Dealer pleads guilty in case where $7M stolen from casinos
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A card dealer pleaded guilty in San Diego on Wednesday to leading an operation that stole $7 million from casinos.
Lawyers believe this may be the largest cheating scandal ever broken up.
According to an Associated Press story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Phuong Quoc Truong, 42, known as Pai Gow John, ran the San Diego-based operation. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering conspiracy and theft charges.
The ring, which included the son of the mayor of Seattle, bribed casino supervisors and card dealers and used unshuffled blocks of cards. Investigators wrote that members of the crew would signal a card dealer to do a false shuffle, then bet on the known order of the cards.The ring also used hidden transmitters and software to predict the order in which shuffled cards would appear in blackjack and mini-baccarat.
The operation affected gambling establishments from California to Connecticut, with 16 different casinos being swindled by the scheme.
