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In 1993 and 1994 the gambling industry gave Louisiana legislators $1,066,747.
The Big Getters

Representative John Alario (Democrat-Westwego) $271,261
Senator Sammy Nunez (Democrat-Chalmette) $95,600
Senator Larry Bankston (Democrat-Port Hudson) $36,500
Senator Francis Heitmeier (Democrat-Algiers) $35,000
(Bridges, et al, 1995)

Westwego, Chalmette, and Algiers are all in metropolitan New Orleans. Larry Bankston has been tried and convicted (in 1997) of two counts of interstate communication in aid of racketeering (Perlstein 1997).

The Big Givers

Louie J. Roussell III $147,500 (some checks passed out on the Senate floor)
Chris Hemmeter $100,000 (won a piece of the land casino)
Jim Harris $57,301 (earned major gambling contracts)
Eddie DeBartolo Jr. $55,850 (owns Louisiana Downs, which includes a major video poker parlor and until recently owned a riverboat stake)
(Bridges, et al, 1995)

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