``These kinds of endeavors that are unregulated and shielded from view are highly attractive to organized crime,'' he adds. ``They are trying to create little Los Vegases on reservations across the nation,'' says Rudulf Corona, a deputy attorney general in San Diego.
He warns that unless states are given authority to police and in some cases shut down the operations, the US may soon be faced with the development of dozens of miniature gambling towns on Indian reservations in as many as 20 states. New forms of unregulated gambling are proliferating on Indian reservations across the United States, according to a California state prosecutor involved in a three-year battle to restrict the growth of professional high-stakes bingo games run by Indian tribes.
