![]() The president of a company that makes bingo machines testified in court that $2 billion was wagered annually just in Walker County. “It has been a very welcome development for us,” said Vincent Smith, a Fairfield city councilman.īut with lax enforcement, no one knows what percentage of the money being made on bingo has gone to charity and how much to the game suppliers and bingo hall owners and workers. Walker County used $800,000 in bingo money to build temporary classrooms for a school that was hit by a tornado, and the debt-laden City of Fairfield was able to pay off a new fire truck. ![]() Supporters say the bingo halls have produced a welcome source of money for struggling municipalities. ![]() Ten hours a week, for instance, a hall might operate on behalf of the Tutwiler Fire Department, then another 10 hours for the Cordova Youth and Sports Association, and so on, until there is bingo at the hall 24 hours a day. Gary Tramontina for The New York Timesīy using a rotating cast of charities, churches and fire departments, the bingo halls say, they comply with the mandated limits on hours of operation. ![]() Traditional bingo, where paper cards are marked as each number is called, has been played for decades in Alabama, even if its legality was always questionable. ![]()
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