He also owes Harrah’s Casino Hotel $9,455 for damaging the pipes. Lusardi will be required to pay the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa $463,540 for the revenue it lost when it canceled the 2014 tournament after discovering the fake chips. A total of $3.6 million worth of tournament chips were found, although they have no actual cash value. An additional 22 tournament chips worth $5,000 were found in a clogged toilet in the Borgata the next day. Maintenance was called, and the chips were found. But the chips clogged the pipes, and guests on the floor below complained that water was dripping into their rooms. Under terms of a plea agreement, Lusardi will be sentenced to five years in prison.Īuthorities said Lusardi, after suspecting the fake chips had been noticed, flushed them down the toilet in his room at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, where he had been staying. 13 that he brought millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in a casino’s poker tournament, a scheme that was uncovered when he clogged a pipe by flushing the chips down the toilet in his hotel room.Ĭhristian Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting and criminal mischief. Man brings counterfeit chips to poker tournamentĪTLANTIC CITY, N.J. Roan Drive near the circular drive and parking lot. Merchant says the spiders are basically harmless and there’s no need to do anything, other than to just appreciate the communal nest. He says the webs are draping the trees like shrouds. Urban entomologist Mike Merchant says thousands of spiders can be seen darting among the webs that extend up to 40 feet into the trees. Officials with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service say the communal web has emerged at Lakeside Park South in Rowlett. ROWLETT, Texas – A sprawling spider web at a Dallas-area park has attracted thousands of insects and the attention of people curious about arachnids.
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