赌场分析师因谋划老虎机作弊被判处有期徒刑

作者:来源:时间:2012-08-07阅读:博彩译文 [收藏]

  全国最大赌场公司的一个前任分析师因参与谋划老虎机作弊案,星期一被判处57个月有期徒刑。

  安托尼,27岁,于5月认罪自己是阴谋的带头,在作弊丑闻后丢了工作。他承认背叛了公司米高梅的信任,从老虎机获得863895美元非法收入。

  美国地方法院法官杰姆斯马汉下令,安需在星期一支付全部赔偿 863895美元,释放出狱后还要进行两年监督。判决要求安11月5日前听令联邦监狱。

  “在这里见到你是一个美国的悲剧,”马汉告诉安。”你很有潜力。我希望你对此积极看待,并因此改变你的生活。”

  安向法官道歉,并承诺不再犯法。“我确实犯了一个大错,”他说,“我所做的没有任何借口。”

  为提供57个月刑期证据,美国助理检察官迈克尔楚告诉马汉,安用在企业内部知识计划出谋利的方案,并招募成员。

  楚在先前的法庭文件中宣称,安用他在公司的职位来鉴别经常不使用免费游戏点的顾客,然后把这些游戏点伪造成玩家俱乐部会员卡,并招揽人去公司the Strip周边的赌场。

  数千位高梅俱乐部成员于2009年月至2010年7月赚取了免费游戏点数,其中许多人住在内华达州。该公司新名称米高梅度假村国际名下,在内华达州拥有16家赌场,包括the Strip 10家。

  其他四位被起诉的成员安环-拉米雷斯、戴维伊万斯、戴维的比科和安哥·丹尼安已认罪,等待被判刑。

  艾伦费尔德曼,米高梅度假村国际公共事务高级副总裁,在抗辩时表示,该公司内部欺诈控制组发现的方案和报告已经给了内华达州博彩监管机构和联邦调查局。

  该计划在2010年3月被曝光,在权威机构当局逮捕到该团伙一个未被起诉的成员用伪造俱乐部会员卡。逮捕后不久,安和团伙采取措施来毁灭踪迹。根据检察官透露,他们把谋划中使用的电脑,卡编码器,闪存驱动器和空白俱乐部会员卡埋在了沙漠中。但是几个月后,通过被告的配合,联邦调查局特工挖出了这些物品,并扣押作为证据。

  译文:

  A former analyst with the state's largest casino company was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison Monday in an elaborate player's club scheme on the Strip.

  Tony Ahn, 27, who lost his job amid the cheating scandal, pleaded guilty in May to spearheading the conspiracy. He acknowledged betraying the trust of his company, then known as MGM Mirage, to unlawfully win $863,895 from slot machines.

  U.S. District Judge James Mahan ordered Ahn on Monday to pay the entire $863,895 in restitution and serve two years of supervised release after he gets out of prison.

  The judge gave Ahn until Nov. 5 to surrender to federal prison authorities.

  "This is an American tragedy to see you here," Mahan told Ahn. "You have so much potential. I hope you see this as a positive and turn your life around."

  Ahn apologized to the judge and promised never to get in trouble with the law again.

  "I definitely made a big mistake," he said. "There's no excuse for what I did."

  In arguing for the 57 months behind bars, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Chu told Mahan that Ahn had used inside company knowledge to plan the lucrative scheme and recruit members to it.

  Ahn used his company position to identify regular customers with unused free play points, then transferred the points to counterfeit players club cards and recruited people to gamble with the cards at the company's casinos along the Strip, Chu previously alleged in court papers.

  Free play points earned by thousands of MGM Mirage club members, many of whom lived outside Nevada, were stolen between July 2009 and July 2010.

  The company under its new name, MGM Resorts International, owns 16 casinos in Nevada, including 10 on the Strip.

  Four other indicted members of Ahn's ring - Joseph Ramirez, David Evans, David Pecor and Ahn's brother, Danny Ahn- have pleaded guilty and are waiting to be sentenced.

  Alan Feldman, senior vice president of public affairs for MGM Resorts International, said at the time of Ahn's plea that the company's internal Fraud Control Group uncovered the scheme and reported it to Nevada gaming regulators and the FBI.

  The scheme unraveled in March 2010 after state authorities arrested one of the unindicted members of the group for playing with counterfeit players club cards.Shortly after the arrest, Ahn and the group took measures to cover their tracks.They buried a computer, card encoder, flash drive and blank players club cards used in the scheme in the desert, according to prosecutors.Months later, however, with the help of cooperating defendants, FBI agents dug up the items and impounded them as evidence.

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