In the 1980s, Garden City’s controlling family, the Dalises, got into trouble for skimming $50,000 here, $25,000 there. In September 2010, for example, Swallow called Deputy City Manager Deanna Santana and boasted of how much the casino had spent on hardware.įor anyone who knows the history of San Jose’s card clubs, the report was staggering. To bolster their case, the AG’s office cited lie after lie. Swallow’s gambling license, which is due to expire on May 31, could be revoked or suspended. Make no mistake: This was a very personal condemnation in advance of Thursday’s regularly scheduled meeting of the California Gambling Control Commission. The investigators found a disturbing level of self-dealing with M8trix’s owners. These entities operated without invoices, the AG said, and they under-reported their income. The report exhaustively detailed how Swallow and his partners, Peter and Jeanine Lunardi, allegedly set up a variety of shell organizations designed to minimize the casino’s profit. “Swallow is not a person of good character, honesty or integrity, and his prior activities pose a threat to the effective regulation and control of controlled gambling,” it reads. In the 33-page report on Casino M8trix prepared by the state attorney general’s office, one mantra is repeated again and again about casino entrepreneur Eric Swallow.

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