Also, it helps to be Donald Trump

Late Thursday night, police raided an illegal casino in Port Richmond, called the Philadelphia Players Club.

The casino was so brazen that it advertised on the Internet, which sort of makes me wonder how I was never there before. (I mean, had I known about it I totally would have visited. And my job is browsing the Internet all day! How did I not know about this?)

Anyway, the cops broke up the casino and arrested the proprietors. And they they sure showed them who’s boss:

“This [raid and arrests] is sending a strong message to the community that gambling in this form is illegal,” said Capt. Benjamin Naish, a police spokesman.

Indeed! If you want to open a casino in Port Richmond, you have to already be rich and place a complicated bid proposal and probably schmooze up to some politicians. How dare these people try to run a casino without politicians getting a cut of it!

Port Richmond ‘casino’ goes bust [DN]
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