Rivers Casino fined for luring gambling addicts
(MCT) — Rivers Casino in Des Plaines has been fined $25,000 for trying to lure in a small number of self-proclaimed gambling addicts with cash advances and rewards cards.
In its first weeks of operation last summer, the casino sent promotional materials to four people, authorized two cash advances to one person and issued the rewards incentives to seven others — all of whom had placed themselves on the state's don't-let-me-gamble roster, said Gene O'Shea, Illinois Gaming Board spokesman.
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