Rob, most people know you're real name, face, and various information about you I would say you're kinda a public figure since you have a few books written for a once-popular magazine and did some various interviews.

Legally you might be in the clear, but, from my experience casinos don't even want low-level AP's in their casinos, let alone, someone who participated in something like this.
The various OSN's/Griffen's absolutely take note of this type of stuff and even have their spies on the forums and social media.

Yet you are all willy-nilly playing at well-known casinos on high limited VP while all but predicting you're going to hit big.

Will the person you paid to give you the information about the machines step up and vouch for the fact you paid them?