\nIt\u2019s been a bad summer if you\u2019re a casino cheat. On Tuesday, 40-year-old Cleveland native Vaughan Perry was indicted on charges he\u2019d engaged in sketchy activity on 139 separate occasions at Horseshoe Casino Cleveland. The Ohio Casino Control Commission said Perry was caught cheating at the Horseshoe\u2019s blackjack tables in May, but a subsequent review of surveillance camera footage showed Perry had been punking the \u2018Shoe for some time. The most serious of Perry\u2019s charges, a single count of grand theft, alleges that he gained over $8k in illegal winnings. Perry is set to be arraigned on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n
\tOver in Connecticut, a 55-year-old man has pled guilty to marking cards with invisible ink at the Mohegan Sun casino. Last September, New Jersey resident Bruce Koloshi was caught doctoring cards at the Mohegan poker tables, following a similar incident at the L\u2019Auberge Casino in Mississippi the previous month. In exchange for agreeing to cooperate with authorities in the Mississippi case and to steer clear of Connecticut casinos for three years, Koloshi was sentenced to time served.<\/p>\n
\tWHEN IS CHEATING NOT CHEATING?
\n\tIn Pennsylvania, a former roulette dealer at the Meadows Casino has been charged with conspiracy for daring to tell a gambler his lucky number. In what may be an industry first, Robert Valle was arrested in June and charged with conspiracy and \u2018using illegal methods to win a bet\u2019 after he told a gambler that his (Valle\u2019s} lucky number was four and that he\u2019d tried to aim the ball to make it more likely that it would land on four.<\/p>\n
\tCourt documents say a confidential informant recorded Valle making the claim but Valle has since stated that he was only trying to establish a rapport with the gamblers at his table and that he had no ability to make any number come up lucky. \u201cIf I could do something like that, I\u2019d have everybody and my brother coming in.\u201d Triblive.com reported that Valle\u2019s co-workers held a \u20184 Freedom\u2019 fundraiser for him on Aug. 10 to help pay his legal bills.<\/p>\n
\tMANDATORY FINES FOR CASINO THIEVES UNCONSTITUTIONAL
\n\tIt wasn\u2019t all bad news for those who flout the rules. A former dealer at Pennsylvania\u2019s Rivers Casino is smiling after the state Supreme Court declared the mandatory $75k fine imposed on casino thieves to be unconstitutional. Back in 2010, Matthew Eisenberg was caught pocketing $200 worth of chips from the casino table at which he was working, leading to him being charged with misdemeanor theft under the state\u2019s Gaming Act. He pled guilty the following year and was given a year of probation and a $75k fine, the amount of which was automatically imposed under the terms of the Act.<\/p>\n
\tEisenberg\u2019s attorney argued that the Act\u2019s mandatory fine was way out of proportion to the scale of his client\u2019s misdeeds and argued that the Legislature had \u201cplaced the casino above everybody else in Pennsylvania.\u201d Eisenberg appealed on the grounds that the fine was \u201cirrational and unreasonable.\u201d On Tuesday, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed, calling the fine \u201cstrikingly disproportionate to the manner in which other crimes are punished in Pennsylvania.\u201d Chief Justice Ronald Castille noted that a $200 theft from a non-casino business wouldn\u2019t result in anything near Eisenberg\u2019s fine and stated that the mandatory nature of the fine \u201cmerely exacerbates the disproportion.\u201d<\/p>\n
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