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Caesars Pays Fine for Camera Spying

ATLANTIC CITY – As reported by the Press of Atlantic City: "Fighting back her anger, Theresa Magri shuddered while describing the videotape of her that had been secretly recorded by surveillance workers at Caesars Atlantic City.

"Security cameras that were supposed to protect her and everyone else at the casino actually were being used to gawk at female patrons and employees, she discovered.

"…In the second case of its kind at Caesars, the casino agreed Tuesday to pay a $185,000 fine to settle charges that four of its employees spied on women using the 'eye in the sky' surveillance cameras that watch over the gaming floor.

"…The state Division of Gaming Enforcement, the casino industry's investigative arm, alleges that surveillance operators ogled women's breasts and other body parts while working the graveyard shift over a three-day period in October 2004.

"Last December, Caesars was fined $80,000 for similar incidents involving two other surveillance operators who trained their cameras on women's low-cut necklines and other revealing clothing in 2000 and 2001. Caesars fired one of the workers and suspended the other for three days in that case.

"In the most recent case of video voyeurism, gaming investigators allege that surveillance supervisors James Doherty and Robert Swan and camera operators Donald Smith and John Paul Arambulo each shot between 11 and 95 minutes of illicit tape. All four men were fired by Caesars…"

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