United States v. John James Brennan, Patrick Dello Russo, John Fusco and Solomon Kimmel

This is a case of a real floating crap game. Four or five times a week, from July 15, 1965, to August 5, 1965, appellants sponsored a dice game on the SS City of Keansburg as the vessel navigated from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, to Brooklyn, New York, to Manhattan, New York. Many of the passengers were returning from the horse races at Monmouth Park, New Jersey; presumably they were either reckless with their winnings or eager to recoup their losses. Usually, ten or twenty-five of these passengers joined in appellants’ game at one time. The game lasted for the entire trip and on some…