--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bill Coleman <vphobby2@
And again taking the license of Venetian would have amounted to a
death sentence (the business would have closed) and the parallel to a
driver's license isn't worth comment. Of the 4 executives fired, one
ended up running Wildfire for stations, 2 at an Indian casino in
Oklahoma and I don't know what happened to the fourth. Should they
have been prevented from ever working again? Personally, I don't
think so -- after all lawyers are only disbarred for the most severe
violations, most carry a lesser penalty. Rigging a few drawings,
while very wrong, isn't the worst thing they could have done and they
did not directly profit from it. Others can disagree but I think
their punishment served to discourage others from committing this
tort in the future.
Yanking the license for a week or 2 isn't a death sentence. Not yanking it even for a second is a clear message that cheating players will be tolerated by the "best gaming regulators in the world". So much for the mythical "they won't cheat because they'll lose their license"!