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Video Poker 247 - Holland Not Guilty of Video Poker Charges

Macon County Sheriff Robbie Holland has been exonerated by Jerry Pennington – a top official at Henderson Amusement. Holland’s name had come up as one who had received bribes in former buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford’s video poker trial.

When his name was mentioned, people were outraged. They just couldn’t believe that someone like Holland would be involved in an illegal video poker gambling ring. It would seem that they were right.

Holland had maintained his innocence, stating that he had nothing to do with all of it. However, until Pennington came forward and said that the testimony of Anna Deaton was a mistake, officials were looking his way.

Pennington says that his assistant got the code wrong and that he didn’t have anything to do with it. He says that the code that Deaton had said as Holland was for the Haywood County Sheriff.

For his part, Holland had held a press conference stating that he was “aware of the testimony” but knew that in the end he would be cleared of all wrong doing. He said that neither he nor his sheriff’s office was for sale, nor would it ever be.

Medford is accused of taking bribes to allow video poker game operators to make illegal payouts from their machines. They were supposed to regulate the video poker machines per North Carolina law.
 

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