The real-life Susan Schmidt played Jack's secretary in this movie.
Jack pitches a movie idea to Hollywood movie executives. It is a movie about Moses leading his people out of Egypt, and Jack wants Russell Crowe to star and thinks he can get Ridley to direct. 4 years later, Ridley Scott directed "Exodus: Gods and Kings", but it starred Christian Bale and not Crowe.
The dramatic cinema movie Casino Jack (2010) and the feature film documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010), which were both pictures about the same subject, both actually debuted and premiered in the same year of 2010.
The license plate '788 KCI' is used twice for a taxi and later for Jack Abraham's private car.
Abramoff and Scanlon scream "Show Me the Money!" a reference to Jerry Maguire (1996). Kelly Preston, who plays Abramoff's wife, also played Maguire's ex-girlfriend.