More than 800 people filed a federal lawsuit Feb. 16 against VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor and several machine manufacturing companies providing slot machines for the facility citing “illegal, fraudulent, deceptive and improper” actions.
The lawsuit states McGregor “operated bingo games” with “slot machines prohibited by criminal provisions of Alabama law” that “cannot play the game commonly known as bingo.”
It also accuses VictoryLand of bribing former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford with winnings totaling more than $1.6 million, noting that Langford has already been convicted as a felon for these charges.
Meanwhile the plaintiffs say they spent “millions of dollars” during the past 12 months “on machines which are prohibited under Alabama law.”
Each plaintiff is seeking more than $75,000 in relief for damages and “loss of money or property.”
They also demand a jury trial and hope to enjoin and restrain VictoryLand from “operating illegal electronic bingo devices” without the court’s approval.
According to the lawsuit, from 2006 to 2009, VictoryLand has earned “gross revenues in excess of $1 billion as consulting fees for the operation of electronic and paper card bingo games on behalf of approximately 60 nonprofit organizations,” which only received “$2.2 million” in return. (TAB)
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