Later he built Embassy Suites and Marriotts, and invested in IMAX theaters and riverboat gambling.
Mr Edwards was not Louisiana's only politician to emerge somewhat battered from the riverboat case.
Recreational traffic was halted, too, including the Mark Twain Riverboat that offers excursions at scenic Hannibal, Mo.
Missouri was the first state to enforce a self-exclusion list, four years after it legalized riverboat gambling in 1992.
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Lanni travelled to the company's Biloxi, Miss. riverboat casino, the Beau Rivage, to talk one-on-one with devastated employees.
After launching two Native American casinos in Wisconsin for Winamax Corporation he left to build his own riverboat casino company in Kansas City, Mo.
Moving the riverboat license required a change in the 1990 state law that granted gambling licenses to riverboats under the guise of aiding economically depressed river towns.
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He was a great storyteller indeed, much of his income came from barnstorming lecture tours but a terrible businessman, an unsuccessful miner and an erratic riverboat pilot.
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He is also a gun-slinging riverboat gambling entrepreneur and capitalist evangelist.
But when summer comes, this place is stranded, a sodden island teeming with mosquitoes, surrounded by marsh and water, reachable only by air or riverboat.
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In 1995, supporters of gambling in Virginia hired 48 lobbyists, from nearly every lobbying firm in the state capital, in a bid to legalise riverboat casinos.
Nora tipped off a riverboat casino in Mississippi that the woman who won a car at a raffle was the sister of the employee who pulled out the ticket.
Confronted with wiretaps, videotapes and the evidence of former cronies, the trial jurors were not impressed with Mr Edwards's contention that the riverboat companies had paid him for his legal and lobbying services.
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But whereas the Texan economy diversified into high-tech, Louisiana turned to gambling, with disastrous results: politicians were bought off by companies looking for licences for land and riverboat casinos, and the state became split between the pro-gambling populism of Mr Edwards and the anti-gambling sentiments of the good government crowd, most of them Republicans.
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