Where gambling goes corruption surely follow (see Nevada and New Jersey).
I was not surprised to read in the local printed media that a huge gambling conglomerate named Genting Corporation, a Malaysia based company, is willing to invest $236 million dollars in gambling facilities in Dade and Broward Counties in the state of Florida.
U.S. supported Cuban Dictator General Fulgencio Batista let the American Mafia come into Havana with their corrupt casinos in the 1950's.
The Cuban people wised up and they expelled General Batista and the American Mafia on January 1st., 1959, Cuba's Day of National Liberation.
Batista died in a Portuguese colony, forgotten by all. The American Mafia hightailed it to Miami, Florida, where they still reside.