Allowing prohibited gamblers costs three Atlantic City Casinos

Three Atlantic City casinos have been fined more than $14,000 for allowing 117 underage or self-excluded gamblers to place bets.

The city has asserted that those two retired troopers were working on behalf of Steve Wynn and his casino company, and were given access to investigatory files related to Charles Lightbody, a felon who owned a piece of the property where Wynn Resorts is planning to build the casino.

The gambling enforcement division said the violations were due to a computer programming error.

The fine includes the $1,187 the casino won from the self-excluded gamblers. People on the list cannot be admitted to casinos or allowed to play online, and casinos are not allowed to send them solicitations to gamble. The casino allowed 10 people on the list to create Internet betting accounts.

The closure of its application will likely end its partnership with Caesars Interactive to offer New Jersey digital gambling provisions. Year-to-date online gaming win was $96,723,723 through August, up 15.6 percent from the $83,668,485 during the same period in 2014.

According to Pressofatlanticcity.com, the casinos did not protest the penalties.

Boston’s lawyer Thomas Frongillo maintained the Wynn license wasn’t officially awarded until days after the November 2014 election, when a ballot question that would have repealed the state’s casino law failed to pass. The commission, he argued, took a vote officially awarding the license Nov. 7; the state’s lawyer dismissed that vote on the Wynn license as a mere formality.

Tropicana forfeited almost $2,200 for the same offenses between 2013 and 2015.

The fines and the money confiscated go to a state fund that finances assistance for seniors and the disabled.