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Control Board sues card cheat

Tuesday, March 12, 2002 | 11:02 a.m.

The state Gaming Control Board wants to seize more than $5,300 in cash and gaming chips from card cheat Louis John Olejack, who is included in Nevada's Black Book, after he was convicted in 1995 on a felony count of cheating at gambling.

The agency sued Olejack in Clark County District Court.

Olejack, who was listed in 1997 in the Black Book -- the state's list of people barred from Nevada casinos -- pleaded guilty to cheating by bending blackjack cards at Harrah's in Las Vegas in July 1993, which permitted him to identify the cards in the deck. He received three years of probation.

Olejack, who was also arrested in Reno for possession of a slot-cheating device, had prior convictions of interstate transportation of a stolen $75,000 oil painting from Pennsylvania to Arizona and of drug possession in 1969 in Pennsylvania.

The board, which said Olejack would be "unjustly enriched if he were given title to the proceeds of his crime," wants court approval to use the proceeds of the sale of Olejack's cash and chips for "official purposes."

Olejack could not be reached for comment.

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