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The Wild Story of the Slot Machine Scheme

AIR DATE: May 23, 2012
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It seemed like the perfect plan: create fake players' cards, rob a casino of $860,000, and bury the proof in the desert.  They even had an inside man, who could pull off the scheme right under his boss' nose.  But then the whole plan went south.  Reporter Jeff German tells us what went wrong, how the FBI caught the criminals, and what it says about the safety of customer data.
 
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