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    Wembley CEO faces three years in US jail

    Wembley CEO faces three years in US jail

    Former CEO of gaming company Nigel Potter – a chartered accountant – is sentenced to three years in US jail

    Author Date published October 31, 2005 Categories

    The former chief executive of gaming company Wembley, Nigel Potter, has been
    sentenced to three years in a US jail.

    The British accountant was sentenced on Friday after being found guilty in
    August along with Daniel Bucci, former managing director of Lincoln Park
    (Wembley’s US subsidiary) of conspiring to bribe John Harwood, a federal
    official and attempting to stop the construction of a rival casino.

    Potter and Bucci were accused of offering Harwood $4m (£2.3m) to increase the
    number of slot machines at Wembley’s Rhode Island casino and stop the
    construction of the Narragansett Indian casino.

    Bucci was sentenced to three years and five months for his part in the
    conspiracy, and Potter’s plea for leniency was ignored as he was sentenced for
    three years.

    Potter and Bucci are due to start their sentences on November 25 and were
    fined $75,000 each. Lincoln Park itself was fined $1.5m and was sold in July
    along with the rest of Wembley’s US business to BLB Investors, a consortium.

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