Colony Sports Club
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The Colony Sports Club was a London gambling casino operated by American mobsters Meyer Lansky and Angelo Bruno, through front man George Raft,and low level English Gambler Alfred Sulkin,who Cellini had met at another large London Casino,and was used as the English Frontman during the 1960s.
Following the end of syndicate gambling operations in Havana by the Castro government in 1959, Lansky sought to expand his operations elsewhere. With the legalization of gambling in Great Britain, Lansky opened a number of high class gambling casinos with Angelo Bruno, including the Colony Sports Casino, throughout London during the early 1960s.
However, following an investigation by Scotland Yard, a number of casino employees including George Raft, Dino Cellini, Joey Napolitano, Richard Castucci and others were deported after finding evidence of rigging games as well as their ties to organized crime figures in New York.
[edit] References
- Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
