My man didn’t think this all the way through did he?
A man admitted Thursday that he brought millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in a casino’s poker tournament, a scheme that was uncovered when he clogged a pipe by flushing the chips down the toilet in his hotel room.
Christian Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting and criminal mischief. Under terms of a plea agreement, Lusardi will be sentenced to five years in prison.
Authorities said Lusardi, after suspecting the fake chips had been noticed, flushed them down the toilet in his room at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, where he had been staying.
But the chips clogged the pipes, and guests on the floor below complained that water was dripping into their rooms.
Maintenance was called, and the chips were found.
An additional 22 tournament chips worth $5,000 were found in a clogged toilet in the Borgata the next day.
A total of $3.6 million worth of tournament chips were found, although they have no actual cash value.
Next time maybe start a little lower like $3k not $3 million.