A New House of York adult male who sued BetMGM inward a conjure to recoup around $29 zillion he missed play on the political program saw his arrogate dismissed past a New island of Jersey federal justice Wednesday.
Sam A. Antar accused BetMGM, a stick embark 'tween MGM Resorts and Entain, of violating the New island of Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (CFA), negligence, and unjust enrichment for offering continued him “inducements to gamble” inwards the descriptor of cassino bonuses. This, despite well-educated he was a job gambler, according to the filing.
“In 2019, Plaintiff’s play activity exceeded $24 million, including to a greater extent than $5 zillion inwards a 16-day full point inwards Jan 2020. From May 2019 to January 2020, Plaintiff placed more than 100,000 online bets,” according to Antar’s lawsuit.
Investment Fraud
Lawyers for BetMGM countered that Antar was simply trying to pincer backwards money he owed after being convicted of defrauding numerous victims out of to a greater extent than $550K inwards a bogus investment funds scheme.
In 2022, Antar was sentenced to trey years in prison house after pleading hangdog to fraud charges. He was ordered to repay around $650K. He has since been released.
The operator’s attorneys also argued that the CFA is preempted by New Jersey’s Casino Control Act (CCA).
In her ruling, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo agreed, penning that the CCA “does not require casinos to forestall or layover inducing play from those that exhibit job gaming behavior.” She also determined that “the cassino owed complainant no more neglectfulness vulgar natural law responsibility of care.”
“Although the CCA regulates the responsibilities of casinos as they interrelate to problem gambling behavior, the CCA is still on any duty owed past casinos to forbid or block inducing play from those that exhibit job play behavior,” Cox Arleo asserted.
‘Crazy’ Eddie Antar
Antar is the nephew to disgraced electronics mogul “Crazy” Eddie Antar, in one case the head word of the multimillion-dollar Crazy Eddie electronics chain. The company testament follow remembered by Tri-state area residents of a sure age for its TV spots featuring wireless DJ Jerry Lewis Carroll exhorting consumers to yield to the company’s “insaaaaane” prices.
Once I of the biggest consumer electronics chains inwards the US, Crazy Eddie floated on the NASDAQ inward 1984 before being open as a fraudulent endeavour that unnaturally inflated profits and engaged in widespread securities fraud.
Eddie Antar was arrested in State of Israel inwards 1992 on federal racketeering cabal charges and extradited to the US, where he spent octonary years in prison. He died in 2016.