DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Bernard Goldstein (GOLD'-steen), chairman of Isle of Capri Casinos and one of the founders of the modern riverboat casino industry that started in Iowa, has died.

The company says Goldstein died Sunday at a hospice house in Bettendorf. He was 80.

Goldstein was born in Rock Island, Ill. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1951, and went to work for the Alter Cos., a Davenport scrap metal company owned by his father-in-law.

Davenport attorney Curt Beason worked with Goldstein on Iowa's original gambling legislation, which passed in 1989. Beason says Goldstein knew the Mississippi River and knew it was a great attraction.

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