Embezzled Money Ends Up in Slot Machines

Time and time again, it seems that we are hearing about someone embezzling money from someone else to pay for their addiction to slot machines. There are groups upon groups of people who have been found guilty of embezzling and said it was because they could not help themselves, that the slot machines were calling and they had used all of their own money – so they just thought they would take a little that wasn’t theirs.

The handyman at St. Bernard School – embezzled $850,000; the nurse at the hospital - $75,000 from a quadriplegic patient; the Westerly woman - $93,000 embezzled; Niantic woman - $130,000 embezzled; the list goes on and on of people who thought it was ok to take someone else’s money.

Most of the people who steal admit to being addicted to slot machines. They take their stolen money over to Foxwoods or the Mohegan Sun and leave it in their slot machines over there. These people are career criminals in the sense that it is a whole other career to them to play the slot machines for the amount of time it takes to lose that kind of money. Even if it was just $100,000 – it still takes a lot of time to lose that much money in a slot machine.

These people have full time jobs that they are stealing from, so where are they getting the amount of time needed to lose that much money in a slot machine? It ends up being a second career just to play the slot machines with the money they stole from their first one. However, the state has just as good a racket going on, they get 25% of the money that goes into the slot machines, and when embezzlers are caught they have to pay the money back, but the state gets to keep it.

So really, it is in the best interest of the state to have more slot machine gamblers who are willing to steal.

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