Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket: Organized Crime on the American Midway
Language: English
Published by Xlibris, 2011
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- Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket: Organized Crime on the American Midway
- Author
- Margittay, Richard
- Publisher
- Xlibris
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1456880527
- ISBN 13
- 9781456880521
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About the Author
A native New Yorker and long time Michigan resident, he is a student of carnival game crimes and was one of only a select few law enforcement officers formally trained in carnival game enforcement in Michigan.
Often called on to demonstrate illegal carnival games to fellow cops and friends, he has enhanced his midway crime proficiency by studying free-wheeling illegal games at a number of carnival locations.
Most importantly, the author has analyzed the presence of corrupt facilitation outside the carnival, perpetuated by dubious payoffs or gifts, which enables carnival-style racketeering to continue unhindered.
Earning a B.S. at Western Michigan University and majoring in Sociology, he has researched not only the games, but the behavioral patterns of both the transient midway con men and their dubious facilitators from the communities.
In addition to his law enforcement career, the author is a retired commissioned officer, who has served in the Michigan Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserves, with experience as a mechanized rifle platoon leader and a POW camp assistant enclosure commander.
Also, a professional photographer with twenty-two PGA and USGA major golf tournaments to his credit, he has worked for several national sports magazines, including assignments for "Sports Illustrated." He is the featured photographer in "Wings of Fire, The History of the Detroit Red Wings," by Paul Greenland, 1998. One of his World Series photos and his World Series lithograph are part of the historic archives of the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Richard Margittay has also published "Carnival Games: The Perfect Crimes—An Alert for Law Enforcement and Would-be Victims," 2009.
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