Of course, one of my friends who went home from university for the summer and has no criminal record was also one of the local workers this year. Instead, the Dixie Mafia was a rag-tag band of crooks who were willing to do just about any crime if there was money involved. Pleeeeease! My dad owns a traveling carnival. "I hope we get through this without somebody being killed or getting raped," said Rep. Bill Black (R-Danville), who also has sponsored a failed bill. At large expositions, such as a state fair, the money is massive and the split is different. Willie Lovett was the longtime chief of police of the Savannah Chatham, Georgia, Metro Police Department. The last two victims also withdrew money from the ATM. Frank had been granted state fair contracts in Michigan and Florida over the previous 25 years. The average carnival worker salary is $27,198. From 1995 to 2002, Gregory and his wife, Vonna Jo Gregory, contributed heavily to politicians in national elections. In this CBS News Online, July 12, 2011, video expos, U.S. The same carny-cops (police officers patrolling the midway), and the same returning interstate carny-outlaws appear to be working in concert for income at annual extravaganzas.This, combined with the hoodwink nods from corrupt public servants, seems to be the big American secret at fairs and festivals. With a greater number of gambling and crooked games, the carnival owner will increase his undivided claim to the unshared game loot. Certain totals correspond to successful yardage gains printed on the perplexing conversion chart. It is evident that the police officers oath of office is not upheld and easily forgotten by some. I was a carnie for a summer. The flatty allowed this gentleman to leave and return with money retrieved from an ATM several times. Often described as the Cornbread Cosa Nostra, the Dixie Mafia first emerged in the American South in the 1960s. For a carnival owner or manager to deny responsibility is like saying I didnt run you over, my car did! When it comes to interviews, carnival owners and managers will act outraged while feigning ignorance about the rigged game and its perpetrat, John Wayne Gacy Confessed to Killing Dozens (December 22, 1978). I think most of these businesses will be gone in a few years. We have a lot of interesting family friends from the fair business. I havent thought about that in a long time. advance man - person who takes care of details that need to be handled in advance of a carnival By the time all is said and done, it's usually about a 20- to 24-hour shift of hard physical labor, depending on how smoothly things go. The Razzle agent, known as a flatty, carnival jargon for the operator of a crooked big-dollar table game called a flat joint or flat store, is a professional con man with an enticing appeal. It is evident that the police officers oath of office is not upheld and easily forgotten by some. I read every article, book, and case law I could find relating to these games. That occurred even though state police checked carnival workers' backgrounds. It was started by my grandfather in 1956. A lot of money came flowing in, said retired FBI Special Agent Keith Bell. The truth is that some of the illegal games are property of the carnival owner, and not some fictitious ace-in-the-hole independent contractor. Most flat-joints are operated by errant freelancers. Volume rip-offs against vulnerable teens are an almost complaint-free luxury. Carnivals are ubiquitous in the Garden State, but an aura of mystery swirls around the people who stage the phantasmagoric spectacles that light up empty fields Moreover, the practice of carnival owners paying police departments direct is risky and, if unchecked, sets up a dubious relationship which tends to defeat the mission of law enforcement. They will always refer to any bad guys as independent contractors and not employees of the carnival even when they are paying the carnival owner for the privilege of occupying cheating space. Police have said the carnival mafia does not exist. This is lawful gambling provided that the event is licensed and monitored by the state. In other words, carnies are not any more shady than other types of work crews that perform similar tasks - its just that people are put off by - to paraphrase Philip Marlowe - having to see the works when the lid is lifted off of life. The British form of fairground cant is called "polari". The most common degree is a high school diploma degree with an criminal justice major. In April of 2015, another Razzle player stated that he lost $2,500 at a shopping-mall carnival in Tallahassee. He never held a job for long, as far as I know. ", In this CBS News Online, July 12, 2011, video. Gregorys little moon-walk act looks good on the six-o-clock news; however, everyone in the industry knows that carnival owners and managers are never in the dark about the corrupt features of every dirty game on their midways. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. This is an ideal way for owners to feel they bought and own the loyalty of cops on their midways. A new lawyer has taken the helm of the legal department at Carnival Corp., but the cruise lines longtime general counsel isnt abandoning ship just yet. It is not uncommon for sheriffs or police chiefs to lend themselves to sizable remunerations to ensure that these affable outlaws operate on trouble-free turf. The gang then broke into 10 trailers in search of valuables and cash. The long hours of travel, erection (no pun intended, as I cant even imaging a Carny getting a hard-on with all the Meth in thier system) and tear-down of the carnival are custom-made for Meth abuse and Nut-jobs. I pay 10-to-1!. In addition to carny jargon, some carnival workers used a special infix ("earz" or "eez" or "iz") to render regular language unintelligible to outsiders. Carnival game players lose 95 percent of the time says a carnival game enforcement specialist, Corporal Glenn Hester of the Glynn County Police Department of Brunswick, Georgia. Johnson called previous proposed legislation discriminatory. In the subsequent years, three suspects (not including Nix), suffered mysterious deaths that may have been caused by Pusser. . Huston, vice president of Operations at Pugh Shows at the time, was present when Argo was arrested. Work until your rides set-up, which can take up to ten hours of ass busting dangerous work. But he apparently believed that if he had enough money, hed be able to get out of prison. The cruise line giant Carnival Corporation and its Princess subsidiary have agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $20 million for environmental violations such as With 80 yards and only having to spend $2, the mark, psyched because of such good luck, is eager to buy more spills. It is an ever-changing form of communication, in large part designed to be impossible to understand by an outsider. I was just a kid, so I dont know what all kinds of things he did, but I do know he had a few brushes with the law. I had a black-sheep uncle who did carny work, as well as tons of other transient jobs. So while carnival talk did not entice people, it did help the carnies to ensure that the customers never knew about the shady back-end of things, Winter says. In 2003, Frank popped for another $5,000 for the campaign of New Mexico Democrat governor-elect, Bill Richardson. In the Play Football eight-marble version of Razzle, the mark agrees to use a free pass, then spills eight marbles on a board containing 143 numbered holes with values from one through six assigned to each hole. One month later, on October 1, 2002, Frank contributed $10,000 to the Republican Party of Florida Federal Campaign Account as Jeb Bush was running for reelection to governor of Florida. As for my petty crime, I smoked a lot of pot. But by the early 1990s, the syndicate had largely collapsed. He placed ads in gay publications posing as a young stud named Eddie Johnson to attract correspondence from unsuspecting readers. I conservatively estimate NAME to be a $150 million-per-year corporation based on its stated 15-million fairgoers annually and on an average of only $10 per capita. Michael L. Cella was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and sentenced to 3 years in prison for fondling the children while strapping them in for rides. Its only nickel and dime! I hope this article will be an epiphany to naysayers, that this blind uninformed acceptability, enabled by politics and the absence of enforcement, will one day be a big deal. 15.5% of Carnival Workers are Hispanic or Latino, 8.1% of Carnival Workers are Black or African American, 5.4% of Carnival Workers are Asian, 4.5% of Carnival Workers are Unknown, and 0.1% of Carnival Workers are American Indian and Alaska Native. But even incarceration couldnt stop them from committing crimes. As a career police officer with the Dearborn Police Department (Michigan) and trained in enforcement of carnival games, I became concerned about this unique brand of plain view criminal activity. ". Cries for a state law started after a convicted sex offender working as a carnival worker raped and drugged a 15-year-old girl at the Illinois State Fair in 2001. WebEmployees felt differently about being labeled a carnie, a name colloquially used to describe carnival workers. It was a crime spree that spanned four generations and crossed multiple states from Texas to Oregon, beginning in the early 1920s with ancestors who were Carnival-related bribes and illegal transactions pave the way for the crooked migratory hustlers to trailer into your neighborhood for a weekend each year, never having a need to worry about arrest. I disagree. Ward Hall? Its a mix. With the astronomical amounts of cash the Razzle sharks are capable of taking, one never should rule out the possibility of protection by dirty cops, often in the vicinity of a Razzle set-up. Party one night. Kirksey McCord Nix Jr., one of the notorious leaders of the Dixie Mafia. Aside from forming alliances with some members of law enforcement, the Dixie Mafia also worked alongside fellow mobsters. Furthermore, Lovett was convicted on two charges of extortion and two more charges of making false statements to the FBI. Training and enforcement at local, state, and national levels are the ways to address these free crime zones and thwart the commission of brazen wholesale, worry-free criminal acts. A separate background check by Palatine police in July turned up registered sex offender Richardo Coleman of Chicago working as a merry-go-round operator for St. Charles-based Windy City Amusements Inc. Palatine does not have an ordinance, but police request a copy of carnival employees' names to run checks. Police officials in Wayne County and the City of Dearborn have been allowing known rigged games at their carnivals for the last decade while patrons were under the impression they were being protected by cops seen patrolling the midway. But at least half the time, itd backfire, and Id have guys my grandpas age trying to convince me that since I said anything in the truck, and I was standing in the truck, that meant when they won I was gonna give them the night of their life. What the Greatest Showman Got Totally Wrong, The Bittersweet Story of Jumbo the Elephant, Carnival Workers Describe What The Life Is Really Like. But I dont have any illusions that this is the end of the Dixie Mafia., After reading about the Dixie Mafia, meet Joe Valachi, the first mobster to expose the Mafias darkest secrets, and Frank Lucas, the real-life heroin kingpin who inspired the film American Gangster., The Little-Known Story Of The Dixie Mafia, The Cornbread Cosa Nostra Of The South. That could be anybody. These hardworking people are young and old, from all walks of life. Any accurate count of the marbles will correspond to no yards on the chart.). Its a fundamental divide in human society, and the sedentary city-folks have mostly won. A central question was whether Rodham was paid by the Gregorys to gain White House access and help to obtain pardons or whether Rodham was paid for legitimate business services. The Dixie Mafias territory stretched all over the South, from Georgia to Oklahoma. Well, up until this year the State Fair would hire a lot of day workers from the local homeless population. This trickery employs a miscall or miscount known as carnival fairbanking, which is a duplicitous scheme, i.e., the flatty misguides the mark through alluring favoritism as an inducement to draw his prey further into the costly illusion of winning a luxurious prize and enormous cash. Convicted of bank loan schemes in 1986 and never spending a day in prison, the Gregorys befriended Tony Rodham, brother of President Bill Clintons wife, and now presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and were awarded the contracts to operate his carnival, In 2008, campaign finance records show that Frank contributed to the following U.S. Congressional candidates: Joe Baca, Brian Bilbray, Gerry Connolly, Jim Costa, Randy Forbes, Zoe Lofgren, Mike Pence, Dennis Rehberg, and, In my early years as a police officer of the Dearborn Police Department and working the information desk, a man named Steve Nowosielski walked in to complain that carnival employees were stealing from the patrons with Razzle at the city carnival only 100 yards from the police station. I estimated that the 12 innocent-looking basketball games alone accounted for $25,000 in 2012, based on the numbers of neighborhood kids trying their luck endlessly for four days. I dont know if it compares, but I do know that some people there worked the shady angle purposefully. Not an easy life. It goes back to the Nomads versus the Egypt, Rome versus the Barbarians. Ive seen horror shows and Ive seen highschool kids. Gaffed and chance-based games from the same carnival companies travel to thousands of carnival lots and fairs each year. I dont have children, however, I do not plan to bring them [when I do] to the carnies that come through town here. NBC producer Sandra Thomass Today show and Dateline features used several hidden cameras at NAMEs carnivals in June, 2012, and were able to capture on film and describe the agents cheating deadening ball maneuver during both NBC 2012 exposs narrated by NBCs national correspondent Jeff Rossen, entitled Rossen Reports: Are carnival games cheating you - and your kids?". I watched as all the childs attempts were without the aid of the cagily removed energy-absorbing gaff ball. Here is the typical scenario of a Razzle casualty: Feeling duped and dazed, the bewildered Razzle mark walks away a big loser and realize hes been somehow ripped off. The owner, manager, or patch of a carnival who pays police security, either directly or indirectly through a third party, with the expectation of having police-protected illegal games, would be in violation of the federal RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) U.S. Code, Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 11, section 201, Bribery of public officials. Gifts and gratuities handed out for the same purpose also amount to bribery. I will usually see three to eight tubs on every midway of Wade Shows and North American Midway Entertainment. The old classic carnivals with geeks & shows of dubious morality etc. The fair is an extension of her; it is her identity and passion. All embrace lucrative interests while striving for a trouble-free show, which can and does lead to tolerable criminal pursuits. Get up to work twelve hour days for the next two weeks or so, then work a twelve hour day, take down your ride, show, what have you and drive it to the next spot, without sleep, usually a few hundred miles away. Any reported unfavorable incident during the annual festival would create bad press and taint sponsors as well as all involved, in addition to a loss of future revenue and visitors. They even have their own language., At least thats what people think about carnies. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. Although there have been several complaints about gambling and rigged games at the Arab festivals, they have never been investigated by police. While the Dixie Mafia had no formal ties to La Cosa Nostra, they did have an understanding with a notorious Italian-American Mafia mob boss named Carlos Marcello. She was clearly astonished and interested in securing this elliptical type of rim for a demonstration during her Today feature. This seedy history and the ongoing corruption of local officials made the city an attractive place for lawbreakers. WebBusiness Insider asked current and former cruise-ship workers what they wish they could tell passengers but can't. Twenty-four others, mostly women and children, had stayed behind at the campsite. There must be collaboration among governmental agencies regarding the identification, tracking, and documenting of these interstate businessmen along with recognizing the moral and social ills associated with the intentions of most to take criminal financial advantage of children. Lots of hard work, but I got to meet some great people - especially the bands we set up for. I hope I have answered it for you. In my research spanning the last 17 years, I estimate that about 75 percent of carnival games on todays traveling midways are gambling, frauds, or a combination of both; up from law enforcements earlier estimate of 50 percent. We open at around 5 or 6 pm on Saturday, close at 10 or 11pm, tear down rides (about four hours), drive them to the next spot (typically about 45 minutesto an hour and a half), then set them all back up (about sevenhours). Federal law enforcement needs to pay attention to the probability of tax evasion, likely involving many millions of dollars annually, as well as checking for gambling equipment-trailers rolling across state lines in violation of the Johnson Act (Interstate transportation of gambling equipment). Marcello, one of the most powerful leaders in organized crime in America, operated in New Orleans around the same time that the Dixie Mafia was coming to power. To create insurance-like policies, carnival magnates often contribute to political campaigns of U.S. congressmen, senators, governors, and local politicians for a couple of reasons: in case they are interested in a state fair, county, or municipal contract and wish to develop clout; and in case carny-owners need friends in government to bail them out of trouble after a dishonest carny runs into a police officer who just wants to do his or her job. He finally got his settlement, and actually gave my Mom and Dad some money for their trouble. So, they either rent or default on thier sub-prime mortgage. he government contended Lovett and Randall Roach (Magic Midway carnival owner) schemed from 2004 until September 27, 2013, when Lovett retired. If legislation is passed to require companies to foot the bill for background checks, it might force them to pass costs on to already cash-strapped county fairs, said Tom Ostermeier, president of the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs. Drupal theme by ThemeSnap.com, Carnival racketeering is endemic throughout the United State and has been for years. Starting Jan. 1, 2019, Illinois law will require carnival companies to conduct criminal background checks of all employees. WebCarnivals have a number of workers, each of whom has a specific role to fill. Rather the way they interact with the public is a large part of what makes them different. But really, what field doesnt? I would set up and tear down the merry-go-round every week with the same crew; we were each other's backbone. The two Razzle games, managed by an up and coming Frank Zaitshik, were shut down. But did the Dixie Mafias grip on the American South really end in the 1990s? Justice on Fire is OConnors detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. It was adopted after a stabbing by a carnival worker in 2001. Richardson, aware of the so-called games for two years, not only failed to command appropriate investigative action, he also failed to properly document the complaints in the county police files This way, a nosy reporter, going through police files, will not encounter any crime complaints to write about. In my view, what Deputy Chief Dennis Richardson did isnt much different from what disgraced former Chief Willie Lovett did for nine years: Conspiracy to obstruct enforcement of criminal laws. (Lovett probably tossed every Razzle and hoop complaint at all his cheating carnivals.). Festival carnivals are usually sponsored by charitable service organizations such as Kiwanis, Jaycees, Shriners, or neighborhood churches, which lend legitimacy to the for-profit midway games. WebCruise ship crime. Police departments must take appropriate action to guarantee that all midway games are skill-based, checked, and rechecked by valid security, thus reducing the chances of illegally obtained cash laundered via middlemen (sponsors), to pay the contract for midway security. A report by the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform concluded that United Shows of America, Inc. paid Rodham $240,000 for undocumented consulting services. They were doing anything and everything illegal down here, said retired FBI Special Agent Keith Bell, who grew up on the Gulf Coast and worked on cases linked to the Dixie Mafia. NAME actually had company shirts available for their carny-cops, stating SECURITY., While working the security detail on that NAME midway, are the Joliet cops supposed to protect and serve carnival-goers, or just the carnies? With the likelihood that carnival business books are being cooked, the Internal Revenue Services expertise would be invaluable in uncovering money trails. At three events checked this summer by the attorney general and sheriff's offices, no background problems were discovered. To address the puzzling doggedness of plain-sight crooked carnival games, one has to first take a look at the history, criminalities, winks and nods of police, and the behind-the-scenes components enabling and perpetuating this century-old system of corruption. Everyone has their small group of people they work with on a ride and become close to. Im more afraid of the patrons than the carnies. Ugh. As a retired police officer, I continued to expose and help curb what I found to be a free-wheeling crime anomaly, by publishing several investigative accounts, including two books: Carnival Games: The Perfect Crimes (2010) and Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket (2012). Getty ImagesBuford Pusser supposedly took out several members of the Dixie Mafia to avenge his wifes death. From his prison cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Nix created a lonely hearts scam that targeted innocent gay men. A major stereotype I hate is that we are all crooks and criminals. In running background checks at five events, the Illinois attorney general's office and Cook County sheriff's department found that among 179 carnival employees, there had been 556 arrests and 125 convictions, according to a letter sent to law enforcement agencies. Heres my take on it - it isnt that theyre any different than anyone else in a highly-transient, blue collar labor force, its just that theyre the only ones in such a position who come into contact with average families and kids in a situation where theyre ostensibly supposed to be having fun and the environment is supposed to be happy and jolly. I completed a larceny report for Steve, who told about the carnival patch and offered to lend me the book by John Scarne entitled Scarnes New Complete Guide to Gambling.Scarne writes that the patch is a carnival front man who squares complaints with players and police. The patch, who is sometimes a lawyer (in carnival terms the mender or fixer), collects patch money from crooked game agents who pay him to bribe police or to patch up any problems with wiped out sore losers. The patch may arrive in advance of the carnival to make friends and deals. Knowing I was on firm ground, and having experienced a pattern of these intimidation tactics, arrest threats, and failed defamation suits on other occasions, I was wondering if these irritated cops wouldnt chance trumping up an arrest with creative writing. It becomes very cliquey. I know that around here, when they need to hire local workers they pick from the pool of people on day parole, so take that as you will. All 12 rims on the North American Midway Entertainment (NAME) carnival midway measured 10.5-by-17 inches on elliptical axes. Hey! Either way, you can generally find them within a few miles of where they need to show up for work the next day. Because the job is so transient, some unscrupulous carnival workers have been known to commit minor or even major crimes while working in a town As part of my research for the Today feature, each morning before the 2012 Arab Festival carnival opened, I measured the basketball rims and found, pretty much, what I had expected. A wheel of fortune, seen at a nonprofit fundraiser is an example of a legal form of gambling. All states will allow honest games of chance at not-for-profit fundraisers, such as raffles or millionaire parties for charitable organizations and churches. Carnivals/fairs are a lot of hard work. "We did find a large number of them had criminal records," said sheriff's office spokesman Bill Cunningham. 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