Word: riverboat
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...Cairo in. Now the town wants to extract itself from its history by using it. The 1872 Customs House has been turned into a museum, glorifying its days of big grain and big gambling. The old Gem Theater is being restored. And the Riverlore mansion, once owned by a riverboat captain, is being converted into a bed-and-breakfast. There's a plan to rent out the dead downtown stores for a $1 a year. And Cairo has even secured a $1.5 million grant to give Main Street its original cobblestone beauty, with streetlights for evening strolling...
CONVICTED. EDWIN W. EDWARDS, 72, voluble former Governor of Louisiana; on 17 counts of racketeering, conspiracy and extortion stemming from the disbursement of riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards faces a possible $4.5 million fine and up to 250 years in prison...
...Must be a lot of other people using cash besides me," said Edwards, who testified that he likes to keep between $250,000 and $500,000 in the piggy bank. "I try to stay within the law. Sometimes I don't," he confessed. But he insisted that any riverboat money he got was for legitimate consultation and legal work...
...caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy, was called to the stand in his own defense. He had listened to a parade of witnesses, including three men who pleaded guilty to their role in the alleged scam, say he had extorted millions from applicants for riverboat-casino licenses during and after his last term, which ended in 1996. One of the three, former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., testified that he had handed Edwards $400,000 in a briefcase, Edwards' alleged price for ensuring that DeBartolo wouldn't have a "serious problem" getting...
...perjuring yourself?" Letten often demanded, once prompting this reply: "No. And if I were, you've got to assume I wouldn't be telling you." Asked if he recalled a soiree at which he approached someone who was angling for a riverboat license and asked his name, Edwards sniffed that no such thing would ever happen. "I'm a politician," he said. "I would have asked someone else who he was and then gone up and acted like I knew...