$1.9 Million Fraud to Feed Online Gambling Addiction
Daniel J. Trolaro, 35, of Oakland a former insurance agent who fed his online gambling habit by stealing nearly $2 million from his clients was sentenced on Friday to six years in state prison.
He admitted to have stolen $1,918,000 from nine clients to indulge his online gambling addiction
The money, which he was supposed to invest on his clients' behalf, he instead kept for his personal use to indulge his online gambling addiction. The amounts stolen from the nine clients ranged from $46,000 to $910,000. The investigation revealed that Trolaro used the majority of the money for online gambling.
Online gambling is a tough addiction to battle. There are people who steal money with their hands and there are people who steal with their brains, but the impact on the victim doesn't much change.