Normandie Casino money laundering

I haven't been to the Normandie in years -- the last of the "small casinos" and certainly overshadowed by nearby "giants" including the Commerce, Bicycle and Hustler.

But things haven't been on the up-and-up there according to this article in the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...122-story.html

I am curious if money laundering included using "dirty money" to make bets, and then winning or just making some bets, losing a bit, and then cashing out the rest as "laundered money" in the form of a legal, casino check?

Sometimes you get to read the indictments and the actual methodology is spelled out. For example, I once had to cover the indictment of a Soviet spy in New York and the indictment included how he was paid for information. It was interesting: discarded soup cans were left on the side of roads and inside the soup cans were rolls of $100 bills.

Years ago I was consulting with a movie producer and the question came up about how the crooks in his movie were supposed to launder large amounts of cash. I suggested the crooks go to casinos, buy in to table games, lose some bets, and then take the chips to the cage.