Illinois Gaming Board reveals the Cicero game license on allegedly organized crime ties
The Illinois Gaming Board revoked the video game license for Firebird Enterprises Inc., the company behind Steak n egger – Racine, saying that the owner had induced regulators, hid an illegal game story and had links with organized crime.
The board of directors pulled the license of Firebird Enterprises Inc., which belongs to Jeffrey Bertucci and runs the restaurant at 5647 W. Ogden Ave. A spokesperson for the Game Committee said that video game machines had been closed on Friday, the day after the shooting.
Illinois regulators allege the bonds of the crime organized with the steak n egger owner
In a complaint in 2023 filed by Illinois Gaming Board, the officials said that Jeffrey J. Bertucci, the only owner of the Cicero Steak N Egger – Racine restaurant, gave false information in his request for a video game license. The Council said Bertucci had left the key details on a long history of illegal game operations in several places in Illinois.
When asked about the request if he or one of his owners had never “facilitated, allowed or participated in the use of devices of attractions operated on the play for playing purposes,” replied Bertucci and certified the accuracy of his response under the right stem.
But later, the board of directors discovered files showing that Bertucci had testified in a 2009 federal criminal trial involving alleged Mob figures. During this trial, he admitted to having used illegal game machines in the early 1990s.
According to the complaint, “Bertucci told the trial that he operated illegal game machines in his Cicero company in 2004 and withdrew them after receiving a summons to Grand Jury in July of the same year.” He also “reinstalled currency aircraft … (and) kept illegal game machines at his location of Cicero until he received a summons about them in 2009.”
The Council stressed that this testimony under oath clashed with what Bertucci said to the agents in a 2018 interview, when he said that his participation was limited to a single location in Stickney and only lasted “five or six years” in the early 2000s.
In a follow -up interview on May 19, 2023, Bertucci came clean, admitting that he kept game machines in Chicago between 1990 and 1995 and Cicero from 2004 to 2009. This testimony came for years later during the test of Michael Sarno, accused of leading the Cicero street team of the Chicago species. Sarno was finally sentenced to 25 years in prison for racketeering. The council said: “He also explained that he had withdrawn the devices because they were not legal.”
In the end, the organization noted that Bertucci had “intentionally made the false declarations and disclosure to IGB game agents during the 2018 interview as part of the video game license request” and said that the Steak n egger was “subject to the discipline under … to make false declarations” and a false declaration.
Illinois revokes the license
Because of all this, the board of directors decided to revoke the license, by adopting parties of the recommendation of a judge of administrative law and by rejecting others. This is one of the many recent application movements that the agency has carried out when it continues to suppress operators who do not respect the rules.
According to the rules of the council, it is contrary to the rules to situate itself on a license request. The board of directors can also take disciplinary measures for any reason which would have led them to refuse the request first.
At present, Firebird Enterprises, Inc. no longer has a valid license to operate video game machines in Illinois.
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