Sipes' aunt Soni Beckman was a good friend of the LaVecchias. A 21-year-old drifter named David Lemons, who had previously been stopped near the scene with his friend John Sipes (AKA Vito Bruno). 'According to gaming sources, Volk was the whistle-blower who tipped off gaming agents about the alleged cheating at American Coin.'Ī suspect emerged. 'It didn't take much for police to come up with a motive in this case,' reporter Denise Rosch later told News 3 viewers.

'ATF was out here and handled that investigation.' 'Approximately two weeks ago, his house was firebombed,' Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Detective Kyle Edwards told reporters after the shooting. Volk had had already received a warning, of sorts. 'What happened is that unfortunately, about a year later, he was killed.'Īccording to Volk's wife, the slot engineer had just gone outside to check his car, when she heard a bang. 'Larry Volk lost his life before we ever got to court,' said Romano. American Coin's partners were not just her husband Frank, but also her father, Rudolph LaVecchia, and her brother, Rudolph Junior, or Rudy.Īfter the initial raids, it was revealed their technician-on order from the LaVecchias-had developed what was called a 'gaffe,' and was ready to talk. And then you have the news talking about these machines could then be cheating the public.'

'There were bar owners that had machines in their businesses. 'There were people out there who were depending upon us, that worked for us,' she told News 3 in 2013. His wife, Maria, saw the project through to completion, and she remembered the initial revelations as a terrible time. 'American Coin' partner Frank Romano was finishing a book about the namesake company when he passed away in 2012. LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - Last week's Video Vault focused on a scam by Nevada's third-largest slot machine company, one that rigged video poker games to prevent players from getting royal flushes with maximum coins bet.

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