Sun

Two people were killed and another was injured in an armed attack on a Moscow slot machine arcade early Thursday (Aug. 19, 2004) morning, in what has become the tenth such robbery in the city since the start of the year ….
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December 12, 2004. Moscow. A city court-martial confined warrant officer Yuri Fablinov, who was accused of an armed robbery and slaughter of three men in a local arcade, to 22 years of imprisonment.

A 22 year-old Fablinov was found guilty of an armed robbery, massacre of two and more persons, and illegal possession of firearms. The court stripped Fablinov off his army rank and confined him to serve time in a high-security prison.

By the court verdict, Fablinov will have to undergo psychiatric treatment. According to expert’s conclusion, he was in a state of mental imbalance during the time of a crime, which is rooted in his involvement in counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya and Moscow.

An investigation showed that in August, 2004 Yuri Fablinov left his army headquarters without official leave carrying a gun. He planned this robbery and elimination of possible witnesses in advance. On August 19, 2004 he shot two arcade employees and one customer who used to attend the place frequently. He stole 25 thousand rubbles from the safe box, and took two thousand rubbles from one of the victim’s pockets.

Two of the victims died on the spot from numerous bullet wounds. Injured cashier died later in one of the Moscow hospitals.