A cruise holiday meant for Caribbean sunshine and onboard entertainment has ended with a four-year federal prison sentence for a passenger who turned the ship’s casino into the center of a $20,000 fraud scheme, used a fake identity to board, and then tried to abandon the voyage mid-cruise to avoid paying his debts.
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Shipboard Casino Scheme Unravels at Sea
Published court records and news coverage indicate that the passenger embarked on a major cruise ship under a false name and quickly focused his attention on the onboard casino. Over the course of several days, he allegedly…