By Jonathan Randles Law360, New York (March 30, 2016, 9:42 PM ET) — A Mississippi casino lost a bid Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by bankrupt law firm Morris Schneider Wittstadt LLC over a former partner who gambled away more than $1.5 million from a firm trust. U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr.…
Man charged in Waterbury shooting over gambling debt BY JONATHAN SHUGARTS REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN WATERBURY A shooting victim became a shooting suspect after police tied him to an attack outside of a Grove Street liquor store that left a man gunshot. George Nelson, who authorities suspect is a member of the Bloods street gang, was charged Wednesday…
A billionaire businessman who has failed to pay a £2.2million debt racked up at the Ritz casino should be jailed for ten months, a top judge has ruled. Safa Abdulla Al Geabury, 52, claimed the casino should have stopped him playing as he is a known gambling addict, telling the High Court: “the Devil made…
A Whanganui woman stole more than $28,000 from her employer and left a note explaining she had done it to pay off gambling debt. The gambling addiction “stemmed from boredom” after Kelly-Ann Webster had a stroke, defence lawyer Anna Brosnahan told Whanganui District Court. Webster, 43, was in court being sentenced for burglary, which she…
A few days ago, Mark de Jong, Robin Haase‘s coach, was arrested for suspected involvement in the Murder of rich and successful businessman Keon Everink. According to reports, police had had a suspicion on him as his face matched with that of the suspect’s, whom they were trying to find. Now it seems that they…
A series of bounced cheques that illustrate the scale of Lord Lucan ‘s gambling debts before he disappeared following the murder of the family nanny have come to light after 42 years. The troubled aristocrat signed the 11 cheques totalling almost £20,000 – about £250,000 today – as he desperately tried to reverse his spiralling…
1:05 AM GMT A California man who last year pleaded guilty to transferring nearly $3 million to “an illegal gambling operation which accepted and placed bets on sporting events” filed a court motion on Tuesday requesting to withdraw his guilty plea. Gregory Silveira of La Quinta pleaded guilty in June to three counts of laundering…
Crime Netherlands Top Stories Tennis coachs gambling debts led to murder, say poker players Tennis coach Mark de J. and murdered business man Koen Everink were fighting over De J.s gambling debt. De J. is suspected in Everinks murder. The tennis coach has thousands of euros in gambling debt, accrued by playing poker. Including 80…
Wood pellets are made to be burned. It turns out a Louisiana facility that was built to make the pieces for power plants is doing the same to municipal-bond investors. Invesco Ltd., Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. and AllianceBernstein Holding LP are among buyers left in limbo after Louisiana Pellets Inc., a subsidiary of the…
A used car dealer who sold his employers stock to fund a gambling addiction has been handed an eight month suspended jail sentence and 180 hours of unpaid work. Steven Armstrong, of Butterley Hill, Ripley admitted selling vehicles owned by Vertu Volkswagen West Bridgford, Nottingham, and kept the value of the sales between October 15, 2014, and…