LAS VEGAS (NV)
Las Vegas Sun
By Richard N. Velotta
On the day that Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe reported to the La Tuna Prison in Anthony, Texas, his embezzlement of $650,000 from the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Las Vegas — and his compulsive gambling problem — was the subject a keynote address and a panel at the close of the sixth-annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling on Friday.
An expert witness in McAuliffe’s court case, UCLA Gambling Studies Program co-director Timothy Fong, and three other panelists discussed some of the Nevada court cases that have brought compulsive gambling behavior to the public eye in recent months.
Another of the panelists was Douglas Crawford, a disgraced former attorney who was the first problem gambling defendant in Clark County to receive diversion to a three-year program of treatment under a new statute approved last year by the Nevada Legislature. Crawford is eligible to reapply for his license to practice law in the state in May.
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