Started October 2011.
A few years old, but people that make deals to get money for a high-stakes gambling and then it blows up in their face, do get prosecuted. Here's one article I came across:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/bad-check-triggers-five-felony-counts-for-man/
Finished October 2019.
And as they say, the rest of the story. Here is a synopsis from the US Attorney's Office in Nevada about what he did with nearly two million dollars and how it funded his gambling, his high-end lifestyle in relationship to Las Vegas.
"These two victims sent Zogheib a total of $1,307,475. Zogheib immediately used the ill-gotten proceeds to fund his gambling habit and high-end lifestyle."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-sentenced-8-years-prison-committing-nearly-2-million-business-fraud-scheme
And here is another set of high rollers you see within the casinos along the strip in the high-limit rooms and then you wonder where they get their money from after they give you some bull poo-poo line how they're such wealthy families and successful business people. Just remember these are the people you gamble with:
"Instead, the defendants allegedly used new investor money to repay earlier investors, and diverted some money to award themselves sales commissions, subsidize gambling habits, and pay for private jet travel."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mri-fraud-japan/japan-extradites-father-son-charged-by-us-in-15-billion-ponzi-scheme-idUSKCN1RU2CE