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Monday, May 23, 2005 | 9:04 a.m.
A Lake County businessman was sentenced to 21 months in prison for operating an illegal gambling and money laundering business that supplied taverns and lodges with video gambling machines.
Arthur Barker was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Theresa Springmann in Fort Wayne. He pleaded guilty in 2003 to charges of supplying video gambling machines to a variety of northwestern Indiana taverns and lodges.
Barker admitted supplying the machines between 1997 and August 2001, when he was arrested by the FBI and agents raided bars from Hammond to Lowell and confiscated the gambling machines.
Video gambling machines have a long and lucrative history in Lake County, where bar owners install them to draw customers and split the profits with vending machine companies willing to bend the law.
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