Seattle Mayor’s Son Indicted

There was a plan, there were people to carry out the plan, and the plan was almost successful, and then it wasn’t. That is pretty much the wrap up of a plan to rip off a casino by several people, one of whom just happens to be the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.

The United States Department of Justice is alleging that Jacob Dyson Nickels was involved in a scheme that would have cheated the Emerald Queen Casino and the Nooksack River Casino out of more than one million dollars. He is not alone, in that several Washington residents were indicted as well.

The plan was to allegedly bribe casino employees to rig the games by pretending to shuffle the cards, but not really shuffling them. This would make it easier for those involved to know the order of the cards and to win money illegally. Nickels was the pit boss at one of the casinos where they were trying the scheme.

Nickels was allegedly paid $5,000 to introduce the dealers at the Nooksack casino to the participants in the false shuffle scheme. Supposedly they tried the same scam at the Emerald Queen Casino and several employees were indicted there as well. All in all there were 24 defendants.

The mayor and his wife simply said that they had just heard of the charges and that they were going to support their son “throughout this difficult time. “ They also said that they were going to encourage him to cooperate with the justice department.

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