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EMBEZZLEMENT, MURDER/ SUICIDE, CHILD ABUSE, and DIVORCE!
'President S. Hunter Howard Jr., of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce expressed his sentiment about video poker machines in his state: 'I thought video gambling was more of a nuisance than anything else, a year ago. But then I started studying-and watching-the industry in action. Today, I know gambling is not just a nuisance to our state, that's the least of it. It's a destructive force that is completely out of control . And the only way-the only way-to rein it in is to cut it off completely. ' (Charleston [W.V.] Gazette, 6/12/00)
Note: the following was written by former Rhode Island state representative Rod Driver.
'Compulsive gamblers are usually good people who have become trapped in an addiction every bit as destructive as alcoholism. A young man from Pawtucket (R.I.) told police that he had been robbed at gunpoint to avoid admitting to his family that he had been to Foxwoods and lost $4,000 he had borrowed from friends for his daughter's medical expenses.
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'Norm MacDonald had better hope his ABC series Norm stays on the air. The former Saturday Night Live player admits he's deep into gambling-but doesn't think he needs help. MacDonald tells Details magazine he has bet up to $200,000 on a weekend's worth of ballgames and spent 12 straight hours at a craps table. 'A lot of times on Saturday Night Live , I'd be thinking about gambling instead of the show,' MacDonald recalls. He admits he's taken some big hits. 'I once considered going to Gamblers Anonymous, but I figured it's for losers,' he tells writer Michael Kaplan, adding, 'I don't see how it can physically harm you. All it can do is take away your money, and you can always make more money.' (Denver Rocky Mountain News, 10/27/99)
Drunken gamblers spend scads of money. The former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles' testified before Congress that he gambled away $50 million-and ultimately his NFL franchise-while well-plied with casino alcohol.
'The former owner of the San Francisco 49ers testified Monday that former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards extorted $400,000 from him in return for ensuring that he received a state license to operate a riverboat casino.' (Dallas Morning News, 3/28/00)
EMBEZZLEMENT
'An insidious new kind of crime is taking hold, radiating out across southern New England from the two Indian casinos in eastern Connecticut. It is embezzlement committed by desperate gamblers, usually compulsive gamblers, who work in positions of trust.... A sampling of criminal cases over the past two years shows that the amounts of money can be staggering and that an increasing number of the gamblers are women. In all these cases, the money was used to gamble at the Foxwoods Resort Casino or the Mohegan Sun casino, authorities said.
In May 1998, Edward Hutner of Rocky Hill was sentenced to prison for embezzling $1 million from his employer A few days later, Norwalk investment adviser Richard Scarso was sent to prison for stealing $1.4 million from 13 families.
In the fall of 1998, two Massachusetts men, Thomas Aldred and Neal J. Colley, were sentenced to prison and home confinement for the theft of nearly $2 million from the company where Aldred worked by creating fictitious shipments of supplies.
Last year, April Corlies was accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from the Cross Sound Ferry Co. in New London by manipulating records of ticket sales. She is awaiting trial.
Early this year, Lynne M. Frank, who handled bar receipts at The Bushnell, was charged with embezzling $91,000.
A few weeks ago, James Coughlin of Waterford avoided prison in his home improvement scam by agreeing to partially repay victims, who lost more than $200,000....
This week state police are working on an investigation expected to lead to the arrest of Yvonne Bell, who was Ledyard's tax collector until she resigned in June after money was discovered missing. An audit completed recently put the figure at more than $300,000.
Two years ago former Sprague Tax Collector Mary L. Thomas repaid $105,000 she had stolen from her town and was sentenced to probation.' (Hartford Courant, 8/23/00)
'A state assistant attorney general told a jury Tuesday that former Grandville (Mich.) Police Chief Kenneth Madejczk embezzled more than $70,000 in city money to fund a gambling habit.... Michigan Assistant Attorney General Mark Blumer said in his opening statement that Madejczk likely used the money to fund his habit of spending up to $1,250 weekly on state lottery tickets.' (Associated Press, 4/11/00)
'A former Monrovia (Calif.) cop who stole $124,000 from that city's police officers association was sentenced today to 16 months in prison and ordered to repay the money ... The former La Verne resident embezzled the MPOA money from the association between December 1994 and December 1998 to pay off gambling debts.' (City News Service, 6/23/00)
'Ledyard's (Conn.) veteran tax collector was charged Thursday with pilfering more than $300,000 in taxpayer money, much of which she is suspected to have gambled at Foxwoods Resort Casino.... Local officials also say that police tracked (Yvonne) Bell's gambling activity at Foxwoods and have determined that, since late 1997, her gambling activity there totals $900,000.' (The Day [New London, Conn.], 10/6/00)
'A city employee in Warwick embezzled money from the city to cover her husband's gambling debts.
A Providence lawyer embezzled $530,000 from an elderly aunt. He frequented Foxwoods, but he was arrested at a casino in the Bahamas, leaving his ex-wife and his children without support.
'A retired judge has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he concealed payments to creditors, including Foxwoods Resort Casino, in a 1996 bankruptcy filing.... In 1998, citing Foxwoods records, The Providence Journal reported (John) Lallo had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars at the casino between 1992 and 1997.'
To support his gambling at Foxwoods, a janitor at an elementary school in East Providence stole money from funds collected for the student yearbook.
The treasurer of the North Providence police union embezzled $43,000 for his gambling habit.
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An assistance vice president at a Providence insurance company embezzled $1.1 million from his employer.
A former Rhode Island governor was convicted of taking kickbacks from contractors. He was a frequent visitor to Foxwoods and we don't know how much of the money he lost there.
An employee at an automobile dealership in Norwich embezzled $100,000 from her employer, and lost most of it at Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun. A former utility lineman in Connecticut was sentenced to five years in prison for climbing utility poles and stealing copper wire that he sold to raise money for his gambling addiction.
Two men in Massachusetts 'created' a phony chemical company and collected more than $1.9 million from a manufacturer in Rockland on the basis of phony invoices. A man in Peabody stole $4 million from his family's paving business.
A middle-aged Connecticut woman got just a little more than $700 when she robbed the New Haven Savings Bank to finance her gambling addiction. After serving six months in prison and nine weeks in gamblers' rehab she got on a bus and went back to Foxwoods.
The chief fundraiser for the late Sen. Paul Tsongas's presidential campaign took $1 million in campaign contributions and loans to pay gambling debts. Tsongas withdrew from the race and the fundraiser went to prison.
SUICIDES / MURDERS
A young woman drowned herself in Connecticut's Thames River after maxing out her credit cards at Foxwoods. She left a husband and two small children.
A highly regarded police chief in Central Falls took his own life when he couldn't cope with his gambling debts.
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A nurse in Reading, Mass., worked double shifts to pay her husband's gambling debts. When she restricted her husband's access to money, he killed her. On his way home, after disposing of his wife's car, he stopped to buy more scratch tickets.' (Providence Journal-Bulletin)
'A gambler losing big dollars in the high-roller area of the MotorCity Casino in Detroit pulled out a gun Wednesday, shot himself in the head and died, police said. Terrified gamblers fled from the blackjack table where off-duty Oak Park Police Sgt. Solomon Bell had been consistently losing large bets, witnesses said....
'Detroit police said Bell had been gambling earlier in the day at MGM Grand Detroit Casino and was hoping to make up for some losses there. They said he lost between $15,000 and $20,000 in the two casinos during the day.' (Detroit Free Press, 1/27/00)
'Early this week, John Carvalho, a 49-year-old bank employee from Rhode Island, drove his car down North Anguilla Road and turned onto Miner Pentway, a narrow dead-end lane that winds through the northern part of Stonington (Conn.).... He pulled his 1998 Toyota to the side of a dirt track, got out, locked the doors and walked into the woods where, police say, he took his own life.... Police sources said that Carvalho, who had no history of addiction and lived a quiet, middle-class life, had developed a gambling habit over the past few months that began on a trip to Las Vegas this summer. Police believe he was driving home from Foxwoods Resort Casino when, in desperation, he killed himself. Carvalho's is the latest gambling-related suicide in the region since Foxwoods, the area's first casino, opened in 1992. Experts say many such deaths may have gone unreported or unrecognized in the area and beyond.' (The Day [New London, Conn.], 9/9/00)
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'Before taking his life last November, Central Falls (R.I.) Policy Chief Thomas Moffatt had misappropriated departmental fund and borrowed heavily from his officers to pay gambling debts, a state police investigation has concluded. Moffatt owed more than $60,000 to his officers and possibly thousands more to several accounts within the department that were under his control, Col. Edmond Culhane, state police superintendent, said yesterday....'Culhane declined to answer a question about a ... report that Moffatt owed $40,000 to the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos. 'The message from the whole thing is the dangers of gambling, quite frankly, ' said Culhane. 'Tom Moffatt was a truly honorable guy. He had a superb career as a state trooper. He was a great family man and a terrific policeman. This was his one weakness and it took him down.' ( Providence Journal, 5/2/99)
'A South Bend (Ind.) man convicted of murdering a man for his casino winnings was sentenced to 65 years in prison.' (Las Vegas Sun, 3/14/00)
CHILD ABUSE
'A Rhode Island woman was arrested Saturday after police discovered that she left four children unattended for 14 hours at Foxwoods [Casino].' (The Day [New London, Conn.], 7/16/00)
'Council Bluffs (Iowa) police arrested a Lincoln (Nebr.) woman Monday after discovering her 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter sitting alone inside a van while their mother was inside a casino.' (Omaha World-Herald, 9/13/00)
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'Children have been left unattended at Indiana's riverboat casinos more than three dozen times while their parents or other guardians were gambling during the past 14 months. A Courier-Journal review of Indiana Gaming Commission records found 37 instances involving an estimated 72 abandoned children since May 1999, when the state first began compiling reports of such episodes.... In one case, an infant had to be revived with oxygen.' (Louisville Courier-Journal , 7/18/00)
Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks is sending out a stern warning to store owners who have gambling machines.
During the month of December 2020, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office has conducted several investigations on illegal gambling operations at multiple locations in Hunt County. The Hunt County Sheriff’s Office has been proactive in conducting these investigations when receiving tips on illegal gambling within the county.
On December 1, the Hunt County Special Crimes Unit went to the Texaco gas station next to the Huddle House on Interstate 30 and arrested Charan Maddipa was arrested for Gambling Promotion, a class A misdemeanor. On the same day, the unit went to the County Quick Mart on Highway 380 where Samir Panjwani was arrested for Gambling Promotion. At both locations, the gambling machines were confiscated.
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On December 17, investigations were again conducted at Reames Market on Highway 34 south of Greenville where Sarrina Khadgi and Pradeep Dangol were arrested for Keeping a Gambling Place, a class A misdemeanor. Operations were then conducted at Circle B on Highway 224 just east of Greenville. Prem Devandla and Kimberly Dudley were arrested for Gambling Promotion. Again, the gambling machines at both locations were seized and processed for evidence.
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“Let this be a warning to any businesses in Hunt County that have these gambling devices in your stores: We are coming for you. I would advise you to shut these operations down and get rid of these machines. If not, you will be arrested, the machines will be taken into custody and your business will be shut down. When I first took office in 2009, Hunt County was full of these types of operations and we shut them do then and as I leave office we are going to shut them down again. You have been warned,” said Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks.