Skimming refers to the illegal transfer of funds from casinos to outside personnel without official documentation. Skimmed money is usually transferred in cash to evade taxes and to fund organized crime anonymously. The quantities of money skimmed are usually small portions of the casino's total profit so as not to arouse suspicion from regulators or law enforcement.

'In May of 1963...the FBI turned over to the Justice Department a two-volume document called 'The Skimming Report,' which detailed the illegal siphoning off of gambling profits by Las Vegascasinos to avoid taxes.'^[1] The report documented how pre-tax profits from casinos were being routed to various organized crime syndicates across the nation. No one could be prosecuted as the FBI obtained its information by illegally bugging casino money rooms. The money rooms are where the cash from the betting floor is counted and recorded on the casino's books.

Skimming by diverting pre-tax profits is just one of many possible methods. In casinos the patron is betting against the house, so the house has an incentive to fix the games (cards, roulette, slots, etc.). In pari-mutuels (horse and dogtrack, jai alai) the house instead gets a fixed percentage of the total amount bet, so is theoretically less likely to fix the games. However, pari-mutuels use sophisticated computer systems to handle customer bets and a major scandal involving Autotote, a major supplier of these systems, has been exposed.^[2]

Other methods of skimming, such as arranging for particular employees^{[example needed]} of organized crime to be allowed to win in rigged games, were sometimes^[when?] used.^{[citation needed]}

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Anthony Spilotro was a soldier and enforcer for the Chicago Outfit who was assigned to protect the Las Vegas “skim”: the illegal diversion of casino profits to the Mob. However, Spilotro’s violent extracurricular activities, as documented in the movie Casino, hastened the demise of the Mob’s influence in Las Vegas. As Nicholas Pilleggi wrote in “Casino: Life and Death in Las Vegas,” in 1978 “(Carl) Thomas had recently been put in charge of the skim at the Tropicana Hotel, and now there was a problem. The Casino Skim This is a story about the Mafia in its heyday. If you have watched the movie Casino then you got a lesson in how the casino skim went down. This is about the real men behind the skim of the Stardust Casino. Each month, the Outfit sends John Nance (Bill Allison) over to Las Vegas to the casino to 'skim' millions from the casino's winnings with the help of the men in the counting room. Nance then makes the trip to Kansas City once a month where he meets the Outfit bosses in a grocery store run by Artie Piscano (Vinny Vella), the KC underboss.

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1. ^Victor Navasky, Kennedy Justice, (Lincoln: iUniverse.com, Inc., 2000), p 89.
2. ^2002 Breeders' Cup betting scandal, 2002 Breeders' Cup betting scandal

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• Pileggi, Nicholas (1995). Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. Simon & Schuster. ISBN0-684-80832-3.

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