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27.8.2006 - Gambling Addiction Related Crime on a Rise
Gambling addiction seems to be on the rise and along with the number of crimes committed to get money for gambling. I subscribe to a news service that delivers casino related stories and there are usually a dozen or so per day. The other day five of the 14 news stories were all about gambling addiction. Three stories dealing with crimes and two with what is being done to curb gambling addiction. In Nevada Richard Davenport, the former lawyer for John Ascuaga's Nugget who pleaded guilty to embezzling $3 million over 15 years, suffered from a gambling addiction that took him to the brink of suicide and left him with no wife, no assets, but in deep remorse, his lawyer said...Davenport pleaded guilty in April to two counts of embezzlement and is free on $5,000 bail. He faces up to 20 years in prison on the two counts and a maximum $20,000 fine. In his plea agreement, he said he would repay the $3,138,878.41 he took from the hotel-casino from 1992 to 2005. In New York a former bookkeeper for a doctor's office pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $2.3 million from her employer, money she poured - as much as $6,000 a day - into buying lottery tickets. Annie Donnelly, 38, of Farmingville, faces four to 12 years in prison for stealing the money from her employers, Great South Bay Surgical Associates. Donnelly, who is being held on $150,000 bail, also will have to repay the money. She pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny. In Pennsylvania a borough tax collector in Bedford County misappropriated more than $127,000 to feed her gambling addiction, police said. Carol Ann Shaffer, 42, told police she used cash advances from her credit card to buy lottery tickets, then raided the Manns Choice Borough tax account to pay her credit-card bills. What is being done to help gambling addicts? Two of the news stories addressed the issue. The Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling is taking aim at a new group - Asian gamblers. The council is dedicating $100,000 from the state Lottery to the new effort, the largest amount they've ever used to address a single demographic group. Executive director Kathleen Scanlon says compulsive gambling is a problem in the Asian community. Casinos have been aggressively marketing to Asians in recent years. Former counselor Ming Chang has worked with Asian gambling addicts and says that many of them didn't know where to go for help. The council plans to focus on the state's Chinese community. They will hire a Mandarin-speaking coordinator and train social workers to treat Asian gambling addicts. The Missouri Gaming Commission rejected a plan that would have let problem gamblers remove their names from the banned list after two years. More than 10,500 people - about 145 a month - on the list agree to stay away from the state's casinos forever. If caught placing a bet, they face trespassing charges. Under the proposal that the commission rejected, gamblers could have petitioned for removal from the list after two years. To be eligible, they could have accumulated no trespassing convictions for entering casinos during the banned time. Is self banning enough of a solution? Probably not given the fact that the person banning themselves has to first admit that they have a gambling problem but it is a start. If you or anyone you know may have a gambling problem please contact Gamblers Anonymous or the National Council on Problem Gambling.
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