>>15320422 (PB)
Buffalo, NY
The Jacobs family is publicity adverse. Lou Jacobs started in rackets with Sportsball and racetrack concessions, book making and loan sharking, they have grown an diversified since.
>Across the street from The Palace, the city's oldest burlesque house, stood an old two‐story building with a sign that read SPORTSERVICE. Its gabled, opaqued windows were crusted with dirt, yellowed with age. Behind the windows, the drapes were always drawn, shutting the rest of Buffalo out, keeping the prying eyes away from the computers and the printouts, away from the empire that Louis M. Jacobs built and then passed on to his three sons—Jeremy (universally called Jerry), Max and Lawrence. Down the windy alley off Lake Erie, the building seemed like a Gothic fortress.
Sportsball's a lucrative play. Can launder much cash, NPCs never notice the man who owns the teams and pays the player's salaries is the same guy taking their bets.
>Jerry Jacobs used to sit in what was once his father's office, surrounded by neatness and order. Jacobs is the president of Sportsystems, sometimes called Emprise, a conglomerate that takes in more than $300 million annually, mostly in pari-mutuel and concessions.
Even if they'd noticed NPCs do not often make causal connections. Or they have noticed that we live in a mind prison, a monstrously distorted, shameless and perverse collective consensual hallucination NPCs call 'reality'
FYI Lou Jacobs, a concession owner, also held notes on personal loans made to team management and players. He was thus able to influence things like the spread and to optimize (cough) profits from his book making pari-mutuel business.
Lou Jacobs was high enough in OC he was a voice in the national commission. Outside NY state he had ties to New England and Nevada.
>A giant sports-concessions and
gambling conglomerate, once at
the center of a national controver-
sy because of ties to organized
crime, is thriving in Kentucky.
More than a decade ago the
i Kentucky Racing Commission
; wanted to run the Emprise Corp.
i out of the state.
Today, operating under new
i names but with the same family
ownership, the company does
business with the city of Louis-
ville, Standiford Field, Latonia
Race Course and at least two
prominent Kentuckians — Dr. Bill
Collins, husband of Gov. Martha
Layne Collins, and A. Ray Smith,
owner of the Louisville Redbirds
baseball team.
The firm, Delaware North Com-
panies Inc., has at least 130 sub-
sidiaries and branches that man-
age concessions at sports stadi-
ums, run parking facilities and op-
erate dog and horse tracks. In
addition, the company owns the
Boston Bruins franchise of the Na-
tional Hockey League and the
Boston Garden.
Delaware North is privately
owned by the Jacobs family of
Buffalo, N. Y., and is not traded
on stock exchanges.
https://archive.org/stream/nsia-MafiaFolders/nsia-MafiaFolders/Mafia%20Folders%20083_djvu.txt
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/07/archives/the-past-haunts-brothers-who-own-convicted-sports-empire-past.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jacobs_(businessman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Jacobs