Re the gambling... it's not so much the "illegal" gambling as it is the laundering of drug and prostitution and extortion money through the gambling.
Here in Moncton, many VLT's in pubs were rigged for medium payouts and lots of them. Peeps, mostly poor retirees from rural areas and peeps down on there luck or up on drugs were employed to gamble, collect and return part of the profit. I used to shoot pool at one such pub with my buddies and it amazed me how many times the SAME eldery peeps won hundreds and hundreds of $$$ in a few hours. One night, as I was warned by the keep to stay away for a few days, he explained it to me. The RCMP raided the place two days later.
The RCMP raided across NB and confiscated about a hundred VLTs and destroyed them. Then, they raided strip clubs. They went after the big guys buy couldn't touch them because their names were not on the properties and were only silent partners. The story goes on, but I am sure you get the pic.