
Buried $1,000 Chip Exposes Invisible Casino Skimming Conspiracy
Buried $1,000 Chip Exposes Invisible Casino Skimming Conspiracy
A gas meter reader found a $1,000 casino chip zip-tied to a gas valve fourteen inches underground behind the Copeland Grand Hotel on June 14, 2011 at 9:52 AM - a chip that gaming records said had been destroyed three years earlier. That impossible object unlocked a scheme that siphoned roughly $240,000 through a forty-five-second camera blind spot and a statistical gap that never triggered an alarm; how did one buried chip reveal a three-year conspiracy?
In this episode, we follow the discoveries and records that connected a…
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