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Trump Casino Hit With Fine for Underage Gambling

(Bloomberg) -- Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc.'s Trump Taj Majal casino was fined a total of $95,000 by New Jersey regulators yesterday for allowing two underage patrons to gamble and for mishandling a sweepstakes contest two years ago, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported.

The Casino Control Commission fined the casino $60,000 for the underage gambling. In one incident, an employee overlooked the birthdate on a 19-year-old blackjack player's driver's license. The other case involved a 20-year-old who lacked identification to collect more than $11,000 he'd won playing poker. He was arrested months later as he claimed the winnings using identification that showed that he was under 21, the paper said.

The underage patrons weren't aware of the age requirement, and the casino disciplined the employees involved, the paper said, citing Loretta Viscount, vice president of legal affairs for the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal ejected or arrested 5,841 underage patrons in 1999, the paper said, citing Viscount.

The panel also fined the Taj Mahal $35,000 for allowing gamblers to submit more entries to its March Millennium Madness Sweepstakes than allowed, the paper said.


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