Legislation
US – Pennsylvania Board fines Second Street Gaming and Greenwood Gaming
By Phil - 22 April 2021
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has fined two licensees related to the theft of Video Gaming Terminals at a truck stop and an iGaming certificate holder that allowed deployment of unapproved online games.
The fines, totaling $17,500, were the result of Board approval at its public meeting of consent agreements between the PGCB’s Office of Enforcement Counsel and the license holders.
A fine of $7,500 was levied against VGT Terminal Operator Second Street Gaming, LLC and one of $5,000 against VGT Establishment Licensee Love’s Travel Stops & County Stores, Inc. stemming from an August 2020 theft of a total of $3,202.81 of cash and cash equivalents. In this incident, a patron, who has since been arrested, was in Video Gaming Area of the Loves Travel Stop in Mifflinville for over 3 hours and gained access to the cash box in the machine without video detection from either of the license holders.
The third fine was for $5,000 and levied against Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment, Inc. operator of the Parx Casino and an iGaming certificate holder. The fine stemmed from the accidental deployment by an employee of GAN plc, an iGaming partner of Parx, of two interactive slot machine games from a test environment into a production. This allowed the games to go “live” resulting in these games being played by patrons prior to PGCB authorization to commence interactive games.
The next meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, 19 May 2021. The Board will announce prior to that date whether the meeting will be held online or in the PGCB’s Public Hearing Room located on the second floor of the Strawberry Square Complex in Harrisburg.
