Casino Con Artist
EXT. RESTAURANTPARKING LOT, LAS VEGAS, 1983 - DAY
SAM 'ACE' ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculatelydressed man
approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn
on the ignition.
ACE (V.O.)
The con artist — whose nickname is “The Coin” — was arrested in 1996 at Caesars Atlantic City. He had 750 pounds of counterfeit coins in his car’s trunk. Two years later, presumably after his two-year prison sentence, he was paid $18,000 by the feds as a consultant. Casino con artist gets 15 years. Friday 14 June 2013 - 11:26am An attempted armed robbery took place at Emperor's Palace casino in Johannesburg on 28 April 2013. Durban - A woman was sentenced to. In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. Answer 71 of 80: I just got back from another great trip to LV, but faced something I'd never heard of or dealt with before.Con Artists at the slots! I stayed at the Bellagio and pretty much stayed at the casino there as well. What none knew, however, was that Randi was a con-artist himself, not in his profession, however, but in his orientation. Randi came out of the closet at the age of 81, and met the love of his life.
When you love someone, you've gotta
trust them. There's no other way.
You've got to give them the key to
everything that's yours. Otherwise,
what's the point? And, for a while...
I believed that's the kind of love I
had.
Suddenly, the car explodes. Flames, smoke and metal rise
into the sky covering the view of the Las Vegascasinos and
their signs.
Music in:
J.S. Bach - 'St Matthew Passion'.
Ace's body comesflying in - extreme slow motion. His body
twists and turnsthrough the frame like a soul about to tumble
into the flames of damnation.
MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
INT. TANGIERSCASINOFLOOR - NIGHT
Vignette of ACEthroughrippling flames, we move in on ACE
ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.
ACE (V.O.)
Before I ever ran a casino or got
myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a
hell of a handicapper, I can tell
you that. I was so good, that whenever
I bet, I couldchange the odds for
every bookmaker in the country. I'm
serious. I had it down so cold that
I was givenparadise on earth. I was
given one of the biggestcasinos in
Las Vegas to run, the Tangiers...
INT. SANMARINOITALIAN GROCERY/BACK ROOM, KANSASCITY -
NIGHT:
Casino Con Artist Movie
Vignette of MOBBOSSESsitting at a tablesurrounded by food
and wine like the gods of Olympus.
ACE (V.O.)
...by the only kind of guys that can
actually get you that kind of money:
sixty-two million, seven-hundred
thousand dollars. I don't know all
the details.
NICKY (V.O.)
Casino Con Artista
Matter of fact...
Casino Con Artist
INT. BAR, LASVEGAS - NIGHT
Vignette of NICKYSANTOROstanding at a bar with DOMINICK
SANTORO, his brother, and FRANK MARINO, his right-hand man.
NICKY (V.O.)
...nobody knew all the details, but
it should'a been perfect. I mean, he
had me, Nicky Santoro, his best
friend, watching his ass...
INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT
Vignette of GINGERMCKENNA a dazzling thirty-one-year-old
blonde seated by a smallfiery pool.
NICKY (V.O.)
...and he had Ginger, the woman he
loved, on his arm. But in the end...
INT. TANGIERS SPORTSBOOK/ACE'S OFFICE - NIGHT
ACE looks over the casino he rules.
NICKY (V.O.)
...we fucked it all up. It should'a
been so sweet, too. But it turned
out to be the last time that street
guys like us were ever given anything
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that fuckin' valuable again.
EXT. LASVEGAS - NIGHT
Aerial shot coming down out of the clouds over the brightly
lit VegasStrip and off into the blackness of the desert
night.
ACE (V.O.)
At that time, Vegas was a place where
millions of suckers flew in every
year on their own nickel, and left
behind about a billion dollars. But
at night, you couldn't see the desert
that surrounds Las Vegas...
EXT. DESERT - DAWN
Aerial shot swoopingalong the desert floor, then rising
above the mist to revealmountains in the distance.
ACE (V.O.)
But it's in the desertwhere lots of
the town's problems are solved.
Casino Dealers, Croupiers, Cashiers and Pit Bosses must always be on their toes when it comes to ensuring the casino that they work for isn’t getting ripped off by con artists, and these days they do face an ongoing battle to do just that.
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With many fraudsters getting more and more advanced regarding the way that they can and do rip off casinos, it is often the case that such scams only come to light long after the scam has been committed, and that is something that the SLS Casino recently found out to their cost.
However, it wasn’t a highly advanced scam that Yisahk Betremariam, a 37-year-old Vegas local, had managed to pull off at that casino, it was a rather basic one that most casino employees should have been able to spot quite easily.
What he did was to glue two vouchers together that allowed him to place a $500 free bet on the Craps table at that casino.
It appears that he had initially tried to use a friends $500 free Craps bet voucher on the Craps table, however the floor supervisor spotted that the voucher wasn’t his and as such refused to accept it.
Betremariam then left the casino and returned later in the day and presented a $500 free bet voucher to the table staff, which was in his name, and as such they allowed him to use that voucher, which he did and his bet turned out to be a winning one. As such he was paid out his winnings.
When it came to verifying the voucher into the casino system later in the day, the system rejected the voucher, and upon closer inspection it turned out that he had glued part of a free buffet voucher over the top of the free bet voucher, which was why it looked like it was his free bet voucher to redeem.
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