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Nevada: Former Tahoe casino controller gets jail for embezzling

Monday, February 1, 2021 2:15 AM
  • Kurt Hildebrand, Tahoe Daily Tribune

The former controller for the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe at Stateline was ordered to spend the next 30 weekends in jail as a condition of his probation on a felony embezzlement charge.

Robert Merrald Schrader, 55, was ordered to repay $71,832.60 and received a suspended 12-30 month prison sentence on Monday.

Prosecutor Patrick Ferguson argued that Schrader should go to prison for the crime, saying that the thefts occurred over the course of a year, during which Schrader tried to cover his tracks.

Ferguson said Schrader charged nearly $47,000 on someone else’s corporate credit card.

Attorney Kris Brown said Schrader, a Reno resident, had a gambling addiction.