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15 E. 4th St, Newport, Ky. Owned by the Cleveland Syndicate, ran by brothers
Joe Berman and Martin Miller.

They got away with gambling for years. After gambling was shut down, they opened a charity bingo. I forgot who there charity was. I once won $1,000 on a coverall, there.

Feds busted them in about 1965 for interstate transportation of gambling equipment ( bingo cards from Littleton Co). They got 1 year and 1 day. Joe got one extra year and a day, when he told the Federal Judge, McSwinford, that sentenced him, I COULD DO A YEAR AND A DAY, STANDING ON MY EAR. McSwinford calmly said, THEN DO 2.

Martin Miller gave me my 1st chips. He was a classy man.
Joe was the tough one.
Both are dead.

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