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<text id=91TT0132>
<title>
Jan. 21, 1991: American Notes:Indiana
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Jan. 21, 1991 January 15:Deadline For War
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 47
American Notes
INDIANA
Render unto Caesar
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<p> Did Monsignor John F. Morales forsake the Almighty for the
almighty dollar? That's what federal authorities claimed last
week, as they put Morales on trial in Hammond, Ind., along with
assorted officials of Steelworkers Local 1014, for skimming
profits from a multimillion-dollar bingo operation.
</p>
<p> Morales is charged with allowing the game's operators to use
first St. Mark's parish in Gary, then Nativity of Our Savior
in Portage, as a front to avoid the scrutiny of local
authorities. Flyers went out to four states advertising the
high-pot Nativity bingo.
</p>
<p> On good nights, the games, held at the United Steelworkers'
Hall, could allegedly bring in $100,000--none of which ever
made it into church coffers. In addition, the 56-year-old
clergyman is accused of falsifying records on the bingo games,
conducting an illegal gambling game and conspiring to defraud
the Internal Revenue Service.
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</body></article>
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