Black Book Casino Scammers Plead Guilty
Las Vegas Strip
Two black booked casino players in Nevada have pleaded guilty to charges relating to scamming casinos in Las Vegas.
William Cushing and Michael McNeive admitted using a “cheating device” on slot machines and systematically targeting a variety of casinos in Las Vegas area. Whilst the full details of the scam haven’t been released, Cushing and McNeive, along with a female accomplice, admitted to inserting $1 bills into slots and passing them off as $100 bills.
Both Cushing and McNeive are in the Nevada black book; a list of players who are banned from casinos in the Nevada area. If featured in the casino black book, a player can only be removed if they die or the Nevada Gaming Commission rules that they should never have featured in the book. Cushing, McNeive and their female accomplice are to be sentenced on the 5th of January, 2010.











