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Casino markets services to gambling addicts, gets hefty fine

Today’s Crane’s Chicago Business story, Casino fined $800K for marketing to banned gamblers, describes a hefty fine awarded Hollywood Casino (in Aurora, IL) by the IL Gaming Board for sending 146 problem gamblers coupons and other promotional materials as part of a marketing campaign. The recovering addicts had even signed up for a self-exclusion problem, voluntarily requesting to be banned from all such establishments. In addition to the fine, three marketing employees of the casino were suspended.

Written by Anne Elizabeth Moore, on May 19, 2008, filed under News and tagged , , . Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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