Nickels' son indicted with dozens in scheme to cheat casinos

Jacob Dyson Nickels, the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, has been indicted as part of an investigation into a multi-state casino-cheating ring that allegedly stole millions of dollars by bribing casino employees to falsely shuffle decks.

Nickels, 25, was a pit boss at the Nooksack Indian Tribe's Nooksack River Casino in Whatcom County in the summer of 2005 when he accepted $5,000 to introduce one of the ring's alleged conspirators to crooked dealers, according to an indictment unsealed today at U.S. District Court in Seattle.

Two of the defendants, George Lee and Tien Duc Vu, won more than $90,000 on mini-baccarat that October with the help of Nickels and two dealers, Levi Seth Mayfield and Kasey James McKillip, the indictment said.

Repeated calls to the mayor's office were not immediately returned today. Jacob Nickels is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of theft of funds from a gaming establishment on Indian lands in the five-count indictment.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003720352_webcasino24.html

prevent dealers from cheating.

:shrug:

It's how they got caught. They managed to drag everybody else involved (pit bosses, dealers) etc, but they couldn't bribe the cameras. I'm guessing it takes a while to analyze the data and view the taipes to figure out what happened.