Frank Infante Jr.'s Delaware Bar Slots

Frank Infante Jr. never claimed to be a puritanical politician with a strict moral code. Even though he ran for the seat of Delaware Governor in 2004 on the Libertarian and the Independent tickets, he did so with only the initial intent of changing the state's smoking ban, which isn't the most fundamental of value struggles out there. So why is it that everyone seemed so surprised when he was caught with slot machines in his Bulldozers Salloon?

According to Delaware state law, slot machines are only allowed in the states three "racinos", which are as follows: Delaware Park, Midway Slots and Simulcast, and Dover Downs. That means that the reported twenty-three slot machines that were found in his bar are illegal and have the potential to send him to jail for four years and stick him with a nearly ten-thousand dollar fine.

The slot machines were discovered when two agents from the state's division of  Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement went into the bar on the first of February and soon saw three slot machines which they then proceeded to put five dollars into one of them and play until they had accumulated one hundred credits. At that point, they approached the bartender and informed him that they were prepared to cash out. The bartender then gave them ten dollars in return. The courts deemed this and other proof of the illegal slot machine activity enough in order to charge him on three counts of possessing illegal gambling devices.

 

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