THEN TRIES TO SUE CASINO FOR $20 MILLION BECAUSE THEY BREACHED THEIR DUTY OF CARE!

Arelia Margarita Taveras was ambitious - a high flying lawyer and a television presenter who destressed by going to Atlantic Casinos. Eventually though, the gambling became a source of stress as it spun out of control, and the only way she could finance her addiction was by rifling her clients' accounts.

As the grip of gambling worsened, Taveras would go days at a time at the tables, not eating or sleeping, brushing her teeth with disposable wipes so she didn't have to leave. She says that her losses total about $1 million.

Now she's gambling in a different league - playing with the big boys. She is mounting a $20 million racketeering lawsuit in federal court against six Atlantic City casinos and one in Las Vegas, claiming they had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off.

Having lost her law practice, her apartment, her parents' home, and got in debt to the IRS to the tune of $58,000, I suppose she feels there is nothing less to lose; she even considered swerving into oncoming traffic to kill herself.

I think it would be far less selfish if she was to jump from a tall building - swerving into oncoming traffic might kill other people too.

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