Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Hidden World of Illegal Gambling | Paul Schiffbauer Tells All
23 May 2025
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If they get caught, they take all the heat. The cops come in. They take every dime into place. They take every penny out of the machine. We get this call. She said, we got hit. The police are there. You have 15 minutes to get down there. They're breaking open the machines.
That's the problem with getting away with behaving like that for so long. You start thinking you're invincible.
They're like, OK, we need 30,000. Hey, you know, that has nothing to do with me. That's no, no, no, no. You don't understand. We're collecting 35 today. I had my shock and I cocked it. And he's like, what are you going to do? Take one more step and you're going to find out. These things were always classified as arcade games, amusement only devices. Right.
But we use them for illegal gambling, racketeering, you know? So what for years protected us was on the machine. It said for amusement only.
nod nod wink wink but you know we had the outfit i worked for was my brother-in-law's company uh we had like 50 50 55 to 60 bars but they go up and down you lose accounts you gain accounts and um you put them in these you know put them in the bars restaurants little convenience stores you know and they uh they use them basically for gambling you know and if they get caught you know the thing with what protects us is you know if they get caught
they take all the heat, you know, the cops come in, they take every dime into place. They take every penny out of the machine. They take any money you have behind the counter, any, anything that are safe, they take it all. They clean you out and they take the boards out of the, sometimes they smash the heck out of these machines with sledgehammers.
But sometimes they say, you know, we'll give you 15 minutes to come down here and open them up. So, you know, if they open the machines up, you know, we'll go down there, we'll, we'll put a board in there and it'll be up and running. But sometimes, How this works is how we protect them is that they get ready, they take the heat.
So if they take, you know, $3,000 out of the poker machine, you know, they would have got half of that 1500. So we'll come down there. The cops will leave them a ticket, $3,000. We'll give them 1500 of it. They're whole now. We ate the 1500. If they had a $2,000 in the safe, we give them $2,000. They're covered. And then, well, they go, we'll have this, we have this thing. We have to go to court.
Here's your attorney. Here's a card. This is your attorney. We're paying for them. Any court calls, missed work, anybody got to – we pay for everything.
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