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The Laguna Journal for many years wrote about Rick Rizzolo,

owner of the Crazy Horse Too strip club. The club is under federal investigation for racketeering. Owner Rizzolo is in jail. In 1985, Rizzolo pleaded guilty to attacking a patron with a baseball bat.

Some other questionable contributors:

(Fred Glusman) owner of the Ritz in Newport Beach and Las Vegas.

Frank Fertitta Jr. is founder and former chairman of Station Casinos. Federal investigations linked him to a money-skimming operation in 1985, but he was never charged or sanctioned. Nonetheless, Missouri gaming officials in 1992 refused to issue a gambling permit to Station unless the company guaranteed Fertitta would have no part in its management, according to published reports.

Bruce Becker owns Becker Gaming Inc., which donated to the sheriff. In 1995, Becker was charged with 18 misdemeanors for allegedly misleading regulators on an application for his gaming license, according to published reports. The charges were dismissed because the one-year statute of limitations had expired.

Blake Sartini is co-founder and former chief operating officer of Nevada-based Station Casinos. While he was with that business, Station lost its Missouri gambling license after other company executives ignored a subpoena to testify in a corruption probe. Sartini was not called to testify. Station later paid more than $1 million in fines for several offenses, including allowing juveniles to gamble.