Crackdown on video gaming machines netting offenders

Published September 12, 2008 4:00am ET



Three hundred liquor licensees inspected, only 6,900 to go.

Three months after state Comptroller Peter Franchot announced a crackdown on video gaming machines, inspectors have visited just a fraction of all the state’s bars and taverns. But in about 10 percent of those inspected establishments, state officials said they’ve found evidence of illegal gambling using the video machines.

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