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  Casino Queen defendants turn on each other in pension plan ripoff litigation; Some shareholders cashed out multi millions in stock

  By Steve Korris | Wednesday, May 25, 2022 @ 7:00am

  EAST ST. LOUIS – Defendants in a suit over the collapse of Casino Queen’s pension plan turned on each other in U.S. district court on May 19.

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• Casino Queen defendants accused of cheating employee pension plan to appeal order rejecting arbitration

  By Steve Korris | Monday, Feb 1, 2021 @ 7:00am

  EAST ST. LOUIS – Casino Queen directors and former owners plan to seek appellate review of an order rejecting individual arbitration of claims that they cheated casino employees out of retirement income.

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• Dugan rejects arbitration clause of Casino Queen defendants, accused of cheating employees out of retirement income

  By Steve Korris | Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021 @ 3:31pm

  EAST ST. LOUIS – Casino Queen directors and former owners can’t enforce individual arbitration of claims that they cheated employees out of retirement income, U.S. District Judge David Dugan ruled on Jan. 25.

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• Casino Queen wants arbitration over litigation for employees claiming stock was nearly worthless

  By Steve Korris | Monday, Dec 21, 2020 @ 11:27am

  EAST ST. LOUIS – Casino Queen directors and former owners aim to stop a suit over the collapse of an employee ownership plan by enforcing an arbitration clause that former president Jeff Watson signed in December 2018.

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• Former casino owners argue 'profound ignorance' on part of plaintiff employees in response to pension plan suit

  By Steve Korris | Monday, Aug 31, 2020 @ 1:49pm

  BENTON – Former Casino Queen owners allege “profound ignorance” on the part of plaintiffs who accuse them of concealing the casino’s poor financial condition when they sold it to employees as a pension investment.

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• St. Clair Co. judge among those named in proposed class action brought by former Casino Queen workers

  By The Madison County Record | Thursday, Apr 30, 2020 @ 11:06am

  BENTON – Former Casino Queen president Jeffrey Watson, now a judge in St. Clair County, faces a potential class action claiming he and others concealed the boat’s dismal financial condition when they arranged for employees to buy it. Former employees Tom Hensiek and Jason Gill sued Watson and others in U.S.

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• Grand Opening: 20th Judicial Circuit Casino!

  By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Jan 8, 2019 @ 7:14am

  Imagine if a courtroom were like a casino and your verdict was determined by a game of chance.

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  Casino boss selected as associate judge, individual, company generous contributors to Democratic Party

  By John Breslin | Monday, Jan 7, 2019 @ 9:13am

  The president of an East St. Louis ' riverboat casino has been selected to fill an open position as associate judge on the 20th Judicial Circuit.

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