Help wanted: professional money launderer required

The York Region Police Chief is understandably chuffed at having presided over the "largest organized crime operation"in the history of York Region. Not only did the cops nab 27 mafia owned houses and 23 mafia owned cars, they also scored this mafia owned bag of playing cards!




I'll  try to leave aside my scepticism on the overall case for the moment, although my hunch is that we're looking at a whole lotta hoo-ha about not very much. Not every guy with an Italian name and an Italian car is necessarily a mafioso.

But here's the part that puzzles me. The police claim these guys were "cleaning" $30,000 to $50,000 per day through Ontario casinos.

Could someone please tell me how that works? I know if I walked into a casino with thirty thou, the only thing that would get cleaned is my pockets. It's called gambling, after all. How do these guys do this day after day and still have any money?

The only way you're going to consistently and reliably launder money through government owned casinos is if the casinos themselves are dirty.


Now that would be a story!