"We all recognize that we have a problem and we don't need to be sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that it doesn't exist," said House Minority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson.
Louis A. DeNaples, a northeastern Pennsylvania businessman who opened the Mount Airy Casino Resort in October, was charged Wednesday by state police with four counts of perjury. He is accused of lying to state gambling investigators about his relationships with four men - two reputed mobsters and two men at the core of a political corruption scandal in Philadelphia - to win a casino license.
DeNaples' attorneys say he is innocent and the subject of a witch hunt by the Dauphin County district attorney, who brought the state police case to a grand jury.
