PA Gaming Control Board Levies Fines Totaling $180,000

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (“Board”) at the moment at its public month-to-month assembly accredited 4 consent agreements offered by the Board’s Office of Enforcement Counsel (“OEC”) leading to fines totaling $180,000 in opposition to:

 

Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, two separate fines totaling $80,000:

• A $40,000 wonderful for 3 situations of allowing underage people to entry the gaming ground and play slot machines or desk video games;

• A $40,000 wonderful for allowing the employment of 5 unlicensed people who had entry to iGaming account holders’ private figuring out info via its betParx platform.

 

Additional fines have been levied in opposition to: 

• Wind Creek Bethlehem, LLC acquired a $50,000 wonderful for failure to observe Know Your Customer (KYC) pointers that resulted in fraudulent withdrawals from iGaming accounts of greater than over $92,000; and,

• Fantasy Contest Operator YFS Sub, LLC, a subsidiary of Yahoo Fantasy Sports, a $50,000 wonderful for failure to inform and acquire correct approval of the Board for a change of management of its license.

 

Copies of the accredited Consent Agreements for this matter containing extra particulars can be found upon request via the Board’s Office of Communications.

 

The Board additionally at the moment took actions to put 8 people on its varied Involuntary Exclusion Lists. Placement on an Involuntary Exclusion List prohibits people from both gaming in a on line casino in Pennsylvania, by way of a web based betting website regulated by the Board, or at a Video Gaming Terminal (“VGT”) location. These issues, offered by the Board’s Office of Chief Counsel and the OEC, set the variety of people now on the Board’s varied Involuntary Exclusion Lists to 1,463.

 

The Gaming Control Board is scheduled to fulfill subsequent at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 within the Board’s Public Hearing Room situated on the second ground of the Strawberry Square Complex in Harrisburg. More info, together with the agenda, shall be posted on the Board’s web site previous to the assembly.

 

About the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board

 

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is tasked to supervise all elements of playing involving 18 land-based casinos, on-line on line casino video games, retail and on-line sports activities wagering, and Video Gaming Terminals (VGTs) at certified truck stops, together with the regulation of on-line fantasy sports activities contests.

 

The land-based on line casino business in Pennsylvania consists of six racetrack (Category 1) casinos, 5 stand-alone (Category 2) casinos, two resort (Category 3) casinos and 5 mini-casinos (Category 4).  A big job generator within the Commonwealth, casinos and the opposite kinds of Board-regulated gaming returned $2.98 billion in tax income and charges to Pennsylvanians in 2026.

 

Additional details about each the PGCB’s gaming regulatory efforts and Pennsylvania’s gaming business may be discovered at gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov.

 

 

MEDIA CONTACTS: Doug Harbach or Richard McGarvey – (717) 346-8321

 

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