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Five Sentenced For Roles in Nevada Slot Cheating Ring3 October 2000”Authorities said the five were part of a group that stole from $500,000 to $5 million during a nine-month period in 1998. ”In September 1999, a federal grand jury in Las Vegas indicted Bao Ming Lin, 44, Jin Xie Qiong, 44, Feng Ying Liu, 34, and He Biao Liu, 33, on a conspiracy charge. ”…A superseding indictment, returned in December, added Zu Qiang Lin, 34, as a defendant. ”Prosecutors claimed the defendants obtained $1 tokens from Nevada casinos and then ground, filed and sanded the edges. ”…`The machine would register a credit for each shaved $1 token,’ the indictment alleged. `However, when the slot machine paid out, the shaved $1 tokens were not counted, allowing the defendants, and others, to obtain legitimate (tokens), along with his/her shaved $1 tokens from the slot machine.’ ”…All five defendants pleaded guilty to engaging in an illegal gambling business, a felony…” |