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Lacy, Hugo,
Pippin is now a month old, which means that Verna and I have not had normal relations in at least three months.
his code name is Randy.”
Michael was the director, their boss.
Lacy Stoltz.”
Ramsey Mix.
Carlita.
It was so typical of the South, where folks attached themselves to college football teams with a fanaticism she’d always found irksome.
Greg Myers,
everyone sent to prison but for the rise of a guy I’ll call Omar for the moment.
Omar has a brilliant criminal mind, and about twenty years ago he became infatuated with the idea of casinos on Indian land.”
paralegal named Sadelle,
Vonn Dubose, the descendant of one of the original gangsters who did indeed begin their mischief in the rear room of a catfish restaurant near Forrest City, Arkansas.
The judge is the Honorable Claudia McDover, on the bench now for seventeen years.
agitator named Son Razko,
“Phyllis Turban, a trust and estate lawyer in Mobile.”
“So to summarize the case so far, our target, Judge Claudia McDover, takes bribes from thugs, skims casino cash from the Indians, and somehow launders the money with the help of a very close friend who happens to be an estate lawyer.”
Hank, his faithful assistant.
North Dunes was the latest addition to his golfing empire, with thirty-six holes, lakes and ponds, fancy condos and even fancier mansions, all wrapped around a contrived business center with a town square and amphitheater, and only a mile from the beach.
Florida developer nicknamed Condo Conroy.
Cooley, a former lawyer himself, though his exit from the profession was far less spectacular
Cooley had managed to avoid headlines by quickly pleading to an indictment in Georgia and surrendering his license.
Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.
There are 562 recognized tribes in the U.S., but only about 200 operate casinos.
The current Chief is Elias Cappel
Chief Cappel was elected in 2005 and reelected handily four years later. His son, Billy, sits on the council.
Wilton Mace lived in a redbrick split-level on a gravel road two miles from the casino.
“There was once a legend around here that a big-time crook named Dubose masterminded all of this—the casino, the developments around it, the rapid sprawl from here to the coast. The legend extended to the murders of Son and Eileen. But it’s all faded now, washed away in a tide of fun and games and cash and jackpots and waterslides and happy hours, not to mention the welfare state. It doesn’t matter now, because life is good. If the man really exists and has his finger in the pie, no one cares, no one wants to cause him any trouble. If he walked through the front door of the casino and told the
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The director of the Florida Gaming Commission was Eddie Naylor, a former state senator who had happily surrendered his seat for the fat salary the new agency offered when casino gambling arrived in the early 1990s and the state felt compelled to try and regulate it.
BJC colleague named Justin Barrow into faking a round of golf.
lawyer named Al Bennett. He had a nice office on Main Street and seemed to welcome Hugo to break the monotony of drafting deeds. Justin found a coffee shop to kill the hour.
The Armenian’s name was Papazian and they’d never known whether it was his first or last name.
Iris Beale, the wife and mother, heard the collision, though initially she had no idea what had happened.
constable, Lyman Gritt,
Her mother, Ann Stoltz,
Ann’s sister, Trudy, and her husband, Ronald.
Frog Freeman ran a country store and filling station two miles north of Sterling.
Clive Pickett, the sheriff of Brunswick County,
Maddy Reese, who’d been there less than a year, knew nothing of the story of Vonn Dubose, the corruption at the casino, and Judge Claudia McDover.
Berl Munger, had a long and colorful record as a small-time felon and was currently on parole.
Gunther, Lacy’s older brother and only sibling.
chairman of the council, Adam Horn,
The supervisor was an unsmiling career man named Luna,
special agent named Pacheco,
third agent, Hahn.
Special Agent Allie Pacheco
Johnny Ray’s?”
head of the state Department of Law Enforcement?” “Gus Lambert.
Dr. Joe Vasquez, the head of the lab.
