But state legislators earlier this year passed a sweeping gambling bill that gave millions of dollars in tax breaks to Arlington so it would reopen. Former poker room workers sue Former workers at Beau Rivage filed a lawsuit against the casino claiming it violated laws by not giving them adequate notice of layoffs and reneging on promises of jobs. Twenty-eight former poker room employees filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Biloxi. The defendant is Mirage Resorts, the Las Vegas parent company of the Beau Rivage, which opened in March. Beau Rivage shut down its poker room July 27, saying customers demanded more non-smoking room for slot machines.
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The casino said 61 dealers and other poker room employees were given a severance package and an offer to work in other areas of the resort. Casino chairman Barry Shier said at the time that the move was not a layoff. Casino officials said they had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment. Online casino found in contempt Virtual Gaming Enterprises Inc., a California online casino operator, was found in contempt by a federal judge for impeding a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the sale of the company's stock, regulators said. Virtual Gaming has been under investigation for suspected fraud in connection with the sale of its stock, as part of the commission's focus on microcap securities fraud, the SEC said Monday.