by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: The Maui News, “Gambling Debts Over Internet Tied to Thefts.” Feb. 17, 2008. A former Foot Locker employee was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay nearly $26,000 in restitution for taking the company’s money to cover his Internet...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Jon Burstein; November 21, 2008. For two decades, she worked for the state helping Florida’s neediest. Colleagues considered her a mother figure. Bosses respected her. She got promotions. No one noticed when Department of...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Farmington Hills, Michigan Days before he killed his family and then himself, a Michigan man endured heavy gambling losses at a Vegas casino, despite already being in severe financial straits, a Michigan police chief said. Two days after the Nov. 19 losses, J. H....
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: The Miami Herald Boxing champ and disgraced casino worker Ada Velez was sentenced Thursday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty last month to grand theft. The 37-year-old single mother was busted for giving away more than $100,000 worth of free play...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: THE CANADIAN PRESS, May 16, 2008 TROIS-RIVIERES, QUE. — An elderly compulsive gambler alleged to have demolished six video lottery terminals with an axe has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is fit to stand trial. His...
by co119admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Gambling Ruins Lives
Source: Fox News, September 18, 2007 A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he had...
