Story out of Las Vegas, Nevada:
An ex-Bellagio craps dealer and two friends were each sentenced Tuesday to at least four years in Nevada state prison for using phantom "hop" bets to cheat the Las Vegas Strip resort out of more than $1 million.
The dealer, Mark William Branco, and accomplices Jeffrey D. Martin and Anthony Grant Granito each apologized and asked for probation before a Clark County District Court judge who also ordered each man to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.
Judge Valerie Adair responded that over the two years of the scheme, during which a casino official testified the men gathered at the craps table 76 times, they must've assumed they'd go to prison if they got caught.
Each man pleaded guilty last year to two felonies — theft and cheating at gambling — in a plea deal that avoided trial and had other charges in a 60-count indictment dismissed. Cont.
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