"I think it definitely warrants another look," said Rep. Kevin Joyce (D-Chicago), who has sponsored a bill requiring background checks that was killed in past sessions. A favorite American mythologyis that of the carnie, someone who works at a carnival. In 1967, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser and his wife were attacked in Tennessee likely in retaliation for Pussers crackdown on the Dixie Mafia. While the Dixie Mafia had no formal ties to La Cosa Nostra, they did have an understanding with a notorious Italian-American Mafia mob boss named Carlos Marcello. Aside from being an illegal chance-based game, it teaches kids how much fun it is to wager bets several years before they can gamble legally. Im not sure what other highly-transient, blue collar labor force[s] youre alluding to, but I disagree that carnies only seem different from such groups because of where and how they interact with the public. In my view, what Deputy Chief Dennis Richardson did isnt much different from what disgraced former Chief Willie Lovett did for nine years: Conspiracy to obstruct enforcement of criminal laws. (Lovett probably tossed every Razzle and hoop complaint at all his cheating carnivals.). But maybe theyre not all completely bad, huh? The mark must accumulate 100 yards (or over) to win that X-Box or HD TV. The term "showie" is used synonymously in Australia, while "showman" is used in the United Kingdom.[1]. Aside from forming alliances with some members of law enforcement, the Dixie Mafia also worked alongside fellow mobsters. NAME actually had company shirts available for their carny-cops, stating SECURITY., While working the security detail on that NAME midway, are the Joliet cops supposed to protect and serve carnival-goers, or just the carnies? Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. I would set up and tear down the merry-go-round every week with the same crew; we were each other's backbone. I was just a kid, so I dont know what all kinds of things he did, but I do know he had a few brushes with the law. With 80 yards and only having to spend $2, the mark, psyched because of such good luck, is eager to buy more spills. Rossen Reports: Are carnival games cheating you-and your kids?" The Outdoor Amusement Business Association advocates for carnival companies to conduct background checks and wants to work with legislators to draft a law that can be fair to companies, Johnson said. David Malhalab, also with me at the time, phoned in a request for service to the Dearborn Heights police, asking them to respond to investigate this larceny with the 13-year-old victim waiting and with the perpetrator still operating the game in question. Also available from Amazon, With the purpose of writing about true crime in an authoritative, fact-based manner, veteran journalists J. J. Maloney and J. Patrick OConnor launched Crime Magazine in November of 1998. Theyre Other, therefore theyre not to be trusted. Step right up! WebAnswer (1 of 2): Ahh.. ciazarn. By maintaining two sets of books, the carnival can cheat the charity out of a large amount of revenue for their purposes.. Every carnival game designed has the potential to be rigged. For decades, this gang operated lawlessly and targeted anyone who stood in their way. That occurred even though state police checked carnival workers' backgrounds. With the astronomical amounts of cash the Razzle sharks are capable of taking, one never should rule out the possibility of protection by dirty cops, often in the vicinity of a Razzle set-up. The mark will pay $4 for the next play, than $8, then $16, then $32, and so, every time 29 is tallied. According to information from a Dearborn police officer, in confidence, the police department security hired to patrol Dearborns Arab International Festival is annually awarded a $10,000 contract by festival sponsor, American Arab Chamber of Commerce, to pay overtime for the services of off-duty police officers who patrol the four-day event. In late 1991 and 1992, the grisly murder of Ault - involving carnival workers and satanism - dominated Indiana and Ohio headlines for months. Most of the employees are actually nice people, but for many of them, it is almost a job of last resort. "I think it's unfair that this industry is singled out," Johnson said. I got into the life through family, and though I'm in college now, I will likely go out again next season. For other uses, see. Lists about the strange, fascinating, and horrifying history of circuses and carnivals in America and around the world. Its a fundamental divide in human society, and the sedentary city-folks have mostly won. Yeah, maybe. It turns out their real lives have more dimension than anyone gives them credit for. I pay 10-to-1!. Step right on up! I havent thought about that in a long time. In the 1960s, the Dixie Mafia emerged as a loose confederation of crooks and con artists based in Biloxi, Mississippi. In running background checks at five events, the Illinois attorney general's office and Cook County sheriff's department found that among 179 carnival employees, there had been 556 arrests and 125 convictions, according to a letter sent to law enforcement agencies. She said that in Indianapolis, her college varsity basketball 3-point-shooting star, Carly Thibault, missed all 13 attempts at the basketball toss. Having a secret language is a necessity to avoid discovery. Carnival game players lose 95 percent of the time says a carnival game enforcement specialist, Corporal Glenn Hester of the Glynn County Police Department of Brunswick, Georgia. They primarily operated in Biloxi, Mississippi, but the groups reach soon stretched from Atlanta, Georgia to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The truth is that some of the illegal games are property of the carnival owner, and not some fictitious ace-in-the-hole independent contractor. Most flat-joints are operated by errant freelancers. have largely been replaced by a bunch of rides and cheesy (somewhat rigged) games of skill crammed into a municipal or shopping center parking lot. Drift along, into the next jurisdiction to start it all over. confuse the mark, build him up repetitively and let him believe he is close to the big win. Volume rip-offs against vulnerable teens are an almost complaint-free luxury. Jeff Blomsness of South Barrington-based All Star Amusements Co. said his company conducts background checks and drug tests on workers. FacebookKirksey McCord Nix Jr., one of the notorious leaders of the Dixie Mafia. Well, up until this year the State Fair would hire a lot of day workers from the local homeless population. WebEffective January 1, 2008, no person, firm, corporation, or other entity that owns or operates a carnival or fair shall employ a carnival worker who: has been convicted of any offense set forth in Article 11 of the Criminal Code of 1961, Is a registered sex offender, as defined in the Sex Offender Registration Act, or Its what linguists call a cant which is their term for a private language. In this CBS News Online, July 12, 2011, video expos, U.S. Not to say that all carnies are no-goodniks, but I think theres enough evidence and history to see where the reputation comes from. In addition to carny jargon, some carnival workers used a special infix ("earz" or "eez" or "iz") to render regular language unintelligible to outsiders. Thats exactly what I did. Carny is thought to have become popularized around 1931 in North America, when it was first colloquially used to describe one who works at a carnival. The objective of the Razzle agent is to. That could be anybody. I worked the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul last year and was averaging over $30 per hour - cash, no taxes - which was phenomenal. I had alienated some ranking officers because I thought my job in law enforcement was to protect festivalgoers and to crack down on the crooks. Furthermore, Lovett was convicted on two charges of extortion and two more charges of making false statements to the FBI. In 2011, I personally complained to Wayne County Sheriffs Office, Deputy Chief Dennis Richardson, commander on site, about 12 in-progress rigged basketball games called One in Wins. The basketball rims were actually elliptical and had deceivingly small openings. But despite the massive crackdown on former members that followed, many believe that the group is still secretly active today. Countless other Democrat politicians split another $100,000 from the Gregorys. After my shift that day, I saw that city carnival for myself and was just as shocked. It was a really good business for a long time, though. But did the Dixie Mafias grip on the American South really end in the 1990s? In many ways, Biloxi was an ideal place for the Dixie Mafias stomping grounds. With a history of crime older than the United States itself, Biloxi had first gained a reputation as a haven for illicit gambling in the 17th century. While we cultivate our childrens childhood memories, our own become entwined with theirs. There are several national stories in 2013 depicting how one tubs agent had depleted a victims back account. There seems to be this very strong stereotype of carnival workers as being shady, creepy, untrustworthy, scary, or somehow deviant in some other way. A report by the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform concluded that United Shows of America, Inc. paid Rodham $240,000 for undocumented consulting services. They will always refer to any bad guys as independent contractors and not employees of the carnival even when they are paying the carnival owner for the privilege of occupying cheating space. The few drifter-lifestyles left are heavily frowned upon. "Some of them, you wonder why they are not in jail," Radowicz said. Youll also find quite a few references to various arrests, some of Repeat for nine months. I dont know if it compares, but I do know that some people there worked the shady angle purposefully. As reported in the. Testimony was that Roach paid Lovett for protection from police while Roach cheated customers through such games as Razzle Dazzle also known as Razzle, which gave players no chance to win. Lovett was also fined $50,000. The flatty totally controls this game. From there, it grew into what it is today. "For small fairs, it's very hard to even have a carnival," Ostermeier said. Pusser ultimately survived the attack, but his wife Pauline was killed. We got a magazine which has since ceased called Amusement Business which had information on that kind of job for my Regular Patrons. The various suspect games on NAMEs midway, vividly depicted in Biloxi and Indianapolis, are featured in, This game is not only fraudulent, (deception for money), it is much worse when adults steal from young kids. Few cities have ordinances that require background checks. Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local police departments allow carnival lots to be free crime zones for illegal gambling, larceny, and fraud. From 1995 to 2002, Gregory and his wife, Vonna Jo Gregory, contributed heavily to politicians in national elections. I remember he went about two or three years (jobless) chasing down an injury lawsuit when he got hurt on a job. Most carnies are just people with nowhere else to go - usually no family to speak of or That pretty much sums it up. After the mob apparently ordered a hit on the judge, Sherry and his wife were murdered in their Mississippi home in 1987. Good ol Uncle Cecil. Aww, you almost had it that time! On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the citys firefighters. On November 29, 2002, Frank peeled off $5,000 in the same Florida account only days after Jeb Bush was reelected to governor. Combined with the fact that fair season didn't line up well with my school's almost year-round schedule, they thought it best to quit the business. I completed a larceny report for Steve, who told about the carnival patch and offered to lend me the book by John Scarne entitled. Because the job is so transient, some unscrupulous carnival workers have been known to commit minor or even major crimes while working in a town The British form of fairground cant is called "polari". Carnival-related bribes and illegal transactions pave the way for the crooked migratory hustlers to trailer into your neighborhood for a weekend each year, never having a need to worry about arrest. NBC News; NBC News.com Today show 7/13/2012 (and also aired on Dateline 8/19/12). The most common degree is a high school diploma degree with an criminal justice major. Gummo was about white trash in a small dirt-poor town. I've worked nine years at one of the largest single-unit carnivals in the country. Convicted of bank loan schemes in 1986 and never spending a day in prison, the Gregorys befriended Tony Rodham, brother of President Bill Clintons wife, and now presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and were awarded the contracts to operate his carnival, In 2008, campaign finance records show that Frank contributed to the following U.S. Congressional candidates: Joe Baca, Brian Bilbray, Gerry Connolly, Jim Costa, Randy Forbes, Zoe Lofgren, Mike Pence, Dennis Rehberg, and, In my early years as a police officer of the Dearborn Police Department and working the information desk, a man named Steve Nowosielski walked in to complain that carnival employees were stealing from the patrons with Razzle at the city carnival only 100 yards from the police station. Most of the stereotypes stem form "back in the day" carnivals - whenfugitivesand all-around seedy people could only find work on a carnival. Authorities initially speculated that the gang members had killed McDaniel because they were afraid that he was an informant, but others suspected that he was actually taken out by Pusser. He said you could make enough money each summer to last the year, and a lot of his old carnie friends travel all over the world when they aren't working fairs. Here is the typical scenario of a Razzle casualty: Feeling duped and dazed, the bewildered Razzle mark walks away a big loser and realize hes been somehow ripped off. The ongoing investigation comes as police officials and some lawmakers are calling for legislation that would require background checks for carnival workers, a measure they say is vital to protecting children from transient workers with sordid pasts. The same carny-cops (police officers patrolling the midway), and the same returning interstate carny-outlaws appear to be working in concert for income at annual extravaganzas.This, combined with the hoodwink nods from corrupt public servants, seems to be the big American secret at fairs and festivals. For me, it's more of a family tradition, and I also can't stand staying in one place too long. The cruise line giant Carnival Corporation and its Princess subsidiary have agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $20 million for environmental violations such as Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local police departments allow carnival lots to be free crime zones for illegal gambling, larceny, and fraud. The only games legally authorized on carnival midways in the United States are skill-based (unrigged) games otherwise known as games of skill. If skill is not the dominating element influencing the outcome of a game, that game would be considered chance-based or a game of chance. All chance-based games are considered gambling games and are illegal when operated on privately owned carnival midways; for example, a game which is set up in a way, which only luck can win a prize, is illegal gambling. Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local police departments allow carnival lots to be free crime zones for illegal gambling, larceny, and fraud. Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local Therefore theres a psychological disconnect created by the incongruity of the bright flashy lights and colorful displays and cheesy music and rides, and the down-trodden, rough-necked cigarette smoking laborers who set it all up and keep it running. The Razzle agent, known as a flatty, carnival jargon for the operator of a crooked big-dollar table game called a flat joint or flat store, is a professional con man with an enticing appeal. We certainly hope this deals them a major blow, said one attorney at the time. The flatty allowed this gentleman to leave and return with money retrieved from an ATM several times. It took the media to address the tubs crimes and not police in the three tub cases cited. The big con: With very close examination, it is revealed that the marble board is 3s- and 4s- heavy, making 29 the eight marble average tally. Olivia Bray, mother of three, understands this as well as the limbs attached to her body. Richardson, aware of the so-called games for two years, not only failed to command appropriate investigative action, he also failed to properly document the complaints in the county police files This way, a nosy reporter, going through police files, will not encounter any crime complaints to write about. Now, the mark plays for another $2 and the carny adds up the marbles in a slow accurate manner which will always translate to either no yards or 29 which is the doubling-up number on the chart and often hit because of the defeating number arrangement on the marble board. Nixs former lawyer Pete Halat, who later became mayor of Biloxi, blamed the missing money on his former law firm partner Vincent Sherry, who was then a judge of the Second Mississippi District Circuit Court. This seedy history and the ongoing corruption of local officials made the city an attractive place for lawbreakers. No roots, no stability. Yeah, it was a great movie, but I dont get the connection to carnies. So, they either rent or default on thier sub-prime mortgage. During the 1960s, a group of criminals known as the Dixie Mafia began to creep across cities and towns in the South. The same carny-cops (police officers patrolling the midway), and the same returning interstate carny-outlaws appear to be working in concert for income at annual extravaganzas. It is evident that the police officers oath of office is not upheld and easily forgotten by some. Watch Gummo. Not an easy life. It is an ever-changing form of communication, in large part designed to be impossible to understand by an outsider. Go to work at 6 am;go to bed at 2 am the next day. If you get busted for [illicit substances], youre gone. All players lay a bet down on a color and only one of the players throws a rubbery ball in a bin of 96 colored holes. She was clearly astonished and interested in securing this elliptical type of rim for a demonstration during her Today feature. "After it became obvious that we were on the premises, a number of employees suddenly left.". Police officials in Wayne County and the City of Dearborn have been allowing known rigged games at their carnivals for the last decade while patrons were under the impression they were being protected by cops seen patrolling the midway. With a greater number of gambling and crooked games, the carnival owner will increase his undivided claim to the unshared game loot. I never worked the rides, but my parents had several concession stands when I was growing up, and we'd spend every summer moving from fair to fair, working your [butt] off, tearing down, driving for hours, setting up, and doing it all over again. East coast or west? But I dont have any illusions that this is the end of the Dixie Mafia., After reading about the Dixie Mafia, meet Joe Valachi, the first mobster to expose the Mafias darkest secrets, and Frank Lucas, the real-life heroin kingpin who inspired the film American Gangster., The Little-Known Story Of The Dixie Mafia, The Cornbread Cosa Nostra Of The South. Kirksey McCord Nix Jr., one of the lead figures of the Dixie Mafia, was suspected to be one of the men behind the hit. It would be a winning proposition to bet that changes in carnival status wont come overnight. The carny vocabulary is traditionally part of carnival cant, a secret language. 47% of Carnival Workers have a high school diploma degree, 10% major in criminal justice. To create insurance-like policies, carnival magnates often contribute to political campaigns of U.S. congressmen, senators, governors, and local politicians for a couple of reasons: in case they are interested in a state fair, county, or municipal contract and wish to develop clout; and in case carny-owners need friends in government to bail them out of trouble after a dishonest carny runs into a police officer who just wants to do his or her job. One month later, on October 1, 2002, Frank contributed $10,000 to the Republican Party of Florida Federal Campaign Account as Jeb Bush was running for reelection to governor of Florida. William A. Riedthaler, renowned games enforcement expert, informed me that the total figure might be as high as $40 billion. I paid Argo $9 and missed all five shots. Griffin is one of at least three traveling carnival workers who have been arrested in Bucks County since 2013 with criminal records one of them for crimes He has since risen to the pinnacle of the carnival world with his rigged games, his cash, his protectors, and his friends in high places. Carnival life in 2023 is mostly different than the old days, but in a few ways its the same. He would come up to my Moms (his sisters) house and stay while he would talk to the lawyers and go to court and stuff. Oct 21, 2022 / Comments Off on Chiefs, Criminals, & Carnival Workers: A Brief History of Tattoo with Adam Romano Comments This short lecture shares the story It goes back to the Nomads versus the Egypt, Rome versus the Barbarians. You never know - like a box of chocolates. Not one ball went through any of the 12 stingy rims. How many kids want to go to a sideshow these days? I pointed Thomas in the direction of a carnival supply company where she could purchase the rim, which she acquired in time for the feature. I estimated that the 12 innocent-looking basketball games alone accounted for $25,000 in 2012, based on the numbers of neighborhood kids trying their luck endlessly for four days. Your child could be getting on a ride that is run by Charles Manson. He died broke shortly thereafter. These are people that the term transient doesnt even begin to touch. The itinerant carnival owner pays the festival sponsor a fee or percentage of the take for the privilege of servicing the towns carnival-goers. For 15 years, his city has required carnival companies to submit employees' names--since a 10-year-old boy was sexually molested by a carnival worker who had just been released from prison for a similar offense. Its only nickel and dime! I hope this article will be an epiphany to naysayers, that this blind uninformed acceptability, enabled by politics and the absence of enforcement, will one day be a big deal. The long hours of travel, erection (no pun intended, as I cant even imaging a Carny getting a hard-on with all the Meth in thier system) and tear-down of the carnival are custom-made for Meth abuse and Nut-jobs. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. On Sunday, prosecutors said someone driving through Almeda Malls parking lot became the victim of a hate crime when he was attacked by a group of carnival workers. Which Animated Disney Movie Should Get A Horror Adaptation Next? The carnival industrys sleazy image is in dire need of a facelift. In 2004, four off-duty cops in New Orleans were implicated, with one of them federally indicted, for a charge related to conspiracy to protect and profit from a Razzle business during the carnival season. Carnys got nothin! I had a black-sheep uncle who did carny work, as well as tons of other transient jobs. As a retired police officer, I continued to expose and help curb what I found to be a free-wheeling crime anomaly, by publishing several investigative accounts, including two books: Carnival Games: It is quite common for illegal carnival operators to pay off police and public officials in order to operate, says Riedthaler in the Corruption of Officials section of his police training seminar called , On February 6, 2015, Willie Lovett was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison for Conspiracy to obstruct enforcement of criminal laws and related gambling crimes. U.S. On the night of February 18, 1969, at least five alleged members of the Dixie Mafia ransacked the Skeebow Trailer Court near Lake Pontchartrain, where traveling carnival employees had set up their camp. In 2012, I was contacted by NBCs Today show producer Sandra Thomas, who wanted to consult with me regarding a story about carnival games. As for my petty crime, I smoked a lot of pot. The bill would increase fines for amusement companies for failing to check the criminal history of new hires. At the time, Nix was already serving a life sentence for a 1972 murder (unrelated to the death of Buford Pussers wife). Work until your rides set-up, which can take up to ten hours of ass busting dangerous work. New York TimesA New York Times article on Kirksey McCord Nix Jr.s conviction for the murder of a Mississippi judge and his wife. I disagree. This particular con links fraud and gambling together with a smooth-talking con artist (agent) who bedazzles his mark, and wins every time. A local sponsors cut is often around one-quarter of the carnivals total gross receipts. Gregorys little moon-walk act looks good on the six-o-clock news; however, everyone in the industry knows that carnival owners and managers are never in the dark about the corrupt features of every dirty game on their midways. the truth is, there is little money in it, and the rides seem to be falling apart. Not only were you most likely cheated, but your police department was likely not interested in protecting you from professional lawbreakers. "CARNY | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's", "Butthole Surfers | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carny&oldid=1142138230, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2007, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Rusholme Ruffians," released on the album, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 18:41. 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In 2000, just prior to leaving office, President Clinton pardoned the Gregorys. Despite the loose structure that made up the Dixie Mafia network, the Southern crime syndicate was implicated in a number of high-profile cases. Ugh. As part of my research for the Today feature, each morning before the 2012 Arab Festival carnival opened, I measured the basketball rims and found, pretty much, what I had expected. Yes, they are scraping by and yes they are poor, but labor ready hires anyone who is there to work at 6am in the morning . This past year I noticed all the workers at the Fair were hot young European men, clean cut and in uniform polo shirts. But it was getting harder and harder to make money, with each fairground becoming more of a bureaucratic morass every year. It's actually a really fun environment. No rigged games, daily ride inspections, and regular and random drug testing andbackground checksgo a long way towardcleaning up the carnie image. There's always tons of drama between all kinds of people. Arrive at location in the afternoon, after working the last spot all night. Cops taking the bribes are also in violation of RICO and similar state statutes. Im not a betting man, but I am willing to lay heavy odds that federal law enforcement will make carnival racketeering a higher priority once they acknowledge all the components. It is only through undercover surveillance, search warrants, raids, arrests, Freedom of Information Act requests, and prosecutions by trained law enforcement agents that carnival owners and their representatives will get the message to start following local, state, and federal laws. About 40 percent of adults with gambling problems started gambling before age 17. Thomas also requested that I play the games. 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