Vote permits casino boat debut in Tarpon - 2004-01-29
It's been over a year since the last gambling cruise sailed out of Tarpon Springs, but this week city officials cleared the path for a new casino boat to cast off at the Sponge Docks.
Liberis asked the city for authorization to run the offshore gambling boat four months ago. He plans to secure a 202-foot vessel in international waters several miles from a dock that his company, sureBet Casinos of Florida, is leasing from Louis Pappas' Riverside Restaurant on Dodecanese Boulevard.
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