On top of that, he told jurors he was still operating the so-called gray games at the time of his testimony, when video gambling in Illinois was still illegal.ĭublino testified that in summer 2002, an irate Sarno accosted him outside a Berwyn bar after learning the witness planned to install illegal video gambling machines in a Lyons diner that was on the mobster's turf.
He told the jury he then underreported the income on the machines on his taxes and on the tax forms he filled out for the taverns he serviced. Testifying under a grant of immunity, Dublino said he would visit each bar every week or so to count up the money and split the proceeds with the bar owners after paying off the winners under the table. He was more talkative at the 2010 trial of Mike 'The Large Guy' Sarno and other Chicago Outfit members, where he told a federal jury that he had for years installed illegal video poker machines at local watering holes. 'I really don't want to talk about it,' he said, as lights from video gambling terminals flickered and flashed behind a low wall at the back of Vinny's Cafe.
Vince Dublino didn't want to say anything when he was approached by a reporter last month in one of three bars he owns along a two-block stretch of Roosevelt Road in Berwyn.
