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Originally Posted by danewood
Anyone familiar with California crime have any idea of the actual crime? and appropriate punishment if allegations are true? Wonder what the crime for the colluder would be as well.
"Cheating in card game"?
There is a specific law about using an electronic device to aid in predicting or determining the outcome of a card game in a licensed gaming establishment. It has a maximum sentence of 10k and/or 1 year in county jail per occurrence.
However, there are lot of things he could probably be charged with. Considering the amount of money, Felony Grand Theft for one.
Sentence for what ever could be relatively harsh. For starters, he didn't steal from some individual or small group. Probably hundreds of people were effected. Secondly, this wasn't some spur of the moment thing. This was all carefully planned. Also, he did it repeatedly and regularly over the course of more than a year. Additionally, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars, not grabbing a loose twenty off somebody. All these factors could lead to a pretty stiff penalty.