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Read more: https://author.doresabanning.com/funny-business-at-beverly-hills-card-club-spans-years/
TIL In the early 1960s The Friars Club unknowingly hosted a 5-year long elaborate card cheating scheme involving celebrities, the mafia, an accomplice peering through a hole in the ceiling, and wireless codes sent to a vibrating device hidden on the cheater at the table below. Millions were lost.
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This sounds like the plot of ‘Goldfinger.’
Interesting read, thank you. I wonder how much the club was “really” aware of the cheating?
Some would argue that millions were gained. I mean they’re thieves sure, but true nonetheless…