Thursday, December 14, 2017

Mohegan Sun Pocono fined $1m; PA’s satellite casinos a hard sell


Pennsylvania gaming regulators levied over $1.1m in fines against five casino operators, with the bulk of those fines going against the operators of Mohegan Sun Pocono.

On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) announced that it had imposed a $1m penalty on Downs Racing, a subsidiary of Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment, which operates the Mohegan Sun Pocono casino in Wilkes-Barre.

The bulk ($550k) of this fine stems from the casino’s “failure over a multi-year period to follow approved internal controls regarding free slot play, the main bank and internal audits,” while the rest ($450k) was for “conducting business with unlicensed gaming service providers.”

The casino was embarrassed last year by the arrest of its Robert Joseph Pellegrini, the casino’s former VP of player development, for his involvement in a free-play slots scam that took the casino for over $422k and ultimately netted Pellegrini a 32-month jail sentence.

The dealings with unlicensed service providers made news earlier this year, due to its connections to then-Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority CEO Bobby Soper, who resigned shortly thereafter, all the while insisting that his exit was unrelated to the PGCB probe.

The remaining $167k in fines were assessed against the operators of the Parx Casino, Valley Forge Casino Resort and Mounty Airy Casino Resort, for various violations including underage gaming, allowing staff to work without licensing, serving alcohol to already drunk patrons while gambling and a cage cashier accidentally overpaying a customer $9k. (How much had SHE been drinking?)

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