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Penn National Fraud

thegeauxt

thegeauxt

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Penn has a property in Bay St Louis on the MS Gulf Coast (Hollywood). They are doing some interesting things with that property. I’m keeping an eye on those fuckrrs.
 

djefferis

djefferis

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Stuff like this happens way more than you think.

Generally involves someone in accounts and someone in promotions working together. One gets popped - gives up the other as the “mastermind” of the scheme for reduced punishment.

Suspect that’s what happened here - 1 person sets up accounts/comps sometimes using a legitimate player who is unaware their play and account are being used other times a complete phony account. Then accounting grants the comps to the promotions rep who diverts them.

Not surprising it happened - but surprising it happpened AGAIN with Penn - they got hit BIG a few years back with a similar scheme. Surprising they allowed it to happen again. Casino cash controls are usually some of the worst - after all as long as the house is winning some people in management just tend to look the other way. It’s not until shit gets tight financially that they get interested in what happened to all the money.

As to the legos - absolutely big business. Lots of sets selling for $500+ new these days. Similar to boxes of sports cards - they are easy to resell for near their cost on FB Marketplace/Ebay and are always hot targets for shoplifting and internal theft at retail. Buy sets using a host account - say they were gifts for a whale and no ones going to question you internally. Then sell and collect $$.
 

djefferis

djefferis

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Wasn’t Penn also the primary operator about a decade back with the long running scheme to inflate payouts on small track horse races un-regulated ?

People would bet relatively large bets (like $5k) at track on small races where the typical handle would be sub 10k - playing the long shots. This would cause the pari-mutual payouts to shift wildly and faves would have payout of like $4-6 on show bets because of the artificially inflated wagering pool. Smart people were pumping up the pools like this and when the normally heavy chalk fave won - they would cash in having bet $25-50k un-regulated and taking advantage of the artificially high return.

Tracks of course saw this - but they turned a blind eye. Everyone was happy - the operator had a higher handle, clerks and horsemen were in on it and betting alongside the fixers. And un-regulated had worse controls than legal casinos and were too busy raking in the sucker money for a decade to bother looking at why their racebook sucked so horribly profit wise.
 
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