Nevada’s ‘Black E book’ Might Embrace Identify of Repeated Consumer of Faux Chips
Leonard Morgan Hairston might turn into the newest individual added to Nevada’s “Black E book.” That may imply the convicted on line casino cheater could be completely banned from coming into any Nevada gaming property.
NGCB member Philip Katsaros, pictured above. He backed the inclusion of Leonard Morgan Hairston in Nevada’s Black E book. That may ban him from ever once more coming into a on line casino within the state. (Picture: Zoom)
On Wednesday, the Nevada Gaming Management Board (NGCB) nominated Hairston, a Las Vegas resident, to be included on the notorious listing. It’s formally often known as the Excluded Individuals Checklist.
Hairston is a repeat offender. He’s been arrested on 34 events, the Las Vegas Overview-Journal reported. Many of those counts led to convictions for crimes linked to the usage of counterfeit on line casino chips on the state’s casinos, the Overview-Journal added.
When chatting with the board, NGCG Nevada Deputy Lawyer Basic John Michela described Hairston as a “serial gaming offender incapable of staying out of bother.”
NGCB member Philip Katsaros agreed.
Clearly, he’s sort of a menace to our regulatory oversight of the casinos,” Katsaros instructed his fellow board members. “I might shudder to assume what number of extra brokers we would want if there have been many others partaking within the ranges of prison exercise that this particular person has carried out.”
The subsequent step within the means of including his identify to the listing is consideration by the Nevada Gaming Fee. The fee might assessment the proof and take a vote within the subsequent couple of months.
Katsaros is not any stranger to regulatory and compliance points associated to gaming properties. He has been CEO of Certus Gaming USA, Inc., a gaming methods provider, in addition to head of enterprise improvement for Impressed Gaming’s Digital Sports activities. Earlier, he labored at IGT, the place he targeted on compliance issues.
Katsaros was an agent for the NGCB’s Tax and License Division at the beginning of his profession. He moreover labored on the NGCB’s Company Securities Division, the place he was a senior agent and particular agent.
Historical past of the Black E book
The Black E book first was created in 1960. It took place in an effort to point out vacationers that Las Vegas casinos weren’t run by the Mafia.
It targets people with “a infamous or unsavory popularity that will adversely have an effect on public confidence and belief that the gaming trade is free from prison or corrupt developments.”
Solely 36 different individuals are included on the listing. The one option to be faraway from this listing is to die.
Most of these on the listing have a historical past of dishonest at playing or they’re related to organized crime
Weatherspoon Named to Checklist
However in August, Kendrick Laronte Weatherspoon, a infamous pimp with a historical past of violence towards ladies, was included on the listing. His inclusion signaled the NGCB’s concern over the prevalence of human trafficking circumstances involving casinos in Nevada.
Since 2000, Weatherspoon confronted 30 circumstances within the Las Vegas Justice Court docket. Expenses embrace drug dealing, impaired driving, housebreaking, home battery, intercourse trafficking of an grownup, battery by strangulation, sexual assault, kidnapping, and accepting the proceeds of prostitution.
He has been thrown out of not less than 5 Las Vegas casinos for his actions.
