New Jersey Regulators Hand Down Illegal Gambling Fines To Casinos

The Atlantic City casino industry is struggling and could use any bit of revenue that comes their way. That revenue, however, cannot come from underage gamblers and others who have been placed on a self-exclusion program.

That was the message that came from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission on Wednesday. Two casinos were fined for their roles in allowing a man who was on the self-inclusion program to gamble. Casinos also forfeited money won by underage gamblers.

The fines were $10,000 apiece to Bally's Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City. The violations of regulatory rules happened back in 2005 and 2006, when a man who had signed up for the self-exclusion programs back in 2003 was permitted to gamble in the casinos.

"There are people who cannot and should not be gambling in Atlantic City, and casinos must be vigilant in their efforts to keep those individuals out," said Linda Kassekert, Chairwoman of the Casino Control Commission, as reported by The Associated Press. "Neither regulators nor casino operators want to see problem gamblers or underage gamblers at the tables or slot machines in Atlantic City."

The casinos may not have willingly allowed the gambling, with the banned man using many different forms of identification to create bogus players accounts. Thirteen of the fifteen attempts were sniffed out by the casinos, but two of the times the gambler was able to proceed.

While the $10,000 fines were levied, the casinos will be allowed to keep over $85,000 that the banned gambler lost in his visits to the casinos. The casinos' were able to keep the funds because they did not know they were dealing with a gambler on the self-exclusion program.

April 22, 2010
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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