Zusammenfassung
The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn’s role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history. It is a story that begins overseas, with the origins of the Bally poker machine company — a scandal-prone business with a name that was fated to be forever linked with Rooklyn’s. From humble origins in Al Capone’s Chicago, Bally rode the amusement game wave to become one of the biggest players in the gaming industry worldwide … a status that made it an attractive target for takeover by America’s Italian Mafia. Run out of Cuba on the heels of Castro’s communist revolution, ‘The Families’ were looking for new opportunities to expand their gaming ambitions, both in the desert mecca Las Vegas and (more quietly) through clandestinely sinking their hooks into a financially struggling Bally.
Schlagworte
Mafia Chicago Gaming Industry True Crime Poker Entertainment industry New South Wales Quennsland Jack Rooklyn Australian crime Australian history Australian organized crime Bally Al Capone slot machines police corruption casinosKeywords
organized crime gambling- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 23–42 2 Rooklyn Rises 23–42
- 65–86 4 Ballyhoo 65–86
- 109–128 6 Reinvention 109–128
- 129–150 7 Shut Down the Pokies 129–150
- 151–172 8 Moonlight 151–172
- 173–188 Conclusion 173–188
- 189–220 Notes 189–220
- 221–232 Index 221–232
- 233–234 About the Author 233–234
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- „... , notoriety), Jack Rooklyn’s story is one of humble origins. Rook-lyn was the third son of Abraham and Rebecca ...” „... , with many (like the Rooklyn family) relocating to places like the United Kingdom.4 It was Jack’s ...” „... few years later, the couple’s only daughter, Kitty, was born and, finally, young Israel “Jack” Rooklyn ...”
- „... , “Rooklyn, Israel ( Jack) (1908–1996),” Australian Dictionary of Biog-raphy (Canberra, ACT: Australian ...” „... National University, 2021), https: // adb .anu .edu .au /biography /rooklyn -israel -jack -30530 /text ...” „... ; Pickett, “Rooklyn, Israel ( Jack).”18. Jack Rooklyn, interview [audio], October 15, 1984, National Library ...”
- „... “Jack Rooklyn called inquiring if massage parlours [offering sexual services] were being legalised; I ...” „... the first place: Jack Herbert. Herbert told the Fitzgerald Inquiry that Rooklyn asked him for 137 Shut ...” „... whether he knew, or had a relation-ship with, Jack Rooklyn. Despite being in active negotiations over the ...”
- „... Lewis—and his co-conspirator, Jack Rooklyn.All this was a long way into the future, however. In the early ...” „... things to come for the Rooklyns in 1977. By the end of the year, Jack Rooklyn’s time as the managing ...” „... accomplished through Jack Rooklyn . . . so that ‘[t]he Bally image would remain clean.’”7 Although Wilms’s ...”
- „... “no one had the intestinal forti-tude to do it [kill Herbert]. They relied on Jack Rooklyn. They ...” „... the annual Sydney to Hobart race announced that it would award the “Jack Rooklyn Memorial Trophy” to ...” „... to Lewis (and, indeed, Rooklyn) was Jack Herbert. After he completed his obligations as the state’s ...”
- „... Jack Rooklyn—once more. For exam-ple, in March 1984, Labor police spokesperson Wayne Goss launched a ...” „... person mentioned by Parker was the still-missing Jack Herbert. Rooklyn’s advice during their chance ...” „... from the police commissioner, of course—was Jack Rooklyn. Fitzgerald had achieved something Moffitt and ...”
- „... Jack Rooklyn and bring him out of the shadows for the first time—a task that simply would not have been ...” „... CigAr-Smoking EnigmAIn the end, it took the jury in the trial of Israel “Jack” Rooklyn just over a day to reach ...” „... canon is littered with true crime stories, what then does Jack Rooklyn’s story add to the existing ...”
- „... also Happyland arcade; Pennyland amusement parkRooklyn, Israel “Jack”: advising Herbert, 165, 166–67 ...” „... ; organized crime and, xviii–xix; police concerns about, 70–75; 222IndexRooklyn’s relationship with, 62, 65–66 ...” „... ., xxHealy, Anthony, 174Hebrew Standard of Australasia article, 28Herbert, Jack Reginald: as ever-present ...”
- „... Moffitt up on this recommendation. Not only that, Bally did not even see fit to remove Jack Rooklyn as ...” „... Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, Jack Rooklyn 108ChaCter 5was having much better luck on the water. His yacht ...” „... would begin to take shape—one that led north, to the Sunshine State.Figure 5.1. Jack Rooklyn: gambling ...”
- „... association between Jack Rooklyn and Bally had existed in some form since at least the 1930s, when the ...” „... of opening hotels (nomi-nally, a front for brothels) in Jakarta that were connected to Rooklyn-run ...” „... burgeoning amusement business Rooklyn operated in Sydney’s suburbs grew to the point that he started to ...”
- „... 433Family VacationsJack Rooklyn was returning from Asia triumChant. He was any-thing but a certain ...” „... five years, growing fears of a Mafia infil-tration erupted in stunning fashion, with Jack Rooklyn’s ...” „... . Rooklyn had been a chief distributor for Lion Manufacturing and, more pertinently, Bally since he set up shop ...”
- „... the fate of several associates of Bally’s Jack Rooklyn in the years that followed.Ray Moloney did not ...” „... been other, unspoken reasons for this decision. The man that Wilms had named was Jack Rooklyn, Bally’s ...” „... top man in the Asia-Pacific. Only three years earlier, Rooklyn had been at the 22ChaCter 1 center of a ...”