When states sponsor and promote predatory gambling that depends on addiction for its survival, the consequences to otherwise law abiding citizens destroys lives and we, as a society pay the consequences.
Mom sentenced for taking out student loans to gamble
ST. LOUIS A suburban St. Louis woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for taking out student loans for nearly $140,000 in her two daughters' names and gambling it away.
The sentence was imposed Monday against Cynthia M. Tiemann in St. Charles Circuit Court. The 50-year-old St. Charles woman had pleaded guilty in September to seven counts of felony forgery.
Prosecutors say she forged the name of her 72-year-old mother, Jean Terneus, as a co-signer. Terneus says her daughter has been attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings and hopes to inspire others to get help.
Tiemann's daughters have said their mother never meant to hurt them, and the loans have been removed from their credit histories.
Gambling increases crime.
Mom sentenced for taking out student loans to gamble
ST. LOUIS A suburban St. Louis woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for taking out student loans for nearly $140,000 in her two daughters' names and gambling it away.
The sentence was imposed Monday against Cynthia M. Tiemann in St. Charles Circuit Court. The 50-year-old St. Charles woman had pleaded guilty in September to seven counts of felony forgery.
Prosecutors say she forged the name of her 72-year-old mother, Jean Terneus, as a co-signer. Terneus says her daughter has been attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings and hopes to inspire others to get help.
Tiemann's daughters have said their mother never meant to hurt them, and the loans have been removed from their credit histories.
Gambling increases crime.
From: Problem machines. Not problem gamblers.
Electronic gambling machines have “an addiction acceleration problem” and they deserve the same intense scrutiny as any other product in the marketplace.
The key reason why these machines have avoided investigation is because government does not promote Toyota sales like it does predatory gambling in its endless pursuit for revenue.
Studies have indicated that for every $1 in tax revenue gained by gambling, the cost to the state is $3.
Let's insist on an independent cost benefit analysis and put numbers on the cost of regulation, oversight, investigation, enforcement, incarceration.
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