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The suit also references an October 8, 2019 text message from an MGM representative that read, 'OK, let's do this: I need you (to) email me that we are closing the case and that you will no longer contact (the Borgata president) or the DGE about the case,' referring to the Division of Gaming Enforcement.

However, that isn't enough for Dale Vince, green energy entrepreneur and owner of League One Forest Green Rovers, whose club work with The Big Step, a charity set up by bereaved families campaigning to end gambling advertising in football.

He also claims the companies paid him near-daily bonuses totaling $30,000 a month to keep him playing and to entice him not to report problems with the Pkv games to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement.

Sam Antar is the nephew of Eddie Antar (pictured right in 1992), who founded the Crazy Eddie electronics stores in the 1970s and 1980s, who defrauded investors out of more than $74million. Eddie Antar died in 2016

England legend Peter Shilton has condemned the EFL gambling deal which saw clubs make profits from their own fans' gambling losses, as Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince called on football to kick its gambling habit for good.

‘I know the clubs are desperate for money but they seem to find it for astronomical wages.
It's about value and football needs to look at itself. Gambling ruins lies there is one suicide a day men and women people getting addicted.' A Public Health England report from September 2021 cited 409 suicides a year linked to gambling addiction.

'I've been in prison once, and I'm probably facing prison again, and it all had to do with me not being able to admit to myself I was a compulsive gambler,' Antar said in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday.

In his lawsuit, Antar claims he alerted numerous employees and officials with the gambling companies to the fact that there was a serious, recurring problem with disconnections, but that they knowingly kept malfunctioning games available to the public because they were too profitable to take down.

The review pointed to a 25.8 per cent fall in alcohol-related assaults, a 37.6 per cent drop in alcohol-related hospital admissions in Alice Springs and a 24.2 per cent decrease in admissions in Tennant Creek.

In a July 17, 2019 text and email conversation, Antar quotes one as telling him 'other players are not getting anywhere near what you are getting' in terms of compensation for being kicked offline while gambling.

Shilton said: ‘I've said for quite a while that football has an unhealthy relationship with gambling in terms of sponsorship. It seem football clubs were taking the money instead of looking after their fans. 

We can see the enormous social damage of gambling, the addictions the suicides. It's not about calling for a ban on gambling, it's about reining in football. If you watch Premier League coverage, it is dominated by gambling adverts: pitch-side board, every intermission, in programmes, on shirts. 

Antar is a convicted fraudster who faces the prospect of additional prison time in November for a scheme in which he cheated friends and relatives of money he used to feed his compulsive gambling habit.

Annie Ashton, whose husband Luke took his own life after struggling with a gambling addiction which started through football, wrote in The Guardian last week: ‘It's almost unbelievable: clubs are encouraging their own fans to gamble and then the same clubs cash in when they lose.

Shilton, who won 125 caps for England, captained his country and won two European Cups and the league title with Nottingham Forest, spent much of his life battling a gambling addiction and now campaigns against the saturation of gambling ads in football.

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‘We think that football can live without gambling money in the way that Formula One lives without tobacco money. Back in the day Formula One thought they couldn't live without tobacco sponsorship.
They said it would kill the sport but it didn't. It's a thriving sport. I've heard the sum [total of gambling's value to the EFL] is £60m. We could replace that if we chose to or were forced.'

So this scheme seems quite egregious but I'm not sure it's any different to taking the corporate shilling of a gambling company and sticking their brand in front of their fans to encourage loss-making activity.