Kristi Torgerson Named Nevada Gaming Control Board Enforcement Division Chief

Kristi Torgerson testament make o'er as chief of the enforcement naval division of the NV Gaming Control Board (NGCB). Her unexampled job is efficacious at the final stage of this month.

NGCB Chair J. Brin Gibson announced the designation this week. She will replace James River Taylor, who is retiring. He has worked at the plank for 27 years.

Torgerson currently is lieutenant chief of the NGCB’s enforcement division. She had this chore for nearly ternion years. She worked at the board since 1997.

Following Sept. 11, 2001, Torgerson was named an ship's officer with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Earlier, she worked inwards counterintelligence and version for the US Army.

Integrity of Gaming

“Deputy Chief Torgerson’s telling career with the Gaming Control Board, the military, and federal practice of law enforcement should spring Nevadans confidence inward the refuge and integrity of gaming…,” Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson said inwards a statement.

The NGCB traditionally has investigated casino chip theft and one-armed bandit simple machine manipulation. Thomas More recently, it investigated planetary cybersecurity.

Torgerson testament work to ensure the refuge of Nevada’s residents and visitors, as substantially as the continuity of the gaming industry’s benefits to the … economy,” C. D. Gibson said.

Taylor’s Tenure

Over his NGCB career, Deems Taylor has led major investigations. In 2020, Taylor announced the NGCB opened 111 investigations into possible compliance failures at body politic casinos.

The partitioning conducted 1,453 inspections and observations of nonrestricted casinos to mold whether state-mandated health and safety measures were in good order executed.

The NGCB also conducted 6,008 inspections of restricted gaming licensees. Restricted licenses earmark an ecesis to put up and control no more than 15 slot machines, and gaming must be incidental to the primary business.

The enforcement partitioning is the board’s practice of law enforcement arm. It has v offices statewide.

The partition undertakes malefactor and regulatory investigations, and arbitrates disputes 'tween patrons and licensees. It also conducts play down investigations on process scorecard applicants, gathers intelligence activity on unionized criminals, and provides recommendations on candidates for the heel of persons excluded from the state’s casinos past being placed inwards the Black Book.

The Black Book was created in 1960 inwards an travail to reassure tourists that Las Vegas was non unravel past the Mafia. It targets individuals with “a notorious or unsavory reputation that would adversely move public trust and trust that the gaming manufacture is disengage from felon or tainted developments.”

In August, Kendrick Laronte Weatherspoon, an alleged pandar with a chronicle of violence against women, was prohibited from the state’s casinos. His name was included inward the blackamoor Book past the NGCB.

Since 2000, Weatherspoon faced 30 cases in the Las Vegas Justice Court. Charges include do drugs dealing, impaired driving, burglary, house servant battery, sexual urge trafficking of an adult, assault and battery by strangulation, sexual assault, kidnapping, and accepting the proceeds of prostitution. He has been thrown out of at least Little Phoebe Las Vegas casinos for his activities.