A former trucker could face fifty years in federal prison after he was found guilty of trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from two Las Vegas casino companies for the return of customer information, a prosecutor said.
Jeffrey Daniel Greer, 49, of Parson, Tenn., was convicted Thursday of two charges of interference with commerce by threats or use of fear, and two charges of use of interstate facility in aid of racketeering activity, said Gregory Brower, U.S. attorney for Nevada.
Greer, a former driver for French Trucking Co. of Lexington, Tenn., faces up to 50 years in federal prison and $1 million in fines. He remained free on bond pending sentencing Jan. 30. Greer was accused of obtaining identification and personal financial information about customers at MGM Mirage and Harrah’s casinos from documents in a load of paper refuse he drove in March 2007 to a recycling plant in Jackson, Ala.
Greer allegedly contacted the casino and online casino companies and threatened to sell the confidential customer information to casino competitors or the tabloid media unless each company gave him a security consulting contract and paid him $250,000. Greer was arrested by the FBI after a May 2007 meeting, secretly recorded and filmed, with agents posing as casino executives at Harrah’s offices in Cordova, Tenn. It seems there is not shortage of unique ideas to rip-off casinos.
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