The Nevada Gaming Commission connected Thursday removed 2 names from the state’s List of Excluded Persons due to the fact that the 2 men, who some formerly lived successful Missouri, person died.
William Dominick Cammisano Jr., who was past believed to beryllium surviving successful Harrisonville, and Peter Ribaste, past known to beryllium surviving successful Kansas City, were removed from the list, commonly known arsenic the “Black Book,” a board-maintained archive of criminals considered the “worst of the worst” for Nevada’s 451 largest licensed casinos.
With the removals, the fig of entries successful the Black Book stands astatine 37.
Senior Deputy Attorney General John Michela told commissioners helium was incapable to get a decease certificate for Cammisano, but verified his decease done 4 verifiable databases. Michela said a transcript of the decease certificate for Ribaste was obtained from his family.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board recommended the removal of Cammisano and Ribaste from the database due to the fact that they are nary longer considered a information to Nevada’s gaming industry.
Cammisano, who utilized the aliases Willie Cammisano, William Domnick Cammisano and William Dominic Cammisano, according to the Control Board, was excluded by the Gaming Commission connected Jan. 24, 1997.
Cammisano was believed to beryllium 73 erstwhile helium died of complications from COVID-19 successful 2023, according to a study successful the Kansas City Star.
Cammisano was banned aft being convicted of obstruction of justness for tampering with a witnesser earlier a peculiar national expansive assemblage investigating the gangland-style execution of Robert L. “Roger” Reid successful 1988 successful a lawsuit involving Las Vegas nonrecreational gambler Billy Walters. Cammisano owed Walters wealth aft betting connected a play tourney Walters hosted.
Ribaste utilized the alias PJ Ribaste and was excluded by the Gaming Commission connected Jan. 28, 1999.
Published reports said Ribaste erstwhile lived successful upscale Spanish Trails vicinity of Las Vegas and had agelong ties to the Kansas City mob and took orders from Kansas City mob brag Carl Civella and his underboss, Carl DeLuna. He besides was a onetime subordinate of erstwhile gaming enforcement Ted Binion.
Ribaste, who besides had been banned from casinos successful Missouri, failed to disclose debts helium had to Las Vegas casinos erstwhile helium fraudulently applied for loans from a Missouri slope and the Small Business Administration to get a trader certificate to run a General Motors car dealership. He besides pleaded blameworthy successful national tribunal to income taxation evasion implicit 3 years and for making mendacious statements to the Internal Revenue Service.
The Control Board routinely checks the presumption of persons connected the List of Excluded Persons and goes done the process of removing them if it tin beryllium proven that they person died.
At slightest 2 different persons connected the database are believed to beryllium dead, but they weren’t nether information for removal.
While determination is simply a process successful spot for persons connected the database to beryllium removed if they petition the Gaming Commission, nary 1 has ever been delisted unless they were dead.
In March, the committee received specified a petition from Las Vegas entertainer Francis Citro, who has been connected the database since 1991, but commissioners unanimously rejected his petition for a proceeding to see removal.
Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected X.
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