She was a former employee at the Hollywood casino and her daughter was dating one of the hall's managers. She won several large jackpots on other days. But when officers of the Seminole Department of Law Enforcement looked at video surveillance tapes of Kaminiski's winning moments and compared them to what the casino's managers later reported to the tribe, they noticed something peculiar. The more the police watched, the greater the discrepancies they found. The Times was unable to reach any of the winners for comment.
Tribal leaders say they have no evidence of that, but all that cash can be hard to track.
The tribe has relied largely on its non-Seminole casino managers to count how much money comes in and how much is paid out in jackpots. In 1990, the U.S. Inspector General's Office reported that the tribe's monitoring system at the Hollywood and Tampa casinos was largely a matter of trust between itself and the management companies. Seminole Chairman James Billie said he was unconcerned by the report. No one gave him solid proof that managers skimmed profits, he said. Three years ago, dramatic indications of money mismanagement surfaced when Billie's own police force, the Seminole Department of Law Enforcement, took over security duties at the tribe's casinos, including Hollywood.