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Wisconsin casino audit turns up discrepancies

WISCONSIN -- As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "As spending and profits at the state's 25 casinos rise to record levels, state oversight has fallen short, a state audit released Friday says.

"Discrepancies were found in daily revenue figures at the state's casinos for every day of 2006, a state audit says.

"...Dealer Ann Williams (right) deals cards at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino poker room in 2004. Wisconsin is near the top among states in revenue it gets from casinos, with $112.7 million in 2006.

"...State regulators failed to notice wide discrepancies in daily casino revenue reported by the tribes because of computer errors.

"Casinos were a $1.3 billion enterprise last year, with $556 million of that earned as profit for the 11 tribes that operate casinos.

"The tribes paid the state $112.7 million last year, up from $25 million in 2002.

"...The state's Division of Gaming failed to notice discrepancies in daily casino revenue figures between the state's computer monitoring system and tallies done by the casinos, the Legislative Audit Bureau report says.

"...The state blamed the differences on programming problems with state and Indian computer systems. Bob Sloey, the state's gaming administrator, said the state has other controls over casinos that worked properly to ensure the tribes paid the state what it was owed.

"...The audit also found that five tribes failed to complete or document investigations into discrepancies between the expected and actual payouts of slot machines, as required by state gaming compacts..."

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