Lead story in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle is dozens of arrests at Bay 101 and Garden City in San Jose. Includes high executives at Bay 101 plus the owner of Outpost in San Ramon. Seems a big loan sharking ring was using extortion, assaults, etc. Allegations one guy even beat up on the floor of Bay 101 for not paying his loan on time. Video camera caught it all but police weren't called, guy just left to lie on the floor. Rumblings from some politicians that these places should be shut down. Definitely the kind of publicity those of us who enjoy poker hate to see.
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