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Iowa Casinos Fined

Iowa Casinos Fined

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Casinos in Sioux City and Jefferson agreed to fines of 20-thousand dollars each at the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission meeting this week for violations of rules. Iowa Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says the Hard Rock Casino in Sioux City agreed to a 20-thousand dollar fine after they experienced outages in security camera coverage between December of 2017 and August of 2018.
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Hard Rock general manager Jim Franke, apologized to the commission.
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The other violation involved the Wild Rose casino in Jefferson, which was fined 20-thousand dollars for allowing a minor onto the gambling floor in November.

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