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Gambino Crime Family associate who lent $50,000 to Dr. John Philip Nichols to start the Cabazon Casino. |
Tommy Marson was a known Gambino Crime Family associate. He was observed by the Indio Police Department in August 1981 meeting with Dr. John Philip Nichols, the Cabazon Administrator, and other La Cosa Nostra underworld figures. The writer Cheri Seymour wrote that these meetings involved financial transactions. The Miami Herald reported in May 1983 that Marson's wife loaned $50,000 to John Paul Nichols in November 1980 to help finance the Cabazon casino.1 In 1985 John Paul Nichols said that the $50,000 was a personal loan to him from Marson's wife, and that Marson had no dealings with the tribe.2 Seymour wrote that Marson lent Dr. John Philip Nichols $50,000 to start the card room on the Cabazon Indian Reservation, which she described as the first Indian card room in the nation.3 The Miami Herald series described Marson as a close associate of major organized crime figures who had spent five years in federal prison on a counterfeiting conviction in 1950.1
Footnotes
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The Miami Herald, May 29, 1983 (series on Indian bingo and Wackenhut Corporation). Reprinted in FBI Los Angeles file 183A-LA-1746, Section 1, https://archive.org/details/JohnPhilipNichols ↩︎
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The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California), 1985, "Cabazon leader scoffs at report." Reprinted in FBI Los Angeles file 183A-LA-1746, Section 1, https://archive.org/details/JohnPhilipNichols ↩︎
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎