Former Indiana Casino Executive Pleads Guilty To Federal Crimes

A former Indiana on line casino government could possibly be going to jail.

According to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, John Keeler, 72, of Indianapolis, Indiana, former vp and common counsel of Indiana-based on line casino firm New Centaur LLC, pleaded responsible to brazen federal crimes.

The feds stated that Keeler illegally paid $41,000 in New Centaur company funds to Maryland-based political marketing consultant Kelley Rogers and directed him to funnel $25,000 to an area political get together committee in Marion County, Indiana.

To conceal the character of the contribution, Keeler prompted New Centaur’s federal tax return filed with the Internal Revenue Service to falsely describe the $41,000 cost to Rogers as a deductible enterprise expense.

Also, based on courtroom paperwork, Darryl Brent Waltz, 48, of Greenwood, Indiana, a former Indiana State Senator and 2016 candidate for U.S. Congress, labored with Rogers to funnel $40,500 in unlawful conduit contributions to his congressional marketing campaign.

Rogers directed company funds from New Centaur into the “Brent Waltz for Congress” marketing campaign by means of over a dozen straw donors and Waltz himself. Waltz pleaded responsible to receiving these fictitious donations. Waltz additionally pleaded responsible to mendacity to and deceptive FBI brokers who had been investigating the unlawful contributions.

Keeler faces as much as three years in jail, and Waltz faces as much as 10 years in jail. Their precise sentences are anticipated to be considerably much less.