Found on a public poker newsgroup, date 1999

Pat Fleming is a well-known tournament poker player. He has won several major tournaments and has several final table finishes at various WSOP events. I believe he has even made the final table of the championship. These are facts that can be verified.

He has been banned from the Orleans for life for cheating. That is a fact according to numerous reliable sources.

Now comes the "alleged" part:

Pat Fleming was caught on video tape slipping extra chips into the small buy-in weekly tournament. Apparently there are some weekly tournaments that have more chips than others and a player could give himself a major advantage by slipping a couple of $500 tourney chips from Friday night's tournament into a Satrurday tournament where the chips would give him a large stack. One guy on RGP says he knows a guy who actually saw the tape catching Fleming red-handed. Other "evidence" is also hearsay.

No one that I know of has spoken out on Pat Fleming's behalf to dispute the facts. Nor has he, to my knowledge. Draw your own conclusions. My vote from afar would be guilty as charged. I don't think it is the Orleans' interest to make unprovable claims of cheating and I think a reasonable person could assume that Fleming would offer some defense if he had any.