Thomas Marino, the former U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania who provided a reference on the 2005 slots application for Louis DeNaples, former owner of the Mount Airy Casino Resort, is running to become the Republican nominee in a bid to unseat Democrat incumbent Chris Carney in the state's 10th Congressional district.  Marino resigned from his U.S. attorney’s position after media reports that he was listed as a reference on the slots license application filed by DeNaples.

Then-U.S. Attorney Marino provided the reference to DeNaples notwithstanding that the Scranton-area businessman had "pleaded no contest in 1977 to felony charges of stealing $525,000 from the city of Scranton for cleanup work following Hurricane Agnes." Shortly thereafter, he accepted an in-house legal counsel position from DeNaples.
DeNaples pleaded no contest to the fraud charge following an earlier mistrial in the case against him.  Four people, including James Osticco, a reputed associate of the Bufalino crime family in Scranton, PA, were convicted in 1983 for their roles in bribing a juror in the original trial against DeNaples.

DeNaples had been charged with lying about his relationship to organized crime figures in his testimony to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board when applying for his license.In January 2008 — the same month that Marino began his new job — DeNaples was indicted on perjury charges for allegedly lying about ties to reputed organized crime figures.

For years, DeNaples devoted himself to a business empire that includes real estate, landfills, a bank and the Mount Airy Casino Resort. But according to a Dauphin County grand jury, DeNaples' ties to the underworld were real, and his denials under oath to the state Gaming Control Board should have prevented him from receiving a slots license.
 Following grand jury testimony from several political and underworld figures, which tied DeNaples directly to the hierarchy of the Bufalino crime family, DeNaples was charged Wednesday with four counts of perjury for allegedly lying to the gaming board about his mob ties. The key grand jury testimony centered on DeNaples' relationship with two mobsters, the late northeast Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino and his former driver and successor, William D'Elia, and on two Philadelphia men, Shamsud-din Ali and the late Ron White.

Last April the Dauphin County District Attorney dropped the perjury charges against DeNaples, and in return DeNaples agreed to relinquish control of the Mount Airy Casino Resort and to pay for the accrued $100,000 costs of the prosecution.

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