1.   Applicants for gaming licenses must submit a statement outlining their financial ties to public officials.

2.   For the first time in Missouri history, state prosecutors have charged a riverboat casino company with lying to win a state gaming license.

3.   In fact, state law requires applicants for gaming licenses to answer a long series of questions.

4.   Otherwise, Griffin said, the company would risk problems obtaining a Missouri gaming license.

5.   The scandal put Hilton to the brink of being fined, suspended or stripped of its Missouri gaming license.