Borgata Finds "Significant Number of Counterfeit Chips," Cancels Event 1

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This is outrageous, given the amount of damage his actions caused, coupled with the fact that he's a career scammer and already had a recent conviction for DVD counterfeiting on his record before this trial.

NJ legal system = JOKE

This whole update is wrong. Or, rather, it's technically correct but entirely misleading. Lusardi was indeed "paroled" last July, but he was never released. Instead he was transferred to a federal prison in South Carolina to serve out the remainder of his precedental and concurrent sentence for DVD bootlegging. He's not going anywhere until at least June of 2019, which seems right, because I believe federal sentences require at least 85% time served before consideration for parole.

Haley, you are quite correct. I see he is still in a federal prison facility in SC. I wondered about him, did a search for prisoners in NJ and saw that he was "released"...so my bad in reporting that he was out and thanks for the update. But it seems that if did not pirate the DVDs, he would actually be out right now, no? Because the DVD pirating is the federal crime, and the chip counterfeiting was a state offence? If that is correct, he's still getting off lightly for the chip counterfeiting/tourney cheating IMHO.

There's actually quite a bit more to this story, but for one of the few times in my career, there are things here that I don't necessarily want to report.

Really?!!! When a story makes a journalist not want to report something, it just makes me very interested in what's up.