CHICAGO (WBBM) -- A long time mob watcher says it's logical for the feds to go after video poker machines in the Bridgeport neighborhood because it's right next to the home base of the mob's 26th Street or Chinatown crew.
Arthur Bielik says video poker machines are the lifeblood of the mob.
Bielik is a life member of the Chicago Crime Commission, former Chief of Cook County Sheriff's Police, and currently is an adjunct professor at Loyola University.
He also says the feds are fishing in the right pond but he also says video poker machines are kind of like cockroaches -- very hard to eliminate once they're established.
He calls them the "lifeblood of the mob" and a detriment to any neighborhood in which they're found.
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