G. Michael Brown, whose mandate as a New Jersey prosecutor was to safeguard Atlantic City’s embryonic gambling industry from predatory organized criminals, and who later presided over the nation’s most profitable casino, died on Oct. 6 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 82.
His daughter Kristin Brown, with whom he was living, said the cause was complications of colon cancer.
After law school and Army service in Vietnam, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star, Mr. Brown began his rise as a prosecutor for the State of New Jersey in the 1970s. He attracted attention in 1980 for a case that unseated the leadership of the Genovese crime family in the state.
In that case, a state jury convicted four New Jersey men of conspiracy for operating what prosecutors described as a criminal cartel that furthered murder, extortion, gambling and loan-sharking.
