The true-crime saga began, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit, in May 2015 with an anonymous tip to the Miccosukee Tribe.
Following convictions of four employees, three wives and a girlfriend, the story still isn’t over. Now the tribe is suing its insurance company to recover $5.3 million swindled in an elaborate scheme that went undetected for more than four years at the Miccosukee Casino & Resort in western Miami-Dade County.
It was a caper worthy of the film “Goodfellas,” minus the violence.
But the tribe did not know its full extent seven years ago when the tipster told them that technicians employed to service the casino’s video gaming machines were manipulating them to create “ghost credits” that the employees were exchanging for cash, according to the complaint filed this month in U.S. District Court in Miami.
