💰 Crown casino hit with massive $450m fine for responsible gambling failures

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Greetings from Australia, everyone! Last year Crown Casino just got slapped with their biggest fine ever - $450 million! 😮 They basically failed at everything responsible gambling related. Anyone here familiar with Crown's history? They've been in hot water before, but this is next level. What do you think about these mega-fines - do they actually change how casinos operate?
 
Used to work adjacent to casino industry here in Australia. Let me tell you, this fine isn't surprising at all. Crown's problems are systemic - from top-level management down to floor staff. They've had this "profit over everything" culture for years. I've seen them ignore clear red flags if the player was spending enough. Their internal compliance was a joke - staff would literally get praised for bringing in high-rollers, even when those players were clearly gambling beyond their means. This fine might hurt their bottom line, but the culture? That's harder to change.
 
Here's the wild part about the fine - they had multiple warnings over YEARS and still didn't fix anything. Like they thought they were untouchable or something. The investigation found emails from management basically ignoring compliance team warnings. Pure greed. They even had a system to flag suspicious behavior but would override it for high rollers. The fine's big, yeah, but looking at the evidence, they're lucky it wasn't bigger. Some of the stories coming out about what they let slide... proper criminal stuff.
 
regulation only works if you enforce it. good to see australia actually has teeth.
 
Crown's been doing dodgy stuff for years. Remember that slot tampering scandal?
 
These mega fines just cost of doing business for them. They make this back fast.
 
yeah but bad publicity hurts more than fines. rich chinese players avoiding crown now
 
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