Parkwest Casino 580 Baccarat Theft Plot Leads to California Jail Time, Restitution

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A husband-and-wife duo testament be outlay about VIII months inward jail for a Golden State theft connive during baccarat games at Parkwest Casino 580. They also must pay back $507,600 in restitution.

Following their resign from incarceration, Eric Nguyen and Khanh “Tina” Tran testament also be placed on supervised probation for deuce years, California Attorney General Rob Bonta proclaimed in conclusion week.

The illicit intrigue took station at the Livermore, Calif. gaming dimension betwixt 2015 and 2017. Tran was a dealer at Casino 580.

Originally, Bonta claimed the duo stole nigh $4 billion inwards the cheating intrigue while playing EZ Baccarat Panda 8.

Texted Card Sequence

An investigating revealed that Tran allegedly peeked at the chronological sequence of cards after shuffling. She so conveyed the card chronological succession to Nguyen using textual matter messages before she left the gaming table, Bonta said.

Nguyen played at the table and began to play after spotting the chronological sequence of cards, Bonta added. Nguyen was a professional person gambler and former employee at Casino 580, according to royal court documents.

The instance was investigated by agents from the California Department of Justice’s Division of Law Enforcement.

The couple up was later apprehended on May 6, 2020 spell in Texas. Recently, they pleaded guilty to felony grand theft. In 2020, the match was also supercharged with confederacy to practice grand theft.

Breaking the natural law is never the correct path to have ahead,” Bonta said inwards a statement. “We testament non tolerate felon activity inward our state. Today’s declaration holds accountable Nguyen and Tran and sends a substance that cheating inward Calif. testament non head to success.”

In an unrelated CA investigation, endure September Bonta announced a $3.5 zillion mind against Pong Game Studios Corporation, a gritty developer. It related to to illegal gaming and associated marketing, Bonta said.

The Ontario, Canada-based society supplied “casino-style games … under the pretense of lawful sweepstakes” to net cafes crosswise California, Bonta added.

Also, shoemaker's last August, thither was a settlement of a compositor's case against Lucky noblewoman Card Room in San Diego, in response to a 2016 allegement that illegal bookmaking trading operations were beingness ladder out of the cardroom, Bonta said.

In addition, Bonta took sue against The Bicycle Hotel & Casino inwards Vanessa Bell Gardens shoemaker's last November regarding a federal investigating regarding money laundering. The cardroom was fined $500,000.

The Bicycle allegedly failed to data file right Currency Transaction Reports (CTR) and Suspicious Activity Reports for Casinos (SARC). Both related to a Chinese subject heights tumbler who visited the cardroom almost 100 times during an close together(p) eight-month stretching inwards 2016.

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