Casino Crime Roundup: Guilty Plea to Gambling Embezzled $230K
A former New Hampshire occupant recently pled shamed in capital of New Hampshire federal judicature to embezzling nearly $230K from a local charity. Much of the money was spent at Massachusetts’ MGM Springfield casino.
Kyle Fisher, 43, formerly of Grantham, New Hampshire, pleaded shamefaced to conducting wire hoax inward the case, federal prosecutors proclaimed on Tuesday. He now resides inward Frederick North Carolina.
Fisher was indicted on quadruplet counts of conducting wire fraud, according to Valley News, a New Hampshire down news outlet.
The charity for which he worked was identified as Listen Community Services. Fisher had been the organization’s executive director 'tween 2016 and 2022. He left his put up inwards Oct 2022.
Fisher had get at to the nonprofit’s finances, including its QuickBooks accounts, PayPal accounts, and bank accounts, according to the New Hampshire Union-Leader tidings outlet.
Fisher made improper transfers from Listen’s PayPal and camber accounts to his own accounts past authorship eighter from Decatur checks payable to himself. Fisher “concealed the fraudulent nature of these checks past claiming that they were payments to logical vendors,” prosecutors said.
For instance, $63,146 was incorrectly identified as having been spent for Dell electronic computer equipment earmarked for the charity, the Union-Leader reported.
Lost Money Gambling
In January 2022, Fisher missed $6,719 at the MGM casino. The compositor's case was investigated, and Fisher was charged on May 10, 2023.
U.S. District Margaret Court Judge Saul J. Barbadoro scheduled Fisher’s sentencing for June 11. He faces upward to 20 years inward prison, deuce-ace years of supervised release, and a $250K fine, prosecutors said.
Teen Sexually Trafficked at Casino
A Florissant, Missouri. suspect was arrested Tues after a 16-year-old was sex trafficked at a Show Me State gaming property.
Angel Henderson allegedly recruited, harbored, and transported the tike to experience sex inward change for money at River City Casino Hotel inward St. Louis.
The incident was revealed in conclusion week, according to Missouri River TV send KTVI.
Henderson and a sec suspect, Mack Mitchell, allegedly brought the tyke to the gaming property. Both were supercharged with second-degree sexual trafficking of a small fry under 18.
Henderson was set-aside(p) in poky and bond was go down at $300K. Henderson is scheduled to appear in court of justice on Mar 4, when a adjudicate will reexamine bail.
Mitchell has yet to follow arrested. It’s unclear where he is currently located.
There’s no more word on what happened to the teenager.