An American Indian woman on the $100 token had a rounded headdress instead of a sharp point, he said. But there were minor defects - a bubble here or a scratch there. I couldn’t tell the difference.”Įven after a close inspection, the differences between Mohegan Sun tokens and Colavecchio’s copies were barely distinguishable, Longo said.
“I sat there for days looking at tokens under a microscope,” Longo said in a phone interview. Retired Connecticut state trooper Jerry Longo, who was assigned to Mohegan Sun as an investigator at the time, said he spent two years on the case after New Jersey officials notified Connecticut casino operators of the scam. “After I got busted, word got around that I was offered deals and didn’t take them,” he said. Though he said he was associated with the Patriarca crime family, which he refers to as “The Providence Office” in his book, Colavecchio said he never “ratted” on anybody after he was arrested at Caesars Atlantic City in late 1996 with a car full of counterfeit tokens, a handgun and cash.
