Man Sues BetMGM Over Allegedly Costly Casino Glitches
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Sam Antar is suing BetMGM over a series of alleged regulatory violations. He claims that he was disconnected from BetGM's online casino games often. When he complained, he received free betting credits. Antar made at least 100,000 bets at up to $5,00 per bet between May 2019 and January 2020. In that time, Antar also visited Atlantic City's Borgata Casino and gambled at at most $29 million.
The suit was filed in Middlesex County in central New Jersey because plaintiff Eddie Antar made online wagers in several municipalities there. The Jon Bon Jovi rest stop on the Garden State Parkway and the Thomas Edison restStop on New York Turnpike are among the sites listed in the suit. New NewJersey is one of only half a dozen states that offer legal, regulated online casino gambling. Antar was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison in 2013 for taking $225,000 in a fraudulent investment scheme and spending the money in part on gambling, and he pled guilty in 2019 to second-degree theft by deception in another investment schemes.
