Poker Addiction Costs Nuke Commander his job

Talk about a security risk. Second in command of America's nuclear arsenal gets caught making his own poker chips. Then on top of it he's smoking cig butts he picks out of ashtrays. You know you're addicted when you start doing that.

Navy admiral fired over gambling accused of making fake poker chips | US news | The Guardian
It emerged on Saturday that he is accused of making his own counterfeit poker chips using paint and stickers, according to documents seen by the Associated Press. He had claimed to have found the chips, but investigators said they found his DNA on the underside of an adhesive sticker used to alter genuine $1 poker chips to make them look like $500 chips.

The report included Giardina’s remarks to a casino security agent about the polygraphs – or lie-detector tests – given at nuclear headquarters, Strategic Command, to officers holding security clearances.

“[What] they’re really trying to do is find out if you got, you know, if you’re having sex with animals or something really crazy or you’ve got this wild life that you could be blackmailed into giving military secrets out,” he was quoted as saying.

At Strategic Command, Giardina was privy to highly sensitive national security secrets. Legal gambling by Strategic Command officers with security clearances is not prohibited or limited by policy, although if officers incur excessive debt they are required to report it, according to the command’s chief spokeswoman, navy captain Pamela Kunze.

At another casino Giardina was observed taking cigarette ends out of public ash trays and smoking them, according to investigators’ documents.

Comments

  • So, if you'll pardon the pun, this is the fall-out from last year? Somebody who vets these folks needs to lose their job for letting this guy rise so far without finding out about his problem.
  • his problem wasn't poker. it was the criminal activity





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