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Self-Casino Ban Violator Ordered to Forfeit $64,000

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – As reported by the Press of Atlantic City: "A compulsive gambler lucky with wagers and unlucky with the law must return $64,000 in winnings because he had banned himself from casinos, the Casino Control Commission ruled Wednesday.

"Daniel Santangelo won the amount over a 10-week period last year at Bally's Atlantic City. But he had previously registered for the state's 2-year-old self-exclusion program, in which gamblers acknowledge a gambling compulsion and agree that they `shall not collect any winnings or recover any losses.'

"…The commission ordered Santangelo to remit $64,160.

"`The commission is now in a position to go to a civil court to obtain a judgment against this individual and try collect it that way,' said Daniel Heneghan, casino commission spokesman…"

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