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This Week In Madness: February 20, 2010

From news items dated Feb. 9 to Feb. 20:

Rhonda Skiver, 32, pleaded guilty on Feb. 19 to embezzling more than $163,000 from the nursing home of which she was formerly CFO. The money was used for gambling debts and personal expenses.
An Oregon woman, Victoria Monfore, was sent to prison on Feb. 18 for stealing about [...]

This Week In Madness: December 26, 2009

Merry Christmas, winners! We are all champions. We should love ourselves. We are taller than average, strong of heart, curious of intellect, not balding (so much), we jog almost once every week. We are the reason America rules over the moon. Did you know they use the US dollar in Panama in lieu of their [...]

What Does Harrah’s Do For a Living?

Here is what the Terry Watanabe case means. Watanabe is the Omaha philanthropist who vaporized (he says) $112 million gambling with great enthusiasm in Vegas, primarily at Harrah’s-owned Caesars (sic) Palace in 2007. He was living in comped digs at the casino. He was drinking and drinking and keeping his head straight by taking the [...]

Psychotic gambler ruins whole life! :) (Do you get it?)

Sucker/(former?) rich person Terry Watanabe lost $112 million at Caesars Palace and the Rio during a months-long alcohol-and-prescription-pain-killer-fueled bender in which he lived in comped suites at the two Harrah’s properties, seldom left Vegas or saw the outdoors, gambled in near-solitude in private salons considerably more exclusive than your run-of-the-mill high-limit room, often gambling hour [...]