School bookkeeper is 15th person blacklisted from casinos
JEFFERSON CITY — The little-used blacklist for Missouri casinos has gained another name.
Gambling regulators last week added Carolyn K. Yelton of Wellsville, Mo., to the list. The former bookkeeper pleaded guilty in April to embezzling more than $180,000 from the Wellsville-Middletown School District in Montgomery County.
According to a plea agreement filed in federal court in St. Louis, Yelton became a regular at Missouri casinos and “placed more than one million dollars in play at one local casino” over the roughly four-year period of the thefts.
Under Gaming Commission rules, people can be banned if they are convicted of felonies involving gambling or “moral turpitude.” An “unsavory reputation” also can land a person on the exclusion list.
To see who else is banned, click here.
Uh, would you mean the Wellsville-*Middletown* School District? Apparently editors and fact-checkers aren’t what they used to be? Unfortunately, that’s a huge chunk of $ for that district. Hope they can recover….
Let’s not talk about the fact that Ms Yelton stole money from our children. Let’s talk about typos in blog posts.
Fixed the school district spelling. Thanks. For what it’s worth, it was wrong in U.S. District Court and Missouri Gaming Commission documents.