Four Star Vending Faces Gambling Charges

The Boston Globe reports that the owners of Four Star Vending Inc. have been charged with using their firm to run an illegal gambling and money laundering scheme. Four Star Vending allegedly placed video slot and poker machines that could be used for gambling in bars and social clubs in Massachusetts and New York, then split the proceeds with those establishments’ owners. The income totals more than $1 million and was laundered through Four Star’s business of supplying and servicing ATMs, jukeboxes and vending machines.