The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday placed 26 people on various involuntary exclusion lists, banning them from gaming in a casino in Pennsylvania or via an online betting site regulated by the board.
The list includes four peopls who left minors unattended in order to engage in gaming activities in a casino and nine others for committing fraud using igaming sites.
The approvals were made during an online public meeting and upon the recommendation of the PGCB’s Office of Enforcement Counsel.
Placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List for unattended minors were:
Adults in Pennsylvania are banned from leaving minors unattended in the parking lot or garage, a hotel or other venues at a casino. To complement the efforts by casinos to mitigate this issue, the board created an awareness campaign, “Don’t Gamble with Kids.”
Also, 14 people whose presence in a licensed facility would be “inimical to the interest of the Commonwealth and licensed gaming,” according to the board, were placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List for various offenses. Since its inception, 1,269, people have been placed on the Casino Involuntary Exclusion List. There are three people on both the casino and igaming involuntary exclusion list.
Additionally, eight people were placed on the board’s Involuntary iGaming Exclusion Lists for fraudulent behavior for creating and accessing 15 separate online accounts using the personal identifying information of other people.
Their offenses included:
The additions bring the number of people who are on the iGaming Involuntary Exclusion List to 61.
