Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
Clearly they were avoiding a check and a paper trail in order to hide their winnings from taxes... but I don't see anything that says they broke any other gaming law.
I just read some more articles about this case from 2014. I now understand it better. What these 5 gamblers did could not have been spotted by any standard AP techniques. There was a bug in the program that had these keno machines paying out 5 times more than it was supposed to, but only if you put the “right denominations” into the machine. It’s hard to believe they figured out the “right denomination” by chance.
This is why the gaming company, WMS, said these 5 won this money by “theft” and illegal activity. They obviously couldn’t prove their case, but both WMS and the casino strongly believe this is an “inside job”, meaning the person that wrote “the bug” in the code was somehow connected to these 5 gamblers.
What story makes most sense? That five gamblers from Vegas happen to drive all the way to Illinois and by chance figured out “the right denomination” to put in these machines to trigger 5 times the payout, or they got an “inside tip”?