Dennis Gomes, who had investigated the gambling industry in Las Vegas before joining it in Atlantic City, where he helped run a major Boardwalk casino while trying to resuscitate gambling there, died on Thursday in a Philadelphia hospital. He was 68 and lived in Margate, N.J.
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As head of the audit division of the Nevada Gaming Control Board in the 1970s, Dennis Gomes pursued Mafia connections to Las Vegas’s gambling industry. The 1995 Martin Scorsese film “Casino,” based on a book by Nicholas Pileggi, drew on Mr. Gomes’s investigation into how Las Vegas mobsters had embezzled more than $20 million from the Stardust Casino.
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