| | Excellent Online Casinos News Archive| Funding Online Casinos by Stealing From Employer | | | Publication Date: 23 Jun 2005 | | An accounts manager named Wayne Joseph Newsome, aged 48, who held the most senior role in the retail division of his work had stole between October 1999 and September 2004 $265,944. The money was stolen to finance his online casinos gambling habit by setting up a fabricated company and sending false invoices for supposed advertisement. The money for the online casinos was paid by direct credit to a bank account that Newsome set up especially for his online casinos gambling.
Newsome’s lawyer, Mark Callaghan, said that Newsome liquidated assets and has repaid about two thirds of the money he stole to finance the online casinos addiction. He added that Newsome intended to repay all the online casinos money in full. Newsome has dealt with his online casinos gambling addiction by turning to the problem online casinos gambling foundation. By pleading guilty the court had to consider that a significant sum of the online casinos debt had been repaid and that he intended to make a penance.
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