Prosecution is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Olshefski. The charges stem from an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service Investigations and the Pennsylvania State Police. Pellegrini and Heltzel were indicted by a grand jury in Scranton on Apand charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. No date has been scheduled as yet for the entry of Poszeluznyj’s guilty plea. The agreement is subject to approval by the court. The Criminal Information was filed pursuant to a plea agreement with Poszeluznyj. The scheme began in May 2014 and continued to April 2015, netting the defendants winnings in the approximate amount of $422,147. Pellegrini then loaded the duplicate cards with “free play” credits and provided them to Heltzel to gamble with, primarily at poker slot machines. Poszeluznyj stole the names and PINs of those players and provided them to Pellegrini, who then used the stolen information to create duplicate player club cards. It is alleged that while employed as a cocktail waitress at the casino, Poszeluznyj had access to the names and PINs of casino players as she served them beverages.

The Criminal Information charges Poszeluznyj with conspiring with Robert Pellegrini and Mark Heltzel, to defraud the Mohegan Sun Casino by engaging in a money laundering scheme involving the use of stolen names and PINs (personal identification numbers) that were tied to players’ loyalty club cards. SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former employee of the Mohegan Sun Casino at Pocono Downs has been charged with engaging in a money laundering conspiracy.Īccording to United States Attorney Peter Smith, Rochelle Poszeluznyj, age 38, of Kingston, is charged in a Criminal Information filed today in United States District Court in Scranton with Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering.

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