Drug Money Laundering at Parx

Jenna Gross

My name is Jenna Gross, I’m the CMO at marketing company Moving Targets. I’m hoping you can help me, you have an article written about one of our employees, Brett Battle, that makes it to the top of Google searches and it’s not great for his professional reputation. The case thrown out in court and won a defamation of character suit. (Here’s a link to your article about it: http://middlebororemembers.blogspot.com/2012/09/drug-money-laundering-at-parx.html)

The Philly Burbs article you referenced no longer works, they took down the original article because of the defamation of character suit. I hope you understand and can remove the article – he’s made poor choices in the past but is continuing to work hard to get it together. Thank you, Jenna Gross CMO 800.926.2451 x132 jenna@movingtargets.com www.movingtargets.com

From Bill Kearney:

Massachusetts ‘GAMING’ Future

Bucks County Courier Times - September 27, 2012 - Two charged with trying to launder drug money at Parx slots

Slot machines are notorious for taking people’s money, which is exactly what two Upper Bucks County men were counting on earlier this year, police said.
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Pennsylvania State Police say that John Goodenough, 27, of Doylestown, and Brett Battle, 24, of Perkasie, attempted to launder more than $23,000 in drug money at Parx Casino in Bensalem by pretending to gamble.

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Bensalem

Two charged with trying to launder drug money at Parx slots

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2012

By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer

Slot machines are notorious for taking people’s money, which is exactly what two Upper Bucks County men were counting on earlier this year, police said.

Pennsylvania State Police say that John Goodenough, 27, of Doylestown, and Brett Battle, 24, of Perkasie, attempted to launder more than $23,000 in drug money at Parx Casino in Bensalem by pretending to gamble.
 What the two were really doing, police allege, was inserting the “dirty” money into slot machines, then immediately cashing out and redeeming the vouchers for “clean” cash at the casino’s Ticket Redemption machine.

Shortly before 8 p.m. May 27, Battle and Goodenough were spotted on video surveillance continuously inserting money into slot machines and immediately cashing out, police said.

A state trooper observed Goodenough at the redemption cage exchanging vouchers for cash, while Battle continued to insert money into a slot machine, according to police.

After Battle noticed state police watching him, he started playing the slots, according to a probable cause affidavit.

The men were escorted off the gaming floor and into the state police office at the Street Road casino. Battle had $1,600 cash on him and $2,334 in vouchers, and Goodenough had $1,000 cash in $100 bills, police said. Both men claimed the money belonged to the other, police said.

A short time later, Battle gave police consent to search his car and they said they seized a New Balance shoebox containing $18,400 in cash bundled in $20, $50 and $100 bills. Also found in the car was an eighth ounce of suspected high-grade marijuana, according to the affidavit.

A total of $23,394 in cash and casino vouchers were taken from the men, police said.

State police said Battle admitted that he sold high-grade marijuana and was going to be paid $500 to convert the $23,394 in “dirty” money into laundered cash. Battle claimed that the money belonged to another person, police said.

The money was from the illegal sale of high-grade marijuana, and Battle described buying, selling and handling marijuana in detail and was “very knowledgeable” about drug trafficking, according to police.

State troopers later conducted an ion scan on the seized cash and it tested for high levels of THC — the active ingredient in marijuana, police said. The $1,000 seized from Goodenough — which came from the casino — tested negative for the chemical, police said.

Goodenough was arraigned Tuesday before Bensalem District Judge Joseph Falcone on a dozen first-degree felonies, including dealing in unlawful proceedings, proceedings of an unlawful act and conspiracy. He was released on $10,000 unsecured bail.

Battle was arraigned before Falcone on identical charges Sept. 12 and also released on $10,000 unsecured bail.