Borgata Chip Counterfeiter Christian Lusardi Released from Prison

Christian LusardiBased on a recent thread on Poker Fraud Alert, PokerNews has learned that Christian Lusardi, the then 42-year-old responsible for introducing counterfeit chips into play in the Borgata Winter Poker Open $2 Million Guarantee in 2014, was released from prison on parole this past July after almost eight months in prison.

He was paroled July 25, 2016, according to his offender records kept on the State of New Jersey’s Department of Corrections website.

He was serving two sentences with max terms of three and five years for copyright infringement and trafficking in counterfeit labels for both the use of the counterfeit chips and also for his international DVD bootlegging operation…