"Gaming events" generate more than $500 million a year for Indiana non-profits, and an Indiana House Committee wants to explore how to modify rules put in place a few years ago "to curb the illegal gambling schemes that have been operating under the guise of charities":
“When you attract the kind of money that charity gaming does, you may not always attract people who have the best interests of charity at heart,” said Rep. Bill Davis, a Republican from Portland who chairs the House Committee on Public Policy.
Gambling attracts unsavory characters? Who knew?
Net income from the state-run Hoosier Lottery since its inception in 1989: $3.8 billion.
Amount raked in just by slot machines last year alone at state-approved casinos in Indiana: $2.4 billion.
