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08-14-2015 , 08:04 PM

#4876

SuperSwag

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 5,809

there must have been a better solution than the toilet flush

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08-14-2015 , 08:22 PM

#4877

ChasinScrila

journeyman

Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 357

Good. He's a POS. Deserves every second of that sentence.

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08-14-2015 , 10:26 PM

#4878

smmcoy

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 367

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Originally Posted by Deuce2High

Wow he got wrecked. Manslaughter is not much higher than that. Funny how many poker players / scammers have ****ed up people's lives and nothing happens. Give a big company a headache and you are treated like a killer.

Please read the story. He agreed to the sentence during the plea bargaining process. That's typical. By far the huge majority of cases are plea bargained between a DA and the defendant and his counsel.

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Originally Posted by sqwerty12

Seriously harsh sentence if you ask me.

If Lusardi thought it overly harsh, he should not have agreed to it.

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08-15-2015 , 04:32 AM

#4879

Blizzuff

veteran

Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,713

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Originally Posted by smmcoy

If Lusardi thought it overly harsh, he should not have agreed to it.

I honestly can't believe a poker player posted this.

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08-15-2015 , 06:42 AM

#4880

AngusThermopyle

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 14,929

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Originally Posted by sba9630

Being previously convicted of trademark counterfeiting allows for the maximum penalty to be doubled from 10 years to 20.

He was previously convicted and received a 5 year sentence for the DVDs. [justice.gov]

He got off lucky.

The question is if he gets to serve the two sentences concurrently.

The joke in both sentences is the "restitution".

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08-15-2015 , 11:58 AM

#4881

Videopro

Making TV

Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 19,461

Wonder if he is eligible for parole and can serve only half the sentence.

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08-15-2015 , 01:22 PM

#4882

0xRNG

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 44

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Originally Posted by numberonedonk

IMO charges were dropped because it
What I don't get is how the **** do you get 1.3 million in a Paypal account selling fake DVD's? I don't know the "retail" price on bootleg DVD's but if it was $5 he had to have sold 260000 DVDs. If he was supplying them to wholesalers it would probably be less than $5.

Probably sold bootleg Software. They are not too specific so word doesn't get out you can become a millionaire selling fake office CD's

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08-15-2015 , 01:58 PM

#4883

DarkMattersMan

adept

Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 960

We should all co sign a well wishes card from 2+2 and mail it to his cell.

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08-15-2015 , 02:56 PM

#4884

sba9630

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4,510

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Originally Posted by Professionalpoker

Wonder if he is eligible for parole and can serve only half the sentence.

It doesn't matter (unless this latest sentence runs consecutively instead of concurrently) since he's already doing 5 years in federal prison.

CHRISTIAN PATRICK LUSARDI
Register Number: 66637-050
Age: 43
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Petersburg Low FCI
Release Date: 06/08/2019

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Originally Posted by sba9630

There is federal good conduct time, which is about 54 days per year.

The Bureau of Prison calculates this at 87.1% of a total sentence.

5 years - good time = 4.3 years.

He can also serve the last 12 months or 10% of his sentence, whichever is less, at a halfway house and after he completes half of his placement at a halfway house, he may be considered for the home incarceration program.

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Originally Posted by DarkMattersMan

We should all co sign a well wishes card from 2+2 and mail it to his cell.

I think the wording on this one is perfect. [etsy.com]

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08-15-2015 , 04:09 PM

#4885

PeteBlow

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,036

Like the WSOP, the court doesn't facilitate deals.

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08-16-2015 , 02:01 AM

#4886

smmcoy

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2015 Posts: 367

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Originally Posted by Blizzuff

I honestly can't believe a poker player posted this.

For the first charge that he was indicted for the penalty is 5-10 years.

https://legiscan.com/NJ/text/S740/id/917516

For the second charge that he was indicted for the penalty is also 5-10 years

http://njlaws.com/theft_by_deception.htm

For the third charge that he was indicted for the penalty is 3-5 years:

http://www.njlaws.com/criminal_mischief.htm

He was clearly guilty of all the charges and he would have faced 13-25 years if found guilty during a trial.

The citizens of New Jersey elect the legislators who decide the penalties for breaking their State Laws. It ain't me.

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08-16-2015 , 02:31 AM

#4887

bayoudonk

journeyman

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 363

In the plumber's penal code, if you flush paper towels, or anything else beside the s$%t you should be flushing, they will charge you $100/hr to unclog your *****ter.

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10-22-2015 , 12:33 PM

#4888

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

Man who brought fake chips to poker tournament gets prison

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-br...144443876.html

"A judge on Thursday sentenced Christian Lusardi to five years in prison. Lusardi also must pay $463,540 in restitution to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for the revenue it lost when it canceled the 2014 tournament in Atlantic City and $9,455 to Harrah's Casino Hotel for damaging its plumbing."

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10-22-2015 , 12:55 PM

#4889

PTLou

JellyBean

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,516

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Originally Posted by parisron

omg, great post and update.

LMAO on the 9K for plumbing at Harrahs.

Borgata prob shouldn't spend the money just yet. Lusardi will have to sell a pallet full of bootleg DVDs to make 400K !

final chapter to this greek tragedy.

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10-23-2015 , 01:50 AM

#4890

rtd353

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 3,895

I guess the real lesson is don't ever mess with casinos, I can probably think of 100 crimes worse than what lusardi did that wouldn't get a five year sentence.

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10-23-2015 , 06:13 AM

#4891

PunnyYouSayThat

Tattoo Commissioner

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,097

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Originally Posted by rtd353

I guess the real lesson is don't ever mess with casinos, I can probably think of 100 crimes worse than what lusardi did that wouldn't get a five year sentence.

very true

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10-23-2015 , 06:38 AM

#4892

wal_mbn

journeyman

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 287

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Originally Posted by rtd353

I guess the real lesson is don't ever mess with casinos, I can probably think of 100 crimes worse than what lusardi did that wouldn't get a five year sentence.

Doubt he would have gotten 5 years if this was his first ever crime.

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10-23-2015 , 02:36 PM

#4893

Pyrochaos

adept

Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 778

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Originally Posted by wal_mbn

Doubt he would have gotten 5 years if this was his first ever crime.

From MSN:

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He was also sentenced in March to five years in prison in a separate case involving DVD bootlegging.

http://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/...cker-sentenced

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10-23-2015 , 03:54 PM

#4894

Avaritia

Confirmed 2500 hour haver

Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 12,248

I never ask for cliffs and I

NVG but this thread gets painful to read after the initial arrest.

1). Was it ever confirmed he was working alone

2). Was there ever an explanation for what his full intentions were (why he had so many extra chips still in hotel room, why color was so off, etc. I was always curious of the backstory of his plan)

3). What was borg's final remedy to players

Savers:

Spoiler:

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01-14-2017 , 03:02 PM

#4895

FlapJacks316

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 456

hes out

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2017/...ison-26797.htm

Just in time for this years Event 1 of BWPO

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01-14-2017 , 09:12 PM

#4896

Monorail

adept

Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 991

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Originally Posted by FlapJacks316

hes out

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2017/...ison-26797.htm

Just in time for this years Event 1 of BWPO

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"Lusardi was sentenced to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release on March 30, 2015. "

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"He was paroled July 25, 2016, according to his offender records kept on the State of New Jersey’s Department of Corrections website...[after almost eight months in prison.]"

There's something wrong with this picture. Sentenced to 60 months. Serve 8. ezgame.

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01-14-2017 , 10:50 PM

#4897

Hendricks

banned

Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 765

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Originally Posted by Monorail

There's something wrong with this picture. Sentenced to 60 months. Serve 8. ezgame.

Is it not 16 months served?!

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01-15-2017 , 12:31 AM

#4898

likes

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 376

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Originally Posted by Hendricks

Is it not 16 months served?!

I believe that in New Jersey, once one third of a sentence is served, the inmate is eligible for parole. He probably has enough time in to be considered for release. It's a non-violent offense so release is pretty standard assuming good behavior.

Nothing to see here.

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01-15-2017 , 12:36 AM

#4899

Monorail

adept

Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 991

Article says he served 8 months of his 60 month sentence. So more like 13%.

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01-15-2017 , 01:42 AM

#4900

sba9630

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4,510

The Feds show that he's in their system, is housed at Edgefield, South Carolina, and has a release date of 06/08/2019.

https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/

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