Video Poker 24/7 - Video Poker Indictments Probable

Video Poker 247 - Video Poker Indictments Probable

Former North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black just likes to keep his name in the news. First there were the bribes, an affair, and spying, and it grew from there with video poker indictments still to come. The man has kept it interesting around here since he was first discovered, but now it looks as though he isn’t going away any time soon.

Black had a campaign financing empire really, got lottery passed in the state through unethical means, and protected the video poker industry because it gave him more money in his campaign coffer. These are just the tip of the iceberg, with employing those that contributed to his campaign, passing laws that made every child having to have an eye exam because he was an optometrist, and so on, and so on.

After Black finally resigned his position, and pled guilty to corruption in federal court – he was fined $50,000 and will serve five years in jail for it. Then the Wake County Court got into it giving him another $1 million fine and another ten month sentence in jail for state political corruption. They have made it so that he must pay it within five months or face even more jail time – leaving him with very little choice.

Now, Joe Sinsheimer, who has been very vocal in bringing down Black, has a new complaint against the video poker machines. He says that donations that came to his campaign came from video poker sources, and that with an Ashville Federal Grand Jury indicting people for illegally operating video poker machines in western N.C. it is clear that the video poker machines are in direct violation of N.C. law. The allegations continued on to sheriff’s deputies that had turned a blind eye to the video poker machines in return for bribes.

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