How do you fund your gambling?

[iceknight]

Not like this I hope! these stories are from Pennsylvania

Police: South Whitehall employees embezzled $850,000
SEE: http://touch.mcall.com/#section/-1
South Whitehall Township is not alone in dealing with embezzlement.

In Lower Macungie Township, Margaret Szulborski, a former supervisor and township employee, was charged in 2006 with embezzling $2.5 million of township sewer funds from 1999 to 2006. She allegedly deposited checks made out to the township into her personal account at Wachovia Bank -- the township didn't have an account there -- and used the funds to gamble on slot machines, pay off debts for herself and family members and support a rich lifestyle.

Szulborski died in 2008 before her criminal case went to trial.

Lower Macungie ended up recovering nearly $1 million from the bank and Szulborski's estate. (link (http://touch.mcall.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-76005396/) )

[wiffleball whizz]

Once knew of a guy that hung out with a acquaintance at the track and started a bogus investment company and robbed older people in excess of 5 million....he was taking trips to Vegas Atlantic city betting 5000s in baccarat like they were flapjacks......but greed got to him and the judge sent a bench warrant for him as he was playing cards out in Vegas....Here's the article once again don't know how to post links

Cambodian Slick:
Man skips sentencing to play poker in Las Vegas
Gambler faxed judge to update on earnings
TOMS RIVER, New Jersey A man scheduled to be sentenced for masterminding an illegal million-dollar investment scheme went to Las Vegas instead to play poker.
Superior Court Judge James N. Citta issued a bench warrant Friday for the arrest Brian Strahl, 29, of Staten Island, New York. Citta called Strahl "a degenerate gambler."
Strahl was scheduled to be sentenced Friday, but faxed Citta from Las Vegas to say he was playing in the World Series of Poker to win money to make restitution to his victims. The letter said he had made $5,000 so far.
Strahl's lawyer, Michael Chazen, told the Asbury Park Press of Neptune that his client attempted to return from Las Vegas on Friday, but misplaced his ID and was not allowed on his flight.

In the letter Strahl faxed to Citta, he said he planned to take a train that would arrive on the East Coast on Monday.

Strahl's sentencing was rescheduled for July 16. He could receive up to 20 years in prison.
Strahl pleaded guilty last year to money laundering and admitted he and a co-defendant solicited investments in a nonexistent company. Investors were bilked out of $1.8 million.

[wiffleball whizz]

Takes balls telling the judge that......but have no fear the scumbag was out of jail and playing high stakes in ac again shortly after he was realeased...

Can't figure out why the division of gaming enforcement and nj casino control commission didn't put him on exclusion list

[TJDave]

In Lower Macungie Township, Margaret Szulborski, a former supervisor and township employee, was charged in 2006 with embezzling $2.5 million of township sewer funds

My gambling funds usually windup in the sewer.

[Robert Goren]

How do you fund your gambling?
from my winnings.

[Robert Goren]

There was story in local paper a few years ago about gal who had killed herself on a country road here. What didn't make into the paper according to people I know that worked with her at a local bank was that she had embezzled $50k from a trust account that she handled for the bank to play the slots in Iowa. The bank covered the losses and the person whose money was in the trust account was none the wiser. It makes you wonder how many "small" thefts by their employees the banks cover.

[thaskalos]

There was a story about a school teacher that got a lot of publicity a while back.

Her husband was away on business for a couple of months...and she started playing the slots at a nearby casino, as an antidote for her boredom.

By the time the husband returned home...she had lost the entire $150,000 that they had to their name.

"I thought I would win...", was what she replied to her bewildered husband.

[PaceAdvantage]

Here's the article once again don't know how to post linksHow do you not know how to post links? Copy and paste...

[wiffleball whizz]

How do you not know how to post links? Copy and paste...

Sometimes I can if I post YouTube links but when I read articles I don't know how to do it....the link I posted on that harness track with no handle I just piggybacked off somebody posting the link...

On a scale of 1--10 on this being pathetic I can't do it I'd say it's about a 16.7

[iceknight]

Sometimes I can if I post YouTube links but when I read articles I don't know how to do it....the link I posted on that harness track with no handle I just piggybacked off somebody posting the link...

On a scale of 1--10 on this being pathetic I can't do it I'd say it's about a 16.7 Hope this helps... but I still can't believe it.. Unless this is your technique to generate more replies and controversy.. you are getting better than SRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bZsSYM4bHIA

bZsSYM4bHIA

[mostpost]

Once knew of a guy that hung out with a acquaintance at the track and started a bogus investment company and robbed older people in excess of 5 million....he was taking trips to Vegas Atlantic city betting 5000s in baccarat like they were flapjacks......but greed got to him and the judge sent a bench warrant for him as he was playing cards out in Vegas....Here's the article once again don't know how to post links
Compared to most here I am a computer illiterate, but even I know how to post links. Perhaps this will help: Let's say that I am posting here and I suddenly get the urge to post the Major League Baseball standings. 1st I minimize this page. Then I go to www.mlb.com and click on "standings" A web address appears at the top of the page. I highlight that address by left clicking and holding down as I slide the cursor from one end of the address to the other.

Then I right click the highlighted address and click on "copy. Next I close that page and maximize this one. Then I right click here and click on "paste in the dropdown menu. Thus:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_standings

Or you can copy your web address before you come to the Pace Advantage website, then paste it here.

Now you may think it is easier to just copy and paste the article itself, But Mr. Pace Advantage frowns on that-and rightfully so-because of copyright issues. It is OK to copy a few paragraphs, but always include the web address from which you copied them. The mods will let you get away with what you did a few times, but sooner or later they will delete.

Hope this was helpful.

[mostpost]

To answer the original question of the thread, I do not embezzle to fund my gambling. I have been retired for eight years now. When I retired, I set up my withholding so that I would get a substantial refund each year. I know, I know, I'm giving the government free use of my money for a year, but that's what I do.

Anyway, that gives me between $2,500 and $3,000 each year to pay off outstanding debts if any and to use for playing the horses. This has worked fairly well (It would work better if I could win more often :faint: ), until this year. In the last 8 to 10 months I have encountered several large expenses-new tires, new brakes, new sofa, new thing that keeps your car from polluting the atmosphere, etc-that wiped out my refund totally. So, I am just trying to put a few bucks away here and there to finance infrequent trips to the track.

Thus far this year I have bet on two races, the Derby and the Preakness. Thank you Verrazano and Orb. :mad:

[wiffleball whizz]

http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103476

That's all I had to do? I can't tell u how stupid I feel right about now

[iceknight]

To answer the original question of the thread, I do not embezzle to fund my gambling.


new thing that keeps your car from polluting the atmosphere, etc

Thank you Verrazano and Orb. :mad:
>> It would be too audacious to admit online they use embezzled funds if anyone did indeed do that!

>> Sorry, but you are being taken for a ride by some green scam.. unless it is your catalytic converter and those are not "new things" - been around since 80's. The only thing that does is less driving and more passengers per load as permitted.

>> Favorites.. bet very little on them or key them in small supers..

Good luck!

[wiffleball whizz]

Hope this helps... but I still can't believe it.. Unless this is your technique to generate more replies and controversy.. you are getting better than SRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bZsSYM4bHIA

how to copy and paste

Yes I like posting I don't know how to post a link so I can generate more replies and controversy

To even think that i would want to attract any attention to myself a day after one of the moderators here just avoided disaster and catastrophe literally by a few thousand feet is just foolish on your part.....I've barely even posted any responses out of respect for him.....last thing I would want is him deleting one of my posts when he got neighbors and friends whose town has been ripped to shreds...

From what I've read in other threads here there are some members that really aren't a big fan of you either or your lame posts

[Hoofless_Wonder]

I don't call horse racing "gambling", but rather "non-traditional fiscal investing", and therefore it's funded from the same source as my other investments.

A couple of the replies remind me of stories when racetrack employees with access to the tote machine "lose control". I think there's a chapter about that in the book "Great Horse Racing Mysteries", with a teller in Chicago. Personally, I saw an OTB owner once run his business into the ground about 15 years ago, 'cause he was betting the dogs through the establishment's tote. And once in the late 1980s, there was an evening where the show prices for the half of the card paid crazy high, like 4-1 shots paying 8-1 to show. One of the tellers hit a couple of big "phantom" show bets early on, then fell behind after losing a few races, then started betting bigger to make up for it, and turned in his drawer at the end of the night short about $10K or so.

Oops.

[wiffleball whizz]

For the record lately I haven't been funding my gambling by winning I can promise you that!!!!! Zero for the world lately!!!

[iceknight]

From what I've read in other threads here there are some members that really aren't a big fan of you either or your lame posts Chill out man, I post a portion of what I feel like posting and don't look for or fans. I would go to reddit or facebook if I needed likes and such.

It just seemed pretty incredulous so I figured, why not needle you a bit.. :D

anyhow, if a mod has other serious business to attend to, they are not going to be here watching over your posts.

[wiffleball whizz]

Chill out man, I post a portion of what I feel like posting and don't look for or fans. I would go to reddit or facebook if I needed likes and such.

It just seemed pretty incredulous so I figured, why not needle you a bit.. :D

anyhow, if a mod has other serious business to attend to, they are not going to be here watching over your posts.

Needling all good :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[dav4463]

I stole my first $2 and I've been ahead ever since! :D All you need is two dollars and a dream!

[iceknight]

Needling all good :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: Handshake! Nice. :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[iceknight]

I stole my first $2 and I've been ahead ever since! :D All you need is two dollars and a dream! darn... so that's where that $2 bill in my pencilbox- my lunch money from 1981 went.. :mad: that's like stealing a patent.. haha my lawyers gonna get you.

Anyhow, I should add how I fund my wagering habits.
1). I started off with furniture sales (curb furniture), then I went into buying bikes at yard sales, fixing them and reselling. Half the profits into wagering.

2) Matching rebates from ADWs..

3) Now, after two years....... finally some parimutuel $$

[Capper Al]

I collect donations for feed and care of horses. I figure when I lose that I'm paying for their feed and care. :)

[johnhannibalsmith]

...I figure when I lose that I'm paying for their feed and care. :)

When you win.

When you lose, you're paying for Thaskalos' gyro and Tom's souvenir Finger Lakes t-shirts.

[BlueShoe]

How do you not know how to post links? Copy and paste...
Copy and paste?? :confused: What does that mean? Seriously, is that what Mosty explains in post #11? Every link I have ever posted since using the internet I have just copied longhand, ie, squinting very closely at the desired old link address and duplicating it character by character in the new desired place. Since I am very detail oriented I rarely make a typo or error, but when a link has a very long address with many special characters it does take a long time and is a bit tedious. For the record, I am self taught on PCs and the internet, have never taken a class or read a manual, just sat down and went. Do have a background in DP, on big mainframes, so that was of some help, but many of those old mainframe skills were of no help on PCs.

[johnhannibalsmith]

Copy and paste?? :confused: What does that mean? ...

If you want to copy something, you just need to do it one of a few ways. The easiest for someone that is in the dark is to left-click the mouse at the start of what you want to copy, hold down the left mouse button, and then drag it to the end of what you want to copy and release. That selection will be highlighted. At this point, use the right mouse button to click on the highlighted text and a box will appear offering the option to 'copy'. Left click that option.

Find wherever you'd like to paste the highlighted text and press the right mouse key again and the same box will appear that allowed you to 'copy'. Now hit 'paste' instead. Voila.

Alternatively, in the case of something like a web address or a single word - if you simply left click the address bar in most browsers, the entire string will be highlighted and you can copy and paste the same way without having to left-click and drag the mouse to highlight.

Another alternative if you hate using a mouse or are a bit clumsy with shaky hands like me, holding down CTRL-C will do the same thing as pressing the 'copy' button and then holding down CTRL-V will paste highlighted text.

IF that's not entirely clear, I'm sure I can make it more clear or someone else can explain it better. It isn't hard, comes in handy all the time, and is a tool even the, ahem, older crowd should be able to master for their own benefit without a whole lot of repetition. :)

[BlueShoe]

Thanks for the concise tutorial John, with give it a try soon, perhaps with a dummy test thread so if I screw it up no harm will be done. Am aware that copy-and-paste is a very basic PC skill that almost all users learn very early, but do to old age, a neo-Luddite attitude, and just plain laziness, never bothered with it, just typed the stuff character by character, as mentioned. :) :blush:

[iceknight]

If you want to copy something, you just need to do it one of a few ways. The easiest for someone that is in the dark is to left-click the mouse at the start of what you want to copy,

Since this has become massively off topic.. let me add in some simple computer keyboard shortcuts.. these apply to Windoze systems only.. (for MAC use the Command/CMD key instead of Control).

1. if you are on a page whose link you want to copy.. first, when you are inside the page and have clicked somewhere inside at least once, do CTRL + L,

that is L stands for location and that will move the cursor to the URL location in the browser.

2. next do Ctrl + A , this should automatically highlight the entire URL. A stands for ALL

3. Immediately next, Do Ctrl + C .. this will copy it

4. Go to the other window or tab or wherever you want to paste this.. and do Ctrl + V - this will paste it. Not sure what V stands for.. :D

There you are.. the sequence is Ctrl + LAC-V

[thaskalos]

When you win.

When you lose, you're paying for Thaskalos' gyro and Tom's souvenir Finger Lakes t-shirts.

Slight correction...

Ever since Al decided to step up his bets...I've been able to afford eating lamb chops. ;)