The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has seized more than $107,000 from underage and self-excluded gamblers at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City. The money was confiscated by the gambling venue after it discovered that the involved customers were not permitted to gamble.
The move was part of a set of punitive actions undertaken by New Jersey gambling regulators to penalize the Boardwalk property and its online gambling partner, bwin.party, for failing to prevent underage and self-excluded customers from gambling.
The company agreed to pay the hefty fine imposed by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement without contesting it. Some of the incidents that prompted the punitive measure dated several years back, and involved people under 21, the legal gambling age in the state, or gamblers who had voluntarily barred themselves from gambling at brick-and-mortar and online casinos for a certain period of time but were able to gamble much sooner.
