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In 1986 Popovic directed the bingo workers to lie to the Ohio
Attorney General’s investigators regarding compensation paid to
them.
The Elyria Police Department conducted an undercover
investigation of petitioner’s bingo games held in Elyria between
November 8, 1985, and March 21, 1986. Accountants and
investigators from the Ohio Attorney General’s office monitored
petitioner’s bingo games held on March 14, 1986, and March 15,
1986, while the Elyria police officers were monitoring the games.
Popovic and Zeve knew the Attorney General’s agents were present,
but did not know about the undercover police investigation. When
the Attorney General’s agents were present, police investigators
noticed changes in the manner in which the bingo games were
conducted, which changes seemed calculated to reduce the receipts
from the games.
The Elyria Police Department officers and the Ohio Attorney
General agents compared their findings to the report of the
receipts made by petitioner, and in all cases the report of
receipts by petitioner and the findings by the Elyria Police
Department and the Attorney General were at variance, the
receipts found by the Elyria Police Department and the Ohio
Attorney General being substantially more than those reported by
petitioner.
On May 5, 1986, the Common Pleas Court of Lorain County,
Ohio, issued a warrant on indictment against petitioner for
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