When I was assigned to vice as a lieutenant,  had to sit  and advise the coalition against  gambling  group, made up of church groups and other concerned citizen groups. One of their biggest supporters,  organized crime. At the time,  funding  came from organized crime,  intelligence  we gathered through informants at the federal level. Gambling today is pretty much run here in Honolulu by Asian gangs...... lots of them illegals. They in turn pay people, by contributing to  different causes.