Wow, we have NJDGE investigator here!!!

There is no possible whay he could have done that by himself. I'm sure a second, or possible third person will be outed

It's at least his second offence, and he'll certainly be charged on several counts. Counterfeiting is serious.

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Originally Posted by Carl Trooper
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Drunk drivers who have killed get 5-10

You are crazy. There is no way he gets that at all.

Lifetime ban... Sure. Big fine ok. Prison? Not a chance.

Maybe 6 months jail no bail. That would probably be fair.]

If he don't get a stiff jail time , do you realize how many crooks will be jumping on the opportunity to scam big bucks !!

State and federal attorney will do their best to make an example out of him. I don't see any thing less then 5 years.

The more I think about it if chips were introduced day 2 I bet it wasn't even him.... He had 500k why did he need to put chips on table how hard is it to bring in 5ks when they don't even mean that much at that level.


It becomes a risk reward thing if I have 300k in chips is 350k that much better at those levels...that's why I'm leaning toward chips coming in day 1 mainly.

No just a guy who likes to understand the facts, not just make them up. For example, i was unaware of any federal charges that would involve a federal prosecutor who would make an example out of him by giving him no less than five years in prison. Please share where his information came from.

You've been commenting in this thread for a long time. You should have gathered some facts by now and through common sense realize somethings such as lusardi not acting alone .

Chipkatcher no one cares what you think. Stop bumping this thread with the same nonsense over and over.

Gives the phrase "chip dump" a whole new meaning.

Common sense tells me you are advocating total refunds to everyone because you blew 2-3 buy ins on day 1a, before lusardi played and cheated.

I can think of 350k reasons for lusardi to introduce fake chips both day 1b and 2. I see no reason to draw any other conclusions but I'm not trying to sway things for my own benefit.

I'm just happy that this situation has given us the new poker phrase
" introduced chips". It's already being used in every other post like it's been said forever.

I know drunk drivers who killed a person that got 18 mos. I would bet if Lusardi is cooperating he does less time than that.
wayyy late

Hardly bumping. I'm replying to different things in this thread. This thread gets a couple pages a day of posts. So if you don't like it don't read? Why waste your time on me ? Are you just one of those guys trying to get a post count up? So kindly just stfu

"News flash" i just got an email from the borgata telling me what eveyone already knows,someone was arrested in connection with the introduction of counterfeit chips, and that the investigation continues, they also said the prize money is still frozen until the DGE investigation is complete. thank you for your patience. well thats something i guess, i just wonder how they would handle this if there were only 5 or 6 players left? hell, how can anyone even enter these tournaments? what if only 100,000 chips were discovered,would the tournament still be canceled? how about 20,000? what is the magic number of chips introduced into a game that cancels it? people should boycott these tournaments until "they" make it safe for us players period.

Has Christian Lusardi been arraigned? IANAL, but my understanding of an arraignment is that it's a formal legal procedure (often a very brief procedure) involving a court appearance - sometimes covered by the press and television cameras if it's a high profile case - where the prosecutor specifies charges against the defendant, the judge asks the defendant how he pleads to the charges, (most defendants usually say "Not Guilty!"), and the judge then rules on whether the defendant will be granted bail and released from custody pending trial. (We've seen arraignments acted out at least a thousand times on Law & Order.)

AFAIK, Christian Lusardi has not yet been formally arraigned - he's been arrested and is being held without bail - which is a bit unusual in most criminal cases. If Lusardi has not yet been formally arraigned, he must be talking and giving investigators leads to other suspects. If Lusardi was the ringleader and the sole "mastermind" of this caper, he would have been arraigned by now and prosecutors would have announced they are going after Lusardi with all the power and resources the state of New Jersey can bring to bear - and that there are no other suspects. The longer this drags on with no word from the police, the NJDGE, and the Borgata; the more I'm inclined to believe that yjbic was telling the truth when he stated (a week ago) that "it's complicated" and this entire fiasco was an attempt to set somebody up. Trying to "set somebody up" implies a conspiracy and you can't have a conspiracy without co-conspirators ... (I wonder if the phrase "set somebody up" in Lusardi's vocabulary meant "set somebody up" to win the tournament?)

Either Lusardi, posting as yjbic, was telling the truth or he has bought himself a lot of additional jail time by wasting investigators time chasing down false leads. Perhaps somebody who lives in New Jersey can post a link to an article noting Lusardi's exact legal status at this time.

I'm surprised that other arrests have not yet been announced.

I believe it unlikely that lusardi was acting alone.

If it was just Poo Poo man and few of his knucklehead friends, then he would have already flipped on them as part of his deal, they'd be arrested, ez game, /investigation

This whole thing must be more complicated if its taken this long for investigators to make more arrests. which is some of what jbic alluded to in all this gobbledegook

Not sure if this is the same guy, but the birth year lines up. 1992/93 case

They will throw the book at him. NJ makes good money off gaming. He gave NJ gaming a black eye that might effect future play and revenue.
NJ will not be happy with the doofus.

Wow - good find.

I am betting it's the same 41 year old Chris Lusardi. It looks like he had 2 prior convictions in NJ (plus the NC arrest noted before): (1) sentenced to 1 year probation on 2/19/93 for theft by deception and (2) sentenced to 3 year probation on 4/15/94 for "knowingly receiving stolen property".

NJ - Can we stop with the probations and put him in a jail for at least 3-5 years?!

EDITED TO ADD: I obtained the above information after clicking on the 2 items in the post. Not sure if the 2 sentences are related to the same incident or whether they are 2 different incidents.

I hate to keep responding but no one is ever going to introduce fake chips ever again not at borgata anyway. They will upgrade their chips sets and punish this guy severely. Just another excuse for losing players to think they are losing because of cheating. Probably the same morons checking it down when people are all in which is breaking the tourney rules.

You should never call anyone an idiot.

Nice at least some one is getting update from Borgata!

Can u please post the email ?

And just to make sure, you are one of the 27 left correct?

Thx

So Lusardi has a rap sheet. Can we look forward to mandatory criminal background checks for tourney players? What's troubling is that I'm not sure that's as ridiculous as it sounds.

And that will plug the security leak how?

I'd found this also earlier and speculated a bit on his record, it's a fast moving thread tho and understandable some of the info may not have been noticed.

They are two different incidents, the arrest and sentencing dates are different. Once you click either of the records in the system you can get more details on them.